User:Cybercobra/NOT card catalog

To detail my objections:
 * WP:NOT "Primary (original) research" - the choice of which entries to include is somewhat arbitrary, especially when the bibliography is so lengthy
 * WP:PROMOTION - "Self-promotion" - it's quite possible some of the entries were added by their own authors
 * WP:NOTLINK "collections of external links" - if one construes "external links" broadly to mean references to external works, then that's all a bibliography is; IMO, Wikipedia shouldn't be a card catalog
 * WP:NOTDIR "not a directory" (the section's very title) & specifically (#4) "Directories [...]" - a bibliography is a directory of related reading materials
 * WP:INDISCRIMINATE "an indiscriminate collection of information" - when the bibliography entries are so great in number, the criteria becomes less well defined (i.e. how can these articles be considered 'select' when there are so darn many of them?)

These problems are significantly reduced when bibliographies are just "Further reading" sections of existing pages, as their length tends to be significantly curtailed and their selection criterion thus more elite; and some of the guidelines also cease to be applicable when a bibliography is not a separate page unto itself. --Cyber cobra (talk) 12:05, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Bibliography of atmospheric dispersion modeling
 * Bibliography of the Front de libération du Québec
 * Bibliography for Duwamish (tribe)
 * Bibliography for Whittaker Chambers
 * Bibliography of Canadian history
 * Bibliography of Christianity in China
 * Bibliography of Eastern Orthodoxy in America
 * Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada
 * Bibliography of the Rwandan Genocide
 * Bibliography of the War in Darfur
 * Bibliography of the Western Apache
 * Classical guitar bibliography
 * Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography
 * Historiography of the French Revolution
 * Hamlet (bibliographies)
 * History of education in the United States: Bibliography
 * List of books by or about Adolf Hitler
 * Irish Railway bibliography
 * Justification bibliography (theology)
 * List of Christian apologetic works
 * List of apologetic works
 * List of chess books
 * List of primary and secondary sources on the Cold War
 * Richard Nixon bibliography
 * Opus Dei bibliography
 * Bibliography for Harold Pinter
 * Bibliography on Church policies 1939-1945
 * Bibliography of Prem Rawat and related organizations
 * List of books about the War of 1812

lengthy, but mergeable(?)

 * Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography

difficult

 * Bibliography of Louis-Joseph Papineau
 * Bibliography of Harry S. Truman
 * List of works related to Che Guevara

resisted

 * Bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism