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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:27, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
MLH3 Possible Edits
editIn general, the article seems under-cited, for example, the "development" section has only one citation. Also, the "Major Themes" section seems underdeveloped; I am not sure readers are going to know what "Social criticism (comedy of manners)" means, maybe explain it or delete it? In addition, this section has periods for the bulleted points, but since they aren't sentences, I am not sure why the person who wrote this would use periods. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mlh3 (talk • contribs) 16:08, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for this Peer Review. I definitely agree that the article, as a whole, is lacking citations. I have built up a reasonable list of sources to hopefully provide more citations to this article, as well as provide new information to add significant changes to certain areas, "Major Themes" in particular, as you have pointed out. There are also grammar errors, like you note regarding the periods/bullet points, which I will address to. My plan is to first add more detail and information, and then focus on the grammatical and stylistic necessary changes. Thank you for this advice!Migottlieb (talk) 18:41, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
KBurton Peer Review
editThere are two students who have been editing this article and I am not sure who did what edits, so this review applies to the entire article rather than individual editors. I had also done a review prior to deciding on which Jane Austen page I would work on, so I used this to compare changes. In general, I think the changes are beneficial and have significantly improved the overall article, but I have some concerns and there are additional sections that appear in other Jane Austen articles on her novels that could have been added. Specific comments:
- The areas I had noted in my initial review that were underdeveloped have been addressed. Those were “Major Themes” and “Allusions to other works.” The section “Development” that had been in the original page has been absorbed into the remaining sections.
- Other Jane Austen novel Wikipedia pages have sections for “Reception” and “Publication History” and “Criticism”. There is information in the existing sections concerning these topics, so sections could have been created that might reduce the size of the existing sections, making the entire article more readable.
- I noted in my original comments that this article seemed to be under-cited. That concern has been addressed, but I have some concerns about some of the references used for this article. Three of the references (Sparknotes, shmoop, and Gradesaver) are not considered scholarly references and could be challenged from a number of different perspectives. Jkburton (talk) 14:43, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kathy, Thanks for this Peer Review. I appreciate your feedback, and I agree with the notes you made about the original underdevelopment of several sections (which I tried to merge together or dissolve during my edits). I also tried to add some more scholarly citations, but you raise an interesting point about the rather non scholarly sources. I am curious if other Wiki pages have those sources, and if Wikipedia considers them as reliable sources. Overall, you bring up a lot of valuable points, and I think with even more work, this page will continue to get better and better.Migottlieb (talk) 19:29, 27 November 2017 (UTC)