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Category clean-up[edit]

Entries to this category are currently inconsistent.

Should all French authors be double listed both in the "French writers" category and by their "genre(s)" in the subcategories?

or

Should all authors only be listed by genre(s) (meaning that there will eventually be no authors visible on the French writers cat page)?

Suggestions? -- NYArtsnWords 18:04, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestion is double-listing. Currently it appears authors are listed only in their genre, and this can make authors difficult to find. For example, I was just searching for Baudelaire. There is no category French Poets. I found him finally under Non-Fiction, French Translators. Sure, he translated Edgar Poe into French, but that is not his primary claim to fame! Creating a genre French Poetry would solve this instance, perhaps, but this is just one example I am sure.Gavroche42 22:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I found the 2nd page of subcategories. It's strange that the subcategories get split into two pages in addtion to the full list. I still think the more categories someone is placed under, the easier they are to find. Gavroche42 22:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

there seem to be many interwiki links false... Some of them refer to French Literature, others to French Writers--Macronyx 21:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

starting cleanup[edit]

I've begun a slow recategorization of the articles so that the article is kept to a reasonnable size. This is only partly solving the problem since Category:French novelists will now become huge but I guess it's still progress to at least split fiction and non-fiction writers for easier browsing. Pascal.Tesson 00:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]