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Bibliography

I suspect this section does not conform with WP:NOT?--Ymblanter (talk) 17:44, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Writing style

Some of the writing seems off. For example: "Taras Shevchenko, born 9 March 1814 in Moryntsi, Zvenyhorod county, Kiev Governorate, died 10 March 1861 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Ukraine's national bard and famous artist." Shouldn't the article be written in complete sentences? Maximajorian Viridio (talk) 01:46, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Scope of the article, and blatant nationalistic POV

The first sentence of the lead limits the scope of the article to literature written in the Ukrainian language, which automatically excludes everything that was written before the 18th century, or if we stretch things a bit the middle of the 17th century, since there was no Ukrainian language before then, only a dialect of the Ruthenian language, a language that was spoken also in other areas, including Belarus, and before the Ruthenian language came to be (when Russian split off) the language spoken within (most of) the area that now is Ukraine was Old East Slavic (Old Ukrainian as a name for Ruthenian and Old East Slavic, and Modern Ukrainian as a name for the current Ukrainian language, is used only in Ukraine, but this is the English language Misplaced Pages, where articles must use current English language trems...). Automatically excluding everything that has anything to do with the Kievan Rus', which is why I removed it. I also removed blatant POV, referring to "foreign domination over Ukrainian territories" when talking about events centuries ago, with a link to the modern day country of Ukraine, is blatant nationalistic POV (how can it be the territory of a country that didn't exist at that time?), and doesn't belong here. But has in spite of that been added back again, twice even, by Lute88. - Tom | Thomas.W 17:28, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Why would you "exclude automatically"? These entities are are as related as Beowulf is to English.--Aristophile 17:32, 29 September 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lute88 (talkcontribs)
Why do you use a fake, handwritten, signature, instead of your real user name, Lute88? You've done it on two different pages now (, , ), in direct violation of WP:SIGFORGE ("Impersonating another editor by using his or her username or signature is forbidden", and picking a username that doesn't exist doesn't change that...), obviously in an attempt to make it look as if you're supported by another user. - Tom | Thomas.W 17:44, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
I am not impersonating anyone, and that is my signature I used many years ago. Now I'd prefer if you stopped your slander.--Aristophile 18:02, 29 September 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lute88 (talkcontribs)
I did a quick check of your contributions, and every single talk page comment I looked at back to 2017, except for the latest ones this discussion is about, were properly signed with Lute88, links and timestamp, so why did you suddenly switch to signing with a fake user name? And even if we assume good faith you can't do what you're doing, since all users are required to include a link to their real user page, talk page or contributions page in their signature... - Tom | Thomas.W 18:23, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
  • I do not think this is simply a specific language. Consider Russian literature as an example. Our page tells: "Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature". That is fair (one could include writings by Ukrainian authors on other languages). Moreover, something like The Tale of Igor's Campaign was written on a language very different from modern Russian, but still belongs to Russian literature. Or one can check British literature as another example. This is not so simple at all. Should the Kievan Rus be mentioned on the page? I would say no, but whatever sources say. It could be: . My very best wishes (talk) 21:55, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
  • @My very best wishes: I would have no problems with having the Kievan Rus' in the article if the scope was "all literature from the area that now is Ukraine", but having the scope there is now, "literature in the Ukrainian language", along with material about literature that predates the existence of a uniquely Ukrainian language by several centuries is plain wrong, and just another attempt to claim even the language of Kievan Rus' for Ukraine alone. The Primary Chronicle of the Kievan Rus', for example, is as much Russian and Belarusian as it is Ukrainian, since it tells about the history of the Kievan Rus', which is the early history of all three of those countries (the history of the Kievan Rus' in fact began in what is now Russia, because that's where that political entity originated), and was written in a language that at that time was the common language all over the Kievan Rus', not only the areas that are now Ukraine. So there's a lot more to it than meets the eye... - Tom | Thomas.W 22:19, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
The Primary Chronicle of the Kievan Rus', for example, is as much Russian and Belarusian as it is Ukrainian. Yes, indeed, meaning it can be noted on pages about all these literatures. My very best wishes (talk) 22:26, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
... but not if the scope of those articles limit them to "literature in the Belarusian/Russian/Ukrainian language", since it was written in Old East Slavic. Latin is the ancestor of multiple languages, and not just Italian, so how would you feel if Italians started to change the name of Latin and claim that literature written in the Latin language was written in "Old Italian". Because that is a direct equivalent to what Ukrainian POV-pushers are doing here on en-WP, referring to Old East Slavic as "Old Ukrainian" and the Ruthenian language (the direct ancestor to both Belarusian, Rusyn and Ukrainian) as "Middle Ukrainian". - Tom | Thomas.W 22:43, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
I do not see any problem with including Old East Slavic Literature to the History of Russian Literature - the way this is done on ruwiki. Ukrainian literature could be treated similarly, but again, one must follow the sources. I am not expert. My very best wishes (talk) 01:09, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
The articles you linked to, on the Russian WP, don't explicitly limit the scope to a single language as this article does (the lead has been changed by someone else now, changing the first sentence from "Ukrainian literature is literature in the Ukrainian language" to a sentence still talking only about the Ukrainian language, so it's still limited to a single language, a language that didn't exist until long after the end of the Kievan Rus'...). Which is exactly what I'm talking about. - Tom | Thomas.W 12:52, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
One needs to check textbooks on Ukrainian literature to properly define the scope of the page. I am only saying this is a typical content dispute, and not a matter for ANI. My very best wishes (talk) 14:08, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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