Talk:Madeleine L'Engle

message: For the biography of a woman who devoted so much of her life to the practice and pedagogy of writing, this article is full of bizarro sentences.  Someone with strong editorial skills needs to do something about the many active/passive voice issues; run-on sentences; and widespread comma frenzy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.163.238.118 (talk) 07:15, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: awkward phrasing throughout

message: "It is sometimes ambiguous whether Meg ... has also acquired her Ph.D."
Odd statement. Are there other times when it's unambiguously stated one way or the other?  --wwoods 06:47, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Meg's Ph.D?

message: I switched out the picture on this page. The one that was previously here wasn't tagged, and may be deleted. I went and found a publicity picture used on her page at WaterBrook Press. If the first picture doesn't get deleted, it's the better one, and should probably be incorporated into the article. -Tim Rhymeless  (Er...let's shimmy) 06:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: "The questions that she raises engage the thoughtful reader."  What exactly does that mean?  Oswald Glinkmeyer 00:08, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, whatever it means, it's original research, unless that sentence and the sentence before it are rephrased as "Though her work all addresses issues of faith, critics and reviewers have noted that her work is more about raising questions of belief and faith than about promoting dogma. Citation".  I'll delete it, and someone can restore it if they feel like finding a supporting source. Deborah-jl Talk 00:28, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My initial impression is that the sentence is what used to be called a "throwaway sentence." In this case a sentence that can generally be said about most decent writing.  Without making a connection either to some outside source or being better woven into the thread, it doesn't really have much meaning and does not add to the information in the article.  Sort of like saying in a Shakespeare entry, "His plays are interesting for those who watch them."  That may be true, but what does it add to the article?  Not much.  Deletion is the best route until it can be re-thought. Oswald Glinkmeyer 02:57, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning?

message: That's some good bio information that's been added.  Is there a reference we can cite for it? Deborah-jl Talk 13:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: biography source

message: I note with some concern a recent edit to the intro, removing a reference to Christian beliefs in L'Engle's work.  Is there a good reason not to revert on this?  Although L'Engle has disputed the label "Christian writer," it seems disingenuous to ignore this aspect of both her fiction and nonfiction.  On the other hand, the fiction isn't all that obvious about this--well, maybe. Has anybody a good argument one way or the other? 
Karen 08:57, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Christian beliefs" reference

message: Anyone know? Mike 7 08:04, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The name L'Engle comes from a maternal great-grandmother, who was born Madeleine Saunders in Charleston, S.C., and spent part of her childhood in Spain while her father was ambassador there.  She married "a young army surgeon," William Johnson L'Engle.  The surname is French, but ML'E's maternal forbears seem to all be old Southern families. (This is all from her book The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, .)  I don't recall reading anything about the Camp side of the family.  Most of L'Engle's work reflects her years in New York, Europe, South Carolina, Connecticut and Florida, and stories of ancestors in those same places. Karen | Talk | contribs 00:15, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I made the French assumption by the last name, though it appears that portion of her ancestry is not very large. Mike 7 02:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heritage? 

message: I'm going to add inline cites now in response to someone's request, but I warn you now that it's going to look ridiculous. Every sentence in the bio sections can be tied to A Circle of Quiet, Suncatcher, various online bios or, in most cases, all of the above.  Do I sprinkle little ref numbers at the end of each sentence?  Each paragraph?  Do I list pages 2, 5, 17-36, 151, 153, 155, 201 and 237 (for example), or just the whole book?  The thing is, all this has been mentioned many times in L'Engle's own writing, and in writings about her. I will do my best to make it work, but I welcome others to come along and make it work better. -- Karen | Talk | contribs 08:30, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg

message: Is the book notable enough for a stand alone article? Jcmiller1215 (talk) 20:44, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Since that article has stood at only a single sentence for over a year, I've merged it. But if it's notable enough for its own article, it's fine for someone to recreate the article later. --Delirium (talk) 11:35, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[The Summer of the Great-grandmother]] 

message: I think someone should find a place for L'Engle's notorious demand during the sale of the film rights to A Wrinkle in Time" where she keeps the rights for Pluto and the Crab Nebula, which almost crashed the whole dealEricl (talk) 15:15, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pluto and the Crab Nebula 

message: Your tag says the lede needs expanding to cover all the main points of the article. I see it the other way round. I think the article is over-long and rambling, and that the present lede provides an adequate summary. Valetude (talk) 23:53, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanding of lede 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: In the "Awards, honors, and organizations" section  (as on 2018Apr09), the "Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Association" is linked to the American Association baseball league and the Margaret A. Edwards Award is linked to the Margaret A. Edwards Award that is given by the American Library Association. I suspect that this is an error.  - 198.103.161.1 (talk) 14:56, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong link

message: While L’Engle did write a large body of young adult fiction, the lead should also include reference to her adult fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The popularity of the Wrinkle series does warrant mention in the lead, but she wrote prolifically across genres, as the bibliographic overview and selected works sections show. ScoutHarris (talk) 03:10, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I made this update. Thanks! ScoutHarris (talk) 23:06, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification as young adult author in lead 

message: I reorganized a few of the sections in a way that (I believe) improves the flow of the article.ScoutHarris (talk) 23:17, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization