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Change the spelling in on the word realise to realize, the spelling is incorrect. It is located in the last sentence of the Plot Summary. 24.119.34.33 ( talk) 01:01, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
It's not really important, but in the description of Clover, Boxer is referred to as a female. Someone change it?
Clover is the mother of Molly Ianpiano2 ( talk) 14:44, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
In the current Peer Review, one editor wrote, "The citation styles used are a total mishmash. Pick one style and stick with it". I propose standardizing the system in the same manner as Aristotle. I will happily do so a couple weeks from now, unless others have persuasive arguments against it... ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 16:02, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
All that WP:LISTy "In Popular Culture" effluvia can be summarized in a sentence or two without ever mentioning any of the overflowing WP:TRIVIA. There are other lists, too, that need to go... I'll put that on my list (pun intended) of things to do. This article is in need of Major (pun intended) renovation/help. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 00:34, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Animal Farm 2 by Vladimir Pribylovsky (a Russian political and translator of the original book), where the future of the Soviet Union is shown. It's not just "LENIN, STALIN, AND THE END Of EVIL COMMUNISM" like all you Americans think. No, the USSR has a big history and it shows what happened later. It is on Orwell's site. http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/russian/rzf2_vp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.164.155.113 ( talk) 11:14, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
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In section 2.2 titled "Humans" in the first bullet titled "Mr. Jones" the last sentence states "The animals' revolt after Jones drinks so much he does not care for the animals." I believe that the apostrophe after the word "animals" should be removed for no possessiveness is being shown. Polobu ( talk) 22:19, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
I plan on adding a Genre/Style section to more accurately correspond with Wikipedia's guidelines for articles. Similarly, I plan on restructuring the article to form a Background section, which will largely combine information from other sections while also introducing new concepts. Furthermore, I plan on adding to the analysis section because I feel that it lacks any discussion of the challenges to Animal Farm that have existed in school/academic settings around the world. I would also like to introduce more citations because I feel that much of the article's content goes widely unreferenced, even if the information is factually true. Flip Deciantis ( talk) 21:17, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
This article explores the possible influence on “Animal Farm” of a forgotten Renaissance poem about pigs at war with each other. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/12/professor-publishes-placentius-pugnacious-pig-poem — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amorsui ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
I think it is important to correct the number of pages. The fact is that UK paperback edition has just 112 pages, but almost every other english edition has 130 - 150 pages. It will be good to point it out or remove that kind of information at all. This is maybe just my opinion. Thank you! Anapimpili ( talk) 11:19, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
How strange that this book is so similar to the book „Revolt” written by the famous Noble-prize winning Polish writer Wladyslaw Reymont. Reymont wrote his book twenty years earlier and it was issued in book form in 1924. It was translated and issued in the different languages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.192.42.105 ( talk) 03:23, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Reymont’s book is also about animal rebellion and is also based on the Russian revolution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.192.42.105 ( talk) 03:33, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
From the CIA’s “Director’s log” ( https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/1951-09-01.pdf) p197, November 19, 1951:
Might serve as a more concrete complement to the vague anecdote from The American Spectator about balloon drops over Poland.
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Netflix purchased rights to Andy Serkis' adaptation of the novel in 2018. [1] [2] [3] 45.72.233.100 ( talk) 12:49, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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There is only one source which is not a super reliable source, however, I found multiple other sources mentioning this operation, but none of them show that animal farm was sent into the countries, but the book Doctor Zhivago was sent.
