Template talk:Emil Cioran

'Nonfiction'
Is it redundant to put in a parameter that denotes Cioran's non-fiction works, as all of his works are non-fiction? I ask because I'm not really sure how templates work, so there might be something I'm missing here. Loafiewa (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2021 (UTC)


 * First, thanks for creating the current template (and the recently-created article on All Gall is Divided). In the past I considered making a small Cioran template exactly as you've done, but I hesitated over concerns about notability and lack of material needing organizing (only three short book-articles)-and now there's four book-articles!  I don't think there's any harm in making individual articles for Cioran's lesser-known books (and a template around same), but I still suspect that some of the books might be better treated as a section in a given article, or later merged somewhere.


 * Cioran's work might be "non-fiction" in the very broad sense that philosophy is non-fiction, (despite its speculative character). Still, it falls into several literary genres: aphorisms, lit crit, and other things.


 * With respect to your original question, "nonfiction" is probably a superfluous description. Wikipedia templates are used for several purposes, and this one, a "bottom-navbox" is usually intended as a simple navigational aid for related articles around a given subject.  Ideally, such a box keeps things "as simple as possible", stating the main subject at the top and then working out the details in the body of the template.  For that reason, after this note, I'll edit the template a bit.MinnesotanUser (talk) 04:40, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Ugh, it appears that another user started the current template, my bad. MinnesotanUser (talk) 04:48, 2 March 2022 (UTC)