Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Literature/Archive 2

Deletion discussion - List of books about AIDS
Ongoing deletion discussion for List of books about AIDS at Articles for deletion/List of books about AIDS.
 * 1) List of books about AIDS
 * 2) Articles for deletion/List of books about AIDS

Perhaps this WikiProject and its members may be interested in contributing to this discussion, and/or a quality improvement project for this list page. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 07:04, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Everything Tastes Better with Bacon - FA nomination
Everything Tastes Better with Bacon is currently a candidate for consideration for a 2nd time for Featured Article quality status.
 * Everything Tastes Better with Bacon

The discussion page is at Featured article candidates/Everything Tastes Better with Bacon/archive2.

Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:53, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

== dezinsectie purici ==

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Created new article: Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
I've gone ahead and created a new article for the book, Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties.
 * Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties

Collaboration and particularly suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, Talk:Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 06:37, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

File:Sidereus Nuncius Medicean Stars.jpg
File:Sidereus Nuncius Medicean Stars.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:03, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

TorrentsofSpring.jpg
image:TorrentsofSpring.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:41, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Nonfiction
template:Nonfiction has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:04, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

File:Sepid Div.jpg
File:Sepid Div.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:08, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

When God Writes Your Love Story
The article about the book When God Writes Your Love Story is a current featured article candidate. Any constructive comments you would be willing to provide at the discussion would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 19:14, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

""
The usage of is under discussion, see talk:Monogatari (novel series) (monogatari is a literary form) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:26, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

The Democratic Review Poe July 1846.jpg
image:The Democratic Review Poe July 1846.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

"Monogatari"
naming of various things monogatari is up for discussion, see Talk:Bakemonogatari -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:10, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Infobox book: streamlining publication details
Changes to streamline the way Infobox book displays the date of publication and publisher from multiple fields into one (using a standardised format) and to remove the "(s)" in "Author(s)" etc. in line with other infoboxes have been suggested. Please read and give your opinion there. -- xensyria T 17:48, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Mystery is a mystery
The lead sentence of our article mystery fiction is "Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term."

Yes, it is. Under we have the chain of subcategories thriller, crime fiction, mystery fiction, detective fiction. But mystery fiction is also a direct subcat of {fiction by genre}; murder mystery redirects to crime fiction; and the lead paragraph says mystery fiction is sometimes merely that subset of detective fiction excluding hardboiled detective stories.

A two-year-old banner atop the article mystery fiction suggests appeal to WP Literature or its Portal for attention from an expert in Literature. That is template Literature. --template documentation says "If the issue is of some urgency, you may also post a notice at the WikiProject that was included in the template." Maybe not urgent but let me pass it on two years later.

I discovered this by accident, poking around for a WikiProject or task force or portal dedicated to detective/mystery/crime/thriller coverage. Except nonfiction Crime this seems to be directly under WP Literature and its Portal. Right? --in contrast to Portal: Speculative fiction and WP: Science fiction; both Portal and WP: Children's liteature; and so on --areas whose coverage i know fairly well. --P64 (talk) 22:39, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Come and join The Wikipedia Library
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 * Connect editors with their local library and freely accessible resources
 * Partner to provide free access to paywalled publications, databases, universities, and libraries
 * Build relationships among our community of editors, libraries, and librarians
 * Facilitate research for Wikipedians, helping editors to find and use sources
 * Promote broader open access in publishing and research

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-Hope to see you there, Ocaasit &#124; c 14:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Missing topics page
I have updated Missing topics about Literature - Skysmith (talk) 08:38, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

File:Long Branch Plantation horse sale 1883.jpg
File:Long Branch Plantation horse sale 1883.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 04:32, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

File:Handbill Long Branch Auction.jpg
File:Handbill Long Branch Auction.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 04:32, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Requested move for Lorca
There's a move request to place Lorca at Lorca, Spain to avoid ambiguity of the title with Federico García Lorca. Diego (talk) 09:11, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Beatrice Kozera for deletion
Beatrice Kozera was the Mexican farmworker girlfriend who inspired one of Jack Kerouac's characters, and the subject of a film and an upcoming fictional biography. Djembayz (talk) 00:07, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

She is mentioned in biografies often. I would like her to stay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.38.33.7 (talk) 09:52, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Requested page move of 1957 in literature
Interested parties should have a look at this move request Talk:1957_in_literature, which, if successful, would have a knock-on effect on all Year in Literature articles. Deb (talk) 10:48, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Fuck peer review, again

 * 1) Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
 * 2) Wikipedia:Peer review/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties/archive1

I've listed the article Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties for peer review.

Help with furthering along the quality improvement process would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:07, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Dan Savage bibliography for FLC
I've gone ahead and nominated Dan Savage bibliography for WP:FLC consideration, the discussion page is at Featured list candidates/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 12:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Dan Savage bibliography
 * 2) Featured list candidates/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1

Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties for Featured Article
I've nominated Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties for Featured Article candidacy.

Comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:32, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Unintelligible plot summary at Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
I ran across this YA book in an indirect way, and the plot summary is so inside-jokey or slangy it's unintelligible. Can someone familiar render the summary in proper phrasing? MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Which wikiproject for an article on Exposition (narrative)?
This has never been a good article so far as I can see, always relying heavily on material from Writer's Digest. I may be the first person to have added an academic source after I removed a self-published source from a Writer's Digest affiliate company. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 14:52, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Infobox book series
Editors involved in this project may be interested in a discussion at Template talk:Infobox book series. In short: Should the parameter "Publisher" be wikilinked in the template? Cnilep (talk) 03:55, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

RfC for proposal at Talk:Alter ego
An editor has made a proposal on dividing the article Alter ego in three distinct parts or separate articles, as they have different meanings/interpretations in different fields. Community input is greatly appreciated. - Mailer Diablo 18:39, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Adrianne Wadewitz deletion discussion notice
There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.
 * 1) Adrianne Wadewitz
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz

The discussion is at Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.

For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Articles for deletion and Notability.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

how find only new pages on literary works
Hi everybody, is there any bot that deals with newcomers for categories like, e.g., short story collections, novels, plays ... independently of when a work was published? Or maybe there is any other way to find out which articles that were started recently deal with literary works. Thank you, --Jackentasche (talk) 16:17, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

was ranked "high" importance to your project. As it is a dialect and not a literature article, is that assessment correct? -- 76.65.128.112 (talk) 05:28, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

was ranked "mid" importance to your project. As it is a dialect and not a literature article, is that assessment correct? -- 76.65.128.112 (talk) 05:28, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Not in Front of the Children
I've recently gone ahead and created an article about the book, Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.
 * Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth

Help with suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:27, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency
I've created a new article about the Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:10, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Created new article = Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars

 * Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars

I've created a new article on the book, Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.

Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties promoted to Featured Article
Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties was promoted to Featured Article quality.

Thank you very much to all who helped with this successful quality improvement project related to freedom of speech and censorship,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

New article = Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence

 * Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence

I've created a new article on the book, Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.

Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:17, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

List of Contemporary Writers of the American West
It was created recently and is now being discussed at Articles for deletion/List of Contemporary Writers of the American West.

