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I chose this article from Wikipedia pages needing copy edit hoping to make some initial small edits as a newbie. After reading and comparing it to John Steinbeck and Jules Verne (chosen randomly !! ), I'm now convinced it needs a total structural re-design. The long single heading Life and work has great biographical data, descriptions of VH's works, and critical commentary, but all in one rather convoluted stream.
I've copied that section to a personal sub-page to give it a try. It might be a few days weeks ... but when I post the edit ... feel free to shred it, revert it etc.
I was surprised to see so little here on the talk page, given the article's history entries. Anything there that I should know ???
Zapacna .... I'm far from a Victo Hugo expert .... no help on that one from here.
JerseyBob 02:25, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
can someone please explain why Victor Hugo is seen as a saint in that vietnamese religion Zapacna 08:09, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
Zapacna ..... not a great source on the religion ... but check out the next to last paragraph here http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/Caodai.htm
I did a "Google" on "Cao Dai" and "Victor Hugo" ... lots more to check on later. JerseyBob 04:47, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
The French Wikipedia has an article nominated for featured article status ... we can do as much for Victor Hugo in English !!!!! http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
The major issue is to have the article conform more closely to:
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)
Other concerns
JerseyBob 03:08, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello! To all interested in the Victor Hugo page, I bravely dug my editing shovel in today and am finding it a huge undertaking. We're talking major substantive editing here. My background is in book editing, so I am pretty confident about what I'm doing. However, I would love to have all and any feedback on what I have done so far. There is a note on the page indicating a division between what has been edited and what has not. Thanks! -- Victoria 04:16, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello back,
Great to have someone with your background here. What was on the page was about 95% from the 1911 EB ... verbatim !! I.ve been gathering resources, but not Bold enough to jump right in as a newbie. JerseyBob 04:55, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm very impressed with what you two have done to the article so far. I just thought you might want to know someone appreciates your contributions. I don't know much about Victor Hugo, but I can give you some general feedback after you get the article pulled together. -- TantalumTelluride 05:23, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks all. The plan is to put the bare bones of the thing together, and then everyone can add the extra bits and pieces wherever they fit in. But right now I've got to get what we have pulled together into something comprehensible. -- Victoria 05:42, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Victoria: I did the latest minor edit to relink to:
La Légende des siècles If handling the titles in this way seems to interrupt the flow ... let me know ... and I'll hold off on similar changes until later in the process and look at how other articles handle it effectively.
JerseyBob
18:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
JerseyBob: As you've probably noticed, a lot of the links in the edited sections are screwed up now, because I've just been plowing through the content, intending to go back and fix them. So it would be an ENORMOUS HELP if you wanted to follow behind and fix the links and title issues. I guess it would be logical to give the titles in French, followed by the English translation that the work is known by if necessary. It would also be helpful if you were to double-check accents on French words and names, I think I've missed some. Thanks! -- Victoria 19:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Certainement! Je peux faire cela facilement. (Certainly ! I can do that easily.) <Grinning> !! JerseyBob 20:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Victoria: You have done a really "first rate" job !! My goal is to turn all those red links to blue. Some of the proper names lead to articles on the individual works, and some to biographies of the people. Creating some stub articles on the works, where none exist, or learning something more about disambiguation and redirection Wikipedia:Redirect will help. JerseyBob 17:14, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Bob: Do you have any idea why all of the HOURS of editing/rewriting that I did last night have suddenly disappearred today? All of my work is recorded in the "Page History", and I can't see any record of anyone having undone it.... I'm trying not to panic, but this is bizarre.... -- Victoria 18:47, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Bob: I see now that in the process of doing your "minor" edit listed as "sp and link to Vendée", you somehow reverted the page to a much earlier version. I'm ASSUMING that you did not INTEND to do that and it's just a glitch of some sort. I'm going to go back now and reinsert all the edits I did last night. If you DID intend to undo the work I did... then please talk to me, baby.... -- Victoria 18:55, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay, all of the material has now been reinstated, and I'm much calmer. But this may have "undone" some of your link work, unfortunately. Please feel free to continue with link clean-up. In addition to the "linking" problems, all of the titles need to be put into italics. My next priority is to insert further biographical and critical material into the existing structure. Soon as I grab something to eat.... -- Victoria 19:11, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Victoria:My sincere apologies for the accidental reversion ... I'll be much more careful in the future !! The last thing in the world I'd want to see is the loss of all that you've done. JerseyBob 23:39, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Bob: All's well that ends well! It was relatively easy to fix, so I apologize for the hysterics on my part. If you look at the Page History, you'll see that someone named "Silence" fixed the image of Hugo at the beginning of the article, for the better. I've invited him/her here to this page if they have any other suggestions.
