I like and second the proposal to make subpages on per person basis. Kpjas |
I like and second the proposal to make subpages on per person basis. It indeed would be easier to link to, more systematic and logical. Kpjas But I wonder if it wouldn't be better in the long run to start a brief page about whoever said each quotation and to include that information in it.... --KQ Actually, a page about rather than of quotations might be a nice idea - it was not uncommon for a book to be a compendium of quotations from famous authors, the prime example being Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and there is the fact that for some ancient writings, all we have of a particular work is an extract quoted by someone else... --Malcolm Farmer |
If anything, you might add quotations from a famous author at the bottom of a biography about the author. That would be more useful in the context of an encyclopedia. Similarly, it is useful in the context of an encyclopedia to upload a person's works, linked from that person's page; see, e.g., William Shakespeare.
In the context of an encyclopedia, a list of quotations per se is just not very useful. It's not what an encyclopedia is for.
By the way, I don't know why the page is called "literary quotations." Or is it important that the quotations be from "literary" sources? If so, are we going to start other pages with "philosophical quotations," "political quotations," etc.? God, I hope not. --LMS
Actually, a page about rather than of quotations might be a nice idea - it was not uncommon for a book to be a compendium of quotations from famous authors, the prime example being Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and there is the fact that for some ancient writings, all we have of a particular work is an extract quoted by someone else... --Malcolm Farmer