Talk:Jane Austen

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Jane Austen article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: 2 months

This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Jane Austen has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 21, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 6, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed
April 11, 2016	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 16, 2016	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
August 18, 2016	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 18, 2017, July 18, 2020, and July 18, 2022.
Current status: Good article

Biography: Arts and Entertainment / Core

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group (assessed as Top-importance).
	This article is listed on the project's core biographies page.

England High‑importance

	England portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject EnglandTemplate:WikiProject EnglandEngland-related
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Hampshire High‑importance

	Hampshire portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hampshire, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Hampshire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HampshireWikipedia:WikiProject HampshireTemplate:WikiProject HampshireHampshire
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Romance Top‑importance

	Literature portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Romance, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to fictional romance in literature and romantic fiction writers. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.RomanceWikipedia:WikiProject RomanceTemplate:WikiProject Romanceromance
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women writers Top‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women writers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women writers on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women writersWikipedia:WikiProject Women writersTemplate:WikiProject Women writersWomen writers
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women's History High‑importance

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 11 January 2022 and 6 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Efrobe8700 (article contribs).

Jane Austen's age at death is wrong

She died at the age of 31, not 41 as described in this wiki article. She was born on the 16th of Dec 1775 and died July of 1817, 31 years later. 82.14.141.214 (talk) 16:18, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

31 years after 16 December 1775 is 16 December 1806 to 15 December 1807. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:29, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural Revoltion

The dates give for China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1969) are erroneous. The dates fixed for the Cultural Revolution by official historigraphy are 1966-1976. 2A01:CB1C:1253:C000:DD28:E209:159F:EDB2 (talk) 08:59, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, thanks. I've fixed it. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:16, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image 15/22 - odd accompanying text

the 15th image on this article shows the following text:

"Not sure when the renovation at the front finished but it's looking good, shot here in the evening. BTW, not sure if it's the framing or what but I can't seem to make it look straight!"

I'm wondering if that was the intended text to show with that image? The text has a more casual tone than the text attached to other images. Codymaxie (talk) 15:17, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Where is that exactly? I don't see any such text. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:33, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That was getting pulled in from the description on the Commons image here, which was autogenerated from the source. I've updated it, good catch. Ligaturama (talk) 16:32, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse my ignorance, but how did you fix that? I don't see any edit to the article after the time of Codymaxie's post here. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:20, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's a Commons image, and Codymaxie is quoting the original description on Commons. So I updated the description there (as an IP user, as I was logged out), and that's been reflected on File:Winchester Cathedral view 1.jpg.

I assume Codymaxie is using assistive technology or some other tool which communicates the image description. Of course if the issue is still present then hopefully they will say. Ligaturama (talk) 17:28, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed on my end - thanks for taking the time to do that! Codymaxie (talk) 17:32, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adaptations...

The recent Sanditon adaptation-ish is missing from this article, the Lede section and the Adaptations section.

Thank you for your time, Wordreader (talk) 18:50, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]