Talk:Smalls Lighthouse

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The lighthouse can be seen not all too rarely from the mainland at Nolton haven and Newgale. 1 spot I have seen this from is 26 miles from the lighthouse. Does the statement saying it can be seen from up to 21 miles away refer to ships and such like on the water seeing the light, or is it being more broad. (21 miles away being roughly the city of St. Davids) The light itself, rather than the rock and/or lighthouse can probably be seen further away yet, so long as land doesn't prevent a direct line of sight. I would say that the lighthouse itself can be seen on a clear day from all of St Brides Bay coastline. I could back this up with a photo relatively easily also, from the furthest point from the lighthouse in the bay. Ben robbins (talk) 19:16, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Captain H Sumner

Small's Light is important in the history of navigation. It was here in 1837 that Captain H Sumner discovered the concept of position lines. They were sometimes called Sumner Lines. The Wikipedia article on Thomas Hubbard Sumner uses the term "navigation light near the coast. That light was Small's.

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^ American Practical Navigator (HO Pub No 9) Bowditch page 55.

Lynch opera

The mention of the opera by Francis Lynch For Those in Peril was deleted as it had no source. I found a reference in the ``Chicago Classical Review:

https://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2018/02/evanston-chamber-opera-debuts-with-a-lighthouse-drama-premiere/

The opera clearly was publicly performed and while Lynch may fall well short of the threshold for a Wikipedia bio (I dont know) similarly the Evanston Chamber Opera Company (EChO), perhaps the opera is worth a short mention. It is not clear to me but it seems that this might be a local amateur production, and so regardless of its quality below the threshold of notability? But I am no expert on music! Billlion (talk) 09:50, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted this. The test for mentioning something in an article is 'noteworthyness', which has a lower threshold than the 'notability' test for having an article. My rule of thumb is: if a fact does not involve something notable then that fact is probably not noteworthy. The source you have found is insufficient to make this noteworthy because we have no article on the Chicago Classical Review. However, I have found a passing mention in an article in Variety, which I think is sufficient.[1] If Variety rates the opera is worth a mention then so can we. Verbcatcher (talk) 12:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] American Practical Navigator (HO Pub No 9) Bowditch page 55.

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