Talk:Scenes of Clerical Life

I created this page to share notes that I took on the book for a class. I have no plans to expand it further. --Lavishluau (talk) 04:46, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I studied SoCL for my dissertation, so will see what I can add to this article. I'm new to Wikipedia, so please bear with me! El Staplador (talk) 10:58, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Note about references
Just randomly passing through, but I noticed that some of the citations are duplicated and/or formatted incorrectly. Some refs should utilize a ref tag so that one source can be used more than once. See WP:REFNAME for details on using the tag. You may also consider using citation templates so that the references can be correctly and uniformly written. For example, because it's not a publication, "The Literary Encyclopedia" should not be italicized, and "Eliot, George and Gunn, Kirsty" should be written as "Eliot, George and Kirsty Gunn" -- the templates correct the need to know these nitpicky formatting issues. I hope this helps, and if you have any questions let me know. María ( habla con migo ) 17:02, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip; I'll attend to it. El Staplador (talk) 12:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

'Request for expansion' tag
While there's more to be done to the Plot Summary section, it's not nearly so sparse or so inaccurate as it was, so I'm going to remove the tag.
 * Sorry, that was me - forgot to sign. El Staplador (talk) 14:48, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review
Below are some comments:


 * Make syntax as straightforward as possible. I work in that period literature pretty often and I know how easy it is to become absorbed into that convaluted writing style, but most "modern" internet savy individuals, don't read that sort of stuff.
 * Think of the lead as a summary of the article, not something that contains statements not discussed throughout the rest of the article. With this in mind, there should be no references or only references that include factual statements, such as statistics etc.
 * Check out WP:Lead for guidance on lead length, but it should be a summary at least 2-3 paragraphs for this length of an article.
 * The discussion of George Elliot's pseudonym is unneccessary in this article, leave it to the bio-page unless the whole discussion is directly relevant. You can make it a
 * Should Evans be called "George Elliot" or "Evans" when discussing her within the context of the writing. It is confusing for the reader, esp. the posibility for pronoun confusion.
 * Themes section seems underdeveloped and not fully referenced and is starting to sound like OR (currently their are several assertations that should have refs)
 * I would suggest combining the plot and charachters sections into a hierarchy like below in order to keep all related info in one place:
 * Short Stories - this section has a brief summary
 * Story 1 - contains the plot of the story
 * Charachters - charachters of story 1
 * Story 2 - contains the plot of the story
 * Charachters - charachters of story 2
 * Story 3 - contains the plot of the story
 * Charachters - charachters of story 3
 * Themes, etc.


 * There should be a "Style" section discussing the style as approached by reviewers (if such research is available)

I think that covers most everything, if you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page. Sadads (talk) 02:37, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Reference errors
There are some reference errors that need fixing. I started at it and then realized it was a bigger job than I thought, so I gave up. — howcheng  {chat} 08:53, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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Church attendance
"By 1842 she had become agnostic, refusing to attend church with her father."

or as it says in the George Eliot article

"When Evans began to question her religious faith, her father threatened to throw her out of the house, but his threat was not carried out. Instead, she respectfully attended church and continued to keep house for him until his death in 1849..."

Neither statement appears to be referenced. Dtaylor31 (talk) 13:29, 6 November 2017 (UTC)