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Don't want to get into a reversion war, but this article badly needs cleanup. At least one assertion is flatly wrong: there is no suggestion anywhere in the story that Winterbourne killed Daisy. She died of malaria, not homicide. The article also features many run-on sentences that need to be untangled, and some highly opinionated statements that certainly rub NPOV the wrong way. I'm going to complete the cleanup I began. If I get reverted out again, I'll take the matter to arbitration. Casey Abell 22:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not claiming that my version of the article is the only "right" one. But there's no excuse for an article on Daisy Miller that suggests Winterbourne might have killed Daisy. That's just embarrassing. I used much of the pre-existing article as it stood on November 5, 2005, though I toned down some of the more out-there opinions and always tried to balance the discussion. Casey Abell 23:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Daisy goes into the Roman Catacombs (with a guide) against the advise of others, there she catches the Romand fever (Malaria) and dies from it. Winterbourne is part of her motivation to visit the catacombs that is his contribution to her death, but not more!
As for the amazon sales, they don't indicate any popularity. This novel is one of the examples often read at University in seminars about 19th century novels. And Amazon is the cheapest source for such books. So this has absolutely nothing to do with the popularity of the book. Same goes for "Turn of the screw".
Way too pro-James and pro-Daisy. Personally, I couldn't stand the story and thought Daisy was an airhead; I was quite glad when she passed. Thanos6 20:43, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I deleted "though the point of the narrative has gotten somewhat lost. Not too many people nowadays would care about Daisy's flirtations, after all." from the critical evaluation section. That section is entirely uncited, and so I'd like to delete a lot more of it, but I only took out these sweeping generalizations. MutantChair ( talk) 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Apparently four anonymous IPs have each had a go at this article, introducing dubious material that violates either WP:V, WP:CITE, or WP:NPOV:
I'm going to revert all these edits unless someone can provide any citations for them. Cheers.
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Don't want to get into a reversion war, but this article badly needs cleanup. At least one assertion is flatly wrong: there is no suggestion anywhere in the story that Winterbourne killed Daisy. She died of malaria, not homicide. The article also features many run-on sentences that need to be untangled, and some highly opinionated statements that certainly rub NPOV the wrong way. I'm going to complete the cleanup I began. If I get reverted out again, I'll take the matter to arbitration. Casey Abell 22:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not claiming that my version of the article is the only "right" one. But there's no excuse for an article on Daisy Miller that suggests Winterbourne might have killed Daisy. That's just embarrassing. I used much of the pre-existing article as it stood on November 5, 2005, though I toned down some of the more out-there opinions and always tried to balance the discussion. Casey Abell 23:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Daisy goes into the Roman Catacombs (with a guide) against the advise of others, there she catches the Romand fever (Malaria) and dies from it. Winterbourne is part of her motivation to visit the catacombs that is his contribution to her death, but not more!
As for the amazon sales, they don't indicate any popularity. This novel is one of the examples often read at University in seminars about 19th century novels. And Amazon is the cheapest source for such books. So this has absolutely nothing to do with the popularity of the book. Same goes for "Turn of the screw".
Way too pro-James and pro-Daisy. Personally, I couldn't stand the story and thought Daisy was an airhead; I was quite glad when she passed. Thanos6 20:43, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I deleted "though the point of the narrative has gotten somewhat lost. Not too many people nowadays would care about Daisy's flirtations, after all." from the critical evaluation section. That section is entirely uncited, and so I'd like to delete a lot more of it, but I only took out these sweeping generalizations. MutantChair ( talk) 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Apparently four anonymous IPs have each had a go at this article, introducing dubious material that violates either WP:V, WP:CITE, or WP:NPOV:
I'm going to revert all these edits unless someone can provide any citations for them. Cheers.