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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
I have made some cosmetic changes to this article, including adding an info box and getting rid of some questionable items (such as the claim that The Twin Rivals has Farquhar's "most frequently quoted line, 'Necessity, the mother of invention'"; that line actually dates back before Farquhar, and according to this info on answers.com [1] it can be traced back to at least 1658 in its present form in English--assuming we do not go back to its non-English predecessors like the line from Persius quoted on this same page). Nevertheless, there is still a lot of work to be done and I haven't yet got the time to do it. Some sourcing of known facts would be a good start. -- MollyTheCat ( talk) 04:16, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Can the author maybe reference the article like described in section 3.3.4 at WP:CITE or similar? Not to criticize, I mean no offence, but when the same books are used and every footnote has the same full book information that already has been given somewhere else then the references section becomes really clogged and confusing. Thanks, 76.10.141.216 ( talk) 15:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
So his father was a clergyman with seven kids? Presumably Catholic, since we're in Ireland. This needs an explanation I think. Arbeit Sockenpuppe ( talk) 16:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
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== What this article needs == I have just added an info box and removed some "peacock" language and an incorrect "fact," but this article still needs work. The most obvious flaws are its brevity and its lack of any referencing. Although most of the biographical data seems in order, it does need to be sourced back to some reliable reference works. -- MollyTheCat ( talk) 04:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC) |
Last edited at 04:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 15:59, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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December 26, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Irish
playwright
George Farquhar (pictured) originally planned on an
acting career, but gave it up after accidentally wounding a fellow
actor severely on stage with a
sword? |
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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
I have made some cosmetic changes to this article, including adding an info box and getting rid of some questionable items (such as the claim that The Twin Rivals has Farquhar's "most frequently quoted line, 'Necessity, the mother of invention'"; that line actually dates back before Farquhar, and according to this info on answers.com [1] it can be traced back to at least 1658 in its present form in English--assuming we do not go back to its non-English predecessors like the line from Persius quoted on this same page). Nevertheless, there is still a lot of work to be done and I haven't yet got the time to do it. Some sourcing of known facts would be a good start. -- MollyTheCat ( talk) 04:16, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Can the author maybe reference the article like described in section 3.3.4 at WP:CITE or similar? Not to criticize, I mean no offence, but when the same books are used and every footnote has the same full book information that already has been given somewhere else then the references section becomes really clogged and confusing. Thanks, 76.10.141.216 ( talk) 15:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
So his father was a clergyman with seven kids? Presumably Catholic, since we're in Ireland. This needs an explanation I think. Arbeit Sockenpuppe ( talk) 16:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:George Farquhar/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
== What this article needs == I have just added an info box and removed some "peacock" language and an incorrect "fact," but this article still needs work. The most obvious flaws are its brevity and its lack of any referencing. Although most of the biographical data seems in order, it does need to be sourced back to some reliable reference works. -- MollyTheCat ( talk) 04:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC) |
Last edited at 04:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 15:59, 29 April 2016 (UTC)