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A fact from Classic book appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 June 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that playwright Alan Bennett's definition of a classic book is "a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have read themselves"?

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Requested move 7 November 2024

It has been proposed in this section that Classic book be renamed and moved to Classical literature.

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Classic book → Classical literature – Naturalness; Subject is as much a field of study as it is a "type" of object, "literature" covers both aspects of the topic. The redirect to classics studies does not make sense either per recognizability, very few people are going to be thinking of Homer or Vergil without also thinking of Shakespeare or Joyce. Orchastrattor (talk) 18:54, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To me "classical literature" does suggest ancient Greek and Latin literature; classic literature might be a better target to move to though I don't know that I'm persuaded it's that much better than "classic book". Classical literature currently redirects to classics whereas classic literature goes to classic book which suggests I'm not alone in making that distinction. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 00:00, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Classic" and "classical" are extremely minute differences, Classical literature should be a disambiguation at the very least. Orchastrattor (talk) 03:39, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bigger difference than between iron maiden (the torture device) and Iron Maiden (the band), or between Airplane (the vehicle) and Airplane! (the film). WP:SMALLDETAILS explicitly permits using this kind of small detail to distinguish articles with similar titles. "Classical literature" has a specific meaning and it currently points to the most appropriate article for that meaning; there's absolutely no need to mess with that. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 00:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Then it should just be moved to Classic literature, the point still stands. Orchastrattor (talk) 01:09, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Caeciliusinhorto. Srnec (talk) 03:15, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]