Talk:The Boy Who Found Fear At Last

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, This article's subject falls short of meeting the general notability guideline, which is the usual bar for determining whether an article about a subject should be created on Wikipedia. As for "why now", the answer is because it popped up in the new pages feed due to converting it to a redirect and you converting it back (Koridas may have a different answer as to how they came across this article). This article's creation predates the creation of the notability guideline by a month, and predates the new pages patrol screening of new articles by several years, which is why the article went unnoticed for so long. That in itself, however, is not a reason to exempt it from the standards that are meant to be applied across English Wikipedia. signed,Rosguill talk 22:19, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The article clearly isn't notable according to the guideline, but I'm troubled by that reasoning. The Lang's Fairy Books article has links to hundreds of fairy tales, the majority of which don't qualify by the GNG.  This implies that there exists a separate de facto standard for fairy tales.  It's easy to justify such a standard.  Fairy tales are notable in the aggregate, more so than any one individually.  And if someone were to go through the list and delete all the articles that failed GNG, the systematic effect would be to remove almost all the fairy tales except the English and German ones.  Thoughts? Dan Bloch (talk) 23:44, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , at a glance and without having looked through sources in detail, probably the best longterm solution would be to create articles for each of the Fairy Books, most of which probably meet notability guidelines, and include short summaries about the included fairy tales at each of those articles. Fairy tales that do meet the notability guidelines on their own can still be linked back to the Fairy Book-level articles with a main template. Unfortunately, this solution would require a non-trivial amount of work, and I'm not in a position to volunteer to do that myself at this time. signed,Rosguill talk 23:55, 8 June 2020 (UTC)