Talk:The Irish Famine (book)

message: It would be a pity if this page were deleted. I am not a scholar, but Colm Toibin's introductory essay is the first thing I have read about the Famine which makes sense to me. Most histories have to simplify too much. Most of the links to reviews don't work any more.
--William Peters (talk) 17:24, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: I'm amazed that an article started less than a week ago and which has had substantial contributions from only one editor should be included on the front page. See - food exports during the Irish famine Rjm at sleepers 08:19, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not only embrassing but its shows that an editor could be using his weight again. This book is not particularly significant or notable either - is there an argument for its deletion?--Vintagekits 12:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have put this book into the additional reading list, and can not understand why it is being placed at the top of an article. I agree with both contributors above, and feel it should not be placed in such a position on this article. Regards--Domer48 15:08, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Erm, I'm not sure how I could be using any presupposed "weight"... in any case, as the title of the book is "The Irish Famine", it makes sense that when people search for "The Irish Famine", they are provided with a link to the book.  As I understand that when people search for "The Irish Famine", they are looking for the event and not the book, which is why I haven't created a disambiguation page gaillimhConas tá tú? 16:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

text: It would be my opinion, that books relating to an article should be included in the Reading List, or Additional Reading List. This I might add, is regardless of the POV of the author. To place a book, with a clearly illustrated bias as a header, is a form of POV which, should it go unchecked could well leave Articles being relegated behind the reviews. For example, I could do reviews on books which I found interesting, and regardless of the bias or otherwise of the author, I could then place it at the top of any article relevant to the subject. I could push and peddle any bias I wished under the guise of a review. Is this the road we wish to go down? I do not believe it is. The Article has primacy on the page, and the discussion page is the forum to discuss and debate the contents.--Domer48 18:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The issue isn't with labelling Toibín and Ferriter's book as the definitive, or best book on the Famine.  Far from it, actually.  It is a simple formatting issue.  You see, The Irish Famine redirects here, to Irish Potato Famine.  As the book is called The Irish Famine, there should be a header at the top of the article (as is seen in thousands of other articles) specifying that this is the article about the famine, and if you want to view the article about the book, see [here].  The wording could be tweaked to better illustrate this, i.e. The Irish Famine redirects here.  For the book of the same name, please see The Irish Famine (book).  gaillimhConas tá tú? 18:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please continue talk on Talk:Irish Potato Famine which is the article it is relevant to. Tyrenius 19:58, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
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