Talk:Bob Cratchit

message: Perchance does Bob Cratchit's wife have a name? I've never been able to find one and it's been a frequent discussion point among colleagues. 192.240.80.230 (talk) 06:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In the article text, it says he has an unnamed son and an unnamed daughter, but in the infobox to the side, it says two unnamed daughters.  Which is it?  70.247.11.215 (talk) 04:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnamed children 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I am unsure if the statement that 180 pence =  £63.00 is accurate on the article.
According to this calculator, it's £432.56 ($578.60 in the same statement, not $94)
http://www.concertina.com/calculator/
Anyone know if the above is more accurate and therefore should be updated on the article? I didn't want to update until I could get some confirmation that the calculation is correct.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wardenari (talk • contribs) 04:32, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calculations for earnings 

message: Is there a reference to Bob being 30 years old?  It seems odd to me, given that his daughter Martha is old enough to work and live on her own (as an apprentice to a milliner) and his son Peter is big enough to wear his father's clothes.
23.17.81.202 (talk) 05:27, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Apprenticeship could start at single digit ages and lodging with the master was often a standard part of the indenture, so Martha needn't be all that old. 51.6.242.184 (talk) 01:08, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bob's age 

message: My search reveals some promising snippets that I don't have access to, such as in here. Add to this two books that may have some usable content (unless they are just pure novels): The Haunting of Bob Cratchit and The Life and Times of Bob Cratchit (lulu.com red flag...), and what possibly could be a dissertation titled The Building and Performing of a Character, Bob Cratchit, none of which I can access, however. Likewise, I can't access this academic article: , nor this. Oh, and I did skim through this book chapter, but I don't think that's SIGCOV on the character... Bottom line, after half an hour of BEFORE, sadly I couldn't extract anything usable outside plot summaries. There is also the issue of Bob's story being overshadowed by that of his son (Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)) or entire family in the context of the Ghost of Christmas Present "arc", and hence, consideration of redirect/merger (since both of the linked articles are much better developed and referenced). I'd like to see this saved (I expected there'd be some coverage of this character from the literature on Victorian-era lower classes or such), but I am struggling. This is one of those hard cases where I may need help from others. Ping User:Uncle G, User:Daranios, User:ReaderofthePack. Can anyone find something to add a reception/significance section and save this from AfD? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:09, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: *Even then I think we should limit the notable performers to those with ample coverage of the performance. We don't really need to have a huge list of performances. I know lists have value, but I don't want it to be the majority of the page. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:53, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: *Would this be of help? The Cratchit family does have it's own entry in Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, p. 280-281, if a short one. Daranios (talk) 15:09, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

text: *:@DaraniosThe first size seems like a guide for younger students. It's not very in depth but it does contain a sentence or two of analysis. If we treat it as a more reliable (BBC-affilated) Sparknotes, Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources suggests we can use it, but with a caution (no consensus: " usable for superficial analyses of literature, and recommend supplementing SparkNotes citations with additional sources"). The MW EoL entry is very disappointing, it's just two sentence long plot summary with no analysis, it's just states they are characters in the story and lists the members of the family.  @ReaderofthePack I am fine with having an article on the family, although I am so far not seeing sources for that either. Any chance you could link them or try to rewrite this? And yes, I agree the list of performances is terrible (unreferenced, editorialized trivia - notable performances according to whom?) and should be removed. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:45, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: *The MW article, with all due critizism for it's limited scope, does describe the family in a number of adjectives (which I can no longer see in the preview now). I'd see that as characterization rather than plot-summary, but that may be a matter of point of view. Here is another fringe case to discuss: This mostly talks about images of Bob Cratchit. So does it help? Anyways it does have one relevant snippet of commentary: "...realised how important to the story at so many levels are Bob Cratchit as Scrooge's foil (a devoted father and supportive husband)...". Daranios (talk) 10:52, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability?