Wikipedia!
Apr. 2nd, 2023 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeAs promised, here is D. K. Broster's article with an infobox and picture added (I went with photo 2 in the end, which won the poll and was also my favourite).
And here is a brand new shiny article for The Flight of the Heron! I am very pleased with this; writing this article has been an excellent opportunity to do some detailed research about the book and its history, and I hope that having the information nice and accessible on Wikipedia will bring more people's attention to this wonderful book.
I have turned up various interesting and amusing things while doing the research for the FotH article, and I'll probably make another post or two about these soon.
By far the hardest part of the article to write was the 'Themes' section, because of course if you ask me to write about the themes of my favourite book I will naturally try to bring in my own thoughts and judgements about it, but everything on Wikipedia has to be clearly linked to a cited source—'original research' is not allowed. Turns out there has been a decent amount of sensible stuff written about the themes of FotH, but arranging it all was a good challenge.
If there's anything there that's wrong, missing or if you have another fact that simply must be added, please go and edit it in! One important thing I haven't included is a picture; the main picture in a book's article is supposed to be the cover of the most significant edition, usually the first edition, but the first edition of FotH has a plain cloth cover and I'm not sure what else to do (besides just using the title page, which is a bit boring). Does anyone have a significantly early edition with some nice cover art that you'd like to use?
“Mr Rowl” already has an article (although the title is wrong; I mean to fix that at some point), so perhaps I'll do The Wounded Name next. :D
And here is a brand new shiny article for The Flight of the Heron! I am very pleased with this; writing this article has been an excellent opportunity to do some detailed research about the book and its history, and I hope that having the information nice and accessible on Wikipedia will bring more people's attention to this wonderful book.
I have turned up various interesting and amusing things while doing the research for the FotH article, and I'll probably make another post or two about these soon.
By far the hardest part of the article to write was the 'Themes' section, because of course if you ask me to write about the themes of my favourite book I will naturally try to bring in my own thoughts and judgements about it, but everything on Wikipedia has to be clearly linked to a cited source—'original research' is not allowed. Turns out there has been a decent amount of sensible stuff written about the themes of FotH, but arranging it all was a good challenge.
If there's anything there that's wrong, missing or if you have another fact that simply must be added, please go and edit it in! One important thing I haven't included is a picture; the main picture in a book's article is supposed to be the cover of the most significant edition, usually the first edition, but the first edition of FotH has a plain cloth cover and I'm not sure what else to do (besides just using the title page, which is a bit boring). Does anyone have a significantly early edition with some nice cover art that you'd like to use?
“Mr Rowl” already has an article (although the title is wrong; I mean to fix that at some point), so perhaps I'll do The Wounded Name next. :D