Should there exist Category:Contemporary writers of the American West as well or instead? Please comment at the AfD discussion. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Archived some threads
I've archived some inactive threads to subsections which were notifications about discussions that have since been closed. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Good articles/Language and literature
Hi, guys. I think the section "Works" in the Good articles/Language and literature is becoming too long (there are 392 so far). I'd suggest to split it into subsections divided by period of time like "Albums" and "Songs" in Good articles/Music and "Films" in Good articles/Media and drama. What do you think? Also, I've raised a question about light novels in Wikipedia talk:Good articles. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 19:41, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Adrianne Wadewitz for Peer review

 * 1) Adrianne Wadewitz
 * 2) Peer review/Adrianne Wadewitz/archive1

I've nominated the article Adrianne Wadewitz for Peer review.

Discussion is at the peer review subpage, at Peer review/Adrianne Wadewitz/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:02, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Renouveau catholique. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 23:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Portal:Literature at Featured portal candidates
This is a message to inform you that Portal:Literature (promoted to Featured Portal in 2006, delisted in mid-2013) is currently being considered for relisting as a Featured Portal at Featured_portal_candidates. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to offer your support or voice your opposition, I encourage you to do so there. The FPO criteria can be found at Featured portal criteria. Thank you, Sᴠᴇɴ Mᴀɴɢᴜᴀʀᴅ   Wha?  07:49, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Help needed at Yashpal
I've been improving Yashpal (1903-1976), who is recognised as one of the greatest writers in Hindi literature and has been widely translated. There seems to be quite a lot of analysis/literary criticism available in the English language but I'm out of my depth when it comes to summarising this sort of stuff & worry that it will end up being a bunch of quotations. Can anyone offer assistance, please? - Sitush (talk) 11:15, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 4
There is a conversation going on at Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 4 about the gendered categorization of author pages (particularly whether to use "men" or "male" writers). Further voices would be appreciated to develop a consensus on the standard amongst writer articles, Sadads (talk) 19:20, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Susanna Kearsley
Greetings, literature specialists, can anyone vouch for the notability or otherwise of novelist Susanna Kearsley? The article states she won the Catherine Cookson Literary Prize, which sounds like evidence of notability, but it's a poorly referenced stub. I came across the article because someone added a mention in the article on Cruden Bay, saying that one of her novels is set there, and I wondered if this was noteworthy. --Deskford (talk) 00:37, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I've just removed links to it under New Slains Castle and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton - in the latter it just stated he was a 'minor character'. I'm not sure whether the Susanna Kearsley should be prodded (or AfD); the only refs are to goodreads, which I don't think is viable as I think it's a just a review site that anyone can post on? The other ref appears to be a blog? Comments from others more involved in author articles would be appreciated!  SagaciousPhil   -  Chat  07:37, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

A Contract with God Featured Article Candidate
I've put the article for Will Eisner's 1978 graphic novel A Contract with God up as a Featured Article Candidate. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the review at Featured article candidates/A Contract with God/archive1. Thanks, Curly Turkey (gobble) 12:47, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 03/04
This looks like a good article, although some of it looks like WP:OR. Draft:Isabella Breviary. Could you have a look? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Infobox book request for comment
In August last year, all publication data in infobox book was merged into one new published parameter. Work began on migrating existing uses to the new format, until questions were raised about the effect this had on data granularity.

Any input and suggestions on a proposed fix, which keeps the new one-line per edition formatting while providing full data granularity would be much appreciated (centralised discussion here). Thanks. ‑‑ xensyria T 23:52, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 08/04
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Augusta G. Almeda. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:03, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jewish poetry from Al-Andalus. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 19:58, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Edward Sayer
Hello, literature experts. This old Afc submission is soon to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable essayist, and should the article be kept and improved instead? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 15:20, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Scope?
What is the scope of WikiProject Literature? It seems quite poorly defined; how would someone know if a topic is meant to be in WPLIT or not? -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:50, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

List of notable figures.
The Naturalism article could use a list of authors who wrote in this style. Like the Transcendentalism Article. 207.192.244.242 (talk) 15:54, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 22/04
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Old English Elegies. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:42, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 27/04
Articles for creation/The Island Queen. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:04, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Audit of author list at Urban fiction
Is there someone in the know about urban fiction who could audit and trim the list of authors under that article? The large majority are redlinks, and I wonder how many of them don't meet the notability requirements for inclusion. —Largo Plazo (talk) 15:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Proposed rewording for instructions for disambiguation at the WikiProject Comics Manual of Style
A Request for Comment has been made regarding how to disambiguate articles which are on topic for WikiProject Comics. I presume some of you may not consider comic books to be literature, but I believe the discussion could use some outside opinions to keep it from getting too insular. If interested, please join the discussion here. Thank you! -- GentlemanGhost  (converse)  20:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Revised proposed rewording for instructions for disambiguation at the WikiProject Comics Manual of Style
A revised Request for Comment has been made regarding the policy compliance of title disambiguation for articles under WikiProject Comics. Please join the discussion here (original here). Curly Turkey (gobble) 23:50, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Portal:Children's literature for Featured Portal candidacy

 * 1) Portal:Children's literature
 * 2) Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Children's literature

I've nominated Portal:Children's literature to be considered for Featured Portal quality.

This was a joint quality improvement collaboration between myself and User:Wadewitz.

Participation would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Children's literature.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:21, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 08/05
Wikipedia_talk:Articles for creation/The Island Queen. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:27, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Naming conventions for bibliographies
I have proposed naming conventions for bibliographies here. Any constructive comments you are willing to provide there would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 16:16, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Bloomsbury Group revisited
Are there still any people of the WikiProject Literature/Bloomsbury Group editathon around? I started Bloomsbury Group in LGBT history, which I marked as a stub: mainly concentrates on the people now, the narrative of the history can still be expanded. --Francis Schonken (talk) 06:24, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Proposal to delete categories involving literature by women.
There is a proposal to delete categories involving literature by women, including deleting Literature by African-American women, Literature by Asian-American women, Literature by Native American women, Literature by Hispanic and Latino American women. See discussion here: [link to discussion]. __ E L A Q U E A T E  23:30, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Dutch-language LGBT writers cat
During this discussion it was mentioned "this may not be the right place to discuss a very fundamental issue, namely: in literature, a categorization by language is much more relevant than by nationality", to which was replied:"...If others need to be invited to this discussion in a neutral manner, then you have the right to do that." (my bolding). This is the invitation. --Francis Schonken (talk) 05:25, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Current deletion discussion of Category:Dutch-language LGBT writers at Categories for discussion/Log/2014 July 4

Nadine Gordimer books
Hello. Would anyone be interested in creating and expanding pages about all of her novels and other works? I could try to start more stubs, but I don't have time to re-read all her books now. Since she has just passed away, I thought some of you would be interested. Those books definitely deserve a page, with a short summary and referenced criticism. Let me know on my talkpage if interested. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 03:51, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Notification of a TFA nomination
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:16, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Vijayanagara literature in Kannada considered for Main Page
There is an ongoing discussion on whether to feature the WP:FA quality article Vijayanagara literature in Kannada on the Main Page.

You may participate at Today's featured article/requests/Vijayanagara literature in Kannada.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Project related discussion
This should be noted here, since it won't show up on project alerts. There is a discussion at Talk:Songs of Innocence (album) including whether to move the new U2 album over the William Blake Songs of Innocence (1789) redirect to the later Songs of Innocence and Experience combined Blake collection. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:26, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Signalism
There is a new article that popped up on my NPP queue called Signalism that may be of interest to members of this project. It seems a tad essayish and I have tagged it accordingly. Perhaps someone can take a look at it? -Ad Orientem (talk) 17:01, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Literature Online Access
Hello all! At The Wikipedia Library we are currently in talks with Proquest's Literature Online and Early English Books Online to get Wikipedians access to those databases/collections. They asked us for a bit of information about how Wikipedians might use the research materials, asking us to do a brief survey. It would be extremely helpful if users could fill out the following Google form: Proquest - Literature Online / Wikipedia Library user interest survey. Afterward, while waiting for us to finish talks on Literature Online, we would like to invite editors to apply for already established available partnerships, listed at our partners page. Thank you for all of your help! Sadads (talk) 16:50, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Just reminding everyone that this might be of interest! Calling all survey takers, Sadads (talk) 20:17, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Banner header for new WP
Hello. I've created a new WP, Women writers and I've added it to WP:LIT's Related project's list. An editor mentioned on the Women writer's talkpage that a bot could be used to place banner headers on the pages which fall under the project's scope (articles in ). AnomieBOT requires approval from affected projects before it starts tagging so I'm seeking that approval from WP:LIT. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:31, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Missing articles about SF classics
I've correlated James Wallace Harris' list of science fiction classics with our articles, and come up with a shortlist of classic science fiction works for which we do not currently have articles. (See User:The Anome/Classic science fiction for the full list.)

Of these, the most notable are these classic novels:


 * Casey Agonistes by Richard McKenna
 * On the Wings of Song by Thomas Disch
 * The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle (1923) (#139 on James Wallace Harris' list: see http://io9.com/now-you-can-read-the-first-cyborg-novel-ever-published-458729406 for background -- but the claim that E. V. Odle was actually Virginia Woolf appears to be unfounded. See here for E. V. Odle's real identity: Edwin Vincent Odle (1890-1942))
 * The Embedding by Ian Watson
 * The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings
 * The Weigher of Souls by Andre Maurois
 * To-Morrow's Yesterday by John Gloag

Update: I've entered the above into Requested articles/Arts and entertainment/Literature/Books, but I think they are of sufficient prominence as SF classics to also mention here.

-- The Anome (talk) 16:15, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

New article on graphic novel Bucko
I've created a new article on graphic novel Bucko.
 * Bucko

Help or suggestions with additional secondary sources would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:Bucko.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:19, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel
I've started a new article on the book by Janice Dickinson &mdash; No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.
 * No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

Feel free to help out with additional secondary sources, and/or chip in with collaborative discussion at Talk:No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.

Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 06:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Good Article promoted in 2013, nominated for deletion

 * 1) Critical response to She Has a Name
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Critical response to She Has a Name

WP:GA article Critical response to She Has a Name, promoted in 2013, nominated for deletion, discussion page is at: Articles for deletion/Critical response to She Has a Name. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:47, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

""
The usage of is under discussion, see talk:epic poetry -- 70.51.46.146 (talk) 05:35, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

"Outro"
The usage of Outro is under discussion, see talk:outro -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 07:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

You Are One of Them (new article)
Hello. I have created You Are One of Them, a 2013 novel written by Elliott Holt. I have not read it, but it has been widely reviewed, so I was able to write a start. I would appreciate it if some of you wanted to expand the page, add the cover photo to the infobox, etc. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 08:32, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Improving User:Zigzig20s/My Policeman
Hello. I have created User:Zigzig20s/My Policeman, and I was wondering if you thought it could be moved to a proper article as a stub, and/or how it could be expanded/improved. I could add a section with a listof characters. I could also flesh out the plot summary a little bit. There have been other reviews in The Times and other publications, but I don't have access to them. Are any of you able to find them? Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 22:31, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Launch of WikiProject Wikidata for research
Hi, this is to let you know that we've launched WikiProject Wikidata for research in order to stimulate a closer interaction between Wikidata and research, both on a technical and a community level. As a first activity, we are drafting a research proposal on the matter (cf. blog post). Your thoughts on and contributions to that would be most welcome! Thanks, -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:16, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

RFC: List of literary awards
RFC notification: Should these four external links be included in the article List of literary awards? -- Green  C  19:17, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Guinness RM
You are invited to comment on a requested move at Talk:Guinness. -- Calidum 06:39, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

What experts say about prevalent slants in entries on literary works
I am seeking information about what experts say might be considered the prevalent theoretical slant in descriptions of literary works in Wikipedia entries. In case you know of any studies, please refer to the section at the Humanities Desk, thank you, --C.Koltzenburg (talk) 11:14, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Writer Templates
How come the "influences" don't show up on the infoboxes for writers?

Go to Tom Clancy or Shakespeare for example. They have "influences" in the info boxes, but it doesn't display. I just tried to use the infobox template for someone else.

Also see Gary Gygax. Same thing. There is info in the template for "influences" but it just plain doesn't display. Why?

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 * I was hoping someone could answer this. Is this a bug that needs to be reported? If so, how would I do that?96.51.16.28 (talk) 16:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * In the absence of the courtesy of a response, I've reported it as a bug. Apparently it has been discussed before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_writer/Archive_8 I guess the question is why it still shows up in the template. 96.51.16.28 (talk) 17:27, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Donations
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Hard Choices, new article about book on climate change in Canada
I've created a new article about the book on climate change in Canada, titled, Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada.

Help with suggesting additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:Hard Choices (Coward book).

Thank you,

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User adding excessive detail to plot summaries
User talk:EditorOctober1990 has been adding excessive details to plot summaries of a number of articles - despite being reverted and warned by several other editors. Members of this wikiproject might want to keep an eye on his/her edits and or try to redirect his/her energy into something more productive. DexDor (talk) 18:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Peter Glassgold
Rev. H. Carlton Earwiggherd contacted me about Peter Glassgold, an author, editor and publisher. There's a discussion about sources on my talk page; it appears Glassgold meets the standards of notability, but finding third-party coverage may prove something of a challenge. If there were enough sources online I'd have whipped up a short article on Glassgold myself, but it seems a more thorough search would be necessary to find those necessary sources. Help by people more familiar with (and more enthused about) the publishing world than myself would be greatly appreciated. Huon (talk) 22:35, 10 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I think that the problem of finding enough sources to justify a Wikipedia entry for Peter Glassgold points to a larger problem with Wikipedia. Peter, like me, is in his 70's. He did his major work and had the most influence on literature before the internet was there to suck up all that information. He is eminently qualified for a Wikipedia entry. If you look at his CV outlined on the New Directions page devoted to him, that is quite obvious.
 * I think Wikipedia must somehow deal with the fact that its role as an all-encompassing encyclopedia is compromised by its reliance on on-line sources. Its articles are skewed towards people, events, ideas, general subject matter that came to prominence after the maturing of the internet, or towards particular subjects studied in current academic curricula.
 * My daughter is a writer and teacher; she has an entry in Wikipedia. She’s a great writer and a great teacher, with published books and a substantial on-line presence. She deserves a Wikipedia article, but when it comes to Western literature, Peter Glassgold has had a much greater impact over a longer span than she has, has been more influential, has devoted more productive years than she, and is known and respected by at least as many prominent writers, editors, scholars and critics as she. But my daughter is part of the on-line generation, as is whoever was the colleague or fan or student or academic responsible for her Wikipedia entry.
 * If Peter Glassgold, who for two decades was editor-in-chief of New Directions Publishing, co-edited, with John Laughlin, the periodical, New Directions, edited numerous well-known authors of the modern canon, was active in PEN, and published – with publishers other than New Directions – anthologies, poetry translations and a novel, cannot slip easily into a short Wikipedia entry, then there is some flaw, some lacuna, in the Wikipedia system that should be addressed.
 * Frankly speaking, when there are obituaries for Peter Glassgold, his Wikipedia-worthy on-line presence will be assured. That’s how old-fashioned encyclopedias worked. With the finality of death, a person’s importance – or lack of it – was given an “official” determination. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with that. But that is not the way Wikipedia is supposed to work.
 * Wikipedia is an “encyclopedia” in which not only every band that has made an album this century but in which the album itself and sometimes even particular songs from that album each is accorded an entry, yet passes over older persons who have made notable contributions to society, but whose milieus happen not to be internet-oriented. Something needs to be fixed. Rev. H. Carlton Earwiggherd (talk) 15:38, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Not so. Offline sources are entirely acceptable, but random strangers like me who haven't heard of Glassgold before have little chance of finding them. If you know which print editions of newspapers or literary journals have discussed Glassgold or his work in some detail, please provide bibliographical information. If, however, the only source that bothered to write about Glassgold in some detail is the magazine he headed, then it's quite obvious that he is not qualified for an encyclopedia article on Wikipedia. Wikipedia does't care what someone has done, but only what others have written about them. That same rule holds for publishers, politicians and singers. One might argue that something is wrong with our culture when it's easier to find reliable sources discussing the latter than the former, but that's not Wikipedia's fault. (Conversely, I've heard proponents of practically every subject, from publishers via scientists to, yes, musicians, argue that their specific subject was unfairly under-represented in media coverage and should therefore be held to lower standards than everything else.) Huon (talk) 17:34, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Fictional Canon : please help
start quote:

In fiction, canon is the material accepted as part of the story in an individual universe of that story.

end quote.

from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(fiction)

What does "material" refer to ? scripts ?? props ?? films ?? the opinions of the director scriptwriter ??

thanks

who decides what counts as material ??

is this the right place to ask this question ?? i would like to contribute but i am not a very good writer so i am just asking.

any guidance will be welcome

thanks for wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oduoduprometheus (talk • contribs) 08:39, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(people)#Bestseller_list_as_notability
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(people). Thanks. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Long story short, this is part of a discussion to make it easier for authors to pass notability guidelines. It spawned off of one recommendation and right now the idea is that achieving a top spot on major/notable bestseller lists would be something that would be a sign of notability. This would be the major lists like the New York Times and such, not Amazon. Anywho, the main discussion is taking place at the link above. (Or you can click here.) We probably won't get a good enough consensus to make it into a new rule, but I can seriously dream, can't I? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Shall they be merged?
I'd like to ask if Neither (opera) and neither (short story) should be merged in a single article. Cheers. --Paopp (talk) 07:37, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Notification of discussion on the categorisation of fictional universes at WikiProject Comics
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Discussion at Template:Did you know nominations/Nautical fiction
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Literary technique listed at Requested moves
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Work dates in Navboxes
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James Joyce infobox RfC
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Request for photographs and images
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Wiki Loves Pride
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Significant deletion discussion
This is not my field, so I wanted to advertise this discussion on the appropriate noticeboard: Articles for deletion/Stephanie Powell Watts. Thanks for any input. -O.R.Comms 02:03, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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"Appendix"
The usage and primary topic of is under discussion, see talk:Vermiform appendix

Do we have an article specifically on the supplementary material to the primary text ? appendix lists subtypes of these appendices -- 70.51.203.69 (talk) 05:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi)
"Books and Writers" (aka kirjasto.sci.fi) has quality biographies of writers and is often linked to (579 articles). A couple of months ago the site went offline. This created many dead links both in External links and citations. The site was hosted by the Kuusankoski Public Library in Finland and authored by Petri Liukkonen. The last good Wayback capture was on February 10 2015. The site went offline between then and March 15 2015.

There are 1170 biographies at Books and Writers (full list). On the English Wikipedia "kirjasto.sci.fi" is linked to in 579 articles. Full list.

More info here.

-- Green  C  00:59, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


 * This project is complete. All the kirjasto.sci.fi links have been updated to use {{tl{Books and Writers}} which now links to Wayback Machine. -- Green  C  17:29, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Experts on Oxford literary, history, and arts scene, 1920-1990
…please see. Cheers, Le Prof 71.201.62.200 (talk) 05:42, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Could you please have a look at Draft:Ruthenian Triad? Thank you, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:32, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm not willing to copy edit this draft at present. It's possibly a notable subject, but it needs quite a bit of work. I'd appreciate it if anyone would be willing to have a look. Thank you very much, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 00:40, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Daniel Silva (novelist)
I've been working on the Daniel Silva (novelist) page. I think most of the concerns expressed at Talk:Daniel Silva (novelist) have been addressed. Can someone evaluate the page? WikiProject Biography is also involved. Thanks.-- Jim in Georgia  Contribs  Talk  00:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

And while we're on the subject, eight of Silva's fifteen Gabriel Allon novel pages have the qualifier (Daniel Silva novel) appended to the pagename because of DAB issues. Is there any benefit in consistency to be gained by adding the qualifier to the others? (Gabriel Allon series) could also be used as a qualifier/extension.-- Jim in Georgia  Contribs  Talk  01:36, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Would anyone care to review Draft:Maura Bwee O'Leary? Much appreciated, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:00, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

"Boy Cried Wolf"
The usage and primary topic of is under discussion, see talk:Boy Cried Wolf (album) -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 05:08, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Press - deletion
Hello there! I've come across one editor's COI edits, and they all pertain to Thin Man Press and Peter Doherty in some way or another. I've been trying to clean his edits up, and am unsure as to whether XfD Thin Man Press. Only sources I've come across mention it in passing while discussing Doherty's book. What do you reckon? Best, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  20:30, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Are personal pronouns (including "who") to be avoided for fictional characters?
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Help with an article?
I've posted this at WP:FRANCE, but the gist is still the same:

I'm looking for some help with an article about Sur les femmes. It's up for AfD and I've found sourcing to show that it's notable, but I need help from people that can help with sourcing in general and flesh it out some. I've added some to the article, but more is always helpful and I want to try to give a varied amount of sources since the article initially relied heavily on the same two sources. Anyone want to help? I'm slightly swamped with schoolwork and I have a project coming up, so I can't really devote a lot of time to this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  13:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Not in Front of the Children - at Peer Review
I've requested Peer Review for Not in Front of the Children.

Feedback would be appreciated, at Peer review/Not in Front of the Children/archive1.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 06:04, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Created new article on book - Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
I've created a new article on the book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand.

Input and suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 06:01, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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Literary festival: suspicious editing
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Propose changes to Infobox bibliography
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Genetic Engineering in Fiction
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Wikipedia Visiting Scholars at Rollins College
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"Hero", "Heroine" and "Heroism"
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Jesse Haynes
Articles for deletion/Jesse Haynes Joeykai (talk) 04:35, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject English Language
It's rather shocking that this project is missing, though its absence explains why we have so few articles about our language (most of the linguistic material on English is buried as sections, when we're lucky, in general linguistics articles), and why so much of what we do have is riddled with Victorian prescriptivist PoV-pushing and original research. Properly sourced, neutral, linguistically descriptive, detailed, encyclopedic coverage of the language is one of en.wp's most obvious topical gaps. The scope is general, including everything from the Great English Vowel Shift to Quotation marks in English to English as a global language, and various missing articles like major styles of English writing.

I've drafted the wikiproject outline at User:SMcCandlish/WikiProject English Language, including some "Goals" and "Scope" points. Please "pre-sign" as a participant so that it already has a number of supporters (7+ would be nice) when I take it to WikiProject Council/Proposals in the next day or so. I've not yet created a to-do list for it or other resources (mainly so I don't have to move them later after the proposal goes through).

