User talk:Tibetologist/Bibliography of Tangut Studies

Not a mistake
Not all bibliographies need to be appended to books. Sometimes they are created as scholarly resources. I could perhaps point to Shafer's Bibliography of Sino-Tibetan Languages, or Stary's bibliography of Manchu studies. This is the intention of this book. In fact two such books have already been published as you can see in the entries under Arakawa and Kwanten. Much of it is not in English because much of Tangut studies is not done in English. You will notice that all Chinese and Japanese are transliterated into the standard anglophone systems (Pinyin and modified Hepburn respectively) and that many of the entries have English translations (the intention is to have translations for all Chinese and Japanese and maybe Russian, one assumes that most educated people know French and German, or at least one assumes that in works like this). Tibetologist (talk) 13:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

This is a valuable resource, and should not be deleted. Just because many of the works referenced are not in English does not mean that the bibliography itself is not in English, so the argument that it is not appropriate for English WikiBooks is not valid. BabelStone (talk) 16:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


 * agreed. This would actually be suitable for any language wikibooks: multilingual material has to go somewhere.DGG (talk) 20:56, 22 November 2009 (UTC)