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The list was promoted by Giants2008 21:13, 20 August 2014 [1].

List of works by W. Somerset Maugham edit

Featured list candidates/List of works by W. Somerset Maugham/archive1

Nominator(s): SchroCat (talk) 15:45, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

W. Somerset Maugham was one of the most prolific and high-profile English writers of the 20th century, who is known to have been a strong influence on George Orwell, Ian Fleming and Anthony Burgess. A doctor, member of the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps (during the First World War) and MI6 operative (in Russia during the revolution), he was the most commercially successful and gifted writers of his time. This bibliography has been cleaned up from the rather messy state it was previously, been brought into line with MOS requirements, and is now fully sourced throughout. – SchroCat (talk) 15:45, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support – now fully FL compliant. A tricky and complicated topic handled with great skill. (Rather better than the treacherous old ratbag deserves, but when all is said, he was a great story teller, and this does him justice.) Tim riley talk 18:10, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks - your time and effort going over this are much appreciated! - SchroCat (talk) 19:26, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support – a very user-friendly, attractively laid-out and informative list. I thought the Lead, too, managed to combine biography and the scope of his writings/of the list very well, only there's just one sentence I was not sure about: "Maugham also acted as editor on a number of works, which often included adding a preface or introductory chapter to the work of other editors." - should this read "the work of other writers"? Altogether, though, an excellent piece of work. Alfietucker (talk) 20:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed it should the "work of other writers"! (Now tweaked). Many thanks for spotting that, and for taking the time to look this over: it's much appreciated. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 20:59, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Cassianto (talk)

====Comments from Cass====

"Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practiced professionally as his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, was published the same year he qualified." -- Is the punctuation right here? did his first novel practice professionally? Or maybe his first novel was a doctor too and Maugham wanted to practice professionally just like it? Do you get what I mean? Lol
"A year after his novel was published Maugham..." -- First? Third? Fifty-fith? I don't think we need to name it as we end the first para with it (assuming of course that it is his first novel of which we speak, but indicating exactly which novel would nail it.
"Maugham also acted as editor..." Two things: Does one act as an editor, or are they actually the editor? (i.e, Joe Bloggs acted as the director; no, he was the director).
" In 1903 Maugham's..." Could get away with a pronoun here seeing as we speak of only him in the previous sentence.
Nice link to Sir George's debuting theatre! :)
"...and with the development of cinema, his novels and stories were also adapted for the big screen." -- "later" would, IMO, be better suited somewhere within that sentence. It must have been at least 20 years since cinema came along.
"By the time of his death in 1965 Maugham was one of the most commercially successful and gifted writers of the twentieth century, according to Bryan Connon, his biographer; and The Times..." Although im sure of its legitimacy, I can't help but wonder if a semi-colon clashes with a conjunction here. I would delete the later (I know how you like your clauses :)
The image in "Plays" section causes a huge amount of white space on an iPad. Is this one of those cases where it is the monitor at fault as opposed to the actual layout? Cassianto ^talk 21:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Cassianto: all covered now, I think, with the exception of the whitespace on the iPad, which Ive seen on other articles too. Setting images to "upright" size gets rid of most of the problem (normally-sized images throughout mean that all the tables have whitespace issues on iPads), but there are always some, normally on wider tables, where the image is still squeezed upwards because of the text of the table, unfortunately. - SchroCat (talk) 08:50, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support – per above resolved comments. A tremendous effort! Cassianto ^talk 19:08, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks: your thoughts and efforts are, as always, much appreciated. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 19:46, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Well-written and very well-sourced list, excellent lead as well. --Carioca (talk) 19:33, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks - your time and effort going over this are much appreciated! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 21:13, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:38, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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