Talk:Jacqueline Wilson

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As one of the most popular kids authors in the UK, a little more info on her background etc would be good. cool luke 17:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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I'm not sure that DC Thompson named it after her... an article in the Sunday Post (which I think is produced by DC Thompson) said it was just a common name. --Bearbear 16:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Love Lessons

Am I the only one who thought the huge paedophilic undertones in this book were a bit shocking? I know she excells at writing stuff that most authors wont touch with a 50 foot pole, but christ I think that was a bit much. - Ferret 16:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

But the part were her dad had a stroke was funny... who knew slag's underwear gave old men paralysis... Wikisquared 13:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

Merge the smaller article into the author's article. Tigresscrawl 23:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I have to disagree with the marger because there are several stubs of Wilson's books on Wiki. It would be silly to merge just one of them with this article. I suggest you either remove the merge or come up with a good reason/way to merge all the stubs into this article. Best regards, --rjcuk 16:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with rjuck. The Candyfloss stub is rather poor and maybe a copyvio. Perhaps it should be blanked and made into a redirect, however, there's no point merging the content of the stub into this article - that would be undue weight for only one of Wilson's many books.--woggly 16:36, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Good point, woggly. It is a copyvio. At least, I think it is. By doing a quick Google search for the first few words, I found out the text on Candyfloss is from the inside cover flap of the book. Is that copyright infringement or just - hey, wait, what is it? Well, whatever it is, it has already been written down on Amazon.co.uk, so, it has no home on Wiki (the minimum would be either an alternative summary or a link). Is it time to pull out Template:Copyvio? --rjcuk 12:08, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed "She lives..."

I have removed this:

She lives near London in a small house crammed with 15,000 books.

It it out of context being in the Awards section and has no citations. I will check the article history and verify the editor who wrote this - to ensure they read the Wikipedia Guidelines first. --rjcuk 15:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Here is the edit version: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacqueline_Wilson&diff=78264732&oldid=77504983 --rjcuk 16:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pointless Links in Bibliography

What's the point having the text for 'Sleepovers' (as in Wilson's book) link to an article about sleepovers? Why does 'secrets' lead to a dead-end disambiguation page that offers no further link to the work?

I'm removing the links that don't lead to an actual page ABOUT the book in question; these arbitrary links are frustrating and pointless. Gunstar hero 22:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

There are also other such links in the books - can someone work on them. eg kiss, beauty and the beast, candyfloss etc. Cutelittlekoala 14:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing works in bibliography

any idea why The Story of Tracy Beaker, heavily mentioned in the article, is not in the bibliography? What about The Dare Game? (can't insert them, don't know where they belong) --Alvestrand 14:29, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I've fixed what appeared to be vandalism - some links going to the wrong places, and some half-hearted vague slander.

Someone else might want to see if I missed anything.

Thanks.