Talk:List of historical novels

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I will never understand what makes people remove information from an article. There was a nice, short and annotated list of historical novels illustrating the article. Now what we've got is a long list in a separate article, but it's basically just authors and titles. For example, no one will realize that William Irish (no article) is Cornell Woolrich. And why delete the note on the two filmed versions? Again, I just don't understand it, but as I hate edit wars, so be it. --KF 21:25 23 May 2003 (UTC)

I reverted the historical novel article to include the annotated list. I see your point about its importance. As for this list, it is helpful to have a quick reference of the many historical novels that exist. Kingturtle 21:44 23 May 2003 (UTC)

Thanks! --KF 21:49 23 May 2003 (UTC)

Okay, I admit it. I don't understand the point of this list. First, it's just a sampling, and a very thin sampling at that. Just off the top of my head, I can come up with several dozen authors who aren't represented at all. Are all historical novels discussed on Wikipedia meant to be included? Second, what do you plan to do about novels like O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, which are set all over the world and not in any particular place? Michael K. Smith 22:27, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• The point of this list is to have a resource to track down different historical novels. if you can think of seven dozen authors, why don't you add them? that is what makes wikipedia work. i don't understand why you haven't added them. Kingturtle 08:14, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It might be useful to have a list sorted by era rather than country. This would also cater better for O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin seriesDejvid 16:26, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorting by era would be a huge step forward. For instance, I added an article on Gillian Bradshaw yesterday. Her first novels take place in Arthurian Britain. It'd bother me to add those (the "Down the Long Wind"-trilogy) under the Great Britain header. Likewise I've just started reading Anderson's "Mother of Kings". So far, it takes place in Norway, but I'd be very surprised if the action doesn't move elsewhere as well, so that the appropriate "area" probably ends up being "The Viking World". And so forth and so on... Sorting by era instead of area would be a huge step forward. --Peter Knutsen 04:14, 14 October 2005 (UTC)