To all interested parties: Bob and I are working on finetuning the "Victor Hugo" page after some huge rewriting, editing, and re-structuring. So as to avoid overlapping work, please post here if you want to get involved, to keep things organized.... And, of course, if anyone has any comments, suggestions, or criticisms to offer about the work that has been done so far, they would be VERY WELCOME. Thanks. -- Victoria 19:15, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Bob: Please note that I have changed a lot of the play-title links in the "Threatrical Work" section to external links (i.e. links to other websites), since there are currently no pages in Wikipedia to link them to. -- Victoria 07:04, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Now that I've posted the resource material, the next priority is to add a small section on Hugo's artwork, a section that will really lend itself to visuals. Stay tuned.... -- Victoria 23:56, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
This article has improved incredibly over the course of just a few days thanks to the major contributions of Victoria Ridout and countless minor edits by JerseyBob. As promised at the onset of their great endevour, I have returned to give my evaluation; and I am extremely pleased with the results. I can only think of a few suggestions:
Once again, thanks for the great work. -- TantalumTelluride 21:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Well, I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to incorporate images into the article. I followed (or TRIED to follow) all of the instructions on the subject, but found them pretty well incomprehensible. If someone knows of, or can provide, some STEP-BY-STEP instructions on how to do it, I would be grateful. Otherwise, I'm going to have to leave that task to someone else, cause I just don't get it.... -- Victoria 18:00, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Victoria, I find it easiest to find another image ... go into edit mode and "steal" the code !! As in ... this image. I would rather steal than re-invent anything. This image is from the French article, with a modified caption. Go into edit mode on this page and "copy and paste" everything including the two [[ brackets in the opening line in the edit box for this entry that starts with: Victoria, I find it easiest to find another image . JerseyBob 21:37, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, that's a solution if the image you want to display already exists on another Wikipedia site. But I want to find out how to upload other images from my computer and/or other internet sites. Maybe I'll give it another try later when I am not feeling so frustrated.... --
Victoria
22:37, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Victoria, what operating system and browser are you using? -- TantalumTelluride 23:52, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
LOOKY-SEE!!! I managed to figure it out and have incorporated an image under the "Drawings" section.... More to come.... --
Victoria
00:26, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Very good! That wasn't so hard; was it? Just wait 'til you need to use a table! -- TantalumTelluride 00:57, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm the "Little Editor That Could". Remind me of that the next time I whine about something.... hehe.... -- Victoria 03:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Victoria: The pics are just the icing !! What you've done with the words is the cake !! I'm still here, though real life has severely cut into my online time over the last couple of days.
Some random thoughts:
JerseyBob 00:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
JerseyBob: You're readin my mind. I am, as we speak, starting to compile a section titled "Family". There's a lot of rich material there -- his brother who was in love with Hugo's wife and went mad after they got married, his wife's infamous affair with Hugo's friend, the drowing of his oldest daughter, the story of the madness of his oldest daughter Adele (made into a well known film by Truffaut in the 70's, his grandchildren, one of which married the son of a famous explorer, which is why there is a Victor Hugo Island somewhere in the antarctica, plus the stuff you mention above, etc etc. Stay tuned.... --
Victoria
03:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
You wanted pics -- you got pics! Have a look at the Victor Hugo page and let me know what you think. I'm quite pleased with what I was able to find on the internet.... -- Victoria 07:45, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
So ... Victor needs to go on a diet !!
