Category talk:English science fiction writers

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CFD discussion[edit]

This category was listed for deletion on February 7, 2005. Consensus was to keep.

Category:English science fiction writers[edit]

Childless. Redundant with Category:British science fiction writers. --jag123 11:08, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

it isn't redundant. It is part of a long term project to make all UK writers accessible from both the British people menu and the menus for each of the home countries. This is a time consuming (but more of my time than anyone else's recently), but important system to reflect national sensitivities in the UK and also to achieve a comprehensive and accessible overall classification. Before I started to sort it out, there were completely separate category systems for British writers and writers from each of the home nations, and it is very likely that some people used one without even being aware that the others existed. There are already numerous English writer subcategories, and this one is required for consistency. I will shift a few across now as a start. Philip 19:08, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This is now a sub-category of Category:English writers, and one of four subcategories of Category:British science fiction writers, and it contains twenty articles so far. Philip 19:59, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sounds like a good scheme to me - keep. Where the "British" categories are large enough (as in this case) they should definitely be split into E, S, W, and NI (although any Manx or Channel Islanders may prove problematic...) Grutness|^hello? 11:03, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Keep — seems perfectly sensible to me (though it's a pity that 'science fiction' doesn't have the hyphen required by its use as an adjectival phrase). Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:38, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Keep. It appears Philip is doing a great job. Lokifer 02:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

So is this category meant just for British writers or for writers who wrote in English?

How do I add names?[edit]

When I clicked on edit,, I got something that was not the list of English SF writers. I was trying to add H. Rider Haggard. !!!!