Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Bengali language authors

List of Bengali language authors

A Bengali language author can come from two major countries - Bangladesh and India. As a result usually the publications on History of Bengali literature from either country tend to have more focus on the authors from the country of origin of the publication. Wikipedia is an ideal platform where a complete historical listing of Bengali language authors is possible to create / maintain. For this reason this particular list is specifically imporant. Further justifications:

• Addition of the life span of the authors chronological organization has made this list particularly useful for any student of Bengali literatur;
• Most entries in the list has link to an article on related topic which highly increases the usefulness of the list.
• Since it is a dynamic list it can never claim completeness. But it can easily be claimed that it doesn't leave-out any major candidate for entry.
• The talk page of the list provides another longer list of possible entries in the list - which may be a starting point for anyone interested to expand the main list.-Arman Aziz 10:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. Nice list. I removed all FA stars to avoid self-references. Could you expand the lead to include something about the history of Bengali literature that is relevant to the list and concerns the Bengali authors. In addition, remove the legend section and instead explain in the lead that 3 authors were Nobel laureates (in literature?) and they are indicated by this gold circle. CG 20:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose Not comprehensive, inadequate references.
  • I counted over 20 names in the category that weren't in this list. A few of these may be spelling differences, of which I also found several and should be resoved. A problem will be that I'm sure a language spoken by 230 million people will have more than 190 notable authors, but there will be a lack of en-wikipedians to create articles for them. Hence, this list should really be much longer but would then have lots of red-links.
  • The references you supply could be better. Some are OK but e.g. Banglapedia looks pretty amateur. You also need to give a full citation including access date for web sites (e.g. using {{cite web}}).
  • A dynamic list must have inline citations for each entry. It just isn't maintainable or easily verifiable without them. For each you need a source that confirms the person wrote notable Bengali literature (of course, some sources will cover many names).
  • The lead is too short and needs copyediting.
  • Why are all the "Ancient age" authors 9th century?
  • Some "Middle Age" authors lack dates. An approximate value is better than ugly ????
  • A Featured List should IMO contain more than just links to articles. Are they a poet, novelist, historian, author of religious texts? What are they notable for (briefly). Have they won any prizes (apart from the Nobel)? Without that information, the list is just a category sorted in a different order.

Colin°^Talk 18:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

**Banglapedia looks pretty amateur.

Actually, Banglapedia is a print encyclopedia published by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. By NO means is this an amateur encyclopedia. --Ragib 04:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that mistake. They need to hire a new website team as that one is awful. Bad frames, missing pages, "under construction",... Colin°^Talk 08:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment a nice effort.But it is tough to assess the comprehensiveness of the list. The fundamental problem of the list probably is the very dynamic nature. Just two examples, I did not see on a quick glance Narayan Sanyal (a well known author) and Maitrayee Devi (less well known, but notable for her book Na Hanyate). This is difficult job.--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - this is a great start, but how do we know it is comprehensive? Surely it does not contain everyone who has ever published a work in Bengali? How did you decide which Bengali authors to include and which to exclude? -- ALoan (Talk) 17:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Looking at the talk page, I see lots of further suggestions for names to add, so I will oppose for now. -- ALoan (Talk) 18:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)