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Latest comment: 10 days ago by Lacanic in topic WIP's listed on writer page?
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Requested move at Talk:Women in refrigerators#Requested move 8 January 2024 edit

 

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

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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)Reply

Hello Kkded, 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)Reply

FAC: The Structure of Literature edit

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)Reply

Proposal to deprecate the country parameter of {{Infobox book}} edit

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

Electronic edit

HI,

We are working on electronic literature

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. This is listed as low importance for literature, and I wondered why?

Electronic literature uses games, images, sound, etc. as an integral part of the literary experience. With the advent of new technology, AI, VR, etc., electronic literature is an essential part of literature creation... I am a newbie editor, so I greatly appreciate your help! Thanks!LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 16:58, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

WIP's listed on writer page? edit

Wondering if there is a standard for including works in progress, particularly under a Selected Works heading? Would the standard be to only include published works with ISBN numbers, or would a wiki editor include works in progress that may have been announced already in reliable press?

This is in regards to a writer / translator page I created here - Max Lawton. Thank you in advance!

Lacanic (talk) 03:14, 9 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

If you have a source to cite for it, I think you could include a sentence like “A translation of X was announced in 2024, to be published by Y publisher.” If it’s just something the author has mentioned working on in interviews, I think that’s too speculative to include. I don’t think it’s super important to include forthcoming works since there’s nothing to say about them except the announcement, but if there’s sourcing I also don’t see the harm in including it. Just my take. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 06:29, 9 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
That makes sense, I’ll go try to find some sources and specific info on forthcoming publishers etc. Lacanic (talk) 07:00, 9 March 2024 (UTC)Reply