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Thanks for your input on Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

Thanks for your updates!

I made a small change to our edit. Based on her bibliography, Tonna is more notable as a evangelicist and as a poet than as a children's writer, so I (re-) added these to her "genres."

We have another small discrepancy: She is listed as a "Victorian author." However, she died less than five year after the beginning of Victoria's reign, and almost all of her work was written prior to Victoria's reign. I'm not sure that Tonna qualifies as "Victorian." Comment? -Arch dude (talk) 01:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

That's cool. I'm new to wikipedia and for now most of my editing is just based on conformity rather than 'researching' or 'accuracy', but those two will come in time once I get settled. When I joined a few days ago Tonna was already listed as a Victorian so I just used that even though it seemed weird. In comparison to another writer already listed (Barbauld), I actually made a comment on how she died over 10 years before Victoria's reign?!

For now, I'm just trying to bring conformity in the layout of all the people in the template. As you can see, I'm not actually spending too much time on each person rather I'm trying to unify the Victorians as best I can. It's kinda tricky. I'm noticing lots of confusing technicalities, Tonna, for example, in the article is Protestant while her categories are Anglican? Genres versus Themes? Novelist vs Writer vs Author? Also, lots of the place names have changed so I have to go by historic English countries and Imperial names of countries.

VictorianChild (talk) 03:35, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Hi VictorianChild - a lot of the Victorian illustrator pages don't have infoboxes for a reason. I don't know if you're aware, but infoboxes are not mandatory, and often considered quite unsightly. You might want to have a look at WP:DISINFOBOX. At the least the image should be integrated in the infobox. Just thought you might be interested. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 20:51, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, no real need in really small articles or articles without the picture of the illustrator. I can understand how they can be "unsightly" in that sense, but overall, I don't see how. Anyways, I realized the disinfoboxes effect in the articles of Dalziel, Hall, Millar, and Rackham. Those could be removed no problem. If the case is "Disinfoboxes are infobox templates which add no value to articles." (WP:DISINFO) then it's very counter-intuitive for most infoboxes I see contain the information in the first paragraph of the article and the beginning and ending info in the biography section. I would think, by definition, the infobox is always redundant. A good example would be Lewis Carroll, despite the length of the article, the intro paragraph is basically the infobox in word form. Btw, I didn't make that box.VictorianChild (talk) 21:53, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 22:31, 14 March 2011 (UTC)