Talk:Gifts (novel)

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Review: May 4, 2017. (Reviewed version).

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Did you know... that the emotional journey of the protagonist in the 2004 Ursula K. Le Guin novel Gifts has been compared to that of Max in the 1963 children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Gifts (novel)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 19:13, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take this on. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:13, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Well, this is a beautifully-written article and there's little wrong with it.

Thank you!

The 2 images are correctly licensed.
The number of sources used is perhaps a little on the low side. There are other reviews, such as Telegraph; perhaps these are worth searching for, and a brief mention. * Wired has UKLG mention "my three fantasy novels" and what the publisher wanted her to do with them! Could be usable.

Hmm, I spent quite a while searching for sources, including many of the obscure reviews I've used. I think the issue is that since these are newer volumes, they haven't yet got the scholarly attention of her older books: and scholars are more attracted to Voices, it seems. I've inserted the interview, because that's an interesting tidbit. I'm hesitant to use the telegraph source, because that author is getting basic plot details wrong, and so I'd rather not give him much weight; it adds little, in any case.

Some small details:

~~Lead mentions sharing themes, but not which ones. Perhaps briefly say "themes of eyesight and dreamworlds".~~

I've gone with "dreamworlds and choices", which fits the examples better, I think.

~~"Orrec eventually realizes that his he prefers "making" to unmaking." -> "that his father prefers".~~

It's actually Orrec himself, a typo on my part. Fixed.

~~[Gry] "is depicted as edgy": what does this mean?~~

This is from the source: 'Gry, meanwhile, is characterized as edgy and strong-willed, evidenced in her refusal to use her gift on a hunt". I suspect that he means "edgy" in the traditional sense as tense or on-edge, rather than in the more colloquial sense of being part of a new trend. I do think "edgy" conveys the meaning better than a synonym, which is why I left it there.

~~"Le Guin depiction of greed" -> "Le Guin's".~~

fixed.

~~Perhaps worth wikilinking: altruism.~~

done

Summary

This is a high-quality article that accurately describes its subject. It is easily up to the required standard for GA and I am delighted to give it that status now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:50, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Image size

@Nikkimaria: I'm a little confused about this edit of yours: is there a reason not to use the image size parameter that I am unaware of? Surely the image looks better at the larger size? Vanamonde (talk) 07:09, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Vanamonde93: see WP:IMGSIZE and MOS:IMGSIZE. If there's a reason to increase or decrease the size of the image, that should be done using upright scaling rather than fixed px size. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:01, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Nikkimaria: Fair enough, but the usual scaling parameter does not work in the infobox...Vanamonde (talk) 12:12, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Vanamonde93: See the last sentence of WP:IMGSIZE - that should work here. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:23, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Nikkimaria: Sorry to bother you again: but unless there's something odd with my display, which is possible, neither of the suggested solutions work here. Vanamonde (talk) 12:31, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Vanamonde93: What's currently in the article works fine for changing size - the problem is you can't make the displayed image bigger than the source, which is only 167x247. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:52, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]