Talk:The Sorrows of Young Werther

message: :German Wikipedia settles it: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Leiden_des_jungen_Werthers Softlavender (talk) 04:51, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And if that doesn't settle it, see the title on the original edition of the book in this pic here: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bild:-1-_Die_Leiden_des_jungen_Werthers._Erstdruck_.jpg&filetimestamp=20070522140159 68.73.114.58 (talk) 09:47, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct title

message: Shouldn't someone also mention that this is the classic definition of a Bildungsroman?  It is possibly the originating example of such a genre.
:Werther isn't the classic definition of a Bildungsroman. That's another novel by Goethe: Wilhelm Meister. --Folantin 10:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe not the classic definition, but belongs in the category--Declan Clam (talk) 20:53, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bildingsroman?

message: What is that AWFUL book-cover? Is that the only English-language edition available? That cover looks about as much like Werther as Don Johnson looks like Dakota Fanning. Could you please use another book cover, or another image altogether, or no image at all? ~ Softlavender
:I very much second that. That cover is ugly and should be replaced.--Svetovid 12:17, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second that as well. But I think, from looking around that it's the only large picture available. All the other ones are very small that I've seen. The copy I have also contains Novella, so I don't think that would be acceptable. That would be  Millancad 11:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Oh, I also do just love this cover,  (treally wish I'd bought that translation). But I don't know of it's a bit too modern or risque. Millancad 11:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Awful book cover

message: A copy of Frankenstein I currently own refers to Werther as Werter (without the h).  Is this true for the original text (Frankenstein) in general?  If so, should the misspelling be pointed out in this article? I.M.Fearless 19:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No; irrelevant. Softlavender (talk) 04:51, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Frankenstein

message: One of the recent edits to the plot summary sounds confused and is full of errors.  It's kind of funny, but it should probably be checked for accuracy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.44.126.218 (talk) 17:39, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I also have nominated the article for peer review. ɱўɭĩєWhat did I dowrong 20:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary 

message: i think there are some statements which need a clear citing of their sources in the form of <reference> </reference> IleanaCosanziana 22:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was  looking to do that, but I don't really know how to refrence, so I just put the refrences at the bottom. Millancad 23:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Werther cover.jpg

message: German Wikipedia settles it:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Leiden_des_jungen_Werthers  Softlavender (talk) 04:51, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The "s" belongs in the title

message: Someone should grab the picture used on the German version of this article and use it here.
See here: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bild:-1-_Die_Leiden_des_jungen_Werthers._Erstdruck_.jpg&filetimestamp=20070522140159
68.73.114.58 (talk) 07:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: The article doesn't mention how many copycat suicides The Sorrows of Young Werther triggered. Neither does the Copycat Suicides article that's referenced. This seems like a pretty important omission to me, but I don't know the answer. Was it 10, 50, 100?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbkmwj (talk • contribs) 20:13, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: 57 is the generally agreed-upon number of copycat suicides, though some suggest 83.--Wetman (talk) 15:42, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many suicides? 

message: Is it worth adding a reference to "Werther de Goethe", a character in Michael Moorcock's "Dancers at the End of Time" series? The character is a blatant and very funny send-up. --90.208.123.231 (talk) 11:08, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moorcock's take 

message: If "the clothing style described for Werther " were actually described, readers might identify it in contemporary portraits etc, when they see it.  That would be informative.--Wetman (talk) 15:40, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  the clothing style described for Werther  

message: The External Links section currently lists two services (well, the same service, in both English and German) that claim to email Werther's letters to your inbox. I signed up for the English language version in March and still haven't received anything (even on the letter-a-day plan). Those pages look pretty old. Any objections to taking down those links?
I think we could replace them with What Werther Went Through, which actually does provide that service (and more). It's an adaptation into 21st century 20-something English, publishing Werther's letters in 'real-time' from May 2014 to Dec 2015, posting on the blog linked above and via email. It does the personalized name trick too that the old links claimed to do. Any objections to adding that in? It could plausibly be added to the list of Alternative Versions, too. Thoughts?
Ajrpb (talk) 15:48, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Werther in your inbox 

message: The Wiki article implies strongly that Charlotte simply lived on after Werther's suicide.
But the book seems to imply strongly that Charlotte died, of a broken heart:  'I shall say nothing of ... Charlotte's grief. ... Charlotte's life was despaired of.'  (That's the Boylan translation.)
Thoughts?
Bo99 (talk) 00:22, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, the issue is resolved.  The editor Bmcln1 made the change i suggested above.  Bo99 (talk) 17:38, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charlotte lived on after Werther? 

message: "remains the best known of his works" - Who wrote that? I find this assertion absurd, given the ubiquity of Goethe's "Faust". Of "Werther" people know that it exists, and some may have read it in school.  "Faust" they can quote whole passages of. Of Faust, many quotes and expressions made it into common language. "Faust" is Goethe's defining legacy. "Werther" is a book he wrote. Wefa (talk) 14:59, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The statement is cited, twice, in the article; so the authors of the cited works are, hopefully, who wrote it. --Xover (talk) 19:17, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL. Yeah, thanks. Consider my remark a figure of speech. That claim may have been printed in a book - but it is still an brazen and impertinent lie about an obscure fact. It shouldn't be here. While I do understand how Wikipedia sourcing work, we should not use the process as excuse to write something  we know to be false. Wefa (talk) 21:09, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't my field so I can't tell whether the statement is obviously true, obviously false, or a nuanced one. Which is, of course, why we rely on the secondary sources for such judgement. My point is that if you think it is inaccurate, the first step is to go check the cited sources to see if our text accurately reflect what they say. Then evaluate those sources for general reliability (are the authors experts in a relevant field? Is the book/article published on some reputable imprint, preferably with peer review?). And if that still does not resolve it then survey the field to see whether the cited sources are in fact representative of the general opinion among the relevant experts.There's an old adage on Wikipedia (depending on how active you've been since 2004, you may or may not be familiar with it), now out of favour for various reasons, that "Verifiability, not truth, is the criteria for inclusion on Wikipedia". It needs to be applied with sound judgement, of course, but as a framing for how to approach such matters it is quite useful. In my experience, approaching such issues from a source review usually makes the solution obvious.In this case, the text and sources in question was added by  in 2013, at which point it read "… this book was the most known …" (my emphasis). The change to "… remains …" was made by  in this edit in 2015 during general cleanup of the article. Perhaps they could chime in here? --Xover (talk) 05:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, sorry, misclick. However, please ANSWER your questions, with references. If unable, please remove the statements concerned from the article. Bmcln1 (talk) 14:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I take it then that there would be no objection to at least change the phrasing back to "… was …". Having now checked the two cited sources they are actually only speaking of its reception in Goethe's lifetime, not modern popularity or critical appraisal. I was going to check the Cambridge Companion to Goethe, but I don't have access to that particular volume online for some reason. I did however notice in the table of contents that the only actual work mentioned in a chapter title is Faust. While not in itself in any way conclusive, it does give a hint that the secondary sources tend to agree with Wefa's position on this point. --Xover (talk) 17:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Absent objections, I have changed the sentence to use "… was …" to avoid giving the impression that it addresses modern critical assessment and to better reflect the cited sources. --Xover (talk) 09:56, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "remains the best known of his works"