Talk:Treasure Island

message: This entry incorrectly refers to the story paper serial edition in Young Folks as "The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys".  However, every installment of the serial story was published as "Treasure Island; or, The Mutiny of the Hispaniola" by "Captain George North."  The presence of this fundamental error on Wikipedia causes it to be repeated online and in print.  Here is a sample image from the first installment.  It was not colored as issued, some previous owner "enhanced" it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keeline (talk • contribs) 05:37, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I love your  storyline 27.123.137.139 (talk) 04:31, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Background

message: *The writing is not great. Some sentences accidentally state the wrong thing. 
*Main character descriptions were excessively long... I've fixed most of that.
*I cut the Minor Characters list. Statements about characters' natures and intentions etc were a bit subjective, nearly OR in some cases.
*Background section has confused chronology... it says Stevenson was working on "the first draft", before serialization, or during, or after for the novel.
*Lots of discussion of genres, fairly irrelevant once you've said what type of book this one is.
*Big lists of minor allusions to events/works tenuously connected. For a book like this the lists will never be definitive or complete.
*References in Popular Culture is laughably non-notable, it pretty much mentions any film in which someone says "treasure" or "island".
I will fix it all sooner or later, unless anyone objects! 😊 
twl_corinthian (talk) 10:46, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is oddly mostly not about the novel. Rather tangential and trivial database-like information. Only the "Inspiration" section is focused on the novel (excluding plot summary and list of characters because those are trivial). And the inspiration section contains a couple unsourced paragraphs that probably should be removed as OR. There's no analysis of the writing and themes and so on, barely anything about the publication history. How did we go 20+ years and end up with this bloated-but-empty article on such an important book. Compare with this version from 2007 which leads with a proper History section. It was mostly unsourced though. -- GreenC 15:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs work 

message: "Robert Louis Stevenson had set his classic novel Treasure Island in the towns of Birkenhead and Wallasey"
Is it ok to call something a "classic" as a factual statement in an encyclopedia? Isn't it more of a subjective thing rather than saying "it is widely regarded as a classic"? Is it against NPOV? I'm asking out of curiosity. Dornwald (talk) 01:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Classic" 

message: Some of the editions available on Amazon claim to be "The 1883 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations." I came here hoping to learn who the original illustrator was, or if the original edition was even illustrated. I see no mention of the illustrations. Does anyone know if the original edition had illustrations? If so, who was the illustrator? (The edition I referred to at the start has illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, who was born in 1882, so he couldn't have illustrated the 1883 edition.) MiguelMunoz (talk) 09:29, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrations