Talk:List of Australian novelists

message: Assuming this list survives it's current AfD - what is suggested to improve this list so it does not return to AfD in the future?
In comparison with Premiers of South Australia, this article lacks a lead section. It also possibly lacks a bit in layout - some prefer the table view and it helps to differentiate from the category.
What is really missing is summary information about each person. Looking at 
Premiers of South Australia, the list itself identifies party affiliation, and dates the office was held. It would be good to include genre and date of birth/migration/emmigration/death as some form of summary information which allows this list to provide functionality that a category cannot.
I'd hate to argue keep then not contribute to the article...
Any other thoughts?Garrie 23:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As an alpha list with a couple of life dates it was no better than a category.  How about leaving the alpha list to the category and re-order this list in terms of historical periods.  I'm pretty sure User:Bsnowball suggested this, and I'll leave it to far more knowledgeable people than me to suggest what those periods might be. --Steve  (Stephen)  talk  01:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

text: adb online  would also be usefull fr this. also, imho, 'annotating' the list (thnx to to others for helping with that) is more usefull. still not sure about periods, pre-federation, fed to ww2 & post ww2 is an obvious way. but i'm not sure how useful this is. comments?  ⇒ bsnowball  10:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvement drive 

message: If you wander along to WP:FL#Language and literature you will see that generally speaking the lead section is quite long compared to the list itself.
Maybe this list would be better recieved if it was simply Australian novelists and it had a lead section discussing Australian literature? That way it would again implement features not so directly associated with categories.
Garrie 05:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lead section / commentary 

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