Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25626-20160713190836/@comment-26611465-20160714204652

I think it's fun to have articles about Andrew Jackson (for example) where there is a concrete justification (GGNAU) for an anchor which can be supported by the SV and JS trivia. If we take the new proposal to the extreme, we'd lose Brezhnev, a few POTUS and VPOTUS, for example. Also English kings Henry II, James II, William III, and Mary II. And Tsar Alexander I.

I think the Schulenberg article is relevant, because it involves a personal experience of the POV character Molotov that is important because he's feeling deja vu about it.

The new proposal does have some merit. My interpretation is this: historical figures that are referenced by enough sentences in a work or are significantly relevant to an AH merit their own articles. Historical characters that are referenced fleetingly, just falling short of that criteria, could go into the new list. Duke of Wellington is an example. It would be so nice to have a Wellington article, but the fleeting reference in Liberating Atlantis, plus the name Wellesley on T2G map, don't really justify an article. John Paul Jones, Lewis & Clark, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky are figures we'd like to have articles for, but HT hasn't used them except as ship names.

If figures have their own articles, such as Andrew Jackson, they don't need to be on the new list. And they'll get taken off if they get articles. For example, if Wellington is on the list for LA+T2G, but then he gets a significant reference in The Hot War for a character finding a half-melted statue of him in a nuked-out English city, then he'd get his own article and be removed from the other list.

This is just my view of the whole thing, and it's a haphazard work in progress.