Talk:Too Many Cooks (novel)

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On 24 December 2014, it was proposed that this article be moved from Too Many Cooks to Too Many Cooks (novel). The result of the discussion was moved.

Image[edit]

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{{reqimage}} it would help book cover. --Help911 12:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

now included. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Notes on infobox[edit]

I've modified the infobox content to conform with the novels project style guidelines, which indicate that the infobox should describe "only the media types in which the novel was originally available. For example, eighteenth-century novels were never published in 'hardback and paperback' nor in audiobook so it is inappropriate to list those print subtypes." Since the Nero Wolfe books (1934–1975) were originally available in hardcover, and only later published in other formats, the infoboxes for these Rex Stout novels and novella collections are being amended to read "Print (Hardcover)" -- with "Media type" describing only the first-edition printing. The image I uploaded is clearly a first edition and requires no caption as now the infobox describes the first edition exclusively.

I've restored the ISBN, which had been deleted from the infobox (ISBN is to read "NA"), in a section of the article headed "Release details." This section describes subsequent (available) releases of the book.

The genre in the infobox for all the Nero Wolfe books is being listed as Detective fiction, a classification that includes both the novels and the novella collections. Novels and novella collections are clearly differentiated from each other in the articles' lead paragraphs, and in categories that appear at the bottom of the articles. -- WFinch 11:54, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When the spine of the book jacket is included in the infobox image, I've sized it at 260 pixels wide instead of 200. — WFinch 13:34, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Siderodromophobia[edit]

I agree that a red link is particularly useless when it is itself an unfamiliar word. When I first wrote the plot summary, I did not link it -- some anonymous editor did that, and I suppose that the link had an existing target at that time. Still, I think that the use of the word is apt in a summary of a Wolfe plot, and I have restored the word, but not the busted link. TurnerHodges (talk) 00:35, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reviews and Commentary[edit]

Not in a position to do it myself right now, but the list should be rewritten as normal prose, preferably in order of the reviews. For instance there is a New Yorker review from the year the book was released that probably shoud start the section.

As an aside, with all the info, including reviews for separate notability, shouldn't this article be at least start rather than stub by now? IMHO (talk) 20:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 December 2014[edit]

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The result of the move request was: both pages moved. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

– Simply put, I don't believe that this novel is unambiguously the primary encyclopedic meaning of "Too Many Cooks", even excluding the saying this phrase originates from. Nor are the other options. "Too Many Cooks" without further disambiguation ought to be a disambiguation page. 209.211.131.181 (talk) 04:54, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support the dab page should also link to Wikiquote's wikiquote:English_proverbs_(alphabetically_by_proverb) which lists "too many cooks spoil the broth" -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 06:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom and the IP above. Dicklyon (talk) 04:35, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Race relations[edit]

The article says, "Race relations become an issue." They are an issue beginning in Chapter 1, when Archie comments on train passengers "who had been calling porters George for thirty years" and then Chapter 2 begins with the assertion by the house detective at Kanawha that n-----s had been throwing rocks. The entire book, except for the cooking, is about this. Rex Stout knew what he was saying here. Wastrel Way (talk) 01:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC) Eric[reply]