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I am going to put this page on hold briefly for two reasons.
If you want to flesh out this page a bit more for a possible A rating, you might think about contextualizing Bennett within early twentieth-century science fiction. Also, I wonder if there is some actual scholarship on her or at least women science fiction writers of the time? I know that scholars within that field are fast publishing articles and books; research on this topic might allow you to include a "writing style" section and a "women in science fiction" section. Also, it would be good to expand the lead a bit so that it truly summarizes the article and doesn't repeat word for word statements that come later in the article. Awadewit 22:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
The list is not complete--missing at least "Elf Trap" (I think it is). Also, Serapion and Possessed! are the probably the same story. And what evidence is there that the cover portrait portrays the authoress? I own the book and can find no indication that the cover is modeled on her--in fact, have never seen a photo of her.
Nice to see this enigmatic lady represented. --M-K, 31-05-07
I stumbled across this article a few weeks ago while following spamlinks by a NN publisher whose article was delete by a CSD-A7 ... I noticed beau coup duplications in the references (the first one appeared six times!), and didn't want to risk an edit conflict at that time, so I made a clone in my sandbox to work on ... then I forgot all about it until a bot tagged/zapped the image, and Some Other Editor zapped the Categories so that my sandbox page would not be incorrectly listed in all of them. <My bad!>
Anywho, I've replaced the main body of text with the new version ... all I did was add {{
cite web}}
and {{
cite book}}
(with
ISBNs found on
Amazon.com), and with the use of <ref name=WhatEver />
tags, the number of references was reduced from 15 to 6 ... so if anyone is wondering, that's why the References list is so much smaller.
BTW, I ain't researching any more ISBNs to this one ... and if Some Other Editor chooses to summarily UNDO this edit as vandalism simply because (a) I'm just an anon-IP editor, (b) they eschew the use of "cite" templates, and/or (c) this is already a Good Article, well, I figure I've put enough lipstick on this pig, so it's time for me to delete my sandbox copy and MOVE ON.
Happy Editing! — 68.239.79.82 ( talk · contribs) 02:53, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I removed the picture following an email to OTRS from a family member claiming that this image is not Bennett but an anonymous girl. Please provide independent sources if you wish to reinsert the claim. VRTS ticket # 2008032610017002 Guy ( Help!) 14:59, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Unfortunately, i don't think this article meets the GA criteria anymore, as standards have changed a lot since it was promoted.
Unless someone plans to do major improvments ASAP, i think it should be delisted. Yob Mod 20:09, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I just received the message about this. As the author of the article, I disagree with this assessment. All of the information in the article is cited. Please state what information is uncited, because everything in the article has a citation. In addition, while scifipedia may no longer exist, that doesn't mean it wasn't a valid reference at the time. And while there are only six references, different information from those references are cited numerous times.
As for the lead, it is appropriate to the length of the article. A lead is supposed to summarize an entire article, and that is what happens here. This is an article about a rather obscure author, so naturally it can't be as detailed as an article about Shakespeare. As such, the content about her critical reception and influence is as detailed as it can be. Finally, if there are MoS issues, please list them and I will fix them. -- SouthernNights ( talk) 22:38, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I have replaced the Scifipedia and ISFDB citations and also added more info, including an expansion of the influence section. I also corrected some style problems other editors had inserted into the article over the last year.-- SouthernNights ( talk) 22:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
I tagged this page with the hidden categories DoB missing ( Date of birth missing), DoD missing, PoD missing.
-- P64 ( talk) 02:10, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
A previous editor tagged for more info one of the Further reading:
B. J. Stevens at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database does not list that essay by B.J./Bryce Stevens. Both of the essays it does list were published in Australian magazines: one 1988 contents, one 1992 contents.
August T. Swift does not belong in the lead. I did not remove him entirely but rewrote the lead mess about Swift/Lovecraft, an improvement i hope, and relegated it to a Note. (The code remains in the lead for sake of compare versions; above line 37 but that placement should be temporary.) Probably the remaining lead mention of Swift, the material in section Influence, and that in my Note should be unified.
-- P64 ( talk) 02:58, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
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Not merited IMO. Her father dies twice as it stands, 25 years apart. Spicemix ( talk) 21:04, 25 June 2020 (UTC)