Wikipedia:Literature portals
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 | This page in a nutshell: Portals on literary topics have been on less popular topics rather than topics that might be more popular. |
The English Wikipedia has had portals developed on a variety of literary topics, but none have been sufficiently broad areas that are likely to attract large numbers of viewers and maintainers. Literary topics can include literature by language, literature by country, author, or genre. Portal:Australian literature had an average of 1 daily pageview, as opposed to 116 daily pageviews for the subject. I have not seen portals for the literature of any other Anglophone or partly Anglophone country. The two largest national literatures in the English language might be expected to be British literature and American literature, which do not exist. Neither does New Zealand literature, nor Canadian literature or Irish literature, either of which is partly in English, nor Indian literature, of which English could be one of the many languages.
The portal on French and Francophone literature has been nominated for deletion, and has 17 daily pageviews, with a total of 219 pageviews between the lead articles of French literature and Francophone literature. The problem with this portal and these articles is probably that they are of interest to readers of the French Wikipedia who can read about French literature and Francophone literature in the same way as one reads French literature and Francophone literature – in the French language in which it was written. I do not expect that portals on literature in other languages are likely to have substantial audiences in the English Wikipedia.
Portal:Charles Dickens is about one of the greatest writers of English literature, in particular of British literature. It does not have the traffic to support a portal. It might appropriately be merged into a parent portal that does not currently exist.
The English Wikipedia has hundreds of portals on topics that are not sufficiently broad to attract readers and portal maintainers. It has an absence of a Portal:English literature and of the two large national subsets of Portal:British literature or Portal:American literature.