Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/George Orwell bibliography/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted by The Rambling Man 14:27, 3 February 2010.

George Orwell bibliography

 * Nominator(s): Justin (koavf)

I am nominating this for featured list because it is on a par with the other featured bibliographies. User:The Illusional Ministry (User talk:The Illusional Ministry) 01:16, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Support but possible conflict of interest, as I made most of this list. I had always intended on submitting it after I got a hold of Davison's volumes to round out the list of publications, but I suppose it can go through the procedure now. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:33, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems you are the primary contributor, so I added you as a co-nominator and unbolded your support here. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:19, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I just want to clarify, that koavf is without the primary contributor. I just found the list while browsing, did some edits, and then nominated it since I thought it was of FL quality. The Ministry (talk) 14:44, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Quick comments This article is going to need a bigger lead. Also, I thought the book section was lacking, perhaps the original publishers of the books, and possibly a more specific publishing date could be added? -- Scorpion 0422  05:44, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Done The lead is somewhat longer to give some more context and I made more detail to the books and novels list. Of course, the intro could probably be better. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:10, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Support

See Talk:George Orwell bibliography/Comments for a simple list of all of the suggestions.

Comment According to the list, "War Commentary" #7 and "War Commentary" #8 were broadcast the same day; while perfectly possible, I just want to check that this is correct rather than a typo when writing the article. Nev1 (talk) 21:03, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:39, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments The article is a valuable contribution, but: --Peter cohen (talk) 14:08, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Surely the lead should mention that Orwell's real name was Eric Blair?
 * There are a lot of red links ot BBC Eastern Service. Is there a reason why you chose to link it more than once? I notice that the service is mentioned in connection with Orwell in BBC World Service. While the latter article could do with an improvement around this area, I think it would be useful to create a redirect to the World service under the name you use.
 * You mention six novels but this are not identified sepcifically. Form reading the subsection I wouldn't have immediately worked out that Burmese Days counted as one. I suggest you identify the novels explicitly.
 * The foot notes needing checking for notable people to link such as Scott Bradfield and John Freeman (politician). There may be others.


 * Oppose
 * Several uncited paragraphs and sections need references.
 * The ISBN's are ugly and hard to read when they are included in the prose.
 * In the full list of publications, what do the acronyms in the "Collected" column mean?
 * Does ref 3 really support the sentence it references?
 * Yes, I have now added page numbers. P. S. Burton  (talk)  11:18, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * What makes references 4 and 5 reliable?
 * If 4 is reliable, it needs a publisher.
 * I have replaced 5, with The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell. I can't find a publisher for 4, but I will continue searching. However, Peter Davison is the editor of the 20-volumes of The Complete Orwell and have written George Orwell: A Literary Life, published by Random House.  P. S. Burton  (talk)  11:27, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Refs 15 and 16 have really long quotes that I don't think are necessary. — Ed   (talk  •  majestic titan)  04:19, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the quotes are necessary, as the explain something that is quite complicated, and disputed. P. S. Burton  (talk)  11:30, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Status?Have Peter cohen's concerns been addressed, as well as the uncited section issue raised by the_ed17? Dabomb87 (talk) 15:56, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Response I have taken it upon myself to fix these errors, but I have been slack about doing so for the past couple of weeks. I will try to get to them tonight or tomorrow. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:23, 1 February 2010 (UTC)


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