Here is a reddit article that kind of adds to what I’m saying https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/eppc9s/from_1952_to_1957_the_cia_carried_out_operation/
Note: Sorry if I formatted this post wrong this is my first time doing this Shadowrvn728 ( talk) 16:02, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Edit: Sorry, I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to edit but I just saw a previous post that answered my request Shadowrvn728 ( talk) 16:07, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
I should have mentioned in this [1] edit wrt near-destruction of the manuscript that the source [2] uses the wording "destroyed" and not "hit". Go ahead and keep/change/re-source as you think is appropriate. Ideolomeme ( talk) 22:06, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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the animal farm was created by bill nockers 2A00:23C5:4222:4901:212C:69A9:D875:8666 ( talk) 18:44, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The edit summary for this edit was factually incorrect. A reign of terror can exist without everybody under that reign being aware of it. "Reign of terror" is simply an English phrase meaning "a period of time when a ruler controls people in a violent and cruel way", [1] and is synonymous with "tyranny", "dictatorship", "oppression", or "despotism". [2] As such, Stalin's dictatorship can be legitimately described as a reign of terror. Zazpot ( talk) 01:56, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
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Andy Serkis is directing the HFR-3D version of Animal Farm after Netflix acquired it. [3] [4] [5] 104.247.226.74 ( talk) 23:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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In the films section, the comma after the word "Farm" has to be removed. 69.165.147.219 ( talk) 13:47, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
This is the caption to an illustration:
"Foreign Office copy of the first instalment of Norman Pett's Animal Farm comic strip. This example was commissioned by the Information Research Department, a secret wing of the Foreign Office which delt with disinformation, pro-colonial, and anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War"
Readers come to Wikipedia from all over the world. Most people will have no idea what country the "Foreign Office" refers to, or what this office does. 2601:200:C000:1A0:8C8F:BFFB:41E6:A073 ( talk) 13:37, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
I am not going to argue with User:Greatder, but I think his second comma is bad grammar, but I'm just a retired scientist with memory problems. Is anyone else watching this page? -- Bduke ( talk) 06:33, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
After almost every chapter they say things like next spring or the following summer, but how many years from The beginning of the rebellion to the ending did the animals run the farm? 173.70.194.94 ( talk) 13:53, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 August 2019 and 13 December 2019. Further details are available
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This article states that Orwell was a socialist. How could he be a socialist if he criticized socialism ("IngSoc") in 1984? 24.198.105.135 ( talk) 01:22, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Boxer actually represents the strong soviet working force. Not the person mentioned in this article. 76.67.165.147 ( talk) 15:13, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
There are several cases where the reader of Animal Farm is clearly supposed to INFER something, but the book never explicitly says it, and one gathers that the animal characters in the book never do infer it. I think this is a very important part of Orwell's message: a lot of political lying is tacitly accepted without critical discussion. Occasionally Benjamin the donkey appears to see through the lying, but he never explicitly says anything about it, and one gathers that Orwell deliberately chose a donkey to symbolize the British liberal intelligentsia of his time.
In Plot, at the end of the 3rd paragraph, the article says "In truth, Napoleon had engineered the sale of Boxer to the knacker, allowing him and his inner circle to acquire money to buy whisky for themselves." The book never says that Napoleon did this, only says that after Boxer's death, from somewhere or other the pigs found enough money to buy the whiskey.
Under Animalism, the article says "Later, Napoleon and his pigs secretly revise some commandments to clear themselves of accusations of law-breaking." In each case, the book says that the non-pig animals had mis-remembered this or that commandment. 64.179.154.8 ( talk) 19:16, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
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Change the spelling in on the word realise to realize, the spelling is incorrect. It is located in the last sentence of the Plot Summary. 24.119.34.33 ( talk) 01:01, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
It's not really important, but in the description of Clover, Boxer is referred to as a female. Someone change it?
Clover is the mother of Molly Ianpiano2 ( talk) 14:44, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
In the current Peer Review, one editor wrote, "The citation styles used are a total mishmash. Pick one style and stick with it". I propose standardizing the system in the same manner as Aristotle. I will happily do so a couple weeks from now, unless others have persuasive arguments against it... ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 16:02, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
All that WP:LISTy "In Popular Culture" effluvia can be summarized in a sentence or two without ever mentioning any of the overflowing WP:TRIVIA. There are other lists, too, that need to go... I'll put that on my list (pun intended) of things to do. This article is in need of Major (pun intended) renovation/help. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 00:34, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Animal Farm 2 by Vladimir Pribylovsky (a Russian political and translator of the original book), where the future of the Soviet Union is shown. It's not just "LENIN, STALIN, AND THE END Of EVIL COMMUNISM" like all you Americans think. No, the USSR has a big history and it shows what happened later. It is on Orwell's site. http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/russian/rzf2_vp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.164.155.113 ( talk) 11:14, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
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In section 2.2 titled "Humans" in the first bullet titled "Mr. Jones" the last sentence states "The animals' revolt after Jones drinks so much he does not care for the animals." I believe that the apostrophe after the word "animals" should be removed for no possessiveness is being shown. Polobu ( talk) 22:19, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
I plan on adding a Genre/Style section to more accurately correspond with Wikipedia's guidelines for articles. Similarly, I plan on restructuring the article to form a Background section, which will largely combine information from other sections while also introducing new concepts. Furthermore, I plan on adding to the analysis section because I feel that it lacks any discussion of the challenges to Animal Farm that have existed in school/academic settings around the world. I would also like to introduce more citations because I feel that much of the article's content goes widely unreferenced, even if the information is factually true. Flip Deciantis ( talk) 21:17, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
This article explores the possible influence on “Animal Farm” of a forgotten Renaissance poem about pigs at war with each other. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/12/professor-publishes-placentius-pugnacious-pig-poem — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amorsui ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
I think it is important to correct the number of pages. The fact is that UK paperback edition has just 112 pages, but almost every other english edition has 130 - 150 pages. It will be good to point it out or remove that kind of information at all. This is maybe just my opinion. Thank you! Anapimpili ( talk) 11:19, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
How strange that this book is so similar to the book „Revolt” written by the famous Noble-prize winning Polish writer Wladyslaw Reymont. Reymont wrote his book twenty years earlier and it was issued in book form in 1924. It was translated and issued in the different languages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.192.42.105 ( talk) 03:23, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Reymont’s book is also about animal rebellion and is also based on the Russian revolution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.192.42.105 ( talk) 03:33, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
From the CIA’s “Director’s log” ( https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/1951-09-01.pdf) p197, November 19, 1951:
Might serve as a more concrete complement to the vague anecdote from The American Spectator about balloon drops over Poland.
