User talk:Dextrose/Books/Language families, pt. I

G'day
These two volumes are an unorganised collection of categorised language family pages on Wikipedia. I hope someone can do a better job of putting things like this together; there are the following, arguably atrocious, flaws: I'm not very familiar with this process, nor am I in possession of softwaric magery that might aid me in my ventures. Weak is my mortal form.
 * There are no criteria for entries. Basically, I was trying to find all of them.
 * There is no logical order to them whatsoever. They went in as I found them. Arguably sections could be meticulously arranged, perhaps by some hierarchy of speaking populations within the family tree.
 * There is no guarantee that this list is by any means exhaustive. Of course, this holds true for the Encyclopedia. The books ought to be maintained following the progress of the Wiki, and further questions arise regarding what level of detail warrants inclusion.

In addition, I believe there ought to be similar resources (that I'll probably OCD out at some point for no real reason) on actual languages, as well as more specific data on language dialects, perhaps divided into volumes divided by genetic or geographic population. There would have to be even stricter lines drawn as to which page would fall where.

Given more reasonable organisation, I wouldn't say no to dividing this into three or more smaller books. At the same time, I'd really rather have these things be in self-navigable local documents; do the PDFs we download cross-reference? can they be made to? Dextrose (talk) 05:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)