Talk:Edith Clampton

Notability
It isn't clear how the subject meets the notability guidelines. The first two references don't seem to mention her as the primary subject (the second only her letters) and I don't have access to the 1993 paper, but I would guess that the mention is as an internal reference rather than actual news coverage. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * What do you mean "the second only her letters"?? Did you read the article? Edith Clampton is not a real person. She is a made-up character entirely for the purpose of the letters to the editor page of that newspaper. That is her entire existence. The character became so well known in that country at that time that the newspaper thought it was a good idea to collect together all(?) her letters and publish them as a book in its own right! What better claim of notability do you need than the fact that the major newspaper printed and sold a collection of this character's letters. If you do a google search for her name you get message boards where people are asking if they remember "that crazy lady in the paper" from a decade later. Now, those message boards are not good sources to reference in WP but they demonstrate that there is a common memory of this person. Just because you havn't heard of Edith doesn't mean she's not notable. Witty Lama 14:37, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * What above implied I hadn't read the article? I understood from how the article began with Mrs. Edith Clampton was a pseudononymous writer... that the article meant to discuss the fictional character and the anonymous writer behind the character as a common entity. So this character made regular appearances on the Bangkok Post's letters page, and the Post published a collection. Remember that the general notability guideline states that a topic should have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject to be notable. I still don't see how she is notable to anyone outside regular readers of the column. --Paul_012 (talk) 18:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)