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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