Victoria: I saw the comments by TantalumTelluride and yourself re: slimming him down I tried this and think that I can do the same for many of the other paragraphs. The side by side comparison is in my Sandbox Your thoughts ?????
Proposed last paragraph for Theatrical work section
Hugo’s Angelo (1835) premiered successfully. Soon after in 1836, the Duke of New Orleans (brother of King Louis-Philippe, and a Hugo admirer), founded the Théâtre de la Renaissancea to showcase new plays. It's premiere offering (November 1838) was Hugo's [ Ruy Blas. Considered Hugo’s best drama, it met with only average success. Similarly, in 1843 The Burgraves played only 33 nights, and was his last theatrical work. The short verse drama Torquemada written in 1869, but unpublished until 1882, was never intended for the stage. However, Hugo's interest in the theatre continued, and in 1864 his essay on William Shakespeare, whose style he admired and had emulated, was very well received.
JerseyBob 02:40, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
No! Please! The TEXT does not need to be compressed, I am solving the problem by deleting images. The text is already very sparse, and I am opposed to editing which may negatively effect the sense and flow. In the end, it is the INFORMATION being presented that is important, so I am quite happy to get rid of some of the visual spectacle in order to reduce the page size. Besides, deleting words will not substantially reduce the size of the page, it is the images that are using up the most bandwith. -- Victoria 02:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Victoria: That's exactly why I tried it here and not in the article !! Another thought ... I know that Wikipedia frowns on sub-pages ... but could the complete Bibliography list be on it's own linked page ???? JerseyBob 02:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Feel free to edit this article or any other for conciseness, but also realize that size limitations are almost purely stylistic. Since the long lists are contributing significantly to the size of this article, it can exceed the 32kB limit without causing any major problems. Perhaps a better alternative would be to start a separate articles for the list of works, although it's not extremely necessary at this point. The text is about the right length as it is now, and there are about the right number of images. I think the best thing for us to do now is to continue to wikify and revise the article without increasing its length. -- TantalumTelluride 03:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
For more information on how to cover topics in greater detail than is possible in 32kB, see Wikipedia:Summary style. Victor doesn't need to trim down yet, but he needs to start watching his weight. No more large pieces of content should be added directly to this article unless something else is moved out. -- TantalumTelluride 03:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
I really DO NOT want to CUT UP the article. It is currently very cohesive and should remain as ONE PIECE. What I AM thinking of doing is setting up a separate page to talk about his family at length, since there is no room to do so on the current page. Would there be any problem with that, Telluride? What are the rules regarding titles for new pages? Would "Victor Hugo Family" be acceptable? -- Victoria 03:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm going out for a while. Can everyone PLEASE just leave the images and layout alone for a while. It is VERY FRUSTRATING to have people meddling while you're right in the middle of editing the page. I'll let you know when I'm DONE editing the page for length, as per suggestions above. -- Victoria 04:04, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
RE LENGTH: It never would have OCCURRED to me that the article might be becoming too LARGE until Telleride wrote the following on my TALK page:
Now I'm just plain confused about the issue. What you all seem to be saying is "Be careful the article doesn't get too big -- but if it gets too big... don't worry about it..." Okay, so the 32MB mark is arbitrary and not written in stone... but how big is TOO BIG?
The LAST thing I want to see happen is for the article to get DIVIDED, or for the text to be edited down. I feel strongly that it is already very concise and cohensive, as is. I would much rather see the images reduced and/or downsized than lose text. I *had* planned to add a section on Hugo's family. Now, that WOULD lend itself well to a separate page, I'm OK with that. But there are a few more paragraphs of info that I have yet to incorporate into the "Political Life & Exile" section that MUST be incorporated into the current page. Once that is done, that section can easily support another image that will help make the page look a little more balanced image-wise. I also want to ensure that the images aren't repositioned willy-nilly, and that they are actually related to sections in which they appear.
BOTTOM LINE: I would really appreciate it if you could all wait until I'm done writing and adding to the current text -- which should be within the next couple of days -- before fooling around with the layout. I would also appreciate it if you could talk to me about your concerns before making substantial changes, so that we're at least all on the same page and not being counter-productive.
I've already had one article on Wikipedia BUTCHERED by some editors who (in my opinion) acted in haste to divide an article I hadn't even finished yet, without consulting with me in any way. If that were to happen to this article, in the same hasty non-consultative fashion, I really doubt I would be interested in investing any more time into Wikipedia. I realize that as a newcomer I must concede to the decisions of others here -- but SURELY there is some room for considerate discussion?
Thank you for listening. -- Victoria 05:37, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm working on the french article for a few weeks... I spent many hours on it – like you did... So, "le père Hugo" is still alive ! Félicitations. -- Jodelet 19:38, 11 November 2005 (UTC) (Jodolet's talk page exists at [1])
I understand that is not "Wiki" for me to substitute external links where internal-link pages do not exist, and that they must be changed. However, I would really appreciate it if you would let ME change those external links to internal ones (and create the appropriate "stub" pages to link them to), so that I don't end up losing the URLS. My intention is to incorporate the URLs into the "stub" pages until they can be properly expanded. Does that make sense, and is it a reasonable request? Thanks. -- Victoria 05:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Just to keep everyone posted. !! I have so much Hugo research stuff stored that I felt that I ought to focus on making the stubs into better articles. I put a chart on my
user page of the ones that I have found so far. The biggest gap is Cromwell, which I may start as [[Cromwell (drama by Victor Hugo)]] .
The Man Who Laughs is also sorely in need of a copyedit. The plot description is overly detailed and makes several statements that can be interpreted as original research. I'm also thinking of starting an article on Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve. Harold Nicholson's biography of him devotes two full chapters to his complicated relationships with the Hugos (though most, of course, with Adele) !!
Twenty-first century Hollywood seems tame compared with this crowd !! "Anyone for a little afternoon hashish break and some "King bashing" ... join VH and his crowd !!
How quickly this may happen ... I can't predict. With the holidays not far off, grandchildren will take precedence over editing here !!!!!
Please feel free to join me on the discussion pages of any of the individual articles and add your "Hugo-maniac" $0.02 !! :) JerseyBob 23:43, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm too late on Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. He's already taken care of !! JerseyBob 00:04, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Hernani (drama) is up as a "work in progress" Please join the fun !! JerseyBob 21:36, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello all. I'm very sorry to have to do this, but I've really got no choice. One of the reasons I've not been following up with Hugo is that I received some very good news a couple of weeks ago that has been occupying my every waking moment. I have accepted great new job in a new city. I'm very excited about it, and it's been a mad rush finishing up with my old projects, preparing to move, etc. I was really hoping to be able to "finish up" Hugo, but I realize now that there just isn't going to be the time. And it's not fair of me to hold things up in the meantime.
So I hand Victor over to your many capable hands. It was a pleasure working with you all, and I really hope to be able to do work for Wikipedia again later on down the line, when things settle down a little. -- Victoria 18:25, 29 November 2005
We should start transfering any of Hugo's works at the project Gutenberg to wikisource. http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Victor+Hugo Also if anyone has a hard copy of the late 19th century early 20th c "Works of Victor Hugo" series that would be of great use transfering to wikisource especially since most of them will be lost within a few years and english translations of Hugo's more obscure works will become harder and harder for lay readers to find. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Victor_Hugo -- Gary123 15:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Victor_Hugo
I've started an approach that may apply to Wikipedia's Core Biography articles: creating a branching list page based on in popular culture information. I started that last year while I raised Joan of Arc to featured article when I created Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc, which has become a featured list. Recently I also created Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great out of material that had been deleted from the biography article. Since cultural references sometimes get deleted without discussion, I'd like to suggest this approach as a model for the editors here. Regards, Durova 16:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
This article's GA status has been revoked because it fails criterion 2. b. of ' What is a Good Article?', which states;
I just brought two Victor Hugo related articles from fr:, Léopoldine Hugo and Juliette Drouet. If anyone wants to help expand them, please do. On second thought, Leopoldine maybe should be merged into this article, any thoughts on this? DVD+ R/W 10:01, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Someone should create a Victor Hugo template. A box that includes a list of Victor Hugo's plays novels and poetry and then we could include the template on all of the Victor Hugo related pages. I think something similar to the Shakespeare template is in order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Works_of_Shakespeare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Shakespeare -- Gary123 Apply now, exciting opportunities available at Continental Op Detective Agency! 17:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
This article does not adress Victor Hugo's racism. He was a strong proponent of French imperialism and considered whites to be the master race. Heres a quote from Hugo "I must again remind you," he replied, "that I am speaking of the twentieth and not of the nineteenth century. Moreover, the physical differences between the various branches of the human race are in their nature evanescent. The white race repre- sents the highest type which the human race has so far reached; and all the other races are inevitably approaching this type. They will all in the end be white."
