Seems fine to me. Generally, profiles about the life of an author would belong in ~books, and this is focusing on one particularly interesting aspect of his life (a sci-fi author building what for...
Seems fine to me. Generally, profiles about the life of an author would belong in ~books, and this is focusing on one particularly interesting aspect of his life (a sci-fi author building what for the time was a modern / futuristic home).
I really wasn't sure where to put it because it crossed all those lines. (One advantage of reddit is that there's always a community devoted to nearly any subject!)
I really wasn't sure where to put it because it crossed all those lines. (One advantage of reddit is that there's always a community devoted to nearly any subject!)
Yeah, this is a bit of weird case. The article is from 1952 in Popular Mechanics magazine and is about an author's house but not his career or any of his works. However a magazine is technically a...
Yeah, this is a bit of weird case. The article is from 1952 in Popular Mechanics magazine and is about an author's house but not his career or any of his works. However a magazine is technically a book, so *shrug*... IMO it being in ~books is probably fine.
Regardless, it's a pretty neat article... Heinlein is easily my favorite classic-era American scifi author (though your namesake is a close second) and was way ahead of his time so getting a glimpse in to his futuristic (for the time) house and the technology he had in it was a treat.
On that basis, anything printed in a magazine could be posted here - from news to recipes, from sex articles to fashion. To me, ~books is for content about books (and magazines), not content from...
However a magazine is technically a book, so shrug... IMO it being in ~books is probably fine.
On that basis, anything printed in a magazine could be posted here - from news to recipes, from sex articles to fashion.
To me, ~books is for content about books (and magazines), not content from books (and magazines). This article is not about books. It's about a house and its architecture.
I get why it's here: the house belonged to an author, so there's a tenuous connection between the house and the author's books. But, if this house belonged to anyone else, the article would have been posted somewhere else.
(Yes, I'm also a Heinlein fan, and, yes, this was an interesting look at his house. But that's not the point.)
Does a news story about a house belong in ~books? Should it be in ~creative (architecture) or ~misc instead?
Seems fine to me. Generally, profiles about the life of an author would belong in ~books, and this is focusing on one particularly interesting aspect of his life (a sci-fi author building what for the time was a modern / futuristic home).
I really wasn't sure where to put it because it crossed all those lines. (One advantage of reddit is that there's always a community devoted to nearly any subject!)
Yeah, this is a bit of weird case. The article is from 1952 in Popular Mechanics magazine and is about an author's house but not his career or any of his works. However a magazine is technically a book, so *shrug*... IMO it being in ~books is probably fine.
Regardless, it's a pretty neat article... Heinlein is easily my favorite classic-era American scifi author (though your namesake is a close second) and was way ahead of his time so getting a glimpse in to his futuristic (for the time) house and the technology he had in it was a treat.
On that basis, anything printed in a magazine could be posted here - from news to recipes, from sex articles to fashion.
To me, ~books is for content about books (and magazines), not content from books (and magazines). This article is not about books. It's about a house and its architecture.
I get why it's here: the house belonged to an author, so there's a tenuous connection between the house and the author's books. But, if this house belonged to anyone else, the article would have been posted somewhere else.
(Yes, I'm also a Heinlein fan, and, yes, this was an interesting look at his house. But that's not the point.)
Oh, and here I thought people were actually having a discussion in this post. Nope, just meta bickering. Sigh.