Talk:Robbery Under Arms

Expansion & Missing Sections

I was working on this in a sandbox when the stub went up so I have added my work and the article structure in accordance with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate. I have blended the information from the stub with my work as best as possible, moving it into the appropriate sections. I have removed some empty template sections which will need to be filled and added back in. These are:

Section 2: Plot Summary - a more extended plot outline (with spoiler warning).
Section 4: Major Themes - thematic description (with end spoiler notice).
Section 8: Award & Nominations - not sure is this is applicable, but just in case.

I have also deleted the Trivia section but I don't think the article requires one. Have fun. xx baby_ifritah 11:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

References

I'm a newbie, so you'll see that some of the references are repeated in the list. I haven't figured out how to reference the same page in two different parts of the article yet. My personal preference for references in a bibliography and a separate reference/notes section but the article is not at that stage yet. Apologies, and thanks to whoever fixes this first. xx baby_ifritah 14:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Hanged vs Hung

Have a look at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hang and you will see the line: "He hanged himself from a beam in the attic." And if you look at this - http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/hanged-versus-hung.aspx - you'll see that people are "hanged". --Perry Middlemiss (talk) 11:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, not an easy one is it. See [[1]]. I made the change simply as the term seems to suggest a past action when this is a future, to be enacted event. If you have particularly strong opinion change it back however as the "Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage" pojnts out both are strictly speaking correct and the move to use "hanged" in this way (for capital punishment) is a relatively modern usage (take up of Priestleys idea in the 20thC) and yet one which is losing ground in recent usage. I will not bust a gut over the issue as both are acceptable. Cheers :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 08:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I was distracted by other Wikipedia events. If you have a look at the Gutenberg text version of the novel (as linked form the page), you'll see in chapter two the line "Patsey was hanged afterwards for bush-ranging and gold robbery,". I understand that this is a revised edition and this may not have been the word usage in the original but it is the one in use in current versions. So being consistent I would move to the usage of "hanged" rather than "hung". --Perry Middlemiss (talk) 01:23, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

FWIW I counted 22 mentions of hanged, but 6 of hung (including 3 quoting the saying "we may as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb")- so both are used, one lots more frequently. Several use "to be hanged"- the future, to be enacted event.

The postscript (last page of the pdf) suggests the revision from the original is abridging the original serial, and "it should be noted that this revision is the standard text that has been widely available since then". The reviser goes to some length to list even spelling corrections, so I suspect that no other changes were made. WotherspoonSmith (talk) 14:05, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

"Robbery Under Arms (1943 radio adaptation" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Robbery Under Arms (1943 radio adaptation has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 3 § Robbery Under Arms (1943 radio adaptation until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 17:51, 3 March 2024 (UTC)