Talk:Alexander Larman

How to use sources to demonstrate "depth"
It is no good in edit-warring style adding and re-adding citations from good newspapers in the hope that these will magically sprinkle notability wiffle-dust on an article.

The finest newspapers and textbooks can mention an author or other subject briefly, trivially, or in passing, conferring no trace of notability whatsoever.

The correct solution is not to keep shoving in more and more trivial mentions supported by more and more unproven citations, but to use the sources to prove notability by paraphrasing what they say about Larman, and if necessary quoting briefly from them, to demonstrate that they indeed cover him in depth (if they do). If not, the citations are in fact obfuscation designed to give the appearance of notability where none exists. I do hope this principle is clear. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:29, 8 June 2020 (UTC)