Talk:List of Mormon missionary entries by country

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I would appreciate an explanation of why this article is notable according to WP standards (WP:N). The information here seem useful only for LDS Church's business. 173.228.198.68 (talk) 04:20, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In relation to what you said, I quote first a subheading, then a heading of the notability qualifications page: "Notability is based on the existence of suitable sources, not on the state of sourcing in an article," and; "Article content does not determine notability." Its notability is somewhat defended in these in that there are detailed sources and the usage does not affect notability.

On the flip side, "The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the topic itself (or of its manufacturer, creator, author, inventor, or vendor) have actually considered the topic notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works of their own that focus upon it—without incentive, promotion, or other influence by people connected to the topic matter." This leaves us the question: are there are any sources independent of the content? The third source, published by a student of the University of Utah, is the only source published by an entity that is not owned, managed, affiliated, or otherwise somehow tied to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Did the author, Savani Latai Toluta'u Aupiu, consider it notable because of personal religious affiliation? Unless that's indicated somewhere in the thesis itself, we don't know.

However, this is linked as a "See also" page to a far larger (and actually notable) article^[1]. This makes this page unusual because it is supplemental information to a notable page, a sort of overflow of additional information. I would think this makes the page notable in its own right, so far as the information here cannot be included in any preexisting article. Even then, it takes a certain interpretation of the notability requirements for that argument to apply—or in other words, this article simply does not quite fit the guidelines despite fair reason for its existence.

I think the problem of the notability of this article would best be resolved by making an article on the history of missionary work of the CJC LDS. A lot of information on the subject is already on wikipedia, it is just needs to be consolidated. Musicalmather (talk) 03:59, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionaries_(LDS_Church)

[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionaries_(LDS_Church)

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