Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Literature

While this is properly sourced as is, and a solid B-Class article, it is missing many examples and some comparisons. With these improvements, it will easily become a Good Article. Can somebody please work on it? Bearian (talk) 16:19, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

The article List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged as Unreferenced for 15 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article or list from which to translate. Unsourced, it implicates WP:BLP. In ordinary times, not a big problem, but nowadays, this is a legal risk. This is a fork of List of Uruguayan writers.

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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 03:06, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello all, I have recently nominated Hilaire Belloc's fantastic 1902 travelogue The Path to Rome for Featured Article status and would appreciate any input and (hopefully) support there. It should appeal to anyone interested in European literature (especially British) or literature from around the turn of the 19th century. ThaesOfereode (talk) 20:58, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tristan and Iseult#Requested move 12 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 09:48, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

The article Larry R. Smith has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged with Notability concerns for 15 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Unsourced WP:BLP: only has external links. In ordinary times, not a big problem, but nowadays, this is a legal risk.

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There is a discussion at Talk:Speculative fiction by writers of color#Implementing the split about how to split this page following the AfD discussion where there was agreement to split apart the page. Please share your thoughts for what sections you believe should be split off/merged to other pages. Thanks and have a great rest of your day. Historyday01 (talk) 13:44, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

  An article that you have been involved in editing—Robots in literature—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:34, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sourcebooks (publisher)#Requested move 18 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 05:00, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I want to notify contributors here that Trope (literature) and Figure of speech have both recently been merged into the new article Literary device. Melozone crissalis (talk) 19:31, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Panth Prakash#Requested move 26 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 02:24, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Is there a consensus on whether winning the Sahitya Akademi Award gives notability? I ask because @R Ashwani Banjan Murmu has created a lot of AI-generated articles about award-winners, and the first is up for AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakshman Chandra Saren. It is obviously AI-generated without human review, so in breach of WP:NOLLM but @BhikhariInformer argued that winning the Sahitya Akademi Award makes the author notable. It would be useful to have consensus on this, but perhaps there has already been a discussion on it and I am just not aware of it? I also just PRODed another AI-generated article about a translator who won a translation award from the Sahitya Akademi, Sobha Nath Beshra. See Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/Noticeboard#User:R Ashwani Banjan Murmu for the discussion about the series of AI-generated articles about award winners. Lijil (talk) 05:54, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

• Leaning Yes: Jnanpith Award is the highest and Sahitya Academy Award is the 2nd highest honor for Literature in India. The highest and second highest honors for Literature in any country are significant honors, and probably enough to meet the #1 criterion of WP:ANYBIO. But if the consensus leans towards discarding them, we will have a pile of articles that should be deleted – the ones that exited AFD safely, solely because of winning these. BhikhariInformer (talk) 06:38, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Please consider assisting with building out Wikipedia:Notability (ELIT) and/or contributing to the conversation regarding this proposed new guideline. -- Rosiestep (talk) 22:28, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. This should be notability specifically for electronic literature. Electronic literature works use text as well as elements other than text to convey meaning. LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 03:40, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

I would like to inform you all that there is an ongoing merge discussion for Magic in Harry Potter to be merged into Fictional universe of Harry Potter. You can find the discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic in Harry Potter (3rd nomination). ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 12:00, 10 April 2026 (UTC)