As far as I can determine, this project is missing because several times in the past, various camps of prescriptivists have tried to create something called "WikiProject English" to PoV-push their version of "correct" English on Wikipedia, and had it deleted at WP:MFD. This proposal would be the diametric opposite of such WP:FRINGE / WP:SOAPBOX campaigning.

It will not focus on literature in particular, but the language as such. Nevertheless, I figure many people in this project will be interested in the new one. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  23:52, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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"Misfortune"
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Charles Ackerman Berry at AfD
Is anyone familiar with a minor English poet (1908-1996) who had a very well received semi-autobiography Gentleman of the Road published in 1978. I recall the book from school, but I'm surprised to see no obit on-line. Does anyone have better archive access than I do? Andy Dingley (talk) 15:42, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to our April event
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RfC notice: In-universe name details of fictional characters, in article leads
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Notice of discussion regarding the undefined template
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Could someone look in at a novel's article page?
, others: Could you look in on Sophie's Choice (novel), and see if you can think of individuals in your respective writing communities, that might give some attention to this article? It is a sensitive article, insofar as Styron took a view, in the book, that has been very controversial, vis-a-vis his view of the Holocaust. When I arrived at the article, it did not even mention the controversy, and I have added it. But this is not my area of expertise, and what is needed is an English Prof, or a Holocaust literature expert, that can sensitively provide a balanced perspective on the book, from published sources. (I spent some time in my editing, in adding an extensive Further reading list of sources I could find.) I am simply not an expert in 20th century cultural history, or literature, or literary criticism, to be able to undertake these revisions. Cheers, good luck. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 17:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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Shakespeare and fair use
Hello, I've asked a question at WikiProject Shakespeare about adding fair use media to articles. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.

In addition, for anyone in London this weekend there is an editathon about Shakespeare taking place. The event page is here. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 10:05, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Auto-assessment of article classes
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Manikya Kodithuwakku
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallybastian1 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 16 June 2016 (UTC) Manikya Dinushi Kodithuwakku is a Sri Lankan editor and publisher and co-founder of PawPrint Publishers, Colombo, which she set up in 2014 as an initiative in photography, publishing and editorial work. She is a former academic and researcher in Literature and Law, having served the Open University of Sri Lanka from 2009 to 2015.

Manikya Kodithuwakku was born in March 1980 in Colombo and was educated at Ladies’ College, Colombo. Her childhood was spent in Korea and Japan where her family was located in the late 1980s. She received her tertiary education at the Monash University, obtaining Bachelor’s qualifications in English Literature and Law. She also holds an LLM from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and an MA from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

In 2014, Kodithuwakku set up PawPrint Publishing on a not-for-profit basis with the objective of encouraging literature worthy to be published and in the market. She is currently attached to a leading magazine in Sri Lanka, LMD, serving as Senior Manager in its editorial branch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallybastian1 (talk • contribs) 12:42, 16 June 2016 (UTC) --Wallybastian1 (talk) 13:37, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Novel sales
Is there a reliable way to find the number of copies that a particular book has sold? I've been struggling through unhelpful web sources for a while now. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 10:27, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

In the news candidate for writer Péter Esterházy
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Gabriel Rossetti
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Chapter summary
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Please comment
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AfD for Martha deMey Clow
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"History of literature" article, I suggest, needs a large downgrade from B-class on the quality scale.
The article History of literature has been assessed as B-class on this project's quality scale. I would suggest this is downgraded for the following reasons.


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 * Various sections are out of balance. Eg:
 * The section Islamic World has far too much on The Arabian Nights given that an article with such broad scope cannot afford to give over too many words to one work.
 * The section Early Modern Period is primarily about English works (admittedly one may expect that in an English Wikipedia).
 * The 18th, 19th and 20th century sections are extremely limited.

I recognise that an article of such massive scope is going to be a HUGE challenge for the community to make good but that's not a matter for my current argument, which is that the article presently cannot lay claim to being a B-class article. --bodnotbod (talk) 04:24, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

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Please translate Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago
Could someone please translate Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago? Looks like the main literary prize in Chile, apparently!Zigzig20s (talk) 05:18, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

On adding a novel to a category
Greetings, o literary ones. User:Debresser suggested I post here. We are in disagreement about adding Clan of the Cave Bear to Category:Fictional bears. Our arguments are fleshed out on the talk page. My view is that I want to help someone who is reading about e.g. Marian Engel's Bear (novel) or Richard Adams's Shardik to find CotCB and vice versa. Debresser's position is that Jean Auel's "book is not related in a significant way to any bears". If any of you would care to read our discussion and comment there, I'd be grateful. Thank you. Carbon Caryatid (talk) 18:04, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

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Missing topics list
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W. B. Yeats
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There is quite a lot of useful info in the obituary (first ref).

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I just want to compare both pieces and see how they are held across the witchcraft scholarship.

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Contemporary setting
Can novels set in the modern day (or thereabouts) also be considered like a genre? I am trying to distinguish between different works on wikidata based on their setting (or multiple settings), e.g. science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, etc., but have no category in which to put works in a contemporary setting. Thanks. SharkD  Talk  16:40, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

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Fantasy vs Fiction
According to the current definitions in Wikipedia, as I understand it, every book, movie etc that has it's setting on earth falls into the category of fiction. Even if the story line would include imaginary monsters or unknown creatures. Yet, if the exact same story would be put in a setting of another planet we would no longer put it in this category. I can't help but feel that this does not make any sense.

Is it even possible to draw a line between fantasy and fiction ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruudschmitz (talk • contribs) 18:38, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

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Merge with Emily Dickinson or separate section / article about her sexuality?
There is a merge discussion at Talk:Emily_Dickinson about merging an article about someone that it seems that Dickinson loved with the main article. In my response, I have also posed the question about further exploring Dickinson's sexuality, which could be done within the main article or perhaps a separate article.

I know that this project is about literature - I posted this at the Biography project and thought that there might be more people here that might be interested in this. Any input would be wonderful!–CaroleHenson (talk) 18:02, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

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Literary merit
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Ryszard Kapuściński
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Need help, article on writer/literary critic
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I just wrote one but it remains as a Draft; I don't know how to actually Publish it.

Draft:Fred Jacob (journalist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Fred_Jacob_(journalist)#Primary_works

Can you provide any advice?

