Talk:List of basic fiction topics

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This page is working on completely different levels: it lists all kind of fiction (movies, comics, books), but the next section, "scope", only describes books. The section "some famous authors" is even worse, since it only mentions authors in very specific genres (and the authors listed were quite arbitrary, I hope I improved it a bit for those genres at least). Where are Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, ...? Kubrick, Chaplin, and Truffaut? Grimm and Aesop? Sophocles? Molière and Goethe? The list as it stands is extremely anglo-centric and focused on sub-cultures. It should be massively expanded or completely removed, and I support the second option since this list will always be contentious.

Finally, the "amazon" link is not to be removed because it apparently is not spam... Umm, then what is it? It serves no purpose here and goes against WP:EL (or do you consider "Fiction. It's a big category." to be indispensable info only this link can give?). It's a shop, for crying out loud. Fram (talk) 13:41, 16 May 2008 (UTC)