User talk:Sunwin1960

A barnstar for you!
I’ve seen you’ve been updating writers bibliography sections: it’s a commendable task, but they don’t need to contain every published article by a writer. The bibliography section is for major published works (ie. Books which have ISBN numbers) not for individual articles. A good example of someone who wrote a lot of articles is the bibliography on Susan Sontag’s wiki page. Sarcastathon (talk) 22:57, 12 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, ideally authors with more than ten works should have a separate bibliography article, as per the guidelines at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bibliographies#Author_bibliographies. The Bibliography section in their main article can then be used to list only the major works.
 * Time and energy permitting, such bibliography articles will be created. An example is the Paul Theroux_bibliography. Sunwin1960 (talk) 10:05, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I know, but you’ve been listing things like every New Yorker article someone has written. That’s not what a wiki bibliography needs to contain. Sarcastathon (talk) 20:57, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry to clarify: Paul Theroux is a very note worthy writer who has had a hefty influence. It is rare a writer deserves a whole seperate bibliography page, and even more rare that their every published article makes it to that page. I have Susan Sontag as an example as she is very influential and was a prolific writer but even she does not need every published article listed. Sarcastathon (talk) 20:59, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * One solution I came up with was to create a detailed bibliography on an external website and then list it in the External Links section. However even that solution was unacceptable as the bibliography was hosted on a site I own, so it was seen as a form of self-promotion!  An example was a link I put on the Hilton Als page - see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hilton_Als&oldid=917140592#Bibliography which linked to https://unwin.net.au/biblios/als.xml but it was removed Sunwin1960 (talk) 06:25, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It’s admirable but the thing is that Wiki doesn’t need a detailed list of everything an author ever wrote. That’s the job of archivists, the estates of writers, librarians, historians etc. Sarcastathon (talk) 13:08, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

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