Talk:The Little Match Girl

message: I deleted the analysis sections because it wasn't scholarly - just someone's random opinion. (I also don't think it made sense - it talked about the story being mostly about rich versus poor, almost completely ignoring H.C. Andersens' religious message.) I also rewrote the plot synopsis to make it more accurate based on the original Danish. It now includes the positive (yes, positive!)last sentence of the story.
:I'm sorry then but I'm going to have to revert this. First of all, the plot synopsis is what it is: a synopsis. By moving it closer to the Andersen tale, you might as well could have copy-pasted the original text in there. We have Wikisource for that kind of thing. And as far as the analysis is concerned I disagree completely. By removing that content you've made yourself guilty of the very thing you accused the original editor of. It's not because YOU think an interpretation is wrong it should be deleted, and certainly not because you feel the religious message is being ignored (it was actually, clarified in the first few lines of the analysis). Whatever Andersen originally meant with his tale is interesting indeed but analysis doesn't stop at his own intentions. Whatever is there can be discussed. That is the true scholarly approach! --Steerpike 15:26, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay then for your synopsis but I'm still removing the first sentence. The title of the story is already made clear. It just looks odd to begin the text with. And I have absolutely no objections to the final sentence (or whether the tale ends on a grim or a hopeful note). I am well aware of the Christian themes in Andersen's stories, and I am not argueing they should be ignored, but I am argueing that analysis extends a whole lot further than that (the theme of rich vs. poor is definitely there). --Steerpike 10:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Analysis 

message: Thoughts people.  Taking a look at the external link, I think it definately should be there - especially since the author of the link took so much time to review this particular aspect of the "Hello Kitty" adaptation (going as far as to "kill" Hello Kitty" to keep the original ending).  If taken out, I think that some of the points from the review should be then be included in the article for "Little Match Girl" -- Thoughts all, please.
67.113.99.253 01:22, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link for 2005 Adaptation 

message: Someone (Mel Etitis) removed the analysis again. We've had this discussion before and I think it should stay. It's not original research at all in my opinion. You don't need scholarly sources to observe the story is about spirituality and poverty, but I'll try and reference it if it makes some people happy. Also, on a sidenote, someone added the sentence "click on the link below for the Wikisource text" in the plot synopsis. What was the point of that?? --Steerpike 11:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Read Wikipedia:Citations and Wikipedia:No original research.  This is extremely speculative, and gives no citations; it's quite clearly a personal essay. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 14:42, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Analysis again 

message: All, Where does one report this abusive, bullying behaviour of Mel to???  We need users link this locked out of Wikipedia!!!!!  67.113.99.253 19:43, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pointless personal attack

message: which fucking piece of shit reverted "In 2002, "Resurrection of the Little Match Girl", a South Korean action film directed by Jang Sun-woo was released."  into "" ??? --217.233.246.25 16:53, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  In 2002, "Resurrection of the Little Match Girl", a South Korean action film directed by Jang Sun-woo was released. 

message: I think there may have been a reference to The Little Match Girl in the Pokémon anime. In the episode Snow Way Out, Team Rocket try to keep warm by concentrating on a match and imagining themselves somewhere warm. --Wussycat 03:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible reference 

message: I painstakingly edited this section to make it more dramatic, so I hope you guys accept. What a beautiful and moving story - this kind of genius only comes once in awhile.--141.213.196.222 05:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A feel-good story about a poor hungry girl freezing to death. It's not beautiful. It's not moving. She has a halucination/vision and dies. If the words weren't pronouncable, I might have mistaken this for a Lovecraft story. Perhaps the purpose of the story is to make it easier for people to ignore poverty and homelessness - after all, they may freeze to death, but they get a nice halucination with it, and that makes it all 
better.--RLent (talk) 17:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I believe the story was done to show that poverty existed and that people shouldn't ignore it. Hans Christian Andersen was trying to tell a cautionary tale of lost and death but to still provide hope of an afterlife. --Pixarian (talk) 18:50, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

text: How strange are modernist viewpoints !  A Mr. Willingham in the article reworks her into a striving young woman, ' saving her pennies for a better future ', in a capitalist morality  ---- when a child like that, and millions of others needed to simply survive;  the user above blames the father for not going out working, which is extraneous to such tragedies which happened with horrible tedious mind-numbing repetition in every damn society, to both the honest hard workers and the shiftless.  Not the fault of the type of societies, political or religious or how organized, since it happened in all, nor of economics   ---  but mainly because there wasn't any mechanism to provide even the basics to those in need, nor any preventative means to ensure they didn't go further into poverty.
And because many didn't care. Claverhouse (talk) 21:35, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot synopsis

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 14:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I move the second paragraph in the sources section be removed. The Star Taler is not an obvious reference (the core message isn't even the same) and without a citation showing some evidence of it being Anderson's inspiration, it feels like personal speculation at best.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.237.245 (talk) 05:14, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources

message: At the end of the plot summary, I see, "Andersen intended this to be a happy ending", but there's no citation for that or the rest of the paragraph.  Should that be removed? Jered (talk) 07:33, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary 

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message: too many references, a large chunk of them anime? feel like there isnt enough info on the history and publication of the story 70.59.88.20 (talk) 00:49, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird Article