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Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography

Featured list candidates/Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography/archive1

Nominator(s): SchroCat (talk) 14:41, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific and high-profile British writer, best known for his Sherlock Holmes series of stories. He wrote much, much more besides, and his output included 22 novels, 204 short stories and articles, non fiction books, plays, poems, pamphlets, and a series of works on spiritualism, in which he began to believe after losing his son and brother at the end of the First World War.

This is a re-vamped bibliography, made partly from the previous limited, but greatly expanded and now brought into line with MOS requirements, and fully sourced throughout. All comments are welcome. – SchroCat (talk) 14:41, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Jimknut

Resolved comments from Jimknut (talk) 16:24, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

* In the introduction the Sherlock Holmes stories "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891) and "The Adventure of the Final Problem" (1893) are discussed before A Study in Scarlet (1887), the story that introduced Holmes. Shouldn't Scarlet be first?

Re-worked to accomodate this. - SchroCat (talk) 19:09, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also in the intro you could hyperlink "A Scandal in Bohemia".

Yep, done - SchroCat (talk) 19:09, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the infobox "Plays" and "Operettas" are listed separately yet they both link to only one section ("Stage works"). I suggest putting both together in the infobox OR having them separate in the listings.

I'm not sure this is a too much of a problem - it's something I've done in some other FLs. - SchroCat (talk) 19:09, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The same goes for the "Spiritualist and paranormal books" and "Spiritualist and paranormal pamphlets" listings in the infobox.

I've sub-divided the section and linked into the sub-section to get round it here. - SchroCat (talk) 19:09, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

— Jimknut (talk) 17:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers Jumknut, all very much appreciated. - SchroCat (talk) 19:09, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support — Looks good. Jimknut (talk) 16:24, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Jimknut – much appreciated. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 23:37, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Harrias

;Comment from Harrias ^talk

The story in The Strand was one in a series of twelve, published in successive months.[4] They were well-received by the public, and the editors of the magazine commissioned a further series six stories, and then another twelve. I think you've misinterpreted the source here. As far as I recall, and having a quick look, I think that there were twenty-four stories before Holmes was killed off. It was a run of six, extended by six to twelve, then a further twelve. Harrias ^talk 06:48, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Quite right (although technically they are two series of six, followed by the series of twelve) - now tweaked. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 07:31, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support, with that one very minor point fixed, I can't find anything to fault. Great work. Harrias ^talk 15:08, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Harrias - I'm very much obliged. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 15:09, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Images and sourcing review

All images are appropriately licensed on Commons, well placed and appropriately captioned. The sources listed are all credible publishers. And while not cited inline by each title listed, the requirement is otherwise met with inline citations in the individual table headers.— Maile (talk) 17:53, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support, Happy to support the well-detailed lists of Doyle's works. Nice work on the tables and the infobox. Lead is informative and a good recap of the subject matter. — Maile (talk) 17:53, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- An immense list on a great author. Just a few small comments, which have now been resolved:

Resolved comments from Cassianto (talk) 16:24, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

*"Doyle, fearful of having his other work overshadowed by his detective creation, killed his creation off in December 1893..." -- creation/creation repetition.

"During the First World War he also wrote extensively on the topic..." -- The Boer war or WWI?
"His son died in the 1918 influenza epidemic, the condition exacerbated by his war wounds; Doyle's brother died of pneumonia shortly afterwards. Like many others at the time Doyle became interested in spiritualism and wrote extensively on the subject" -- I kind of see where you're going with this, and if it's where I think it is, could we simply not say: "Owing to the close successive deaths of his son and brother, Doyle turned to spiritualism..." Or something similar? I'm worried that this would otherwise be a deviation too far away from Doyle himself if it wasn't a ramification of his relatives deaths. Cassianto ^Talk 23:54, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the suggestions, which I've adopted in their entirety. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 12:04, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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