Talk:List of historians, classicists and writers associated with Balliol College, Oxford

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Grouping of these three

Is there a reason to group these three together? There doesn't seem to be a logical link between them (historians and classicists, OK, but writers?). Fram (talk) 08:10, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. My original plan was to have five groups: Science, Literature, Government, Society and Intellectuals. This page is the Literature group - people who produce narratives to explain our history, our culture and use their imagination to tell stories. "writers" is a very general term but also so would be the term "storytellers" which is nearer to the purpose of this grouping. Arguably, "literary scholars" and "poets" could also be in the Literature group but they overlap with the remaining groups, so the decision can be deferred. The remaining groups have large collections in each of Philosophy, Politics and Economics so it becomes logical (in the sense that they are taught together at Oxford) to group them as PPE, in which the "original plan" would be superseded.

Jesus College, Oxford (or to be more precise, the wiki editor) has done an excellent job of categorising its alumni into 18 categories. In addition, there are three pages with more names for 1) politicians, lawyers, civil servants; 2) clergy 3) mathematics, medicine and science. Other Colleges are following suit e.g. University College, Oxford. Jesus has not attempted to combine the literary activities which points up the logical difficulties in doing so. JPF (talk) 13:55, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There would seem to be enough writers for a list of their own: https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=29246886. My concern here is that categorisation as writer of some sort seems to be very broad, at least doing it by the subcategories of Category:Writers. Most academics might be included. A restriction to biographers, critics and essayists might work. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:28, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]