Category talk:South American writers

This category is now empty, serves no purpose, and should probably be deleted. --Jbmurray 11:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

This category is now populated. --Wassermann 08:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I'm not sure your solution works. For instance, "Spanish-American writers" is not a good subset of "Latin American writers." If anything (and if one is to keep both categories, the former of which is up for deletion, as you're aware), it should be the reverse. --Jbmurray 09:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, this is a more redundant category than ever. I think that the creation of Category:Latin American writers was a good idea, and thank Wassermann for taking the initiative on it. But if all the national categories of "South American writers" are now to go in that category, than this geographical category serves no further purpose; it merely duplicates what's in the parent category. (Meantime, the question of the relation between writers and literature goes unresolved.) --Jbmurray 10:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Of course this category serves a purpose, because South America is an entirely separate CONTINENT (even though it is still a part of Latin America overall). Plus, like I told you before, the culture of South America is different from other parts of Latin America. I am quite interested in South American writers and literature, but not very much in the Caribbean or Mexico, for example. If the Caribbean writers and Central American writers have their own categories, why wouldn't South American writers? --Wassermann 04:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Again, South America is a geographical category, not a cultural one. Your interests notwithstanding. Again, if one were to break Latin America down by regions, what would make sense would be "Southern Cone" writers and "Andean writers" plus "Brazilian writers." (Not that I recommend that.) The category of "South American writers" is meaningless and arbitrary. --Jbmurray 05:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)