Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Peer review/To Kill a Mockingbird/archive2
Request another peer review by Moni3[edit]
After about 4 months, I think it's ready for another peer review. All the above suggestions have been taken, and it has proved an incredible help to have the article semi-protected. I used A class or featured articles as guides, namely, The Lord of the Rings, Old Man and the Sea and Animal Farm. I would like to see the article promoted to Good Article status to be featured eventually. --Moni3 01:55, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- Are there any Wikipedia articles which explain what the social issues were going on in Alabama or the South at the time the novel was set/the time the novel was published? Something which a wiki reader could use to establish a context for the novel. The web references should also be formatted better - take a look at WP:CITE/ES. -Malkinann 07:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- I think in effect this means using {{cite web}} for each of the http links you have giving consistency of format. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 07:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- There are a multitude of resources that describe the Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955-1956, the Freedom Riders in 1962, and the Birmingham March in 1963. As these events had little to do with the content of the book (set in the 1930s) should these be offered as links in the "Further reading" section, or written as prose into "After publication" with the other paragraph about how the book tied in to the Civil Rights movement?
- I'll go through and cite ref everything. Thanks for your input. --Moni3 11:53, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Moni3
- It might be best if you try and find some academic papers which look at TKAM, as some may look at the context surrounding the novel which would make it easier to cite things. Finding academic articles would be more for FA than for GA, but it would also make it easier to achieve GA. One book that looks decent, but which I don't have access to is "Understanding to Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents" by CD Johnston, 1994. -Malkinann 04:23, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I'm a bit nonplussed. That source is cited 5 times in the article. I'm confused. Are you suggesting I depend on this source even more? Would it not benefit the article to diversify references? It is no wonder that you don't have access to this reference or many others. Despite its immense success, very little has been written about this book in "academic papers." Lee herself refuses to discuss the book, and discourages others from doing so except for the occasional high school English class. Not surprisingly, that's where most sources refer to the book: how to teach it to school-aged children.
- I expanded the article in reference to Civil Rights. However, I'm not sure it is wise to include so much about Civil Rights in the article. Several sources accede the importance of the novel in the Civil Rights era, but they are also quick to point out that the novel has much more to it than racial injustice. In fact, a few sources say that when the book is only or primarily seen as a response to race relations, that analysis isn't deep enough. --Moni3 13:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)Moni3
- It might be best if you try and find some academic papers which look at TKAM, as some may look at the context surrounding the novel which would make it easier to cite things. Finding academic articles would be more for FA than for GA, but it would also make it easier to achieve GA. One book that looks decent, but which I don't have access to is "Understanding to Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents" by CD Johnston, 1994. -Malkinann 04:23, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
- I think in effect this means using {{cite web}} for each of the http links you have giving consistency of format. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 07:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)