Talk:Five Little Pigs

message: My book has the name as "Crale". Frickeg 08:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: October 2007

message: Can you explain the "spoiler" to the peop`le who want to read and enjoy the book?? I put my solution but it is not the best of solution.--Ciberprofe (talk) 14:27, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoiler 

message: We really need an image which shows the true title of the story as given by Ms Christie, rather than the title invented by its US publishers.Gymnophoria (talk) 19:43, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect title image 

message: is simply a collection of various critics' opinions about the book with no unifying context given. The aforementioned critics are all primary sources for such material – what's needed are secondary and tertiary sources that summarize these various opinions and provide context, to keep the article from becoming simply a collection of trivia. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 13:34, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are the Wikipedia sections on secondary WP:SECONDARY and tertiary WP:TERTIARY sources. The newspaper review articles are secondary sources. - - Prairieplant (talk) 19:30, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree. Per WP:PSTS:  Book reviews are not the same as scientific review articles, which are secondary sources. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 21:26, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

text:  Reviews of books in newspapers and magazines are the most frequent sources of notability used in Wikipedia articles about the books, including novels. I am not sure what is meant by "strong reviews". The reviews are not editorials in those newspapers or magazines. If you can find books written about a novel, like books written about Little Women by Louisa May Alcott or in-depth analysis of the novels by Charles Dickens or Jane Austen, then those are fine additions to an article about a novel that has had more written about it over the years. Much has been written about Agatha Christie; some of her books have more than newspaper book reviews written about them (see a recent article by Stott and Yaseen, from 2016, about The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie, added as an External link to the article). I find the newspaper reviews as adequate evidence of notability of a novel. When you can find more written about a novel, do include it. Your larger complaint is probably best taken up at a higher level of Wikipedia, rather than the talk page for just one of the many novels by one author, Agatha Christie. - - Prairieplant (talk) 06:27, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Primary sources

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message: I had removed the word "murderer" from Elsa Greer's entry in the cast list and I was reverted. I think the word should not be there.
Firstly, in terms of the plot, when Greer says to Poirot "... it is only your word against mine", he says "Exactly." And, in regard to a possible case against her, he says "in my opinion there is not sufficient evidence – there are only inferences, not facts." He also thinks the authorities would not be anxious to prosecute the wife of a lord (and, WP:OR, to have to concede there had previously been a serious miscarriage of justice). Then, while alone with Poirot, she confesses to him. As the book ends Caroline is still, in law, the murderer. But I mustn't be too prissy – these are not real people and this is certainly not a BLP.
But I also have sympathy with the request above to remove the word from the cast list. The plot section itself explains the situation nicely, I think, and "spoils" the plot as is Wikipedia's custom. I am not suggesting that should be changed but there is no need to include an inadequate comment in the cast list as well.  Thincat (talk) 12:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted that. Many of the character lists for articles about novels by Agatha Christie identify the victims and the murderer(s). The entire article discusses the entire novel, and Wikipedia does not use the spoiler concept for that reason. These are not blurbs by a publisher or teasers for a movie, but articles to discuss the whole story. Her novels rarely take a case all the way to a court decision. It is more often what is revealed by her detective, so Poirot saying there might not be enough for a court does not really matter as to identifying the killer. Of course, Poirot considers his word to be worth more than anyone else's word, in these novels! If you simply want to see characters named, with no description, there are some blogs that do that for Agatha Christie novels. Cast lists for adaptations do not describe the character; rather their focus is on naming who played the role. --Prairieplant (talk) 17:32, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saying  in the cast list that Elsa Greer is a murderer