Talk:The Diary of Miss Idilia

message: The story of Idilia Dubb is just fiction, created in Sweden just a few years ago. There exists no such diary of any Idilia Dubb.
Carl-Henrik Berg
carl-henrik.berg@telia.com
Sweden
this statement is wrong. this legend dates back much longer. it was published in a german newspaper in 1860. for a long time it was believed to be true. however a close examination of the diary found many historical inconsistencies.--Tresckow 15:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: I’ve made several edits to this page to resolve some of the issues:
===Moving the article from ‘Idilia Dubb’ to ‘The diary of Miss Idilia’ ===
There are no reliable secondary sources that relate to this person. For example:
*Search of British Newspaper Archives October 2018 for ‘Idilia Dubb’ – no results
*Search for Newspapers.com October 2018 for ‘Idilia Dubb’ – no results (this includes the Times, which one of the apparent German newspaper articles online claims to have reported to story). 
*Search for Google Books October 2018 for ‘Idilia Dubb’ – just brings up different language versions of the published ‘diary’ 
*Google search brings up no reputable sources, just blogs, records of the books, and the Spectator review. 
Idilia does not meet notable person requirements, and in the spirit of 'cover the event not the person', I have changed this article to about the book. 
This book doesn’t really meet notability requirements, but this story seems so widespread I think there needs to be something on Wikipedia. 
===Removing the image of the ‘diary’ ===
The source for this image was a dead/broken link, and there was not enough source information. I cannot track down any origin or this picture, or even confirm that the diary exists. 
I work as a museum curator who often deals with Victorian handwriting, and the handwriting on the document in the photograph was suspiciously modern. I would be wary of using this without reliable source information. 
===Help needed with citations ===
Could someone please track down the following articles? This could verify how old the story is. 
These are listed on https://web.archive.org/web/20090723042834/http://de.geocities.com/Idilia_dubb/wochenblatt.html 
*Sunday 26 October, 1863 in the "Adenauer Kreis- und Wochenblatt" (No. 43)
*Sunday, November 2, 1863 in the "Adenauer Kreis- und Wochenblatt" (No. 44)
OddElly311 (talk) 15:46, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Accuracy and Citations 

message: Could someone please track down the following articles? This could verify how old the story is. 
These are listed on https://web.archive.org/web/20090723042834/http://de.geocities.com/Idilia_dubb/wochenblatt.html 
*Sunday 26 October, 1863 in the "Adenauer Kreis- und Wochenblatt" (No. 43)
*Sunday, November 2, 1863 in the "Adenauer Kreis- und Wochenblatt" (No. 44)
OddElly311 (talk) 15:46, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Help needed with citations