On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
As long as there is a notable -contemporary- literature, vocabulary problems will be minimal.
What is "notable"?
Notable enough to have a Featured Article about [[Modern Latin literature]] or [[Modern Coptic literature]] on English Wikipedia or another major-language Wikipedia.
I think this proposed criteria is too subjective and naive. Specially regarding to the fact English Wikipedia is not always good at humanities, in particular non European literatures. Having a FA may too be occasionally I'm afraid.
But I like the idea of "notable authors". They are notable since they have a decent size of readership. It means their writings are read and surrounded by the reader community which the language in question is actively, at least, read and have a possibility to be written again. And even if we still use Wikipedia again, "having an article of that author" is a less opportunity driven criteria, I think.