Talk:Vinegar Tom

expanding the article
The article needs:
 * a synopsis
 * to explain the significance of the Malleus Maleficarum
 * to describe and explain the function of the songs

--Jtir 17:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Merge into article on playwright
This minor play got a couple of productions back in the day, but neither this woefully inferior article nor the play itself has attracted any significant attention in many years; it should probably be merged into a line or two on playwright's page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:26, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Absolutely not. It's a crystal-clear pass of at least 3 of 5 criteria of WP:NBOOK, which you would know if you had looked for sources. Notability tags are not the right ones. Oh, and as for recent productions, July 2015 isn't recent enough for you? I strongly suggest you revert your own edit; you have no idea what you're talking about, you're editing in a way that's painfully obviously retaliatory, and you're just digging yourself deeper. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 17:11, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Obviously notable, and a separate page is certainly warranted. Extensively covered play by an important playright.  A minute's search shows this is substantively discussed in multiple books—for example, —and here is a July 17, 2015 review by Ben Brantley in The New York Times of a recent Atlantic Theater Company production .  More big-city productions with reviews, from the first 2 pages of a Google search: Boston Globe (2013) ; Chicago Reader (1993) ; Los Angeles Times (1987) . --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:12, 25 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I continue to think that that this minor play by a minor playwright would be best served with a small section on Churchill's page, as witnessed by the fact that this page has languished for 5 years sources until I stumbled on it, tagged it and sources were produced.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:38, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Feel free to use your own judgment about notability tag. I'm leaving it in place for now, due to lack of time.  I may come back and look more closely at sourcing, possibly propose merging.  Truly, minor works like this are ill-served by pages no one bothers to update.  Whereas as a paragraph on the author's page, they are more likely to be kept up to date and improved.  Chruchill is clearly not a writer whose fans care enough to work very hard on Wikipedia pages for her minor works.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:43, 25 September 2015 (UTC)