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The Arts category includes proposals in subjects like visual art, performance art, humanities, media, literature, and music.

7 votes

Should questions about authors be ontopic?

Yes. (with the usual proviso that this is probably something to be worked out on meta once we enter private beta) Learning about authors helps us to appreciate their works better. If we want to lear …
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4 votes

How do you make it plain that Literature includes non-fiction?

In the first instance, meta. Once the site enters the private beta stage, there will be an associated meta site where all scope issues can be discussed. Post a meta question asking "should non-fictio …
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7 votes
Accepted

Will the content of the old Literature proposal be re-imported into this one?

Not automatically, no. If there are some questions from the old Literature proposal which you feel are particularly good and worthy of being on the new site, you can always manually re-post them on t …
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15 votes

Is just English literature on topic?

This would probably be a question for the Literature meta site if/when that's created. I don't know whether any of these Area 51 Discussion questions will get migrated to the meta site (and suspect no …
Rand al'Thor's user avatar
17 votes

How can we draw more attention to Literature?

I and others have posted Community Promotion Ads for the Literature proposal on several sites which are similar enough in scope that a significant proportion of their userbases might be interested: …
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7 votes

How will Literature be run different this time?

A clearer and better site scope. Judging from what I've read about the failure of the previous Literature site - e.g. Why did Literature fail? - it seems that many of the problems there were due to e …
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4 votes
2 answers
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Literature or Books?

Proposal: Literature Since I believe it's still possible to change the name of a proposal during the commitment stage, but it becomes much harder during beta stage, this seems like the perfect time t …
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16 votes
5 answers
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How can we draw more attention to Literature?

Proposal: Literature We've reached the Commitment stage! Finally the Literature proposal has the required number of questions with a score of 10 or more in order to advance to the next phase in its …
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13 votes
Accepted

Should book recommendations be on-topic?

No. Book recommendation questions have a tendency to invite multiple subjective answers and fall under the "primarily opinion-based" close reason which applies on all sites: Many good questions g …
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