Talk:Thomas H. Branch

Orphan
This seems to be an orphan, and I'm wondering what it could be linked from. He doesn't seem to have done very much, apart from not being liked by the British. Is being the first African American to enter colonial Malawi (which is a fact we don't have a source for) notable? Would he feature in an article on the Seven Day Adventists, or is he too marginal? 90.252.190.223 (talk) 21:49, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for commenting. I've linked him from Branch (surname) now to prevent the article from being an orphan.  Not sure if he should be linked from the church page, in general our coverage of missionary activity seems to be rather poor.  It's not a main interest of mine, but I may eventually get around to writing a broader history article (though there might need to be one for each country).  As to notability, I am happy to get some more opinions but I think he passes WP:GNG by virtue of non-trivial coverage in a number of reliable sources. I think he is moderately important to the history of Malawi (particularly early attempts to spread Ethiopianism) and as an example of African American missionary activity. Not sure what is unsourced? Shavit says he was "the first Black American in British Central Africa - Dumelow (talk) 05:48, 2 August 2020 (UTC)