Talk:The Alienist/Archive 1

Moved to talk page
Moved from article to talk page, not sure this is encyclopedic without some secondary source discussion. Cirt (talk) 01:29, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Historical figures
The following historical figures appear in the novel:


 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * J. P. Morgan
 * Jacob Riis
 * Lincoln Steffens
 * Monk Eastman
 * Anthony Comstock
 * Thomas Byrnes
 * Archbishop Michael Corrigan
 * Charles Parkhurst
 * James T. Ellison


 * Paul Kelly
 * Jesse Pomeroy
 * Franz Boas
 * Clark Wissler
 * William James
 * William L. Strong
 * Charlie Delmonico
 * Herbert Spencer
 * William Randolph Hearst
 * H.H. Holmes

Top note
Regarding - I don't see how an individual coming to this page would confuse it with O alienista. Perhaps if there were another article on the English Wikipedia that also started with the words The Alienist, we could have a top note, but there is not. Cirt (talk) 19:10, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, it is a novella about psychiatry and perhaps some people think the translation is "The Alienist" rather than "The Psychiatrist"? Note it was first published in 1882, so I wonder if that would be the better translation. :) Awadewit (talk) 19:17, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Again, it does not start with The Alienist... I don't see these articles as getting confused. Cirt (talk) 19:18, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * "O alienista" has been translated into English as "The Alienist", although it is perhaps more popular as "The Psychiatrist". This makes a hatnote at The Alienist appropriate, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The purpose here is not to avoid confusion with another article with a similar title, but to point readers to the proper article on a subject that may reasonably be known as "The Alienist". Fvasconcellos (t·c) 19:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If that is the case, why is there also not a top note at the other article? This just seems overly silly as the articles' titles are in two different languages, no one would ever confuse them. Cirt (talk) 19:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not about confusion of the article title; it's about the fact that readers may come looking for Machado's work at The Alienist without knowing that the article about it is located at the original title. "Users searching for what turns out to be an ambiguous term may not reach the article they expected." Still, it's a style issue, and if you feel it inappropriate, leave it out. I'm fine either way :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 19:22, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I feel it is inappropriate, and would rather leave it out. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 19:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If the story has been translated as "The Alienist", there should most definitely be a note here. I'm not sure why you think "no one would ever confuse them", Cirt, as we are talking about easy navigation and searching here, not about confusion of the articles. Awadewit (talk) 19:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * In all of this discussion no one has even presented a source backing up that the other article is referred to as "The Alienist" - the article itself says instead "The Psychiatrist", but that entire article has no sources. Cirt (talk) 19:28, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, it hasn't been that long a discussion ;) . (And it isn't about the article, it's about the article's subject.) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 19:32, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

✅. Added back top note. Cirt (talk) 19:34, 2 August 2009 (UTC)