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"Dutch" means Netherlands for Dutch Media (so it belongs there), but means the language for Dutch Literature (so it doesn't belong there).
2025: the year it all ends?Yeah, that’s exactly my point. Both of these pages have a clear description of what is covered, which is different, but a shared naming convention which implies that they work the same. Dutch Literature is even listed on the page Dutch Media.
It may be Dutch Literature that needs a discussion. Dutch Media is in line with all the other "media from country" indexes (e.g. Romanian Media, South African Media, Thai Media, Brazilian Media). There are a lot of little sub-indexes that are less monitored and this looks like one of them.
Dutch Literature, German Literature, Spanish Literature and French Literature (literature in this language) are also at odds with English Literature (literature by authors from England). Don't have time to do a deeper dive on this topic, but anyone is welcome to start a project thread about it.
Edited by Synchronicity^I feel like this might need to be taken to Wiki Talk before Projects, since hashing out whether these types of indexes should be named after the works' countries of origin or the works' original languages sounds like a discussion worth having, at least for cases where the same word could refer to either a nationality or a language.
I think I'll go ahead and lock this to nudge further discussion to the forums (regardless of whether it's taken to Wiki Talk or Projects), especially because longer discussions like this tend to be a bad fit for ATT.
Edited by GastonRabbit I got a rock for Halloween.

What are the rules concerning indexing literature from a certain country in a certain language? For instance, the page Dutch Media notes "English-language media from the Netherlands also go here. Media from Belgium or other Dutch-speaking countries are a different category." But then the page Dutch Literature says "An index of literature originally written in Dutch. This includes both works from the Netherlands and Flanders, Belgium." This seems inconsistent.
The reason this has come up for me is that I want to make a page for the recent novel Natural Law, by Solomonica de Winter, and don't know how it would be indexed. De Winter is Dutch, but she wrote the novel in English - with the first edition being published by a Dutch publisher. So what should count: the nationality of the author, the place of publication, or the language it was written in?
Edited by Albertosaurus