Talk:The Well of Loneliness

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Article milestones Date Process Result January 13, 2007 Peer review Reviewed January 14, 2007 Good article nominee Listed January 31, 2007 Featured article candidate Promoted Current Status: Featured article

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Contents 1 Old comments 2 Discussion moved from Talk:The Well of Loneliness/Comments 3 Good Article nomination 4 Prix Femina

[edit] Old comments

Why isn't there a plot summary ("Spoilers follow...")? Nuttyskin 03:37, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

You haven't written one yet. --Aim Here 07:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion moved from Talk:The Well of Loneliness/Comments

I changed the rating of this page from 'stub' class to 'A' class - it looks extremely concise and well referenced.--HisSpaceResearch 06:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Although I agree in principle, I feel that an article should at least have undergone a peer review before it can be awarded with A-status. Without such a review, POV issues are much more likely to exist (in general). Errabee 14:30, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the class to GA, since it has been listed as a GA. Aleta 17:46, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good Article nomination

Good morning (GMT time); I have passed this article as a Good Article under the GA Criteria. However, my advice for approval is:

• Insert more relevant images to the article, particuarly in the second tenth of the article. (This is in line with WP:GA? point 6) (a) - (c).)
• As defined in WP:GA? point 2) (b), although the use of Inline Citations are not mandatory, they are strongly desired. This is where the references section has the code "</references>" and each reference is of the format <ref>text and/or [[internal]] or [external] link here.</ref>.

Otherwise, congratulations are in order for the lead editors - well done, and keep up the excellent work!

Kind regards,
Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 01:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm a little surprised by the second suggestion, though -- are the 154 footnotes (not counting duplicates) not enough, or am I missing the point?

Illustrating this article is a bit difficult in the current climate of sharply restricting Fair Use on Wikipedia, but I'll see what I can do. —Celithemis 01:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prix Femina

Hi. It says Hall won the Prix Femina for Adam's Breed, but as you can see here, she's not on the list of laureates. Shouldn't that info be removed? Raystorm (¿Sí?) 14:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Those are the French language winners. The award for foreign novels is separate. —Celithemis 20:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Aha! Do you have a link to it? Thanks you so much for clearing it up, we are trying to get the Spanish version of this article to FA status, and we were kinda stumped with this. :-) Raystorm (¿Sí?) 14:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't know of a list online. Can't you just copy the citation? —Celithemis 23:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

We did, until someone pointed out the discrepancy with the online list I showed you. That added with the info someone gathered about there not being a prize for foreign novels until much later (I think the 1980's or something like that) made us wonder if she had indeed won the prize. It's weird that there is no online list where Hall figures. Well, we wanted to add one, but I suppose if we can't, we can't. We'll just add the citation. The article is already at FAC, so... By the way, I said it at the time, but congratulations again for writing such a wonderful article! :-) I hope we make it justice at es:wiki. Cheers Raystorm (¿Sí?) 16:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, and good luck with the FAC! It's really cool to see it translated.

Re the Prix Femina, I'm not sure of all the changes of name and organization it's been through over the years, but there were several awards given to British novels in the 20s; A Passage to India, To the Lighthouse, and Mary Webb's Precious Bane are all noted winners. There was apparently at one time a separate award for American novels as well, which Willa Cather won. I guess either those two merged in 1985 or were discarded for a while and revived then. If you want to bolster the point you could add a citation to this and/or the Leslie Taylor paper. —Celithemis 01:24, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I found today a Spanish source that clearly states Hall won the Prix Femina Vie Hereuse for Adam's Breed, so even if it's not an online citation, it should work just fine. :-) I'll check out your links anyway, thanks for providing them. :-) Cheers! Raystorm (¿Sí?) 17:40, 7 June 2007 (UTC)