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Literature Mid‑importance

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Philosophy: Literature / Ancient Low‑importance

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The Terry Pratchett incident

This article lists the destruction of Terry Pratchett's unfinished works as a 20th century incident. It may be time for somebody to start a new 21st century section in this article, because the Terry Pratchett incident occurred in the 2010s after Pratchett died from complications due to Alzheimer's. His unfinished works were destroyed by request on 25 August 2017, in a well-documented event involving a steamroller, of all things. In any case, this did not happen in the 20th century. PetSematary182 (talk) 04:16, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lovecraft’s The Necronomicon

In the ‘Lost works in popular culture’ section, it states:

“H. P. Lovecraft wrote that all the original Arabic copies of The Necronomicon (Al Azif) have been destroyed, as well as the Arabic to Greek translations. Only five Greek to Latin translations are held by libraries, though copies may exist in private collections.”

However, the wiki page for The Necronomicon states that The Necronomicon is a fictional work.

Am I misunderstanding or is there a mistake here?

Thanks, DK DKing1908 (talk) 09:04, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Difficult to navigate

This page has become difficult to navigate due to the long length of the Lost Works section. I would like to recommend restructuring the Lost Works by section in order to make it more readable, this would comprise of separating the list into 4 distinct sections: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Age & Literary Collections/Libraries, I think this would help make the page a bit more manageable in terms of navigation as it’s simply too difficult to find specific titles in the page’s current state. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. InternetEnigma (talk) 09:59, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting information

“Many Inca Quipus (an ancient device used for record keeping and communication^[1]) were burned by Spanish priests in 1583 on the orders of the Third Council of Lima.^[2] Only 751 quipus are known to have survived to the present.”

This, as appears in the article, is directly contradicted by the Wikipedia page on the Third Council of Lima. How should this be handled? Ed is the standard text editor (talk) 04:49, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not mentioned

Historia Gothorum or History of the Goths by Cassiodorus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:6F02:333:35F1:1872:971D:287E:7575 (talk) 21:43, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Quipu". Smithsonian.com. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
^ Frank L. Salomon, 2004: The Cord Keepers. Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village; Duke University Press; ISBN 0822333902

[1] "Quipu". Smithsonian.com. Retrieved January 25, 2024.

[2] Frank L. Salomon, 2004: The Cord Keepers. Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village; Duke University Press; ISBN 0822333902

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