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I was amazed to find that this novel did not have an article on English-language Wikipedia. I have tried to rectify this, although it is mostly a machine translation from the Italian. Anyone who can help with this, please do. My Italian is not completely up to it!!! -- MacRusgail ( talk) 14:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I will try to clean up the translation. Many parts of the translation don't make sense (but now I know that it is a machine translation). I am reading the book and will adapt it once I have finished it. - -- 152.3.207.57 ( talk) 14:40, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
[1] This appears to be a review of the book by Trotsky, which I'm sure could be used in the article in some way-- Jac16888 Talk 21:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, as you can see I have completely revamped this article. It was previously a brief, machine translated article, without references. I translated and reordered some of what was here before but the majority of it is my own or from sources which i have referenced. I am continually contributing and would appreciate help on content. If someone would proof-read what I have written and give feedback on my writing style and content that would be great.
I plan to: -finish chapter summaries for the whole book and tidy up my plot section -complete character summaries on Innocenzo la Legge, Don Achille Pazienza, Baldissera, Elvira, Donna Clorinda, Maria Rosa, La Zappa, Marietta, L’Avezzanese o Solito sconosciuto, Maria Grazia, la Ciammaruga, Filomena, Castagna, la Recchiuta, la figlia di Cannarozzo, Maria Cristina -create a section on relevant criticism. -create a themes section
I am publishing as I go because this was intended to be a student group project so it is important that everyone can see what others have done, though at present it seems I am the only one contributing! Thanks, ( Cutiekatie ( talk) 16:42, 9 May 2011 (UTC)).
Thanks for this advice! I completely agree! I've put in a 'plot overview' section now - I agree that that is much better. I'd appreciate your opinion on it - is it still too detailed?. My plot section was quite overwhelming i agree. What do you think about me doing 'plot by chapter'? For our purposes as students it would be useful, though I appreciate that kind of content is not always the point of wikipedia. Equally - the characters section is something thats useful as a student but I agree I should cut it down. Part of the bulk of character section is the quotes in Italian - which I put in there because at present I have no-one to double check my translation - and though I am 99% confident on them I didn't want to be misleading. I might delete them though, what do you think? I will look into writing a section on how it has been received and such. It is a very well-known novel so hopefully there will be lots to say there. Thank you for the help and support ( Cutiekatie ( talk) 21:41, 9 May 2011 (UTC))
Thanks for your work CK. I think (English) Wikipedia has needed a decent article on this major Italian novel for years. -- MacRusgail ( talk) 16:25, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Yes, it seems that references are an eternal problem for wikipedia but I am slowly but surely doing what I can. Thanks for your advice Jac. Not sure I can ever make it to the feature article standard but I can but try! Obviously this is ongoing project and me editing every five minutes makes matters a bit confusing, but I am not going to be contributing for a maybe a week and I was wondering if in this time you would mind proofreading what's there at the moment for me? I have made changes to the introduction, added a (under-construction) section on world reaction and reviews - including that Trotsky review :), added a couple of pictures - one of which has been tagged as needing to be resized but I don't understand how to do that, i've made a couple of minor changes to some character sections in the interest of adding 3rd party sources but nothing particularly noteworthy, and i've added a little military publication section. I'm planning to extend my world reaction section, add lots more refs for characters, and critics opinions of the text, and i want to change that section on the southern question - it was partly translated from the italian page and I think a distinction needs to be made between the peasant/city divide and the north/south divide, especially as Silone based the book on events which in actual fact happened in the north of Italy. I am also going to add a general section on fascism once i've done that because, obviously, that is a major theme. I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks, ( Cutiekatie ( talk) 20:10, 14 May 2011 (UTC))
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I was amazed to find that this novel did not have an article on English-language Wikipedia. I have tried to rectify this, although it is mostly a machine translation from the Italian. Anyone who can help with this, please do. My Italian is not completely up to it!!! -- MacRusgail ( talk) 14:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I will try to clean up the translation. Many parts of the translation don't make sense (but now I know that it is a machine translation). I am reading the book and will adapt it once I have finished it. - -- 152.3.207.57 ( talk) 14:40, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
[1] This appears to be a review of the book by Trotsky, which I'm sure could be used in the article in some way-- Jac16888 Talk 21:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, as you can see I have completely revamped this article. It was previously a brief, machine translated article, without references. I translated and reordered some of what was here before but the majority of it is my own or from sources which i have referenced. I am continually contributing and would appreciate help on content. If someone would proof-read what I have written and give feedback on my writing style and content that would be great.
I plan to: -finish chapter summaries for the whole book and tidy up my plot section -complete character summaries on Innocenzo la Legge, Don Achille Pazienza, Baldissera, Elvira, Donna Clorinda, Maria Rosa, La Zappa, Marietta, L’Avezzanese o Solito sconosciuto, Maria Grazia, la Ciammaruga, Filomena, Castagna, la Recchiuta, la figlia di Cannarozzo, Maria Cristina -create a section on relevant criticism. -create a themes section
I am publishing as I go because this was intended to be a student group project so it is important that everyone can see what others have done, though at present it seems I am the only one contributing! Thanks, ( Cutiekatie ( talk) 16:42, 9 May 2011 (UTC)).
Thanks for this advice! I completely agree! I've put in a 'plot overview' section now - I agree that that is much better. I'd appreciate your opinion on it - is it still too detailed?. My plot section was quite overwhelming i agree. What do you think about me doing 'plot by chapter'? For our purposes as students it would be useful, though I appreciate that kind of content is not always the point of wikipedia. Equally - the characters section is something thats useful as a student but I agree I should cut it down. Part of the bulk of character section is the quotes in Italian - which I put in there because at present I have no-one to double check my translation - and though I am 99% confident on them I didn't want to be misleading. I might delete them though, what do you think? I will look into writing a section on how it has been received and such. It is a very well-known novel so hopefully there will be lots to say there. Thank you for the help and support ( Cutiekatie ( talk) 21:41, 9 May 2011 (UTC))
Thanks for your work CK. I think (English) Wikipedia has needed a decent article on this major Italian novel for years. -- MacRusgail ( talk) 16:25, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Yes, it seems that references are an eternal problem for wikipedia but I am slowly but surely doing what I can. Thanks for your advice Jac. Not sure I can ever make it to the feature article standard but I can but try! Obviously this is ongoing project and me editing every five minutes makes matters a bit confusing, but I am not going to be contributing for a maybe a week and I was wondering if in this time you would mind proofreading what's there at the moment for me? I have made changes to the introduction, added a (under-construction) section on world reaction and reviews - including that Trotsky review :), added a couple of pictures - one of which has been tagged as needing to be resized but I don't understand how to do that, i've made a couple of minor changes to some character sections in the interest of adding 3rd party sources but nothing particularly noteworthy, and i've added a little military publication section. I'm planning to extend my world reaction section, add lots more refs for characters, and critics opinions of the text, and i want to change that section on the southern question - it was partly translated from the italian page and I think a distinction needs to be made between the peasant/city divide and the north/south divide, especially as Silone based the book on events which in actual fact happened in the north of Italy. I am also going to add a general section on fascism once i've done that because, obviously, that is a major theme. I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks, ( Cutiekatie ( talk) 20:10, 14 May 2011 (UTC))