Talk:Literature of New Zealand

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Contents 1 Cleanup 2 Peter Wells: Needs Disambiguation, Own Entry 3 who's notable 4 Request for help

[edit] Cleanup

Just tagged this article. It could use some TLC to make it less of a list and more of an encyclopaedic article. It would be good to expound the story of NZ lit, perhaps starting from early Maori legends, to pioneer stories, to more recent times (where most content will presumably lie), split by genre (e.g. poetry, fiction, history, social commentary). I'll probably give it a shot sometime. ~ Papeschr 08:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

To see what I mean check out Australian literature, not that there's any trans-tasman rivalry (yeah right)! ~ Papeschr 13:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

WayneRay 23:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)WayneRay Good point so put back the cleanup if you like. cleanup and removal of cleanup notice

[edit] Peter Wells: Needs Disambiguation, Own Entry

Sorry, but if you wanted to link to Peter Wells, the gay NZ novelist, you haven't. There needs to be a disambiguation page inserted, and an entry written on the subject per se.

User Calibanu 14.22, 11 June 2006

[edit] who's notable

What makes a book notable to be included on this list? We should work on this soonish, otherwise it will most likely be up for AfD Brian | (Talk) 09:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Maybe we could start with prizewinning books eg the Montana winners, the international winners like Keri Hulme, and maybe the bestsellers as well? Famous things like Mulgan's Man Alone and Crump's A Good Keen Man should probably go in there, and Whale Rider? Warthoggian 06:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for help

Best_New_Zealand_Poems_series has been created and maintained by only one person and appears to be a report on a website, entirely sourced from that website.

It needs someone to establish Notability and could do with more input. T Walker 57 00:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC)