Talk:D'Arcy Wentworth

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 07:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Ken, Can someone please review the 'Private Life' section, in particular about Jane Austen as I can find no source to support this. Roy Scherer (talk) 23:11, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Oh, didn't notice I'd made a typo! - Ta bu shi da yu 13:14, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: If anybody reads this. My name is Steve Sinnamon. 
My grandmother died a few years back, and it was there at the funeral I found out why Wentworth is still to this day a traditional family name being passed down with every generation. My 7 year old nephew is named Seth Wentworth Sinnamon, my brother is named Gary, Wentworth Sinnamon and my uncle is simply Wentworth Sinnamon and so on and so on. 
Our family are still here in Portadown. If any of my Australian family ever sees this please get in touch. It
Would be wonderful to hear from yous. The tradition of keeping the Wentworth name was silly to me as a kid,
But having grown up and now learned the story and history I’m so pleased, and proud that the name lives on after what is around 300 years!! Our relatives must have been something special! 
 My email address is sinny1977@gmail.com  Simmamon (talk) 06:02, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wentworths family. 

message: It appears that the ISBN for the book listed as a reference for the Jane Austen portions of the article is malformed (? I'm not an expert at this, but it doesn't work on most of the sites I tried) but is intended to reference this book: https://www.worldcat.org/title/jane-austen-darcy-wentworth-vol-1-folly-is-not-always-folly/oclc/968703249&referer=brief_results  The cited webpage appears to be by the same author as the book, and both contain a great deal of content that falls well outside of mainstream Jane Austen scholarship. In good faith, I'm inclined to believe that both sources are intended as fiction and that someone mistakenly cited them here as fact. At any rate, the sources don't seem to fall under Wikipedia's criteria for reliable sources, especially since all the information in question comes from the same source with no peer review, and runs counter to the mainstream. Unfortunately I'm unable to attest to any of the rest of the article, which very well may have similar problems.
    The article states that D'arcy and Jane were married at Gretna Green in September 1789. What documentary evidence is there for this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plerdsus (talk • contribs) 05:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: That Austen content is obvious fiction.  I'm moving it here, as it is entertaining but can't stay in the article.  There may be some fact in it but I am not making an effort to determine what it may be.  Zaslav (talk) 03:47, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jane Austen fiction/conspiracy posting 

message: May I suggest those who persistently vandalise this site and authors of the fiction/conspiracy posts read the sources listed in the references. They can be found on Amazon and in a range of libraries, national, university and local, around the UK, in other English-speaking countries and non-English ones such as Japan and Brazil. DetachedPeices (talk) 13:17, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism on this site 

message: "Anybody who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of two facts: first, that of all the great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts." Virginia Woolf, "Jane Austen at Sixty," Nation and Athenaeum, 34, 1923, page 433-4. DetachedPeices (talk) 13:26, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A word to the vandals 

message: Quite apart from all the Austen-related edit warring, this article needs a major general cleanup. The prose is bordering on purple in places, there is a lot of irrelevant content that has nothing to do with Wentworth (e.g. the first three paragraphs of the Governor Darling section don't have anything to do with him at all), and to be quite honest the bits about his relationship with Macquarie read more like fanfiction than an encyclopedia. Wentworth was an interesting character who ought to have a good article about him, but this ain't it. 81.174.149.183 (talk) 14:44, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: My I suggest to the cabal that routinely deletes sections of this article that they read the sources referenced in the footnotes before declaring them and the article unreliable. DetachedPeices (talk) 10:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've read it. It's nonsense. 81.174.149.183 (talk) 19:03, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the 'it" you have read 81.174.149.183? DetachedPeices (talk) 04:56, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

text: To be honest it looks as though the entire section on Wentworth's public life in Australia could do with pruning - about half of it seems to be irrelevant to Wentworth! Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 09:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This needs a major cleanup