Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chinese writers
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The result was withdrew. (non-admin closure) Why? I Ask (talk) 03:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
List of Chinese writers
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The scope of the list is too huge for one Wikipedia list. There's a reason we have Lists of American writers, not "List of American writers". China has a much longer literary history than the United States, so making a comprehensive list of Chinese writers is even more hopeless than making a comprehensive list of American writers. This page should be redirected to Lists of Chinese writers and we should make some sub-lists, (e.g. List of Chinese playwrights, List of writers from Yunnan, List of Uyghur writers, but not List of Chinese poets, because that would include basically every writer in ancient China. Mucube (talk • contribs) 02:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Literature, and China. Mucube (talk • contribs) 02:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Keep. Feel free to split and move to Lists of Chinese writers as proposed though. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 03:25, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
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