Talk:Winifred Wagner/Comments

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[edit] WP:Wagner assessment

Class B. Well-balanced article covering most aspects of the subject. IMO this corresponds to the definition of a B article having "a majority of the material needed for a completed article ". Further development could focus on information about her running of the Bayreuth Festival in the 1930s, her relations with conductors, directors and singers. -- Kleinzach 07:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I rate this as Start class. There is absolutely nothing about her 15 years spent running the Festival, which ought to be the matter of greatest interest to the Wagner Project. (This is also a problem with the articles on Wieland and Wolfgang, and, incidentally, shouldn't they all be categorised as Opera Managers?) --GuillaumeTell 18:03, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm going Start too. As GT says, Winifred's major interest to WP:Wagner has to be how she ran the Bayreuth festival, introduced Wieland, at the least, as a set designer etc., brought in Toscannini and lost him over Hitler... I'm surprised that as a biography article, this isn't a B, but that's not my business. What particularly struck me here as a gneral weakness in the article was a lack of inline referencing. When Irving is mentioned we should have a citation. I know there's material about his meeting with Winifred on his website which might bea source. I'm also interested in investigating the use of pictures of the Wagner family with Hitler with the fair use people.--Peter cohen 09:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)