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Nomination for merger of Template:Romeo and Juliet

Template:Romeo and Juliet has been nominated for merging with Template:Romeo and Juliet film adaptations. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:08, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Shakespeare's will#Link to Shakespeare's Signet Ring article

Very minor issue, but if you feel like having an opinion. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:08, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Misplaced Pages editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:01, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Feel like discussing the WP:LEADIMAGE at William Shakespeare?

Your view is welcome at Talk:William_Shakespeare#Lead_image. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Talk:The_Merchant_of_Venice#Plot_summary

More eyes welcome. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:33, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Also some vigorous editing going on. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:59, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Page moves

Asperthrow has recently moved the following articles per MOS:SURNAME, WP:TITLE.

1. Chronology of Shakespeare's plays → Chronology of William Shakespeare's plays
2. Portraits of Shakespeare → Portraits of William Shakespeare
3. Shakespeare authorship question → William Shakespeare authorship question
4. Shakespeare bibliography → William Shakespeare bibliography
5. Shakespeare's influence → William Shakespeare's influence
6. Shakespeare's plays → William Shakespeare's plays
7. Shakespeare's sonnets → William Shakespeare's sonnets
8. Shakespeare's writing style → William Shakespeare's writing style
9. Spelling of Shakespeare's name → Spelling of William Shakespeare's name
10. Timeline of Shakespeare criticism → Timeline of criticism of William Shakespeare and his works

Any thoughts? Some of them might be ok but others (e.g. #3) are very jarring. What should happen? Johnuniq (talk) 01:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Referring to an individual by their surname only upon their first mention is not what Misplaced Pages does. The titles should not be akin to those of scholarly articles, no matter how recognisable the name may be. Asperthrow (talk) 10:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Johnuniq this was a big change to make without any discussion (that I've seen). While I agree the new names are a bit clunkier, like Johnuniq I'd say number 3 is the only one I object to and would like to see reversed. AndyJones (talk) 11:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Agree that 3 is not good. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:39, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Ping @Xover if you feel like having an opinion. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:40, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think the new Shakespeare's sonnets is very good either. Like with SAQ, it's very WP:COMMONNAME, see for example . Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:11, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Previous discussions should have been consulted here because this has been proposed in various forms and rejected previously multiple times (i.e. these moves are against a standing consensus). In addition to #3 being outright incorrect (and obviously so, which makes that one kinda egregious) the rest are horribly stilted and artificial and not how these topics are referred to in any other context (as a reading aide: "Shakespeare" isn't used here as a surname, but as a topic; "Shakespeare studies" and "William Shakespeare studies" mean two completely different things). Please revert these moves. Xover (talk) 13:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)