Talk:Original Stories from Real Life

File:Blake Wollstonecraft sketch2.jpg to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Blake Wollstonecraft sketch2.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 8, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-06-08. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks!  howcheng  {chat} 21:14, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Is the [sic] necessary?
The most common usage of [sic] is to show the direct quotation of a spelling or grammatical error in the original text. If this is the case the [sic] following 'to-day' should be considered for removal. While the hyphenated form of 'today' would be considered an error now, the OED has examples of it being used in publications until 1819, with the non-hyphenated version appearing as early as 897 (with a different spelling.) The two versions happily coexisted in the language for nearly a thousand years. As the hyphenated version was quite correct in Shelly's time it seems judgmental to highlight it as an error by today's standards, or to-day's [sic] standards. I just noticed that both to-morrow and to-day are italicized. It the to-morrow is also being sic-ed, the OED gives examples of the hyphenated tomorrow being used in publications until 1897. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.2.150.60 (talk) 07:50, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It is indeed optional, but as many people would see the quotation and think it in error, we have decided to include it. Most people are not as familiar with the OED and the history of English as you! Wadewitz (talk) 23:26, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Featured article review needed
This very old FA (2007) contains uncited text and original research, and does not meet current WP:WIAFA standards. Unless someone is able to correct this, the article should be submitted to Featured article review. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  03:27, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree with Sandy's assessment above, and I think this will need some fixing up in order to meet the FA criteria. Is anyone interested in working on this? If not, I will nominate this to FAR in a couple weeks. Z1720 (talk) 18:56, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Sad motivation stories
Gg 27.111.75.74 (talk) 15:29, 29 August 2022 (UTC)