Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of literary works published in Asia Raja/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Giants2008 00:09, 26 January 2013.

List of literary works published in Asia Raja

 * Nominator(s): — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:16, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I think it's a solid look at the literary works published in what was, for a time at least, the dominant newspaper in what is now Indonesia. This is a little more in line with my major, but different than my previous nominations. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:16, 26 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Support - I quite liked this list, and didn't see anything wrong with it. I too like seeing lists that aren't discographies or sports-related pop up. I'd prefer if "Unknown" authors didn't sort under "U", but I couldn't find a good way to do it. Thanks for archiving your online references! -- Pres N  19:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the support! Unknown authors could be supported using Unknown, but then we'd lose the grey background. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:09, 8 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment. The sentence says, " Instead, writers hoping to be published had to focus on positive themes in an effort to instill positive traits in society; by the end of the occupation, this meant a nationalistic struggle.". However, Asia Raja was for Japanese propaganda. So, how can writers be forced to focus on something that by the end of occupation came on to mean nationalistic struggle? May be I am reading it wrongly.--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:15, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You're reading it correctly, and it's written correctly. You'd have to read the end of Japanese occupation of Indonesia to get a good understanding of that. By mid-1945 the Japanese leadership recognised that they would not win the war and would be forced to withdraw from Indonesia (among others). Rather than give the archipelago (and its resources) back to the Dutch, they supported Indonesian nationalism. This ensured that the Dutch would either lose their control over the resources there, or waste many resources fighting a war with the Indonesians. As such, Indonesian nationalism was still, at least partially, in the Japanese interest. Check out Proclamation of Indonesian Independence to see the Japanese role in that event; it sure wasn't insignificant. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:32, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Aha, now I understand. Thanks for the explanation. I was completely unaware of this. However, I—as an uninitiated reader—did think wrongly. So, don't you think a description (nationalistic struggle against Dutch) or, at least, appropriate wikilink, is needed?--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Added a link, later I'll take a look at the books I have at home for sourcing a footnote — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:43, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Added a footnote. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Undstood. I support this list to be a featured one. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:06, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Support Crisco always makes good lists. Regards. — ΛΧΣ  21  19:46, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks Hahc! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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