Talk:List of novelists by nationality

message: Despite discussion above, this area of the Wiki seems to be a bit of a mess - we have a whole lot of cross-cutting lists, all requiring to be maintained separately (a good illustration of the sort of thing a database does better than a hypertext).
As a first step to sorting out the chaos, what would people think of the following modest proposal:  where we have a separate page giving a list of novelists for the country, we abolish the section in this page referring to that country, and replace it with a link to the separate page (transferring any names that aren't duplicated, of course).  So this page would gradually become a list of lists, except for countries whose novelistic output is rather small.
To go further would involve deciding how many types of list we really need.  I would suggest that there are three - lists by nation, lists by genre, and lists by period.  That would mean someone writing an article on a new author would just (!) have to make sure that s/he was entered on the three relevant lists.
That still leaves unresolved the relationship of this page (and its various families of daughters) with the wider List of writers family, though.  A global list of all writers, or a list of all writers from any major country or language community, is bound to be too long to be useful.  But I can see the use of a list of Breton writers (regardless of what sort of writing they did), for example.
Finally - whoever got the idea that only someone who only writes novels could be called a novelist?  "Maugham was a fine short story writer, a good novelist, but no better than a journeyman playwright" is a perfectly sensible thing to say (I have no idea whether it is true of Maugham, though) - just as it is sensible to describe me as "a fast cyclist but a poor swimmer".
seglea 08:50, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization of the list (AGAIN) 

message: [List of novelists] redirects here. It no longer makes sense to have the article at [List of novelists by nationality] when the shorter title is available. No other list exists. --Jiang 02:30, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: I was very suprised to find that there wasn't a Wikiproject for Authors/Novelist (whichever you wish to call them, I understand there has been considerable debate and the lines are now clearly drawn), as the biographies I have seen are disorganised and unclear at times. Being a German language student, I was extremely surprised to find that Friedrich Duerrenmatt wasn't even listed as a German writer. A wikiproject could be useful in organising articles, and drawing attention to them. It would also not be too difficult, as there is already a wikiproject biographies. Unfortunately, I am not very qualified, except possibly in "Der Besuch...", being only 17!
Some reaction would be nice, to gauge the interest and the potential level of involvement, and also whether i have got something very wrong!
Thanks, Mark Lewis 18:10, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Authors? 

message: Isak Dinesen appears under Denmark and Kenya both, how do you determine nationality - place of birth? last place of residence/citizenship? where would you put Vladimir Nabokov, Malcolm Lowry, and Henry James, to name but a few. AshcroftIleum 04:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: determining nationality

message: Proposing creating seperate "List of Australian novelists", deleting them here & replacing with a link to that list. This for the obvious reason that it's too long for this page even without my recent additions of novelists already having articles. Will probably do this in about a week. Does anyone have any comments/suggestions?
Bsnowball 12:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK with me. What really needs priority is articles for writers and their works. Hide&Reason 02:31, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposing List of Australian novelists

message: Ang Lee should NOT be listed under China.  He is from Taiwan.  I want to add a few more Taiwanese authors to the list, but I darn will NOT list them under China.  Soon enough, I will add Taiwan to the list, move Ang Lee there and add other notable Taiwan authors.  ludahai 魯大海 13:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taiwan is not China 

message: A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries.  Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 13:37, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Discussion

message: This article contains several novelists assigned to more than one nationality and some novelists are assigned to wrong nationality. This is especially noted for Serbia nationality related novelists. Some of them are Yugoslav, Bosnian, Montenegrian, Croatian, etc..Kebeta (talk) 18:22, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV