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== Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2024 == |
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== Vegetarianism == |
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5th paragraph, "Until the 1970s", should perhaps be changed to "until the 1850's" or "For the rest of her life", since Mary died in 1853. ] (]) 23:50, 4 May 2024 (UTC) |
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Any interest in NOT suppressing discussion of Mary Shelley's vegetarianism, although it seems to be common practice throughout the Misplaced Pages project? ] (]) 19:57, 26 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:] '''Not done:'''<!-- Template:ESp --> I don't see a correlation between the time of her death and what she has been known for historically by researchers and scholars. —](]) 00:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC) |
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:Suggest an edit and some reliable sources I guess?--] (]) 22:29, 26 January 2018 (UTC) |
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::Mary and Percy repeatedly advocated and promoted vegetarianism in their writings. Perhaps the term 'promoters of vegetarianism' would be more 'evidence-based' and therefore acceptable to the interested sets of Misplaced Pages editors. The current Misplaced Pages articles on ] and ] and ] assert as much about them, with their sets of putative 'evidence'. More wholesome ways to be vegetarian may exist and may have existed throughout Western history, as I personally have often claimed and still believe, specifically in religious contexts. However, if establishing a person's vegetarian dietary practice is going to require such a high standard, perhaps we can hold that same far higher standard to claims that Der Fuhrer was vegetarian (which a current Misplaced Pages article on ] seems to claim, contrary to all negative historical research by those who think that Hitler really wasn't vegetarian. See ], which claims that "Towards the end of his life, ] (1889 – 1945) followed a ] diet." We don't know what was intended when that word 'vegetarian' was used, but we know what organizations of practicing lacto-ovo or vegan vegetarians meant when they called themselves 'vegetarian'. "It is well known that Hitler is a vegetarian and does not drink or smoke. His lunch and dinner consist, therefore, for the most part of soup, eggs, vegetables and mineral water, although he occasionally relishes a slice of ham and relieves the tediousness of his diet with such delicacies as caviar ...".<ref>(New York Times Article: 'At Home with the Fuhrer.' 30 May 1937. Otto D. Tolschuss (1937). "Where Hitler Dreams and Plans" - New York Times, 30 May 1937)</ref> IMO, that string of words does not describe a practicing vegetarian of any consistency worthy of the term. But perhaps we could agree to see this claim as a significant historical dispute, but if 'birthers' or other 'denialists' today doubt something that stands on less evidence, they are politically 'shouted down' as if 'they lacked the brains they were born with.' ] (]) 23:44, 26 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::If Mary "repeatedly advocated and promoted vegetarianism" perhaps you should easily be able to produce some references that support that. Note, someone's husband advocating vegetarianism, or having character in her book be a vegetarian aren't that. I really don't care if she is or no and it's entirely possible that she was, but for us to say "she was a vegetarian" rather than "her husband advocated vegetarianism" or "Frankenstein's monster was a vegetarian" there needs to be actual evidence for it. An article about Hitler is a completely ] - go edit that if there isn't adequate evidence for him being vegetarian.--] (]) 13:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC) |
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::: No one here is interested in suppressing discussion. However, the burden is on you to back your claims with high-quality sources and if you consider burden of proof to be "suppressing discussion" then we can't help you. --] ] 13:47, 27 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::: It's not MY goal in life (to argue this literary point). So much seeming hearsay pervades what humans write, even if they are widely regarded and well-read. Some of the (putative) 'facts' are authored by what become known as 'lightweights' in academic circles. However, my personal goals would be more concerned with and aligned with the determination of facts in the natural sciences relevant to the practice of whole foods plant-based diets that could be evidence-based rather than ideological. I think that efforts of social scientists (including historians) to determine facts may involve somewhat orthogonal but not entirely different skill sets. But along the way, I notice what appears to be a great deal of seeming interest in holding mention of one's interests in their own customized forms of vegetarianism to a higher standard of proof or verifiability. I already noted the other Misplaced Pages articles which make such statements about the Shelleys. I suspect that denialists have an implied 'burden of proof' to establish that the couple was a mixed coupled (bound together only by sexuality and not by ideas or values). That's a complex phenomenon if the vegetarian community of practice had ostracized (free love advocate?) Percy so that he could not find another vegetarian and ended up with a mere concubine who may have been fascinated with the idea, but not sufficiently to adopt the practice in her own life. |
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:::: However, we can read that a Shelley Society was organized in London and that ] became its secretary. However, whether or not Mary Shelley practiced a strictly vegetarian diet is not pertinent to the (hopefully evidence-based) choices I make in 2018 on what (plants) to eat (and why). ] (]) 19:25, 27 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::: However, one might look at , published to mark the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's novel ]. The Misplaced Pages article on that book also fails to mention (putative) vegetarian themes' {which we think been intended by ] (1797–1851)}.<ref></ref> |
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:::: Perhaps Mary was not in fact truly a committed and consistently practicing vegetarian, but one could only hope (in the spirit of truth-seeking) that the entangling uncertainties that her intimacies of thought and body suggest could be untangled with scholarship, however (ir)relevant later seeming 'scholarship' on this topic might (*not) prove to be(come). The dietary truths of her historical actions? Time, circumstance, resource limitations, interest limitations, and shortage of critical acumen might prevent our seeing through that miasma as clearly as Wikipedian editors could wish. Oh, well. ] (]) 19:49, 27 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::It's a small thing, but from her in 1824 (emphasis mine): "Absolutely, my dear Hunt, I will pass some three summer months in this divine spot, you shall all be with me. There are no gentlemen’s seats at Palazzi, so we will take a cottage, which we will paint and refit, just as this country here is, in which I now write, clean and plain. We will have no servants, only we will give out all the needlework. Marianne shall make puddings and pies, to make up for the vegetables and '''meat''' which I shall boil and spoil. Thorny shall sweep the rooms, Mary make the beds, Johnny clean the kettles and pans, and then we will pop him into the many streams hereabouts, and so clean him. Swinny, being so quick, shall be our Mercury, Percy our gardener, Sylvan and Percy Florence our weeders, and Vincent our plaything; and then, to raise us above the vulgar, we will do all our work, keeping time to Hunt’s symphonies; we will perform our sweepings and dustings to the March in ''Alceste'', we will prepare our '''meats''' to the tune of the ''Laughing Trio'', and when we are tired we will lie on our turf sofas, while all our voices shall join in chorus in ''Notte e giorno faticar''. You see my paper is quite out, so I must say, for the last time, Adieu! God bless you." And while ], couples can have different beliefs or values without calling one of them a "mere concubine."--] (]) 22:48, 27 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::: If she lived until 1851, that was 27 years before her death at 53 - more than the half-way point in her life. Claims about ']' are far LESS rigorously defended, and we have plenty of evidence that he didn't follow a plant-based diet consistently, though Wikipedians seem to want to say that Hitler was vegetarian. I wonder whether the only 'take-away' from this discussion might concern the precariousness of 'single-issue ethics' and diet as 'an ethically relevant factor' but not a guarantor of ethical ] in the behavior of the historically-existing biological individual. ] (]) 00:55, 28 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::::Again, the Hitler article is completely irrelevant, but as far as I can tell, it has a ''lot'' more evidence than there is for Mary. Show me her contemporaries describing her as a vegetarian, or her describing herself as a vegetarian, or writing anything that explicitly advocated vegetarianism. I've shown you evidence for eating meat, and all you've provided is Percy and unsupported speculation about how many values a married couple have to share, but he'd been dead for two years at the point of that diary entry.--] (]) 13:50, 29 January 2018 (UTC) |
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::::::::Unless someone has a source to cite about Mary Shelley being a vegetarian, I'm going to close this topic. ] (]) 04:44, 30 January 2018 (UTC) |
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What were the other three stories?] (]) 22:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC) |
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In the ] section, please change "The story has been fictionalised several times..." to "The story of the writing of ''Frankenstein'' has been fictionalised several times", to make clear that it is not ''Frankenstein'' itself that is being referred to. ] (]) 23:05, 30 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:] '''Done'''<!-- Template:ESp --> ] ] ] 23:28, 30 January 2018 (UTC) |
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== Semi-protected edit request on 21 August 2024 == |
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== Request for an Infobox == |
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] is a person, therefore she requires an infobox . The infobox would be useful because it gives information to people like me, who take notes on people related to Shelley, but not Shelley herself, but do not want to scroll to the bottom of Shelley's article for her burial (date and place), legacy, etc. |
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Change "The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour which killed her at the age of 53." to "The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour that ultimately led to her death at the age of 53. |
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] (]) 00:44, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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Why: The current version leads the reader into a garden path, making them wonder how could a person die twice? Once at the age of 53 and then again at another age, even if momentarily, it does not provide any other advantages over the edited version. Meannwhile the edited version would eliminate this garden path by adding the word "ultimately" ] (]) 14:56, 21 August 2024 (UTC) |
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:] '''Not done:''' please provide ] that support the change you want to be made.<!-- Template:ESp --> ⸺(])] 20:25, 21 August 2024 (UTC) |
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:I see no garden path. She died once, aged 53, from a brain tumour. ] (]) 08:46, 29 August 2024 (UTC) |
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== About the intro == |
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] (]) 01:00, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:{{u|Vincentupsdellred}}, please see the discussion above concerning this which was closed by {{u|Alex Shih}} very recently (just over a week ago in fact) as 'no consensus'. Thanks. ] - ] 08:47, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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::Closed a little quickly I thought, though perhaps that was mostly because it also degenerated pretty quickly. Leaving it open might allow consensus to eventually build one way or the other. 14:08, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::Perhaps we've had enough disruption on this topic for now? Surely there are other fires to put out on Misplaced Pages and we can let this one cool off for a few weeks before opening another RFC. --] ] 14:39, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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::::That wasn't really a RFC, but I don't see the harm in leaving it an open issue indefinitely instead of quickly sweeping it under the rug.--] (]) 15:15, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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::::: You don't see the harm other than the multiple admin board threads and ArbCom cases around infobox disruptions? Of course, feel free to ignore my suggestion and keep picking at this scab. --] ] 15:36, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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::::::Sorry {{u|Sagaciousphil}}. I thought this time it might go over better than last time? Cheers, ] (]) 17:22, 31 January 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::::I realise that this thread is a few months old, however as a "normal" Misplaced Pages user the lack of infobox was the first thing I noticed when I opened the article and I actually double checked the title of the article thinking that I'd mistakenly clicked on the wrong link. Realising it was indeed the right page my second thought was that it was an incomplete stub about Mary Shelley and that was why nobody had bothered to add an infobox. The fact that the lack of infobox was the first thing I noticed about the page demonstrates how common they are on Misplaced Pages and that people expect them on the articles they read. In my opinion, the ] seem to come from an elitist group of regular Misplaced Pages editors who would appear to believe that they are far superior to the rest of us "normal" users; and insist on Misplaced Pages being used in the way they see as "proper", rather than looking at how Misplaced Pages is actually used by most people. Stubbornly sticking to what you believe is the "right" way of doing things, rather than listening to what your users actually want, is a surefire way of losing users and comes across as incredibly immature. ] (]) 11:14, 29 April 2018 (UTC) |
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::::::::Hmmmm... a "new" user who knows about an eight year old RfC? And one who is happy to label people with opposing opinions as "immature"? - ] (]) 15:09, 29 April 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::::::New users are capable of searching archives.--] (]) 13:43, 1 May 2018 (UTC) |
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::::::::::...and seemingly incapable of knowing what a consensus is. '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px Black;">]<sup>]</sup></span>''' 13:53, 1 May 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::::::::Oh no, people talk about it once and a while, what a terrible disruption.--] (]) 14:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC) |
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::::::::::::Nah - their very first post is on a contentious point, and they have discovered an eight-year-old RfC? All that and they didn't find the various discussions on the archives of ''this'' article? I just don't buy that at all. Quack quack quack... - ] (]) 14:43, 1 May 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::::::::::Of course, that they never claimed to ''be'' a new user.--] (]) 15:09, 1 May 2018 (UTC) |
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:Please don't add an infobox to this article. It is perfect just as it is. --] (] · ] · ]) 13:38, 1 May 2018 (UTC) |
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Interesting: the Percy Shelley page intro has 3 paragraphs of literary history and then 1 paragraph of personal history. The Mary Shelley page intro has 3 paragraphs of personal history and 2 of literary history. |
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== Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's creation == |
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I think the personal history in Mary's introduction could very easily be condensed - there's a lot of detail there. Then perhaps the long literary history paragraph could be expanded out into 2 paragraphs? ] (]) 08:33, 29 August 2024 (UTC) |
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Mary Shelley wrote the novel''Frankenstein'', has lots of movies base off it. The first one, was in the same title as the novel, was released at 1931, and fellow good actor, Boris Karloff,acts as ''Frankenstein's monster''. Then, after that it got popular, and Frankenstein's monster was known as 'Frankenstein,' which is the person who brought the monster to life (in the book and movie) It is about a crazy scientist named Henry "Victor" Frankenstein, who made a whole new soul that he made come to life. The monster that he brought to life had an assistant, and the assistant brought Henry the wrong brain; he brought the abnormal brain instead of the normal. Then, you will have to read the book or watch the movie to find out. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 04:08, 13 February 2018 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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Change "The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour which killed her at the age of 53." to "The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour that ultimately led to her death at the age of 53.
Why: The current version leads the reader into a garden path, making them wonder how could a person die twice? Once at the age of 53 and then again at another age, even if momentarily, it does not provide any other advantages over the edited version. Meannwhile the edited version would eliminate this garden path by adding the word "ultimately" TheCosmos999 (talk) 14:56, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
Interesting: the Percy Shelley page intro has 3 paragraphs of literary history and then 1 paragraph of personal history. The Mary Shelley page intro has 3 paragraphs of personal history and 2 of literary history.
I think the personal history in Mary's introduction could very easily be condensed - there's a lot of detail there. Then perhaps the long literary history paragraph could be expanded out into 2 paragraphs? Kansaikiwi (talk) 08:33, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
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Not done: I don't see a correlation between the time of her death and what she has been known for historically by researchers and scholars. —Sirdog (talk) 00:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)