Talk:List of autobiographies

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Comment on Prod proposal[edit]

Moved here from autobiography, where it was even more out of place, and listed in a NNPOV way as 'notable autobiographies'. I have no feelings either way on keeping it.--Smerus (talk) 18:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The existence of Wikipedia articles on the authors' careers implies the notability of most of the autobiographies. It is easy to imagine a more ideal system of criteria and citations, but the autobiography article (considering this as an extension of it) is impoverished if it does not mention some of the most notable examples, which will not be mentioned if this list is expunged wholesale. It would be better to challenge, or simply to remove, items whose notability can reasonably be doubted. The easier solution comes at a cost here. Wareh (talk) 17:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Prep for deletion[edit]

I've been doing some prep leading up to potential deletion, but it needs more work. First, need to ensure that if an autobiography listed and exists as an article (some list items lack links but have articles), it is properly categorized. Second, should categorize the autobiographers themselves if they have not been. This takes some time. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The 'notability' of several of these items is startlingly subjective. 'Many' of the huge number of sports, military, political and entertainment autobiographies and ghosted-autobiographies are of 'questionable' worth. JK 11-Sept-10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.66.223 (talk) 12:12, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am new to editing. I've been adding autobiographies, mostly successfully, but have run into a problem. Three entries, Cellini, Equiano, and Jefferson appear in order on the Edit Page, but on the Article Page they appear at the top outside the list. Can someone help her here? Thatcherfreund1 (talk) 18:29, 26 October 2012 (UTC)thatcherfreund1[reply]

Format[edit]

This list provides 2 list of the same elements, using 2 different sorted by different criteria. This effect can be more easily achived by creating a sortable list, capable of being ordered by the user's selection. See Help:Sorting MBelgrano (talk) 18:56, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And both lists appear to be unordered. The cause is probably the fact that the two headings are "By author" and "By name" -- that should be "By author" and "By title". Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 01:12, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have now converted the second list into a table like the first, but don't know how to proceed. The second one appears to be sorted mostly by surname, which is something the sortable tables don't appear to support directly. (It might be possible if a hidden column was created in Surname, Name order.) If surname order is something we want to keep, what's the best way to proceed? Hastyreader (talk) 14:47, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see the needs for sorting in name. It's more neat to keep only one list sorted by date. Keeping only one list should result in better reading experience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.115.156.168 (talk) 04:32, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't help much to sort author's by given name. It could be better by using {{sortname}}. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Separate tables?[edit]

This is a really frustrating article to read or edit because it's all one enormous table. Plus there's no table of contents so there's no way to know what sections are even in there! Are there any objections to cutting it out into separate sections? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 18:08, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's helpful to be able to sort all these autobiographies by date. That couldn't happen in multiple tables. Trogyssy (talk) 21:08, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Uncategorized[edit]

Is there any good reason so many of these are uncategorized, or is it just that no-one has bothered to do it? For example, Voltaire was a philosopher and Saint Teresa was a nun (religious figure). Trogyssy (talk) 21:11, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]