Category talk:Literature by country

Category:Literature by language
Is it necessary to have a parallel category by language? &mdash; Instantnood 16:51, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * I was just thinking that actually it makes much more sense to have Category:Literature by language (which we do have) be the primary tree for literature. Within literature by language, country categories can be used if sensible. (For instance, Category:Canadian literature could exist under Category:French language literature and under Category:English language literature.) ... I realize this probably will upset the nationalists but literature seems to be best organized by language, as exogenous creatures seem best organized by bioregion. --Lquilter (talk) 13:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * At any rate, "by nationality" isn't as common as "by country", is it? And literature doesn't have a "nationality", even if we assign it to a country. --Lquilter (talk) 13:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

"English model" should be generally applied
It seems that we have a very good solution here but that solution is not generally applied, and because of that we have a total mess in many categories and subcategories. The main cause of that problem lies in the use of ambiguous adjective-style category titles. That problem is wisely avoided in the case of Category:English literature. That ambiguous adjective-style tile is properly used as a disambiguation category. Same solution should be applied in all cases where an adjective designates both the country and the language. In those cases, all categories for literature of particular countries should be styled according to the Category:Literature of England model, while categories for literature written in particular languages should be styled according to the Category:English-language literature model. Sorabino (talk) 10:47, 22 July 2019 (UTC)