Draft:Fred Jacob (journalist) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fred Jacob (1882–1927) (occasionally shown as Fred Jacobs in some publications about his work)[1] was a journalist with Toronto's The Mail and Empire (now the Globe and Mail), having joined the publication in 1903, after having won the publication's poetry contest.[2] Jacob was first a sports reporter but from 1910 to 1928, he was responsible for the entire literary section of the newspaper; he was also the drama and music critic.[3][4] Occasionally, he wrote about drama in the Canadian Magazine.[5]

Contents [show] Early years[edit] Jacob was raised in Elora, Ontario, the son of a lawyer and the nephew of a judge and particularly enjoyed lacrosse. Later, while living in Toronto, he was the president of a lacrosse club for 16 years.[6]

Primary works[edit] Jacob wrote two novels, The Day Before Yesterday (published in 1925) and Peeee (1928),[7] both satirical works[8] the first set in fictional small communities resembling Elora, Ontario, his home town with some characters (especially in the first book) resembling those Jacob had known. He wrote that his intention in the books was to "preserve an impression of the Canadian scene".[9] A review of the first book provided this comment: "To the structure of Canadian literature Mr. Fred Jacob has contributed not only a substantial brick but a graceful vine."[10]

Jacob also wrote several popular stage plays, including One third of a bill and Autumn Blooming.[11][12][13][14]

Legacy[edit] Jacob suffered from rheumatic fever and died on 3 July 1928 of a heart attack during a social function.[15] An obituary in Saturday Night (magazine) referred to him as the "ablest critic on drama of the daily press in Toronto", praising "the soundness of his judgements and clearness of his expositions".[16]

References[edit]

Thanks, Peter K Burian (talk) 16:11, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

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Fake memoirs listed at Requested moves
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Original or translated title?
Should an article about a book use the original language title or the English translation's title? To be specific, which title should Draft:Kringe in 'n Bos (Circles in a Forest) use? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:15, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * You want to use the English translation. There are good guidelines at WP:COMMONNAME and WP:TRANSLITERATE. Jaldous1 (talk) 14:58, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Dream world (plot device) listed at Requested moves
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Please assess
Please assess the article Buddhist poetry. Thanks! Thinker78 (talk) 06:13, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

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"The Executed Renaissance" needs citations and assessing
Hi. The article The Executed Renaissance needs citations and assessing. Thanks! Thinker78 (talk) 03:50, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Please assess
Please assess Fictitious entry. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asianflavoure (talk • contribs) 03:30, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Humanities published first article
T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 09:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Scope of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)
There is currectly an RFC on the scope of WP:NCBOOKS which may be of interest. See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (books) -- wooden  superman  15:42, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
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New task force proposal
I am thinking about setting up a task force within this WikiProject to deal with Jewish works, primarily the Talmud and Mishna. Despite the importance of written works in Judaism, many of the articles devoted to Jewish works, including articles on specific tractates of the Mishna and Talmud, are in desperate need of attention. They are poorly written, lack sources, and don’t convey enough information. If you would be willing to join such a task force, please indicate below. Any feedback about this idea would be appreciated. Two users over at JUDAISM already agreed to join. — Puzzledvegetable (talk) 12:27, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Notification about article needing work (Critical lens)
Hello WikiProject Literature denizens! While I myself am not a member of this wikiproject, I am very interested in literature/books, and I edit a wide variety of articles. While doing some unrelated reading, I found Critical lens (then named 'critical lens essay') and set about rewriting it. Your help, advice, and heckling would all be appreciated!

Some notes - the article as it originally stood was on a non-notable topic - 'critical lens essays' - which struck me as both vague and unencyclopedic. I promptly moved it to its current page name and started rewriting it. The article as it stands with the start of my rewriting is a stub - I'm nowhere near finished. But I think the article should actually be a fairly well fleshed out broad overview article as it summarizes a major way of literary analysis. That's why I'm requesting help.

This in fact could be a fairly major project, not only because this is a major article topic that should be expanded upon, but because some of the sub-articles it will link to can also use some help. See Marxist literary criticism for an idea of what I mean - it doesn't mention Literature and Revolution, one of the introductory works in the field (and that article itself could use some help).

Thanks, and have a great day! --Nerd1a4i (talk) 05:41, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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Theatrical adaptation, TV adaptation
I feel sure that editors have used theatrical adaptation and TV adaptation in the parallel senses of literary adaptation for the stage and for the TV screen. In fact, however, TV/television adaptation are two redirects to adaptation of television material for the cinema, or TV-to-film. Moments ago I posted a longer notice of the problem at Talk:Literary adaptation. (I post this short one also at WP:TV, WP:CHILDLIT). --P64 (talk) 22:49, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:French and Francophone literature for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:French and Francophone literature is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Nomination of Portal:William Shakespeare for deletion
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Inferno (Dante) listed at Requested moves
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Subliterature
The article Subliterature has a section titled "Examples of books considered subliterature". This section seriously needs citations of reliable sources considering such things to be subliterature, particularly since subliterature is a pejorative.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 19:42, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Dream world (plot device) listed at Requested moves
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

John E. Alvis
John E. Alvis, a literary scholar who taught at the University of Dallas, has died. He wrote books about Shakespeare and Hawthorne: I am not able to find an obituary yet and not sure there are enough sources (maybe book reviews?) to create an article.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:22, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of Updike-related article
Hey all. There is currently a deletion debate ongoing about Brewer (John Updike), the setting of John Updike's "Rabbit" cycle of novels. Any input at the AFD would be welcome, as would any contributions anyone might have from reliable sources discussing this topic outside of a plot summary. Thanks! — Hunter Kahn 13:21, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Notice of re-proposal to merge all volumes of The Lord of the Rings to its main article
The AfD suggesting merge/delete and redirect has closed, and another discussion about merging all three LotR volumes' articles into The Lord of the Rings has now opened at Talk:The Lord of the Rings, as of February 4.

This likely has implications for our handling of other multi-volume works of literature (such as Das Kapital and the separate Das Kapital, Volume I – Das Kapital, Volume III; and similar cases). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:57, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

List of fictional counties up for deletion
I've added some sources. More are out there. Important literary device. Important list for some of our readers. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎</b>) 12:00, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/List of fictional counties (3rd nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/List of fictional counties (3rd nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/List of fictional counties (3rd nomination)

Requesting wider attention
Requesting wider attention.

I felt article Islamic_literature is in bit of neglect so I added my note on talk page there, requesting to take note of Talk:Islamic_literature. If possible requesting copy edit support. Suggestions for suitable reference sources at Talk:Islamic_literature is also welcome.

Thanks and greetings

Bookku (talk) 07:06, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Requesting expansion and update edit support
Hi,

Season's greetings

I am looking for proactive expansion and update support/input help the following (So far neglected but important topic) articles, if possible. Even if you feel your focus area bit different still contribution of few line may help bring in some different perspective and also help Wikipedia goal of neutrality. If you can't spare time but if you know any good references you can note those on talk pages.


 * Islamic advice literature

This has been posted to this forum since, one of article review suggested to have more diverse editor participation to have more inclusive, neutral and balanced worldview

I hope and request some editors from this forum too proactively and constructively participate in updating and expanding of article Islamic advice literature

Thanks, warm regards and greetings

Bookku (talk) 07:51, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Seeking collaborators for an "ambitious" draft.
I have a draft languishing in my sandbox User:Dodger67/Sandbox/Disability in literature that I originally intended as a brief summary/introduction to the depiction of disability in literature throughout history and across cultures. I'd apreciate some assistance as I'm not a literature specialist (nor history really, my interest is primarily in disability. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:06, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Master Skylark
I have started Draft:Master Skylark, apparently a well-known book in its day. BD2412 T 19:22, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Mario Vargas Llosa
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Chronology categories for the arts
Please see Categories for discussion/Log/2020 September 15, where I have proposed standardising the naming of by-year, by-decade and by-centuries for the arts.

