Talk:James Howard

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Disambiguate

This page named James Howard along with Frances Howard were originally disambiguation pages that were both hijacked in June 2007 by anonymous user 217.43.4.16 (talk) (a family member?). Per WP:Disambiguation#Page naming conventions I am going to restore them as disambiguation pages, also because:

the names are very common, and likely to be searched in reference to a wide number of different individuals
the pages were originally disambiguation pages, and were hijacked

I recreated the Frances Howard (actress) page, because she made 4 films, has an IMDB entry and Google search finds, and married Samuel Goldwyn, and was sister to Sidney Howard who wrote GWTW screenplay, so I think she passes the Notability test. But as for James Alan Howard, other than being father to Frances and Sidney, I can't make the case that he passes the test of WP:Notability (people), even with possible inclusion of the {{bio-notability}} tag to give it a fair shake. But the page would just soon get deleted, and that makes it even tougher to pass later, if something validly notable should then turn up. Wikipedia is not a family tree, much as I would sometimes like it to be, so maybe I will just preserve here the anonymous editor's comment that James Alan Howard (1869-1937) was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to John Howard and Martha Lewis Howard. Beyond that, he probably can't pass for a wikilink, unless:

a secondary source ref (book, news article) discusses him as a primary subject
for his own notable merits (published, filmed, recorded, got elected, went to prison)
recognized beyond his local community (state-wide, national)

There will also be a need to fix the What links here wikilinks, if directed to the old/new page...Steven Russell 10:24, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]