Talk:List of British Jewish writers

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I added this as, should those "official websites" be being used to verify the religion of this list, they should be references, not external links. If not, they should be removed. Nikthestoned 13:06, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in List of British Jewish writers

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Reference named "Times":

• From Helen Szamuely: "Helen Szamuely", The Times, 20 April 2017
• From Tony Greenstein: Spiro, Zachary (2 April 2016). "Labour welcomes back blogger who compares Israelis to Nazis". The Times. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
• From Charlotte Dacre: "Obituary". The Times. 9 November 1825. Mrs. Byrne, wife of Nicholas Byrne of the Morning Post [died] on Monday evening in Lancaster Place, after a long and painful illness
• From History of the Jews in Angola: Sage, Adam (Oct 28, 2009). "French establishment players convicted over arms to Angola scandal". The Times.

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Orphaned references in List of British Jewish writers

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Reference named "thejc.com":

• From List of British Jews: "Interview: Victoria Coren". thejc.com. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
• From Boycotts of Israel: Dysch, Marcus (16 February 2012). "Finkelstein disowns 'silly' Israel boycott". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• From Panorama (British TV programme): "Winning a Bafta is just as tough as teaching at JFS says award-winning filmmaker". Jewish Chronicle.
• From Rosie Whitehouse: Whitehouse, Rosie (3 June 2018). "Hidden in an attic and secret kept for decades". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 7 August 2018.

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Orphaned references in List of British Jewish writers

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Reference named "CNN":

• From Richard Quest: "Anchors & Reporters: Richard Quest". CNN. n.d. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
• From Maajid Nawaz: "Video: Terrorists don't have a profile". CNN. Archived from the original on 12 December 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
• From Al Jazeera English: "Al Jazeera closes English-language bureau in China after visa denial". CNN. 8 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

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Orphaned references in List of British Jewish writers

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Reference named "Stanford":

• From Jewish Renaissance: "Jewish renaissance: magazine of Jewish culture". Stanford University Libraries. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• From Marghanita Laski: Christine Finn: Chapter Eight Archived 16 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine Stanford University.
• From History of science: Thijssen, Hans (30 January 2003). "Condemnation of 1277". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. University of Stanford. Archived from the original on 11 March 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2009.

Reference named "dnb":

• From Caryl Brahms: Sherrin, Ned. "Abrahams, Doris Caroline [Caryl Brahms] (1901–1982)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 September 2011 (subscription required)
• From Benjamin Disraeli: Parry, Jonathan. "Disraeli, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, May 2011, accessed 23 August 2013 (subscription required)
• From David Bomberg: Cork, Richard (May 2006). "Bomberg, David Garshen (1890–1957)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37206. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
• From Alfred Sutro: Chubbuck, Katharine, "Sutro, Alfred (1863–1933)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 August 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• From Nina Salaman: Endelman, Todd M. (2018). "Salaman, Nina Ruth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71436. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
• From Claire Rayner: Jane Reed, "Rayner [née Berkovitch], Claire Berenice (1931–2010)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2014 available online. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
• From Marghanita Laski: "Laski, Marghanita [formerly Esther Pearl] (1915–1988)". Dictionary of National Biography. 3 October 2013. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39837. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
• From Bernard Levin: Mooney, Bel, "Levin, (Henry) Bernard (1928–2004)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2008; online edition, January 2011, accessed 22 June 2011

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Orphaned references in List of British Jewish writers

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Reference named "BBC":

• From Adele Rose: "Adele Rose: Tributes to Coronation Street writer and Byker Grove creator". BBC News. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
• From Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman: "Analysis Blue Labour, Transcript of a Recorded Documentary". BBC. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
• From Alan Coren: "Broadcaster Alan Coren dies at 69". BBC. 19 October 2007.

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Orphaned references in List of British Jewish writers

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Reference named "thetimes.co.uk":

• From Victoria Coren Mitchell: Ross, Deborah (17 August 2019). "Victoria Coren Mitchell: smart, sharp, witty. Just like her quiz show, Only Connect". The Times. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
• From Giles Coren: Coren, Giles. "Giles Coren reviews the Shed and Apero, London" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.

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There's something wrong with how this article has been working

Looking at the history of this article, it seems all the editing here is IPs copy-pasting without attribution from articles about the individual writers, often with broken references, then User:Mikeblas fixes the references manually, which I think he'd rather not have to be doing constantly. I see User:DMacks just semi-protected this for a year to stop the problematic IP edits, but it might be worth figuring out how to stop it from starting back up again when the protection expires.

Why this only happens here, and not on say List of Jewish American authors, I don't know. And most of the other subcats of Category:Jewish writers by nationality don't seem to even have corresponding list articles. Anomie⚔ 21:13, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

The copying pattern happens lots of places, not just here. (Recently, List of largest land carnivorans, List of Colombians, ... Also common in date-summary articles, like List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024 or 2020s in United Kingdom political history, and ...) This is a sub-page of List of British Jews, which has sub-pages for many/most of its categories. I think List of Jewish American authors is organized in a different way.

There were a lot of problems here fixed at once because I happened to notice them, and because the pattern went unchecked for a while. Happy (mostly) to fix referencing problems; if I wasn't, what else would I do all day? -- mikeblas (talk) 01:27, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

This is supposed to be a list

This page is supposed to be a list, but is turning into a collection of ever longer synopses, making it overlong and unwieldy, especially if viewed on a phone. Please compare it to List of Jewish American authors referred to above, where, on my screen setting, only one entry exceeds one line, and that only by one word. These people all have articles for the details, a simple born/died and 10-15 word description is all that is required, whereas some of the current entries are over 270 words long, longer than many articles. It appears that some editors may think that length gives additional importance.
Please could we consider/agree a notional word-limit and reduce the bloated entries? Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 21:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)