Currently the by-century categories are named "in the arts", but the by-decade and by-year categories are named "in arts". I have proposed two options for a common format: either "in the arts" or "in arts". -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 18:40, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

2020 Booker Prize
Hey all. Using the Booker Prize website itself - https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction/2020 - I have quickly thrown up 2020 Booker Prize so this year at least gets an article of its own. Lots to do but the groundwork has been typed for you at least. doktorb wordsdeeds 22:37, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey again. The 2020 Booker Prize article has been updated. Four of the five nominated titles have no Wikipedia articles. I wonder if this is something we need to explore, either through this project or the wider community. doktorb wordsdeeds 20:52, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

A lot of drafts about Korean literature to tweak and publish
I believe there was an education or WP:GLAM project relating to Korean literature. They generated a lot of draft articles, many of which were unfairly (in my opinion) declined. I have accepted a significant number of them already, and there are more to check over and tweak/approve as appropriate. Please have a look at the following drafts to improve/accept them (or possibly in rare cases determine they aren't worthy of articles -- I doubt this often applies): Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:53, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Draft:An Heon-mi
 * Draft:Choe Dooseok
 * Draft:Choecheokjeon (최척전 The Tale of Choe Cheok)
 * Draft:Eom Won-tae
 * Draft:Ha Sangwook
 * Draft:Hong Changsoo
 * Draft:Hwamongjip (A Collection of Romance and Dream Journey Stories)
 * Draft:Inhyeon wanghu jeon (仁顯王后傳, Story of Queen Inhyeon)
 * Draft:Jo Yongho
 * Draft:Jung Hanmo
 * Draft:Kim Chong Kwang
 * Draft:Kim Deok-ryeong
 * Draft:Kim Eon Hee
 * Draft:Kim Eui-kyung
 * Draft:Kim Joong-sik
 * Draft:Kim Jun Tae
 * Draft:Kim Kyoungin
 * Draft:Kim Moon-soo (Novelist)
 * Draft:Kim Myung-su
 * Draft:Kim Sa-i (Poet)
 * Draft:Kim Yeonkyung
 * Draft:Kim Youn Bae
 * Draft:Ko Jinha
 * Draft:Ku Jung-seo (literary critic)
 * Draft:Memilggot pil muryeop (메밀꽃 필 무렵, When the Buckwheat Flowers Bloom)
 * Draft:Memoirs of Lady Jo of Pungyang
 * Draft:Min Gyeong-hyeon
 * Draft:Park Cheong-ho
 * Draft:Seo Joon-hwan
 * Draft:Seong Mi-jeong
 * Draft:Sohn Won-pyung
 * Draft:Tales from the Green Hills
 * Draft:The Black Leaf in My Mouth
 * Draft:Woodblock commercial publication in Korea
 * Draft:Yeom Seungsuk
 * Draft:Yoo Juhyun
 * Draft:Yu Sun-ha
 * There are also a few more drafts that are trickier; they were declined as duplicating existing content, but I don't know if the myths themselves deserve separate articles. They are as follows:
 * Draft:Myth of Bak Hyeokgeose (Foundation Myth of Silla)
 * Draft:Myth of Dangun
 * Draft:Myth of Jumong (Foundation Myth of Goguryeo)
 * Draft:Myth of King Kim Su-ro (Foundation Myth of Gaya)
 * Thanks again, Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:53, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I replied at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Korea where this was crossposted. I think almost all of them are notable and rescuable with just a bit of effort. Help needed! --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  03:55, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Frontiers Media request
Hello, I have suggested updates to Frontiers Media's list of journals at Talk:Frontiers_Media. Do any editors at this WikiProject care to vet these potential updates? (Disclosure: I have also sought assistance at WikiProject Open.) I do not edit the article myself because I am an employee at Frontiers Media.

Best, JBFrontiers (talk) 08:00, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

More opinions needed at Requested move Nineteen Eighty-Four → 1984
It would be really helpful to get more opinions here. Thanks! —PermStrump  ( talk )  — Preceding undated comment added 03:46, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Millie (short story) up for deletion
Important author, Katherine Mansfield, particularly of short stories. Lots of sources at Google books. Referencing needs improvement. Only pretended compliance with WP:Before. Nominator says this is "a test case." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 7&#38;6&#61;thirteen (talk • contribs) 21:50, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

The Big Butt Book
I created a new article, about the literary work which traces the cultural history of the buttocks -- The Big Butt Book. Let me know if you want to help out with further research! Thanks very much, Right cite (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I get the feeling we're the butt of someone's joke here. No need for a rump session to discuss it, though.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:30, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

See RfC on changing DEADNAME on crediting individuals for previously released works
Please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography

This potentially would affect a significant number of articles. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

When God Writes Your Love Story Featured article review
I have nominated When God Writes Your Love Story for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  17:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Project Scope
It looks like the general scope of this project is limited to pages about literature, rather than works or authors themselves (which are already covered by other wikiprojects). Are there any objections to officially defining that as the scope of this project? It looks like some other wikiprojectsWP:WikiProject Books have already delegated that as the primary project of this project.&#32;- car chasm (talk) 02:26, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * A source is needed for this claim of general scope. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC).
 * Original discussion is here (I borked the link on the revert, sorry about that), and original project scope is shown here &#32;- car chasm (talk) 03:12, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * To be clear I've already removed the project banner from some of the more prominent talk pages that were authors and works where it was added erroneously - if there's no indication that the consensus on scope has significantly changed in the past 15 years I'll find a more automated way (AutoWikiBrowser?) to remove the rest. Also, as for my own opinion on the matter, I favor the status quo here (keeping the limited scope) because I don't think it's practical or worthwhile to define which pieces of written work are "literature" or not while also maintaining WP:NPOV, and the scope of "every single written work and author ever" is certainly too large for a single wikiproject, and indeed, that scope is already covered by several other WikiProjects. Based on the watcher count for this page I assume I'm probably shouting into the void here so once the scope is well defined I'll also try to recruit some more members... &#32;- car chasm (talk) 19:27, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * As there appears to be no indication that consensus has changed, I will remove the template from Talk pages on authors and works. Xxanthippe - please understand that these removals say nothing about the quality of the work that these authors have done and please stop reverting my edits - it's solely being done for project tracking purposes. Proust and D.H. Lawrence are very definitely authors of literature but since they are not general topics about literature they should not be tracked by this project. &#32;- car chasm (talk) 03:49, 3 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I initially questioned &#32; CarChasm's removal of John Cowper Powys and James Hanley from this project, but now believe that they belong with Project:Novel. What is needed is some careful editing rather than frantic deletion. Rwood128 (talk) 11:02, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I suggest those two belong with both projects. I agree that frantic deletion should be stopped. There have been many more deletions not yet noted here. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:30, 4 February 2021 (UTC).

Categories for discussion/Log/2021 February 26
A discussion on whether villains should be categorized by gender, in case anyone has an opinion. This cover literary character categories. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 20:23, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Boomer lit
I've added Boomer lit to the scope of this article, although it still needs assessment. What's clear, though, is that while the topic is notable, the article is in a terrible state. Would anyone here be interested in improving it? Lennart97 (talk) 14:52, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

All novels of Olive Higgins Prouty complete at Wikisource (as of 2021)

 * Link to Author page at Wikisource

Hi, I wanted to inform anyone interested to know that on Wikisource I have completed proofreading the entire library of Olive Higgins Prouty's novels that are in the public domain as of 2021. This includes five novels; Bobbie, General Manager (1913), The Fifth Wheel (1916), The Star in the Window (1918), Good Sports (1919), and Stella Dallas (1923).