See this interview for more info: http://gavroche.org/vhugo/twovisits.gav -- Napoleonvii 16:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
First, thanks for the article. It is a great read. I hadn't heard about the guy before today. Anyway, my visit here was piqued by this assertion here. [2] Could the author have a valid point or whats going on here? User:Wk muriithi
"After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was finally elected to the Académie française in 1841, solidifying his position in the world of French giant penis arts and letters. :
Is this sentence a mistake?
Has it not been established that the Priory of Sion was a hoax started in 1956? Why is Hugo's fictitious involvement in this non-existent (at the time) hoax of a society listed as fact in this article? I propose the following be striked: His role in religion, and views on devout Catholicism were the cause on his action and member in the Priory of Sion. It is fact of his association with the spiritual group, but it is debated as to whether his contribution was that of large of small quantity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.103.229 ( talk) 14:57, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I also doubt the following passage: "Hugo’s depiction of Man’s battle with the sea and the horrible creatures lurking beneath its depths spawned an unusual fad in Paris: Squids. From squid dishes and exhibitions, to squid hats and parties, Parisians became fascinated by these unusual sea creatures, which at the time were still considered by many to be mythical."
It's marked "citation needed" but I wonder whether it might not even be a hoax (squid hats?). A friend of mine and I tried to trace it, and all we found was plagiarisms of Wiki. I was delighted when I found the citation because I found it amusing, and I cited it myself, but now I have my doubts.
(subject), why's there victor hugo's signature? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atreusk ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
As you may notice I tagged this article to receive some info from another article. Through my trials of wikifying, I came accross an article entitled Poems of Victor Hugo. After reading the article, I came to the conclusion that it was much more about VH than his poems and felt that the info (although very valuable) deserves to reside with this article. Please feel free to discuss. I simply wanted to make you, the editors, aware of the tag and why.
After taking a look at VH's page, I notice it is rather large. However, is there a way we can fit the two into one and still have the page functional and aesthetically pleasing?. Thanks! Ctolson ( talk) 17:55, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Someone reference that he influenced Ayn Rand or I'm removing it. And her enjoying his works does not count as an influence. -- Gary123 ( talk) 23:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Chinearabs has been funneling Ayn Rand references into tons of irrelevant topics, someone should look into it. -- Gary123 ( talk) 02:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Ayn Rand, in her introduction to an edition of Nintey-Three (currently printed by Paper Tiger books) mentions being strongly influenced by Hugo in a literary sense. LaszloWalrus ( talk) 02:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
In the phrase "his mother was a staunch Catholic Royalist who is believed to have taken General Victor Lahorie as her lover, who was executed in 1812 for plotting against Napoléon", it's unclear whether his mother or Lahorie was executed. It might be a good idea to split that sentence off into a new one with its very own subject pronoun. (and thanks for an otherwise lovely article!)-- ponyboy ( talk) 15:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
"In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels."
That's not true at all. His novels are pretty well regarded in France. I'm teaching french literature, and I can guarantee that Les Misérables and Notre Dame de Paris for exemple are very well regarded. His theater isn't that much read and played anymore, but it remains essential to understand the french romantic movement.
