Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang/archive1

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

Featured article candidates/Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang/archive1

Nominator(s): SchroCat (talk) 07:23, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is the only non-Bond novel that Ian Fleming wrote. He did so shortly after suffering a heart attack and while he was supposed to be convalescing. Although he planned to release a story a year, he never saw this first one published, dying two months before it hit the shops. This has been through a re-write recently and all constructive comments from good faith editors are welcome. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 07:23, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

File:ChittyChittyBangBang.jpg: source link is dead, needs a more expansive FUR
File:Count_Zborowski_With_Chitty_Bang_Bang_1_At_Brooklands.jpg needs a US tag and author date of death. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:50, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
File:ChittyChittyBangBang.jpg: updated both link and FUR

File:Count_Zborowski_With_Chitty_Bang_Bang_1_At_Brooklands.jpg: the earliest I can get publication is 1956 (although it's highly likely this was published before), so I've swapped this out for File:Zborowski in the driving seat of Chitty Bang Bang 1.jpg, which is a worse image, but should pass the review. - SchroCat (talk) 06:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Tim riley

Had my say at the peer review, and on rereading for FAC I see nothing to add. Happy to support promotion to FA. The article seems to me to meet all the FA criteria. Tim riley talk 21:26, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your comments - they were much appreciated, as always. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 06:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Crisco 1492

Oh, I loved this movie growing up!

cliff hanger - just to confirm, no hyphen in the original?
There isn't, but as we're able to make minor typographical corrections, and as it's hyphenated few words later, I've added one. - SchroCat (talk) 06:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Has there been any commentary on how subsequent adaptations have abandoned the novel's names and styling for the film's (as in the sequels being Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and not Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang)?
Nothing at all - they just disappeared without anyone saying anything. - SchroCat (talk) 06:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Roald Dahl - If I remember my history correctly, he and Ian Fleming had been friends. Is there any discussion of this, and the role of their friendship in his adaptation of the novel? (And, of course, would it be a weight issue if anything were included here?)
There is passing reference to the fact they knew each other, but nothing about any possible impact it had on Dahl's work. - SchroCat (talk) 06:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've made some small edits; please review.

Overall, nothing but nit-picks from me. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:05, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers Chris, much obliged. - SchroCat (talk) 06:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work as always. Am supporting. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:14, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PMC

I'm an uncultured millennial who's never seen the movie or read the book, but put me down for a review nonetheless :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]