Template talk:Fictionlist

Improvements needed
The template speaks too much. The text is well and good – it contains constructive advices, but they should reside in a policy-like method page. It may be enough to say that "details of fiction disturb the fact article and they should be moved to a trivia section for cleanup and new article creation".

The template should also possibly link to the talk page for further editor discussion? Said: Rursus ☺ ★ 12:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It says a lot in an effort to help people who have no real experience with these things understand.
 * Talk page wouldn't be harmful, but of course any tag that people dispute can and shold be discussed on the talk page so a link should be unnecessary.... except, again, perhaps for the really inexperienced. It's typically the twelve year old kids who add most of the nonsense being tagged here. DreamGuy 18:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, I see – that is a valid reason, but then maybe the language should be unacademized (such as f.ex. "fictional references" ⇒ "references to fiction", "for an encylopedic and academic approach" ⇒ "for an encyclopedia"), so that it's language is more straightforward to read – my first language is Swedish, but the same phenomenon of "too academic" exist in Swedish too (called "substantiverat" - "noun-ized"). Maybe we can consider a reformulation? The talk page link may be optional. Said: Rursus ☺ ★ 06:54, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

change of wording
"for an encylopedic and academic approach" WP is a general encyclopedia, not an academic work, and academic approaches to topics are not necesaariy suitable. I suggest changing to just "for an encyclopedic approach" 04:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Go for it.--Father Goose 05:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)