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Netflix purchased rights to Andy Serkis' adaptation of the novel in 2018. [1] [2] [3] 45.72.233.100 ( talk) 12:49, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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“The CIA, from 1952 to 1957 in Operation Aedinosaur, sent millions of balloons carrying copies of the novel into Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, whose air forces tried to shoot the balloons down.[43]”
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There is only one source which is not a super reliable source, however, I found multiple other sources mentioning this operation, but none of them show that animal farm was sent into the countries, but the book Doctor Zhivago was sent.
Here is a reddit article that kind of adds to what I’m saying https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/eppc9s/from_1952_to_1957_the_cia_carried_out_operation/
Note: Sorry if I formatted this post wrong this is my first time doing this Shadowrvn728 ( talk) 16:02, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Edit: Sorry, I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to edit but I just saw a previous post that answered my request Shadowrvn728 ( talk) 16:07, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
I should have mentioned in this [1] edit wrt near-destruction of the manuscript that the source [2] uses the wording "destroyed" and not "hit". Go ahead and keep/change/re-source as you think is appropriate. Ideolomeme ( talk) 22:06, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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the animal farm was created by bill nockers 2A00:23C5:4222:4901:212C:69A9:D875:8666 ( talk) 18:44, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The edit summary for this edit was factually incorrect. A reign of terror can exist without everybody under that reign being aware of it. "Reign of terror" is simply an English phrase meaning "a period of time when a ruler controls people in a violent and cruel way", [1] and is synonymous with "tyranny", "dictatorship", "oppression", or "despotism". [2] As such, Stalin's dictatorship can be legitimately described as a reign of terror. Zazpot ( talk) 01:56, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
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Andy Serkis is directing the HFR-3D version of Animal Farm after Netflix acquired it. [3] [4] [5] 104.247.226.74 ( talk) 23:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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In the films section, the comma after the word "Farm" has to be removed. 69.165.147.219 ( talk) 13:47, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
This is the caption to an illustration:
"Foreign Office copy of the first instalment of Norman Pett's Animal Farm comic strip. This example was commissioned by the Information Research Department, a secret wing of the Foreign Office which delt with disinformation, pro-colonial, and anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War"
Readers come to Wikipedia from all over the world. Most people will have no idea what country the "Foreign Office" refers to, or what this office does. 2601:200:C000:1A0:8C8F:BFFB:41E6:A073 ( talk) 13:37, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
I am not going to argue with User:Greatder, but I think his second comma is bad grammar, but I'm just a retired scientist with memory problems. Is anyone else watching this page? -- Bduke ( talk) 06:33, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
After almost every chapter they say things like next spring or the following summer, but how many years from The beginning of the rebellion to the ending did the animals run the farm? 173.70.194.94 ( talk) 13:53, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 August 2019 and 13 December 2019. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Flip Deciantis.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 14:17, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
This article states that Orwell was a socialist. How could he be a socialist if he criticized socialism ("IngSoc") in 1984? 24.198.105.135 ( talk) 01:22, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Boxer actually represents the strong soviet working force. Not the person mentioned in this article. 76.67.165.147 ( talk) 15:13, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
There are several cases where the reader of Animal Farm is clearly supposed to INFER something, but the book never explicitly says it, and one gathers that the animal characters in the book never do infer it. I think this is a very important part of Orwell's message: a lot of political lying is tacitly accepted without critical discussion. Occasionally Benjamin the donkey appears to see through the lying, but he never explicitly says anything about it, and one gathers that Orwell deliberately chose a donkey to symbolize the British liberal intelligentsia of his time.
In Plot, at the end of the 3rd paragraph, the article says "In truth, Napoleon had engineered the sale of Boxer to the knacker, allowing him and his inner circle to acquire money to buy whisky for themselves." The book never says that Napoleon did this, only says that after Boxer's death, from somewhere or other the pigs found enough money to buy the whiskey.
Under Animalism, the article says "Later, Napoleon and his pigs secretly revise some commandments to clear themselves of accusations of law-breaking." In each case, the book says that the non-pig animals had mis-remembered this or that commandment. 64.179.154.8 ( talk) 19:16, 22 August 2023 (UTC)