Ray Saintonge wrote
Inclusion in a secondary source can imply notability, but it does not mean that absence from secondary sources implies lack of notability.
Absence from a given secondary source implies little. Absence from a whole range of secondary sources is prima facie evidence of a lack of 'notability'. But this is getting somewhat slurred. I have been working in various parts of medieval history. I don't have the original manuscripts on my shelves. Therefore I write entirely from secondary (or more distant sources). I think we can have an article in WP about any figure for whom there are enough surviving sources; and (as far as I'm concerned) not otherwise. And this represents the situation on other 'frontier' parts of the encyclopedia.
Charles
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