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	This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 13, 2007.
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"The French contest". I suppose this must be a typo for "contes"?. I'll correct it. If anyone objects I'll move it back. METRANGOLO1 (talk) 11:50, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

§ Compilations is currently unsorted. Names are sometimes displayed given name first, sometimes surname first, with no apparent alphabetical sorting. While I believe a bold editor can alphabetize the list, how should the names be displayed: surname first, or given name first? I assume the list will be sorted alphabetically by surname regardless of how it is displayed. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 21:48, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any sources that try to draw distinction between fantasy and fairy tale genres? - Altenmann >talk 15:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article is very large. I suggest to split a separate page, List of collections of fairy tales. - Altenmann >talk 15:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From the article:

” The Jatakas are probably the oldest collection of such tales in literature, and the greater part of the rest are demonstrably more than a thousand years old. It is certain that much (perhaps one-fifth) of the popular literature of modern Europe is derived from those portions of this large bulk which came west with the Crusades through the medium of Arabs and Jews.”

The claims here are both vague and improbable. One fifth of modern European literature is derived from thousand year old fairy tales? What? InspectorMendel (talk) 11:57, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to go ahead and remove this paragraph. InspectorMendel (talk) 09:22, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]