Talk:List of Russian-language writers

Reshaping the list

I am going to rework this list and make it look like the List of Russian inventors or List of Russian artists. So, as a first step, I remove here all the red links.

• Yegor Alipanov, poet
• Maxim Antonovich, publicist
• Mikhail Avdeyev, playwright
• Dmitry Averkiyev, playwright
• Nikolai Bashkin, poet
• Kazimir Barantsevich, writer
• Gavriil Batenkov, poet
• Nikolai Bazhin, writer
• Vladimir Benediktov, poet
• Vasily Bervi, sociologist and writer
• Alexander Bezymensky, poet
• Viktor Bilibin, writer and playwright
• Semyon Bobrov, poet
• Vasily Bogdanov, poet
• Angel Bogdanovich, publicist
• Viktor Burenin, poet
• Yakov Butkov, writer
• Augusta Damansky
• Vladimir Dedlov, publicist and writer
• Alexander Dobrolyubov, poet
• Ivan Dolgorukov, poet and writer
• Stepan Dudyshkin, literary critic
• Sergei Durov, poet
• Ellis, poet
• Sergei Glinka, poet and writer
• Alexei Gmyrev, poet
• Ivan Golts-Miller, poet
• Ivan Gorbunov, writer
• Evgeniy Grebenka, writer
• Vasily Kazin, poet
• Nikolai Khmelnitsky, playwright
• Klychkov, writer
• Viktor Klyushnikov, writer
• Ivan Klyushnikov, poet
• Nadezhda Kokhanovskaya, writer
• Ivan Konevskoy, poet
• Vasily Krasov, poet
• Vasily Kurochkin, poet
• Nikolai Kurochkin, poet
• Grigory Kvitka, writer and playwright
• Jakov Landa (1948-2005)
• Boris Lebedev, poet
• Alexei Lugovoy, writer
• Sergei Maximov, essayist
• Alexei Merzlyakov, poet
• Mikhail Milonov, poet
• Dmitry Minayev, poet
• Ivan Myatlev, poet
• Sergei Naidyonov, playwright
• Yegor Nechayev, poet
• Filipp Nefyodov, writer
• Alexandr Nekrasov
• Andrei Novodvorsky, writer
• Nikolai Novosyolov, poet
• Mikhail Olminsky, publicist
• Innokentiy Omulevsky, writer and poet
• Pyotr Oreshin, poet
• Sergey Orlov, poet
• Sergey Ostrovoy, poet
• Alexander Palm, writer
• Andrei Podolinsky, poet
• Semyon Podyachev, writer
• Nikolai Poletaev, poet
• Alexander Polezhayev, poet
• Alexei Potekhin, writer
• Ivan Pushchin, memoirist
• Leonid Radin, poet
• Mikhail Rozengeim, poet
• Nikolai Rylenkov, poet
• Boris Sadovskoy, poet and writer
• Ilya Salov, writer
• Alexander Shakhovskoy, playwright
• Pyotr Shalikov, poet
• Ivan Shcheglov, writer
• Alexander Sheller, writer and poet
• Alexander Ardalionovich Shishkov, poet
• Sergei Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, poet
• Alexander Shiryayevets, poet
• Zinaida Shishova, poet
• Filipp Shkulyov, poet
• Vladimir Shulyatikov, critic and journalist
• Pyotr Shumakher, poet
• Sergei Sinegub, poet
• Fyodor Slepushkin, poet
• Yevgeniy Solovyov-Andreyevich, critic
• Lyubov Stolitza, poet
• Mikhail Sukhanov, poet
• Aleksey Surkov, poet
• Lyudmila Tatyanicheva, poet
• Nikolai Timkovsky, writer
• Leonid Trefolev, poet
• Maria Tsebrikova, critic and publicist
• Nikolai Tsyganov, poet
• Vasily Tumansky, poet
• Andrei Turgenev, poet
• Ivan Volnov, writer
• Volynsky A., literary and theater critic
• Alexander Voyeykov, poet
• Pavel Yakushkin, folklorist and essayist
• Grigory Yeliseyev, publicist
• Varfolomey Zaitsev, publicist
• Pavel Zasodimsky, writer
• Gavriil Zhulev, poet and playwright

That's it. When the good enough articles on these writers are created, they may be added into the list.
Greyhood (talk) 18:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

• Says who? Your explanation is lousy. Please propose the move first and discuss it with other Wikipedians and then do it. Sorry, but I am going to restore the missing writers. KNewman (talk) 17:37, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I have created this template:

And I intend to fill it exclusively with high quality illustrated lists, like the already created and polished List of Russian inventors and List of Russian artists, and most of leaders-related lists. Obviously, red links are out of place in such lists, except the list of Russian rulers and alike, where all rulers should be listed in any case. At the same time the listing of some minor writers without articles on them is of virtually no use to readers. And remember there are much much much more readers than editors, and the articles are created primarily for readers, not editors. Greyhood (talk) 18:08, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

:I wouldn't revert your edits until I'll actually start major work on this list, making it looking like a table with portraits, info on writers, short listings of their notable works and some illustrations. And I hope nobody would object to such reshaping of this list.Greyhood (talk) 18:16, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Hm, after some cosideration I think it is appropriate to create the following separate articles: List of Russian language playwrights, List of Russian language journalists and List of Russian language novelists (novel defined as here, the whole conception is from here). These lists would include the most notable writers with existing articles on them, and this current List of Russian language writers would give links to the specific lists by literary field, with the combined listing left intact if you want so.Greyhood (talk) 19:00, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

This is exactly what I hate about Wikipedia - considering the red links to be of no use. Why people can't understand that they all have a simple and important purpose: firstly, when someone sees a red link, he or she may wonder who this person was and, secondly, a more knowledgeable editor may show up and write an article about this person. IMHO, red links often tend to strike curiosity and, as a consequence, creativity. Do as you please, for I no longer desire to argue with other editors about the usefulness of red links. It just happens too often, and I already regret that I refreshed the list. KNewman (talk) 04:59, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry if I have disturbed you. I think that several red links in the article are no harm and can make someone want to round up the perfectness of the article by creating a new articles on those links, or stubs. But when you see about hundred red links at a time, you just want to quickly take your eyes away from such article. Greyhood (talk) 15:55, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

• I added Antony Pogorelsky to the list. As for others, here's my personal Notability Top 20: 1. Valerian Maykov, 2. Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov, 3. Dmitry Gorchakov, 4.Ivan Surikov, 5. Pyotr Gnedich, 6. Iyeronim Yasinsky, 7. Lidia Charskaya, 8. Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, 9. Alexander Odoyevsky, 10. Konstantin Trenyov, 11. Boleslav Markevich, 12.Liodor Palmin, 13. Mikhail Zenkevich, 14. Dmitry Khvostov, 15. Pyotr Veinberg, 16. Akim Volynsky, 17. Alexander Voeykov, 18. Pavel Yakushkin, 19. Dmitry Lensky, 20. Aleksey Merzlyakov - and, if User:INeverCry won't do it first (which would be preferable, of course), - I promise to come and rescue them sooner or later. Most of the redlinks removed, of course, fully desereved their fate. -- Evermore2 (talk) 09:32, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

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