As these novels are all in the public domain in the United States due to copyright expiration, these novels can all be used for any purpose on the WMF projects. Any images as well as text content from them can be reused or remixed in any way shape or form, including quoting entire sections verbatim or using images in articles. Hopefully Wikisource's offering of in-depth evidence of the content of Prouty's original novels will help Wikipedia somewhat. PseudoSkull (talk) 23:36, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Don Quixote template
At Talk:Don_Quixote, I had some thoughts on improving the "Related works" section of Template:Don Quixote. Would love to discuss! –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 02:45, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Category:Metafictional characters has been nominated for renaming
Category:Metafictional characters, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 16:24, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Most viewed stub in this Wikiproject
Coming-of-age story	32,553	1,085	Stub--Coin945 (talk) 14:52, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Booker Prize
Hey Literature project

I've thrown up a rough and ready 2021 Booker Prize article after today's Longlist publication, if anyone here wants to take a look and all that. doktorb wordsdeeds 02:40, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Merge proposal
It has been proposed that List of fictional librarians be merged into Libraries and librarians in fiction. Seeking your feedback at Talk:List of fictional librarians. Thanks. --Historyday01 (talk) 13:23, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Imagery in need of attention
This is listed as a high importance article for this WikiProject, but seems to have had a dodgy edit history. I've just fixed a couple of problems, but perhaps someone might like to take care of it? The talk page suggests that there has been a longstanding problem. Pam D  10:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Kirkus Reviews as refs
If you have an opinion, please share at Reliable_sources/Noticeboard. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:02, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

History of modern literature - just delete it?
This is listed as Top Importance for this project, but it's a real mess - mostly just a long list of books and dates. Someone on the talk page suggested deletion in 2007 to no reply. Does anyone here want to pick this up? Or to throw in a vote for deletion on the talk page? asilvering (talk) 03:48, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Articles are not deleted by votes on talk pages, but at WP:AFD.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:34, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

RfC on whether and how to cover J. K. Rowling's trans-related views in the lead of her article
Please see: Talk:J. K. Rowling

I am "advertising" this RfC more broadly to relevant pages because someone selectively notified three socio-political wikiprojects that are likely to vote-stack the RfC with a single viewpoint, and the article already has a long history of factional PoV editwarring.

Central matters in this discussion and the threads leading up to it are labeling of Rowling, labeling of commenters on Rowling, why Rowling is notable, what is due or undue in the lead section, and whether quasi-numeric claims like "many", "a few", etc. in this context are legitimate or an OR/WEASEL issue. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:36, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The idea that WikiProject Feminism and WikiProject Women Writers are likely to vote-stack the RfC with a single socio-political viewpoint seems wildly implausible, but by all means, we do need fresh eyes on the RfC. The lead of that article, in particular, has seen a great deal of whitewashing and FALSEBALANCE POV-based editing. Newimpartial (talk) 02:20, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Sumerian King List has an RFC
Sumerian King List has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Zoeperkoe (talk) 12:39, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

"Literary canon" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Literary canon and has thus listed it at redirects for discussion. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 23 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 12:00, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Taiwanese Literature - Three articles
I recently stumbled upon these three articles concerning Taiwanese literature: Is there a case for merging any of these or are they distinct topics. I'm not too familiar with Taiwanese writing so I'm not sure. The articles themselves are not great so could benefit from a merge and thorough edit. Vladimir.copic (talk) 23:44, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Taiwanese literature movement
 * Taiwan nativist literature
 * Taiwanese literature

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Looking for peer review of Paul Goodman
Hi all, I'm looking for peer reviews of our article on the American public intellectual and writer Paul Goodman before it goes to FAC, if anyone would be so inclined: Peer review/Paul Goodman/archive1. No prior experience necessary—just want to know how it reads for a general audience, given that the content gets a bit obtuse. czar 19:14, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Alabama literature
Hi there! I am an English major at an Australian university taking a class on the significance of Wikipedia on writing in the digital world. Our major assessment is to write a Wikipedia article, which I have never done before, and I have been working on Alabama literature and have just started publishing it! I'd really appreciate it if anyone would take a look at it and give me any advice on it. Thank you very much. CatVallejo (talk) 02:13, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lorraine cycle
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Requested move
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Gordon Burn Prize
Hello to all volunteer friends from Italy!! Sorry for the inconvenience, but I created the page in italian of Gordon Burn and I believe, in my humble opinion, that the Gordon Burn Prize, now in its tenth edition and with the many sources available, deserves a page on its own... I would opt for a spin-off, what do you think? GabrieleBellucci (talk) 09:44, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

RfC over whether or not James Joyce should have an infobox
I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 20:41, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Afd
I would appreciate it if editors give their opinion here. Thanks. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 04:32, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Category:Non-fiction has been nominated for discussion
Category:Non-fiction has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Οἶδα (talk) 23:24, 16 January 2023 (UTC)


 * The CfD was closed as "no consensus". There is now a discussion at Talk:Nonfiction, discussing a proposed move of Nonfiction to Non-fiction. Pam  D  08:50, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Further opinions on article merger would be appreciated
Currently, there is a proposed merger of Libraries and librarians in fiction and Librarians in popular culture to a new page entitled Libraries and librarians in culture. But, it has been inactive since July 2022, so it would be great to get some more eyes on it, so there can a clearer consensus before moving forward. Thanks! Historyday01 (talk) 18:07, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Deconstruction
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Input request at category deletion discussion
Comments are needed at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_May_25.4meter4 (talk) 13:05, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Merger discussion on Uchronia
Please help us settle a dispute over whether to merge the page Uchronia to Alternate history; see the full discussion here: Talk:Uchronia. Wolfdog (talk) 23:52, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Kailyard school
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Discussion at Talk:Stephen King § Philanthropist
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Stephen King § Philanthropist. &#x0020;Discussion of whether "philanthropist" should be an occupation in the infobox and lead for writer Stephen King. Sundayclose (talk) 13:38, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

FAC of Communication
Hello, I wanted to let you know that I nominated the article Communication for featured article status. So far, there has not been much response from reviewers and I was wondering whether some of the editors here are inclined to have a look at it. If you have the time, I would appreciate your comments at Featured article candidates/Communication/archive1. For a short FAQ on the FA reviewing process, see Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:11, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

FAC notification: Brother Jonathan (novel)
The earliest work of American fiction, Brother Jonathan by John Neal is currently being reviewed as a featured article candidate. Would anyone like to comment on the nomination page? Thanks in advance if you do! Dugan Murphy (talk) 17:07, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Women in refrigerators
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Women in refrigerators that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:46, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Topic request
Meyer& Meyer Sport Publishers is a leading book publisher not listed on Wikipedia. I'm asking the question why? I am an avid practicer of yoga and have utilized the company's books. I did some digging and saw that some of their employees are trans. Is there a bias against that, I thought? It's a German based company. Is the trans community not supported there? As a supporter of the arts, I want to encourage this book publisher into Wikipedia. Kkded (talk) 20:42, 28 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello, thanks for your interest in improving Wikipedia's coverage. Usually when an article is missing it is for one of two reasons: either, 1, there are not enough reliable sources for someone to actually write an the article (since Wikipedia is a tertiary source, which summarizes other sources without original research); or, 2, such sources exist but nobody has gotten around to writing anything yet, because this is a completely volunteer project. People are free to work on what they like. For a publishing company, there needs to be enough coverage to meet these criteria before an article can be written, but if you're able to find good sources to cite it would be great if you could be the volunteer who fills the gap! I suggest reading this set of tips on preparing to write an article, and then you can use this tool to get started actually writing it. Happy editing! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 23:55, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

FAC: The Structure of Literature
An article about a literary theory book, The Structure of Literature, is presently at FAC. All comments are welcome from those with the time/inclination to review. czar 14:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Proposal to deprecate the country parameter of Infobox book
There is a discussion at Template talk:Infobox book that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Οἶδα (talk) 10:42, 25 February 2024 (UTC)