Talk:Classification (literature)

Idiosyncratic use of term

I have spent some time looking for use by others of this term. (Also in spelling "classificatio" to catch possible use in classical or Medieval rhetoric) I cannot find it. This includes searches of Google Scholar and Books and various blogs and glossaries of rhetoric. Speaking as a Wiktionarian, I doubt that this term can meet Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion. DCDuring (talk) 10:44, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

DCDuring, I concur with your assessment. I stumbled upon this dictionary definition while browsing the Classification disambiguation page. Initially, I didn't notice that library classification was listed as a sub-item of document classification, so wondered if this was the page for that (possibly mistitled, if it were). I'd thought of redirecting this to Classification and removing the reference to this term on the disambiguation page, but also wondered whether redirecting to figure of speech would be best. I'm much less confident in that option as I think any reader would be confused as to landing there. My original thought was to just PROD this page. What do you think, what should we do here? Dmehus (talk) 14:18, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

The single reference seems insufficient to support an article. I can't think of a place to redirect it that would not be confusing. This Google search shows that the use of classification in books on rhetoric suggests that the peculiar definition given does not fit with common use in books about written composition. I think it needs to be deleted. DCDuring (talk) 15:55, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

DCDuring, Yeah, that works for me. I'll PROD it then. It's definitely ambiguous and confusing as I was led here thinking this would be a disambiguation or other stub page for the information classification of books (print or electronic). Dmehus (talk) 16:07, 3 July 2020 (UTC)