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The Kenneth Widmerpool page is a work in progress with material on his career to be added. All contributions to his memorial to a memorable literary villain welcome. -- Balliol 19:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the Career subsection, O Spirit. It reads like an entirely convincing fourth obit in the Times! -- Balliol 23:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
The article makes two statements about the left-wing lawyer and MP Dennis Nowell Pritt: (a) that he was a GRU (Soviet Army Intelligence) agent involved in pre-war espionage, and that (b) in the early fifties he was expelled from his party for Stalinism.
Well now, statement (b) at least seems to be inaccurate. According to his own Wikipedia entry, Pritt was expelled for his Soviet sympathies in 1940, rather than the early fifties.
I am not sure about statement (a). Pritt was certainly an inveterate fellow traveler, but a GRU agent? There is no statement to this effect in his own Wikipedia entry.
If there are others with detailed knowledge of the arguments on this, it would be good to hear from them. In the meanwhile, I propose to (a) correct the date, and (b) add that the GRU affiliation is as stated by Nigel West, the source cited.
(I shall not add to the article, though it is worth noting here, that West has had some credibility issues of his own, as his Wikipedia article reveals in spite of periodic campaigns to censor the relevant reference). Nandt1 ( talk) 14:09, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
I hope I'm not commenting on something I've missed, but there must shurely be a chumly sort of pronunciation for the man's name. "Wirrim"? "Worm"? "Wimmul"? "Rimple"?
David Lloyd-Jones ( talk) 06:26, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
The source at A Dance to the Music of Time says the Powell confirmed in his journals that Denis Capel-Dunn was the model of Widmerpool, which would be rather more definitive than we say in this article and certainly would warrant inclusion. Alas, I do not have access to the journals. - Sitush ( talk) 16:59, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
I found an interesting comment about Widmerpool while working on The Valley of Bones article. I wonder if it would be a good addition to the section called "Critical and popular reception". Here's the proposed addition:
...thanks! Novellasyes ( talk) 01:13, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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Comment from Tim riley: I support this addition. It seems to me relevant and useful. (Caveat: I have read only two or three of the Dance to the Music of Time novels, and I realise more expert editors may have other views.) Tim riley talk 19:05, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Kenneth Widmerpool is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. | |||||||||||||
This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 23, 2013. | |||||||||||||
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Current status: Featured article |
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The Kenneth Widmerpool page is a work in progress with material on his career to be added. All contributions to his memorial to a memorable literary villain welcome. -- Balliol 19:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the Career subsection, O Spirit. It reads like an entirely convincing fourth obit in the Times! -- Balliol 23:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
The article makes two statements about the left-wing lawyer and MP Dennis Nowell Pritt: (a) that he was a GRU (Soviet Army Intelligence) agent involved in pre-war espionage, and that (b) in the early fifties he was expelled from his party for Stalinism.
Well now, statement (b) at least seems to be inaccurate. According to his own Wikipedia entry, Pritt was expelled for his Soviet sympathies in 1940, rather than the early fifties.
I am not sure about statement (a). Pritt was certainly an inveterate fellow traveler, but a GRU agent? There is no statement to this effect in his own Wikipedia entry.
If there are others with detailed knowledge of the arguments on this, it would be good to hear from them. In the meanwhile, I propose to (a) correct the date, and (b) add that the GRU affiliation is as stated by Nigel West, the source cited.
(I shall not add to the article, though it is worth noting here, that West has had some credibility issues of his own, as his Wikipedia article reveals in spite of periodic campaigns to censor the relevant reference). Nandt1 ( talk) 14:09, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
I hope I'm not commenting on something I've missed, but there must shurely be a chumly sort of pronunciation for the man's name. "Wirrim"? "Worm"? "Wimmul"? "Rimple"?
David Lloyd-Jones ( talk) 06:26, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
The source at A Dance to the Music of Time says the Powell confirmed in his journals that Denis Capel-Dunn was the model of Widmerpool, which would be rather more definitive than we say in this article and certainly would warrant inclusion. Alas, I do not have access to the journals. - Sitush ( talk) 16:59, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
I found an interesting comment about Widmerpool while working on The Valley of Bones article. I wonder if it would be a good addition to the section called "Critical and popular reception". Here's the proposed addition:
...thanks! Novellasyes ( talk) 01:13, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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Comment from Tim riley: I support this addition. It seems to me relevant and useful. (Caveat: I have read only two or three of the Dance to the Music of Time novels, and I realise more expert editors may have other views.) Tim riley talk 19:05, 4 June 2020 (UTC)