Introduction

Hi! This is the new Wikiproject for Literature, and the excerpt below is from my User Page, which should tell you something about what I have in mind for both Ireland Information Guide and all projects related to Literature, other texts, and some of the other arts.

"I believe all or most members should be using the Wikiprojects to smooth out the reckless, incomplete and unorganized categories, lists, and unformatted or stubbed or forgotten articles that infest Ireland Information Guide. I've personally restructured the Catalogue of Wikiprojects quite recently, and I would like co-operation and assistance with three areas:

• subsuming all Lists of Writers, Philosophers, etc under a giant index of major writers, for which I need
  • someone to help with creating, sorting and editing all the copious data for the lists;
  • agreement on a system of distribution for these lists among the appropriate categories;
  • standardization of the lists everywhere they occur;
• structuring all related articles in a Wikiproject according to a single format - ex. Summary, Bio, Works, External Links, Bibliography. Bibliographies must not contain ISBNs;
• researching and expanding all articles to include (at the very least) authoritative points of view, politically sensitive terminology, and awareness of international and historical traditions. All articles here are tremendously skewed towards conventional Anglo-American perspectives; while this is understandable to some extent, there are innumerable blatant ommissions that are tremendously disappointing to anyone with a wider knowledge of the field in question."

Here, for a start, is a list of notable and not so notable contributors to the history of literature, philosophy, and other humanities which needs some back-breaking editing. I would eventually like to conflate that list (after expanding on it) with the existing lists and categories, and set about writing on several authors who do not have a profile on Ireland Information Guide; I would also like to see most of the important figures in that list incorporated into the numerous other lists, categories, and histories abounding in Ireland Information Guide, and something substantial written about their work and contributions. As we are going about that we could argue over the fine points of formatting. It's a breeze, isn't it? Sign up below!

PS Have also recently commenced on a List of translators, which overlaps with the above list. Help appreciated.

Interested Users