Talk:List of Italian-language poets

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why just these poets???? Zisa

Because we should make an article for everyone of those we list, so let's start making articles about these.

If you eventually were meaning "why not Benni too", it is because there are many others, objectively poets, that still are waiting to be listed. I like Benni too, but in his field. - Gianfranco

no i don't like benni (ma chi è???) but i meant... we should add moooore poets ... (soprattutto di quelli isolani) ... Zisa

Ok, Ignazio Buttitta was added to the list. Guess who's going to write the article? :-))) - Gianfranco

How about some poet from Sicilian School for a start? Did you know that Frederick II was a Sicilian poet? --Wikipedius 18:48, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cleaned up the dead links. There should not be a listing if there is no article, in my opinion. I left the names though as I wonder if they should be deleted until an article is written. Also why no dates on the authors??

Cielo d'Alcamo
Pellegatta Alberto
Guittone d'Arezzo
Rinaldo d'Aquino
Angelo Barile
Bruno Barilli
Luigi Bartolini
Matteo Boiardo (Epic poet, 1441-94)
Guido dalle Colonne
Vincenzo Cardarelli
Girolamo Comi
Franco Fortini
Luca Ghiselli
Lapo Gianni
Guido Gozzano
Margherita Guidacci
Alda Merini
Carlo Porta (Milanese dialect)
Giuseppe Villaroel
Cesare Vivaldi
Pier della Vigna

WayneRay 03:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)WayneRay[reply]

Proposed deletion[edit]

I am not sure of the utility of this page when the automatically generated page "Category:Italian_poets" appears to be much more complete and this does not add anything... --Goochelaar 10:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, poets can be categorized or kept in lists according to two complementary principles: their nationality and the language they're writing in. Here we have List of Italian language poets in Category:Lists of poets by language which would actually correspond to Category:Italian-language poets in Category:Poets by language which does not yet exist, while Category:Italian_poets is part of Category:Poets by nationality for which no corresponding list Category:Lists of Italian poets in Category:Lists of poets by nationality exists. Tikiwont 13:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying things. Do you think that a category Category:Italian-language poets would be appropriate? I find a list like the present quite unmaintainable and far less useful than a category. How do I proceed to create a category? Do I just create it like any other page, and then begin populating it? (By the way, but this is beside the point, the sets of Italian poets and of Italian-language poets are almost identical...) --Goochelaar 23:23, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think such a category would be appropriate as Italian is one language that is not strictly associated with one nationality. You can create it by simply opening above red link and study the source of say Category:Dutch-language poets as a similar example. Essentially a category contains usually just a small definition, a link to an overview article such as Italian poetry (if exists) and its parent categories. It is populated indirectly by adding [[Category:Italian-language poets]] to the respective articles, lists or other categories, say e.g. to Ezra Pound or this list here. Other candidates might be Swiss poets writing in Italian. Following the Dutch example we can also include Category:Italian_poets as subcategory.

Another question is what to do about the (now deprodded) list. It might still have some potential if it was more structured (e.g by period, dialect etc. --Tikiwont 11:27, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]