Talk:Aunt Dahlia

This article was nominated for deletion on 20 January 2007. The result of bundle AFD of 22 articles was No consensus: Renominate seperately.

Source material for description of voice?

Re: "[S]he tend[s] to address one as if half a mile away, and can emit a yelp that could be heard in the next county":

Besides being "unencyclopedic" in tone, this sentence sounds lifted from a passage somewhere in Wodehouse's work, although its grammatical errors and inconsistencies suggest some degree of intentional or unintentional alteration. (Explanation: errors introduced during retyping as opposed to copying/pasting?)

I've flagged this sentence as "citation needed" both because the quotation needs verification and because it seems a bit unfair to Wodehouse to take credit for his words even as one uses/parrots them to describe one of his characters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.176.7.3 (talk) 22:12, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have rewritten the sentence to base it on descriptions of Aunt Dahlia found in the canonical works "Bertie Wooster Sees it Through" and "The Code of the Woosters."

An interesting thing is that the sentence (as quoted in the first line of this section) is similar to one found in the James Oliver Curwood novel, Nomads of the North:

"If Noozak had lost a part of her strength in her old age her voice, at least, was still unimpaired, and such a spasm of outcry as she emitted could have been heard at least half a mile away. Note this novel also uses the word yelp 12 times. Sp3lly (talk) 11:57, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]