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Would anyone object if I were to alphabetize the lists in this article? They may be short, but it would be easier to find if something is already here if it were. Tartan 21:16, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
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I thought that Any human heart by William Boyd should be included in the list of fictional diaries, no? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.81.165.20 ( talk) 15:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'm working with OCLC, and we are algorithmically generating data about different Genres, like notable Authors, Book, Movies, Subjects, Characters and Places. We have determined that this Wikipedia page has a close affintity to our detected Genere of epistolary-fiction. It might be useful to look at [1] for more information. Thanks. Maximilianklein ( talk) 23:12, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
In editing this page I noted that a number of the "hoax diaries" are actually memoirs or biographies, not diaries. "The Hitler Diaries" and "Go Ask Alice" are definitely diaries in diary form, but "Education of Little Tree", "A Million Little Pieces", "My Own Sweet Time" are memoirs or biographies. They aren't set up as actual diaries where the author was supposedly writing things down as they happened, but rather were purportedly written after the fact by someone who was looking back. I believe they more properly belong in the main article for Fake memoirs but should not be on this page unless they were written in diary form as purported diaries, thus I will be removing some of them that don't fit the form. I will make sure they are all in the Fake memoirs article, but I think most if not all of them are already there.
Part of the problem might have been the section being entitled simply "Hoaxes" when I first arrived here. I changed it to "Hoax DIARIES" to make clear this is a list of DIARIES, not just literary memoir hoaxes in general. TheBlinkster ( talk) 17:59, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
@ Bmcln1, Tad102, Nick Michael, and TheBlinkster: I've added merge templates proposing that List of diarists § Fictional diaries be merged into List of fictional diaries. Any comments? Biogeographist ( talk) 23:42, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea. Bmcln1 ( talk) 10:15, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Merger complete. — No objections after several weeks.
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At the moment this page is a nice introduction with a large list of mostly unreferenced examples. I think this is a notable topic that deserves better coverage so my proposal would be to move this page to Diaries in fiction which would contain information about diaries in fiction with a list of notable (and sourced) examples. If this list grows too big for the page then this page can be recreated. I think this would better serve the topic and be more informative. Vladimir.copic ( talk) 05:31, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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Would anyone object if I were to alphabetize the lists in this article? They may be short, but it would be easier to find if something is already here if it were. Tartan 21:16, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
addition
I thought that Any human heart by William Boyd should be included in the list of fictional diaries, no? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.81.165.20 ( talk) 15:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'm working with OCLC, and we are algorithmically generating data about different Genres, like notable Authors, Book, Movies, Subjects, Characters and Places. We have determined that this Wikipedia page has a close affintity to our detected Genere of epistolary-fiction. It might be useful to look at [1] for more information. Thanks. Maximilianklein ( talk) 23:12, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
In editing this page I noted that a number of the "hoax diaries" are actually memoirs or biographies, not diaries. "The Hitler Diaries" and "Go Ask Alice" are definitely diaries in diary form, but "Education of Little Tree", "A Million Little Pieces", "My Own Sweet Time" are memoirs or biographies. They aren't set up as actual diaries where the author was supposedly writing things down as they happened, but rather were purportedly written after the fact by someone who was looking back. I believe they more properly belong in the main article for Fake memoirs but should not be on this page unless they were written in diary form as purported diaries, thus I will be removing some of them that don't fit the form. I will make sure they are all in the Fake memoirs article, but I think most if not all of them are already there.
Part of the problem might have been the section being entitled simply "Hoaxes" when I first arrived here. I changed it to "Hoax DIARIES" to make clear this is a list of DIARIES, not just literary memoir hoaxes in general. TheBlinkster ( talk) 17:59, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
@ Bmcln1, Tad102, Nick Michael, and TheBlinkster: I've added merge templates proposing that List of diarists § Fictional diaries be merged into List of fictional diaries. Any comments? Biogeographist ( talk) 23:42, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea. Bmcln1 ( talk) 10:15, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Merger complete. — No objections after several weeks.
Biogeographist (
talk)
12:41, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
At the moment this page is a nice introduction with a large list of mostly unreferenced examples. I think this is a notable topic that deserves better coverage so my proposal would be to move this page to Diaries in fiction which would contain information about diaries in fiction with a list of notable (and sourced) examples. If this list grows too big for the page then this page can be recreated. I think this would better serve the topic and be more informative. Vladimir.copic ( talk) 05:31, 26 October 2021 (UTC)