Talk:And Then There Were None/Archive 3
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Sixth best selling book of all time
This is referenced to this article (referred to as the "How Stuff Works" page), dated 19 December 2011. The figures are from the contemporaneous version of our list List of best-selling books.
This problem (and various similar web pages using, without citing. that WP article) has been known for some time on the talk page of the article, and covered in both The Signpost and the Times Literary Supplement.
I'm removing this claim, please let me know if you find any truly reliable sources for the numbers sold.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:18, 25 October 2020 (UTC).
- Sorry I restored it. You deleted a reference used again inside the article, apparently, which a bot fixed. I added the sentences back in. I am not sure I follow your post above, as to "the talk page of the article". Which article? The version of List of best-selling books now up on Wikipedia lists no book by Agatha Christie at all as selling even 10 million copies. I will leave this to others, not wanting to hunt for publisher data, so hard to find online. --Prairieplant (talk) 16:33, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Umineko When They Cry
There was a small edit war a few months ago over the icnludsion of Umineko When They Cry in the Possible Inspirations section. I was not imvolved in it. I do believe that the entire paragraph does not belong in that section, which is about early works that may have inspired Christie. The Umineko content is about the reverse - how Christie was an inspiration for the later Japanese work. If anything, this might be worth a bullet point in a new section, e.g., cultiral references or legacy, but no more than that. Dovid (talk) 21:29, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
An anonymous editor restructured it. Dovid (talk) 15:05, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
True location?
I am editing this, mainly because I didn't enjoy asking it, but, is the island based on a real life island? If Christie holidayed on an island that was too dangerous to get to and from by swimming, sounds like good inspiration for a murder mystery. Middle More Rider (talk) 23:42, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- Schmoop thinks it is based on a real island, but it is not part of the description of the novel on the official Agatha Christie website. Without a reliable source, and I do not consider Schmoop a reliable source as it had no footnote as to where they learned this, I would not add this to the article. If this is included in a biography about the author, that might be a reliable source. - - Prairieplant (talk) 20:21, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
Missing movie adaption
Whilst it's not a direct adaption I think the film Identity (2003) has enough in common to maybe considered adding 81.187.69.130 (talk) 14:41, 30 July 2023 (UTC)