Talk:The House of the Spirits

message: Is it necessary to have analyses of the characters in this novel? Should we try to work it into a plot summary of the book instead? The summary reads like an overview of the book and its themes, and the actualy summary is hidden in the character list now. I'll work around this... Hurrah 05:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot/characters

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--124.177.229.59 06:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Please transfer to previous version

message: :(I added this subhead and brought the discussion to the bottom of the page.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 01:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely.  Surely for important pages, it's even more essential that the article about them doesn't suck!  If this page doesn't improve, it fully deserves to go.  Then perhaps later someone can start again with a better effort that actually follows Wikipedia guidelines.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 01:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Jbmurray, this seems more like an impulsive delete to me. At the very least, the article should be kept as a stub, but not deleted. The book is significant in many school curricula and has been a a significant contribution to Latin American literature. In any case, I will be reworking this article to revoke the deletion status. Soggybread 21:23, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing impulsive about the delete suggestion.  I'd be delighted if you (or anyone else) were to upgrade the article in line with Wikipedia guidelines and with what one would expect of an encyclopedia.  For a model article, you could do worse than look for instance at The Well of Loneliness.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  At the very least, five seconds deleting the plot summary would have given you a perfectly good stub, much better than deleting the whole thing.--Prosfilaes 20:43, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The PROD stirred Soggybread to work significantly on improving the article, which seems a better result altogether.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 00:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think threatening volunteers with the deletion of their work is appropriate; they aren't here to work at your beck and call.--Prosfilaes 08:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can you name the volunteers who were threatened?!  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 10:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can't you just look at the article history and see which volunteers you threatened to delete the work of?--Prosfilaes 14:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  deleting "important novel" 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Houseofthesprirts.jpg

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message: On the article header, it says:
"The story is told mainly from the perspective of two protagonists (Esteban and Alba)"
The fact that it is Alba who is telling the story is deliberately concealed by the author until late in the book, which is why I think this information is a spoiler, and therefore shouldn't appear so soon (or at all) in the article.
200.140.82.71 (talk) 03:58, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoiler

message: The article claims to include a direct quotation from this web page, but it's actually only a paraphrase. Or, perhaps, the web page has changed since the text was copied. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:56, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 8 quotation 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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