What Fluff and Pete said.
My favourite series of novels, written by a male author about a male protagonist, has articles for every book including the one that never got published before the author died. The majority of them were never reviewed - they're pulp paperback novels - although there were some more in-depth reviews of the series, or occasional books that reflected the reviewer's opinion of the series generally. In fairness, there was a TV series based on the book series, as well as a bunch of Dean Martin movies that were (extremely loosely) based on the books too, so the series *does* have notability - but I'm not convinced every individual book does.
It's a classic example of "someone wrote it, there are no extraordinary claims, and it doesn't hurt to exist", I think.
I suspect what red-flagged the October (novel) article was the creation of a new category for it, because it drew the attention of a different group of people who might otherwise never have paid attention to this article. They're more wrapped up about categories, generally speaking.
Risker/Anne
On 22 July 2014 13:14, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, there are quite a lot of novel articles (and TV episode articles, I suspect) that are mostly there because someone wrote them and no one else felt strongly enough to try to get them removed from the 'pedia (or because they were written in the days of lower notability standards, and got grandfathered in). It's very difficult to draw conclusions to apply to article Y from reading article X, because as often as not the reason Y is as it is is "because no one noticed before this."
-Fluff
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < dancase@frontiernet.net> wrote:
On what basis in Clive Cussler notable?
That he’s a regular denizen of the bestseller lists in many countries who’s had works adapted into major motion pictures (To be honest, I think we should say that “all published works by authors who have their paperbacks displayed prominently in the racks near the front of bookstores at airports are notable [image: Smile]“).
Well, I don't know. I had never heard of Cussler before today (don't spend a lot of time in airport bookshops), but I did look at a couple of his novels' Wikipedia articles, and they didn't indicate significance any better than the October article. (One of them had a single, ephemeral reference; the other had 7 that seemed pretty thin.)
I can see how Kathleen would be frustrated by what surely appears from her perspective to be a double standard.
Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
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