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A map of birthplaces was added recently. A couple points for discussion:

• It's hugely incomplete - it's missing basically every European laureate between 1915 and 1984.
• Adding all the laureates would probably make a map unreadably dense in parts.
• It has multiple location errors - Gurnah's birthplace is in Kenya instead of Zanzibar, Cela is on Sardinia instead of Spain, etc.
• There are formatting errors - the (short) family name is Gao, not Xingjian, for example.

To the larger point, I don't think this adds anything significant to the article. The country/nationality of the authors is listed individually and also as a summary list. A birthplace map essentially regurgitates most of that same information, but adding potential confusion for authors who were born in a different location from where they primarily lived or are associated with their work (eg, Simon, Undset, Bellow, etc). Even with all of that, the maps increase the article size without adding significant information.

I'm appreciative of the effort, but suggest that it be removed. Opening this section for discussion, however. Irregulargalaxies (talk) 17:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the rationale, mainly point two, having a complete map would make it unreadable. Auguel (talk) 16:28, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All the laureates have been added and corrected on the European map and it looks perfectly readable to me. Mondrian (talk) 13:59, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've made [[19xx Nobel Prize in Literature]] link to the table here for 5 years which don't have their own articles, and added extra anchors so each links to the right row of the table. This means that the next/last year links go to the table when there isn't an article instead of being red links.

The year isn't a link (as it would only link back to itself), but it should become one if one of these is turned into an article. Aoeuidhtns (talk) 13:50, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There hasn't been a Nobel Prize for Literature for 2024, so Jacob Elson (whoever that is) hasn't won it. 40.132.68.49 (talk) 19:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Obvious vandalism cases like that can/should be reverted immediately without needing to bring it up on Talk, though. Irregulargalaxies (talk) 02:28, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As this table is about to be updated by the end of the week, could we have someone look at the columns and markup please? On my phone (Android, Chrome), the Laureate column is exceptionally narrow leading to all the contents being squashed into strings of single letters. doktorb _words^deeds 04:21, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]