Talk:Falsehood in War-Time

Notability
This book currently failsto satisfy WP:GNG or WP:NBOOK, at least based on the eleven current footnotes, which don't appear to establish notability. NBOOK #1 is 50% satisfied, based on note 7, referring to Morelli's book, which is a full-length treatment of Ponsnoby's book and ideas. Wrt the other footnotes, my reading of their applicability to notability is as follows: Grouping them by applicability, we have: It's possible additional sources could be found to fulfill BOOKCRIT #1; try some of these: but if not, this article should be submitted to Afd. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:34, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * yes: 7 (but insufficient on its own to establish notability)
 * no: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11
 * YES
 * Note 7 is an in-depth treatment of Ponsonby's book; this very clearly fits in WP:BOOKCRIT #1, and we only need one more like this to establish NBOOK notability.
 * NO
 * refer to the book itself (1, 4, 5, 9);
 * are not INDEPENDENT (note 8, also from Anne Morelli's book, from which dozens or hundreds of notes about Ponsonby's could be found)
 * are dead links (2, 3)
 * appear to be passing mentions:
 * note 6 (Horne 2001), supposedly about the reaction of the German Foreign Ministry to translating the book, but no url is given. I suspect this is a minor passing mention about a translation, as it does not rate a footnote in that book: here is page 548, containing all the footnotes for pages 373-375, but nothing about the German Foreign Ministry, or translations is listed there.
 * Note 10, which is from Gregory (2009) and contains a two-paragraph quote from Ponsonsby, and two paragraphs of commentary on it on pages 43-44; this fails BOOKCRIT #1.
 * no mention?: Note 11 is found in the section, and cites "Presidents, Battles, and Must-See Civil War Destinations: Exploring a Kentucky Divided" (or at Google id IR7UDwAAQBAJ) without giving a page number. I don't see what the connection is between this book and Ponsonby's. Gregory (2009) is available in full-text (searchable/readable) from Hoopla Digital; I browsed/searched around, and didn't find anything useful.


 * The timing of trying to remove this makes it very suspect, the book is as relevant as seldom before. It's part of a historical record that whole governments would want to see erased from awareness.
 * That alone should make it notable, it's creepy how a very obvious commercial poweruser, editing across 9 different languages, is requesting removal of it. 2003:F8:740:E900:6853:ABE:C099:F834 (talk) 16:17, 28 September 2023 (UTC)