Talk:Anna Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt

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She's grandmother of a king & thus notable.--the direct grandparents & grand children of Monarchs are always considered N. Now the article didn't say that, & so it might not have been obvious, but all the pages on the royal families of europe are normally linked one step at a time, but that might not have been obvious either.DGG 02:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC).
 * Okay, I see your chain of reasoning. But could you clarify on why the grandparents and grandchildren of royalty are notable, please? This is not a genealogy database. People do not inherit notability in the same manner that they inherit titles. Salad Days 02:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The argument seems to be used for not just royalty, but presidents and other heads of state and a very few people of similar importance.
 * Two reasons: just the general interest that readers have in such figures--and it can be very great, hence the popularity of historical fiction that speculates on their inner lives. Recently, this has been emphasizing the women more & and good deal of current popular history deals with them, which both for that and WP is tricky because there is a greater amount of difficulty in finding sources.
 * Other reason is their important role in human affairs & that the influences on them are worth following up. Again, the women are getting more emphasis these days.  For the case of W European royal houses, the historical interconnections in different directions are important--in this case, particular, the family background of George I is very significant with respect to the role he did (and didn't) play in English history & the peculiar nature of Hanover is relevant. The easiest way of following these connections is one step at a time. It is relatively difficult to put them only as sections in articles about others, because there are usually multiple connections sideways as well.
 * How to deal with this in WP is another matter, because almost all the articles now in WP are stubs from various semi-reliable PD reference books, except where someone has gone and written a real article. There's a great reluctance to do away with the stubs, because articles will eventually be written. There's a new online ed. of Dictionary of National Biography that some of us have access to, and it should encourage this work.
 * I'm emphasizing what I know about here: and it is just as a hobby)
 * I do not think anyone here wants to do the work for a real genealogy database, which is an immense project--they would be at a different wiki.. DGG 05:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC)