Talk:Richard Dawkins/Works/The God Delusion
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The naming of this article does bring up some questions about how to name articles that are titles of books. Maybe the Editor in Chief could chime in. --Matt Innis (Talk) 19:19, 11 November 2007 (CST)
- This has come up in other guises too, not only books. My view is that we cannot have book titles as encyclopedia entries, otherwise it is cluttering and confusing. On the other hand, we can have articles which deal with a topic [which might also be the title of a book]. Given that the God Delusion appears to be a thesis specific to one book by Dawkins, then it should not be an article in its own right because it is really a book review. So, where should book reviews go? Do we allow them? --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 19:25, 11 November 2007 (CST)
- I'm no librarian by any means, but maybe book reviews should be subpages of articles about the author. So maybe this one would be Richard Dawkins/The God Delusion and listed under Richard Dawkins/Catalogs. Once we figure it out, we need to put it in the CZ:Naming Conventions guidelines. I'll keep an eye here for a little while. --Matt Innis (Talk) 19:42, 11 November 2007 (CST)
- I agree this is what subpages should be used for. Wouldn't bibliographies be the correct place for it? We could always have it as a sub-subpage of bibliographies, similar to the cuisine catalogs. The idea would be to click on the bliblographies subpage for all publications and then click on the sub-subpage link for the review. Make sense? Chris Day (talk) 20:29, 11 November 2007 (CST)
- Yes, to all of this. --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 20:47, 11 November 2007 (CST)
- I agree this is what subpages should be used for. Wouldn't bibliographies be the correct place for it? We could always have it as a sub-subpage of bibliographies, similar to the cuisine catalogs. The idea would be to click on the bliblographies subpage for all publications and then click on the sub-subpage link for the review. Make sense? Chris Day (talk) 20:29, 11 November 2007 (CST)
- I'm no librarian by any means, but maybe book reviews should be subpages of articles about the author. So maybe this one would be Richard Dawkins/The God Delusion and listed under Richard Dawkins/Catalogs. Once we figure it out, we need to put it in the CZ:Naming Conventions guidelines. I'll keep an eye here for a little while. --Matt Innis (Talk) 19:42, 11 November 2007 (CST)
- This has come up in other guises too, not only books. My view is that we cannot have book titles as encyclopedia entries, otherwise it is cluttering and confusing. On the other hand, we can have articles which deal with a topic [which might also be the title of a book]. Given that the God Delusion appears to be a thesis specific to one book by Dawkins, then it should not be an article in its own right because it is really a book review. So, where should book reviews go? Do we allow them? --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 19:25, 11 November 2007 (CST)