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Author: LordGro

Aug 10th 2012 at 2:30:29 AM

@rodneyAnonymous: I don't share your concerns. All these works are already on the wiki. If we want to avoid every possibility that someone feels offended because they think these works being featured on the wiki implies they are works of fiction, then we have to delete all of these books from the wiki.

And we already collect NonFictionLiterature, so being featured on the wiki doesn't imply that we invariably consider a work fiction.

As for the connection to storytelling -- most of these works are narratives, or have substantial narrative parts; and we ''do'' even have pages for some non-narrative works, for even those works can use (invoke, discuss, etc.) tropes.

Like all works indices on the wiki, it is not designed as an exhaustive list of all books in the world fitting the definition, but an index of work pages ''on the wiki'', intended to help users browse and search the wiki. In fact, most of the works indices on the wiki will have a counterpart on TheOtherWiki, but that doesn't concern us.

It's defined as "Books that are considered sacred by at least one religion." That is an objective criterion. ''The Origin of Species'' does clearly not fit. Nobody regards it as "holy". As for ''PrincipiaDiscordia'', we might consider it lumping it with ''TheGospelOfTheFlyingSpaghettiMonster'' under "genre parodies".