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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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How can we avoid friction with SciFi.SE?
There was a Literature site for a little less than a year. It failed in beta due to lack of traffic. (The rules have changed so it would now be given more time to expand.)
The Literature site did ...
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How can we avoid friction with SciFi.SE?
I see this as no different to the potential overlap between SF&F and M&TV.
These two sites have coexisted for a quite some time without friction, as you put it. Look at the number of ...
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Change the Arts & Crafts proposal description
As a former student-turned-enthusiast with a really really long history in this space, I am neither an artist nor a craftsman. Am I allowed here?
Wait.
Arts & Crafts is a Q&A site for ...
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How do you make it plain that Literature includes non-fiction?
The proposal is advancing nicely, I would expect a Beta launch about February.
At Beta launch the proposal will take on new life, most of the things discussed in Area51 Meta will be forgotten. It ...
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Should candle making be permitted under "Arts & Crafts"?
Should candle making be permitted under “Arts & Crafts”?
I would think so, yes!
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Literature or Books?
Total disagreement
TL;DR: Literature and books are two very different things. We should not use the most popular medium of literature as title.
All the example questions are about literature.
Books....
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Are graphic novels on topic (specifically non scifi/fantasy)?
I would vote yes.
I wish I could remember the name of it, but I read a graphic novel a year or two ago depicting a young Chinese-American man's struggle with balancing the culture of his parents ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Are graphic novels on topic (specifically non scifi/fantasy)?
If I may, I feel there is some confusion of what a graphic novel is (or even what literature is) and isn't. A Graphic novel isn't a genre; it's a format, much like an audiobook.[1] While it is often ...
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Is just English literature on topic?
Yes; as long as the actual question is written in English.
This has worked well in other sites such as Movies & TV[1] and Science Fiction & Fantasy[2]
The only "issue" would be whether you'd ...
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Does the title "arts and crafts" need some work?
For this proposal, I think the experts will have to be (semi-)professional artists: illustrators, sculptors, designers, architects, etc. People who have put their 10000 hours in (or are well underway)....
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Does the title "arts and crafts" need some work?
It's unfortunate that many stores label have an "Arts & Crafts" shelf where they sell a pair of scissors and some sello tape. Well, "arts & crafts" isn't just about scissors and sello tape (...
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How can we draw more attention to Literature?
Spread the word, use the community ad feature of the sites you already participate in. We just got the first referral from ELU :)
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How about adding Calligraphy to Arts and Crafts? Its decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering which is again an art
It's an art. I say yes. And yes again (kind of because I need to).
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Is a site for drawing and painting needed?
No.
Questions about traditional drawing and painting are on-topic for the Arts and Crafts site, and questions about digital drawing and painting are on-topic for the Graphic Design site. There's ...
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Is Lighting Design proposal a duplicate of Electrical Engineering SE?
No, Lighting Design is something completely different.
Lighting design is also known as 'stage design'. A light show is an example of lighting design and nothing to do with electrical engineering. ...
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Will questions on miniature painting be on topic?
I don't see any reason why an art/craft would be excluded just based on size :)
I can think of a number of questions related to painting miniatures, making scale models or dioramas, etc. There is ...
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Is there any interest in an "Acting" site?
The best way to see if there's enough interest is to make a proposal. Go ahead, you can do it right now! Share it with people you know, and other people from the Stack Exchange network will also see ...
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Would a Comic Books SE overlap too much with SCFI?
Comics would overlap directly with
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Literature
Anime & Manga
and then potentially
Ebooks
Writing
Worldbuilding
have areas of expertise that are likely to be ...
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Are graphic novels on topic (specifically non scifi/fantasy)?
Interesting question. Generally most example questions would easily fit such works too. Thus, we would need a community decision on meta in the private or public beta to discern if the site views ...
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How about adding Calligraphy to Arts and Crafts? Its decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering which is again an art
There is at least one question with 10 up votes on calligraphy:
How can I mix my own ink for calligraphy?
I think, this hints that calligraphy is already on topic!
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