Talk:British literature

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Vital article[edit]

This article and English literature largely duplicate each other but are both listed as "vital articles". It would make better sense to merge them so that editors could work on improving just one article. See my comments above about an earlier merge proposal. English literature is listed as a level 3. Rwood128 (talk) 20:19, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The first line of this article is straightforwardly false[edit]

The first line of this article reads "British literature is literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands." That's simply false. Welsh-language literature, for instance, is very clearly British literature. I understand that what's being conveyed is that this article deals only with literature in English, but in that case that's what should be stated. Starting the article with a statement that's straightforwardly false and misleading is not a good solution. I would therefore suggest the following:

"British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the English language and literature. There is also some brief discussion of major figures who wrote in Scots, but the main discussion is in the various Scottish literature articles.

The article Literature in the other languages of Britain focuses on the literatures written in the other languages that are, and have been, used in Britain. There are also articles on these various literatures: Latin literature in Britain, Anglo-Norman, Cornish, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Latin, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, etc."

Garik (talk) 09:16, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of Culture of the United Kingdom Sidebar[edit]

I recently added the {{Culture of the United Kingdom}} sidebar to the article as literature of a nation falls into its culture per WP:WikiProject Culture and is a preset and topic in {{Culture of region}} on which all other culture templates are based. Across Wikipedia a consensus has been implicitly reached that the culture of a nation includes its literature. Not sure why @Rwood128: reverted this? Legendiii (talk) 18:34, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal: Re-include the appropriate {{Culture of the United Kingdom}} sidebar. Legendiii (talk) 18:45, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have checked several articles and a "Culture" bar is needed pretty standard. My apologies for being trigger happy. All the same I still think that the systems adopted by the French literature, or the Irish literature articles are better, and suggest an amendment to Legendiii's proposal: that the initial side bar should directly refers to British literature (based on a combination of the French and Irish examples). I can work on trying to create this.

And should there be two side bars at the beginning of an article? Rwood128 (talk) 19:05, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This should be included as a portal at the end. Legendiii, Languages of the United Kingdom is an example of a more focussed sidebar for a topic. Rwood128 (talk) 12:13, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Missing authors, Woolf, etc[edit]

Re the recent edit "Expanded the omission of Woolf and mention of Joyce in the modernist / interwar period. ", see this deletion from 23 September 2016 [1]. Can any tech person, in particular bender235, explain this? I will restore lost material. Rwood128 (talk) 11:58, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's weird AWB misbehavior. No idea why this happened. Thank you for restoring. --bender235 (talk) 19:29, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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