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Latest comment: 6 months ago by Chrismorey in topic Squealer
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"Classic"

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"George Orwell's own Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel about totalitarianism."

Is it ok to call something a "classic" as a factual statement in an encyclopedia? Or is it a subjective thing even in a case like "1984"? Isn't it against NPOV? I'm asking out of curiosity. Dornwald (talk) 00:18, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

That seems a bit POV and also unneeded; I've gone ahead and removed it. DonIago (talk) 02:03, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Dornwald (talk) 02:18, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Jesse?

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Narrator Jesse the dog is missing from character list 2600:1700:A240:17E0:4544:BF00:242:7078 (talk) 19:23, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Mentioned as being one of the parents of the puppies. What else do you feel should be included? DonIago (talk) 20:03, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Spoilers?

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The very first paragraph ends with "However, by the end of the novella, the rebellion is betrayed, and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a far worse state than it was before.[7]"

I believe it is very wrong. I haven't read that book yet and wanted to see some context in Wikipedia. I never wanted any spoilers though.

There are special sections like "Plot" that describe works of art, including its ending. To put the end in the first paragraph is not what Wikipedia usually does. I suggest (re)moving that sentence without an explicit spoiler alert.

Yaroslav Nikitenko (talk) 20:27, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

WP:SPOILER. If you don't want to be spoiled, I recommend not reading an encyclopedia article about a work of fiction. DonIago (talk) 20:34, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Squealer

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The article describes him as a 'boar', i.e. an entire male. If my memory serves, the point is made that Napoleon is the only boar on the farm after Snowball has been expelled, and hence the sire of any piglets produced thereafter. The correct term for Squealer is, I believe, a barrow pig. Chrismorey (talk) 11:31, 29 January 2026 (UTC)Reply