This phrase has to go, but as english is only my second language, I wouldn't know how to reorganize the paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.124.84.10 ( talk) 19:27, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
This talk-radio phrase from the article had no meaning in the 1800s and even as used today, is imprecise, often confused with liberalism, libertarianism, and other -isms. I'm going to change this to something more accurate, probably 'liberal'.
-- UnicornTapestry ( talk) 10:56, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I would say he would also match into the broader Republicanism movement of the day too. -- MercZ ( talk) 23:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.161.35 ( talk) 19:51, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Check his play list for A jeté un base-ball par un chien
The link is external and leads to comics page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.188.22.6 ( talk) 19:12, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
"He convinced the government of Queen Victoria to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities and his influence was credited in the removal of the death penalty from the constitutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia"
What 6 Irish people were these??? What year? The footnote is in French and I am unable to read it. Being an avid enthusiasist of 19th century Irish history, I have never heard of this before and suspect it may be an exaggerated claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.175.157 ( talk) 02:52, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
While his novels are definitely regarded very highly, there is no doubt that he considered himself first and foremost a poet. His poetic output was astoundingly prolific and makes up the vast majority of his oeuvre, yet the section on his writings barely makes any mention of it (and what it does mention can be considered rather minor compared to his more mature works). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.251.42.64 ( talk) 07:37, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Uncited claim I saw, want verification before I go adding it. Tar7arus 11:26, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Only place I've seen it is in this comic: http://dresdencodak.com/2007/04/07/rule-110/ So probably not legit. Fyedernoggersnodden ( talk) 01:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Victor Hugo/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Needs inline citations plange 01:41, 30 July 2006 (UTC) |
Last edited at 01:41, 30 July 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 16:03, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
WP:Reference Desk to the rescue once again!
The story of the minimal telegram exchange is well known, but it may well be apocryphal. See the following exchange at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#What is the origin of represent getting an idea by a light bulb?:
My highlighting etc. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:49, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Why are so many Hispanic males given the names Victor Hugo (e.g. Victor Hugo Garcia)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.88.11.188 ( talk) 03:18, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Article unclear. Says his mother had a lover. Later says his father was an officer. Who was his father? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.88.11.188 ( talk) 03:14, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
There are very few citations for the vast amount of information provided. For example, the sections "Life", , "Writings", "Political life and exile", and "Declining years and death" have a total of 3 citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.1.140.181 ( talk) 22:47, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
For sections in which citations are needed, can you find a less glaring way of pointing this out? It really detracts from the reading experience to see a superscript "citation needed" at the end of every sentence. I know these pages are a work in progress, but that doesn't mean they have to look like one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.134.15.86 ( talk) 05:18, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
In the intro when it says "citation needed" for the republicanism, you can cite with ""Hugo, Victor." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 17 Mar. 2013. < http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-3354>." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.237.201.219 ( talk) 20:29, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
The story of the Parisian squid fad has been "citation needed" for 5 years or more. Everything I can find on the internet is traveable to here, AFAIK. It looks prankish to me. I'm not a Wiki regular or a Hugo expert or a Paris expert so I won't delete. Someone should look at it though. John Emerson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.136.17 ( talk) 15:46, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
I've added citations everywhere that it says citation needed. Any other areas? I am trying to improve the quality of this article to remove the boxes at the top and could use some suggestions. -- GoldCoastPrior ( talk) 02:34, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
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There are several links to this site in the references. Google currently regards this site as seriously corrupted and dangerous, with warnings not to enter it. Petrosbizar ( talk) 13:04, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Why? Except for the poetry? It looks unprofessional. 100.15.117.207 ( talk) 21:43, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
I restored some earlier text and in doing so removed a statement that "On 15 March 1832, Hugo completed this story [Claude Gueux] with a long preface and his signature". This insertion disrupted the sentence structure and I believe it to be incorrect in any case. I'm not intimately familiar with his early works, but from scanning through information on the French Wikipedia, I believe that references to an 1832 preface would involve editions of Le Dernier jour d'un condamné, not Claude Gueux. -- Michael Snow ( talk) 04:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
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