Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of Jane Austen

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The list was promoted 16:52, 20 March 2008.

Timeline of Jane Austen[edit]

Co-nomination by Simmaren and Awadewit

The first in a series of articles about Jane Austen that we are working on, this timeline is modeled on Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft. It has gone through peer reviews here and here. We believe that it meets the featured list criteria and look forward to the further improvements that this process will bring. Awadewit | talk 21:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support An excellent and well researched resource for anyone studying her life. It is a shame the family tree isn't readable as-is. A combination of two things might help make that work: increase the size to 350 and replace with an SVG where the font is carefully chosen for readability at small size. User:Fvasconcellos knows a thing or two about SVG diagrams, so you could ask him. The table column headings might benefit from highlighting e.g., with a light-grey background. They get a bit lost among the white otherwise. Oh, and I still think the pics should have alt-text (for tooltips) like "Steventon church" or "Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds." I'm nit-picking... Colin°^Talk 22:17, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've increased the size of the family trees. See what you think.
I've left a note with User:Fvasconcellos but it may be a while before s/he can help us as s/he has just moved.

This is done now. Awadewit | talk 02:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On my screen, the column headings look like they already have light-grey shading. Should the color be changed to a darker grey?
Could you leave a message on my talk page explaining how to do the alt-text? Thanks! Awadewit | talk 00:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question/Comment

If it's placing the life and works of Austin against those of other authors, politics and what-not, why are there entries for 1769, '70, '72, '76, '78, '80, and '81?

We included the lives of her family, as they were very important to her (see introduction to list). We decided to include works and political events from these early years because they would obviously have influenced her life and works, even though they happened before she was born or while she was young. For example, she was influenced by the sentimental writing of Sterne. Awadewit | talk 14:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Some of the entries under "Literary History" for these early years represent known influences, e.g., the works of Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole, and Laurence Sterne. The rest of the entries under "Literary History" and "Political History" for this period (as elsewhere) are intended to provide context for the reader as well as to suggest the milieu in which Austen was raised and lived. Because of the scarcity of biographical material concerning Austen, "likely influences" is a much broader category than "known influences." Simmaren (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the 1790s onwards, the column for Austen could do with being wider, as there is a lot of information being squeezed into this fairly narrow area.

I thought it would look odd to have one column wider for part of the list and I'm not even sure how to do this. Do you know how? Let's see how it looks. Awadewit | talk 14:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other than that, the information looks good. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 05:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Well done, organized, and referenced. In the interest of full disclosure, I made the map for this Timeline. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - cc bm ao? MOJSKA 666 (msg) 08:22, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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