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[edit] Potter local history and film

Beatrix Potter was born in "The Boltons", a street in Kensington. Just round the corner, on Brompton Road is a plaque showing coloured portraits of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck. In 2005 it was announced that Rene Zellweger and Ewan McGregor would be playing the parts of Beatrix and Warne in a film version of Beatrix Potter's life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.122.47.146 (talk • contribs) 16:07, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Self-contradiction?

She also became secretly engaged to the publisher, Norman Warne... He died before the engagement Could somebody please clarify/correct this? --Calair 23:20, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

She was cremated at Carleton Cemetery (under her married name) in Blackpool, but strangely no memorial was erected for her —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.178.45 (talk • contribs) 16:06, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBC News

It's interesting how this BBC News page has very similiar phrasing to this article... the phrase which grabbed me was "She found consolation in her menagerie of pet animals including frogs, newts and even a bat." (The WP stuff came first - the dateline is 8/Dec). Tompw (talk) 21:04, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

SQUIGS GHOST - However, if you read the references you will find that the phrase "She found consolation in her menagerie of pet animals including frogs, newts and even a bat." was sourced from a BBC article some 5 years earlier. Please feel free to click on reference 4. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.221.176 (talk • contribs) 20:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] rating this article / getting it up to GA status

Hi--Anybody else interested in cleaning up this article, evaluating it, and bringing it up to GA status? I'm going to dig into the process a little bit. Thoughts from other regular editors of this article? --lquilter 17:11, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

We've got a rating of B, which is a good start. I'm going to list the "B" criteria and specific notes as a list of things to do to improve the article.
  • Reference formatting (from Talk/Beatrix Potter/comment) Rated as B-Class, although it needs better formatting (e.g. the citations - you can use Template:cite news or Template:cite web), better lead per WP:LEAD, and better citing per WP:CITE and WP:FOOTNOTES.--Yannismarou 20:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
  • B-class criteria - I take it, from looking at the B criteria below, that we need to flesh out the various subsections.
    • B-class criteria:
      • Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, NPOV or NOR. With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles.
      • Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work.
      • Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with.
    • In particular, I think the literary biography is lacking;
    • Potter's later career and work as a conservationist could stand some fleshing out.
    • And her mother's name is missing.

Other thoughts about specific things to improve the article? --lquilter 20:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William Heelis

It states that William Heelis was a local to the Lakes District. Does this mean she had known him during her visits as a child, like the movie indicates? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.45.129.203 (talk • contribs) 11:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

The film commentary indicates that this was a fictional device. To their knowledge, Potter did not meet Heelis during her childhood visits. Swango 01:46, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Algae & Fungi

The text says they are part of the 'same family'. Surely not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Yeti (talk • contribs) 18:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Publication of Peter Rabbit

According to the OED, "Peter Rabbit" was first published privately by Potter herself in 1900. This ought perhaps to be recorded in the article. Captainbeefart 15:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] engaged to ...?

An editor made a change to long-standing text describing Potter as engaged to her publisher; the editor changed it to say that Potter was engaged to her publisher's son. (diff) I've reverted for now but we should have a source and verify. --lquilter 02:52, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beatri xPotter "heirloom" pottery.

I'm surprised to not see any mention of the Beatrix Potter ceramics, which, in the UK in the 1950's at least, were possibly as popular as her books. Every child was given a set of Beatrix Potter crockery at birth, which was highly prized.--Richardb43 (talk) 11:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

If it was this common, perhaps it can sustain its own article. Can you propose a line of text to include about this, and find a reference about it that describes that this pottery was very prevalent? I don't think we want to include all sorts of licensed products like this, but if it was very wide-spread then it seems reasonable to consider it. --Lquilter (talk) 21:08, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cause of Norman Warne's Death

Other sources, like bpotter.com, say the cause was "a virulent form of leukemia." Is there a reference to justify the anemia cause? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.102.188.144 (talk) 18:45, 8 January 2008 (UTC)