Talk:Francis Brett Young

message: Any relation to the writer Bret Harte, whose full name was Francis Brett Harte? Francis Brett seemed to be a name passed on through the family, and Harte spent a good deal of time in England. Just wondering. Manannan67 (talk) 04:53, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
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message: Pretty sure that, for a novelist, showing off their photo from when they were 2 is kind of not really helpful Ummunmutamnag (talk) 19:03, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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message: It's not clear to me how many of the individual novels have standalone notability, but in their current state, they almost all simply refer to the page in Hall (1997) where the novel is mentioned, with some of them having additional mentions in other works, like Stevenson (2013), with those being passing mentions. 
* A Man About the House (novel)
* Black Roses (novel)
* Cold Harbour (novel)
* Deep Sea (novel)
* Dr. Bradley Remembers
* Far Forest (novel)
* Jim Redlake
* Marching on Tanga
* Mr. and Mrs. Pennington
* Mr. Lucton's Freedom
* My Brother Jonathan (novel)
* Pilgrim's Rest (novel)
* Portrait of a Village
* Portrait of Clare (novel)
* Sea Horses (novel)
* The Black Diamond (novel)
* The City of Gold (novel)
* The Crescent Moon
* The House Under the Water
* The Iron Age (novel)
* The Island (poem)
* The Key of Life
* The Red Knight (novel)
* The Tragic Bride
* The Young Physician
* They Seek a Country
* This Little World
* Undergrowth (novel)
* White Ladies (novel)
* Wistanslow
* Woodsmoke (novel)
Some may have individual notability with multiple contemporary book reviews, such as for Wistanslow in 1956, but for others it's less clear. Current sourcing in these articles is not sufficient to establish notability. Mathglot (talk) 16:49, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Two out of three editors agree we should create "List of novels" article and merge/redirect all novels to it.   if you disagree we would need open a formal merge discussion; hard to say what will result from that but I know some editors would respond with an AfD and others would by finding sources. In any case it goes outside of all our control, it would be faster and easier to work something out here if we can. Not all of the novels need to be merged, see which one's make sense right now to Keep, merge the rest then spin off to standalone if/when they have sufficient sourcing and material. Not every novel by Brett Young is inherently notable, and not every source used in these articles is SIGCOV that meets GNG.  -- GreenC 18:19, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting points, but I have to reiterate what I have said earlier. FBY was a major, bestselling author in the interwar years. I'd add I haven't ready any of his works (although I've seen several of the film adaptations) and have no particular attachment to him personally. He is obscure now, but he will have been widely reviewed in his time and has several biographies written about him. We can exercise a degree of recentism. I think it would clarify which articles are being proposed to be merged and which kept separate, because I'm open to merging some for now.Lord Cornwallis (talk) 21:08, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started List of novels of Francis Brett Young and encourage anyone to help. The text is 100% copies nothing lost except for redundant intros.  The cover images might go into a gallery last step.  -- GreenC 02:06, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of individual works