Talk:Early life of Winston Churchill

DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 17:52, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because there has been a complete misunderstanding.

The content of the new article has NOT been copied from the monovisions mirror site because that site had itself copied the text from Winston Churchill. I am systematically revising Winston Churchill and one of the necessities of this work is a considerable reduction of its WP:LENGTH. As part of that process, I have created Early life of Winston Churchill by initially copying and pasting Winston Churchill into it so that I can trim Winston Churchill to a summary form. I am doing that now. I have, by the way, fully attributed the content in edit summaries on both pages.

I must point out that the CSD was raised without first ensuring that the source of the alleged violation is not itself a Wikipedia mirror site.

The content has not come from a third party site. If it had, it could not be so comprehensively sourced. It is a transfer of content from one WP article to another in the interests of WP:LENGTH. Obviously, Early life of Winston Churchill will now be the main article link from Winston Churchill. I hope this makes the position clear but please ping me or message me if you need to ask anything. Thank you. No Great Shaker (talk) 04:25, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy declined,, see template above. But I think you may want to discuss your revisions and this spinout on Talk:Winston Churchill DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 17:55, 31 May 2020 (UTC) DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 17:56, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, DES. There is a discussion in place at the parent article that is partly about creation of this one, as we will probably do the same for another period of his life (and do the attribution straightaway, ha!). All the best and take good care. No Great Shaker (talk) 09:29, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Savrola
The article describes "Savrola" as a "roman a clef" - which means a novel in which the characters are thinly-disguised versions of real people.

Are we sure this is true? I thought it was just a romantic tale set in a Ruritanian-type land, with a hero based on how Young Winston imagined himself.Paulturtle (talk) 10:43, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I don't think I've ever seen "Savrola" described as a roman a clef - as with most of these things there is no hard-and-fast definition of these things but such a book needs to be a much tighter and recognisable parody of actual people and events, eg. Aldous Huxley's "Crome Yellow". The description of the heroine and of the hero's nurse are to some extent derived from Lady Randolph and his nurse Woomany, but lots of novels contain elements of autobiography, fictionalised to a greater or lesser extent. After some thought I'm taking this out, unless somebody can produce a cite or wants to argue about it.

I leave others to dwell on the obvious Oedipal elements of Savrola having a love affair with a woman based on his real-life mother - who neglected him in childhood but had a close relationship with him for a decade or so after his father's death.Paulturtle (talk) 06:41, 6 July 2020 (UTC)