On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 19:23 +0100, Fae wrote:
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Alex, I agree with your point about individual works and I would extend that to popular film articles related to the lives and works of these authors as well as associated artworks and other cultural spin-offs. The impact of Oscar Wilde or H.G. Wells is so vast that there are a huge variety of interrelated types of article than could be improved and the British Library collections represents the ideal reliable and verifiable source (which as well as being the legal deposit includes many objects beyond books such as original draft manuscripts and illustrations, playbills, audio interviews and the personal papers of writers).
Commenting from the UK's only current UNESCO City of Literature, might I point people at a couple of FAs:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Se%C3%B1or_Presidente * http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_team_behind_the_2,000th_feat...
I'm not likely to be able to travel to London for this event, but thought this might be some interesting on-wiki stuff to offer as food for thought.