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This maintenance index records specific editorial work and routes to the wiki's maintenance reports. It is a working list, not an automatic monitor. Items should be dated and checked again before editing, because other contributors may already have resolved them.

Completed: corrections and quotations on evidence, access and interpretation

On 27 October 2026, eight older articles were revised with verified quotations and contextual analysis:

Each quotation identifies its author or speaker, work, consulted text or translation, and chapter, section, line or passage. The readings distinguish source content from editorial interpretation. Eleven companion pages provide fifteen contextual links: Rumpelstiltskin, The Goose Girl, The Emperor's New Clothes, Puss in Boots, The Golden Goose, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Urashima Taro, Frankenstein, The Tiger Raised by Goats, Fields, Dreams, Metaphor and Interpretation.

Corrections distinguish the 1857 chapati circulation from later dates and unsupported conspiracy claims; Jay’s invisible ink from a lemon-juice account; Trithemius’s separate works; documented field idioms from fixed diagnostic interpretations; Leibniz’s projects from a completed universal code; rainbow optics and specific literary uses from invented idioms; physical vacuum from enclosure and isolation; Egyptian museum evidence from assumed sources for Baum; and the two Chaucer tales’ competing voices, actions and outcomes from flattened morals.

All nineteen article edits were previewed and checked after publication for saved-text agreement, rendered citations, article links and reciprocal section targets. Existing images, videos, categories and legacy heading targets were retained. This review does not certify every older claim on the companion pages.

Completed: corrections and quotations on agency, recognition and participation

On 27 October 2026, eight older articles were revised with verified quotations and contextual analysis:

Each quotation identifies its speaker or author, work, consulted text or translation, and relevant chapter, scene, section or passage. The readings distinguish source content from editorial interpretation. Eleven companion pages provide fifteen reciprocal contextual links: Frankenstein, The Little Match Girl, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Pachisi, The Odyssey, Mahabharata, The Bremen Town Musicians, The Golden Goose.

Corrections distinguish sources for Prometheus and the phoenix; early creation accounts from later Prague golem traditions; cloud physics from perception and religious narrative; automobile manufacturing history from invention and fictional adaptations; rhetorical description from unsupported psychological inference; the medieval queen’s identity from the history of her moves; specific religious passages about dogs from blanket cultural claims, and modelled rabies mortality from reported counts; and physical room at a table from invitation and participation. Unsupported historical, physiological and idiomatic claims were removed or replaced with attributed, limited statements.

All nineteen article edits were previewed and checked after publication for saved-text agreement, rendered citations, article links and reciprocal section targets. Existing images, videos, categories and legacy heading anchors were retained. The review does not certify every existing claim elsewhere on the linked story pages.

Completed: corrections and quotations on routes, work and evidence

On 27 October 2026, eight older articles were revised with verified quotations and contextual analysis:

The eight quotations identify their speaker or author, work, consulted edition or translation, and relevant chapter, scene, stanza, page or verse. Readings distinguish source content from editorial interpretation. Nine story pages now provide reciprocal contextual links: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Pilgrim's Progress, Dracula, The Wild Swans, The Odyssey, Mahabharata, The Snow Queen, The Fisherman and His Wife, Puss in Boots.

Corrections address claims that tunnels eliminate choice; leech biology and medical indications; early burial evidence and the boxing origin of saved by the bell; the Odyssey’s unnamed Muse and Hesiod’s account of poetic authority; unsupported Pachisi chronology and esoteric systems; Trevithick’s 1804 locomotive and the Shinkansen’s 1964 opening; Siloam’s New Testament setting and nautical spelling; and field imagery, access to land and Pongal’s January timing. Unsupported quotations, blanket cultural assertions and invented idiom explanations were removed or replaced with limited, attributed claims.

All seventeen article edits were previewed and checked after publication for saved-text agreement, rendered citations, article links and reciprocal section targets. Existing images, categories and companion-page videos were retained. Legacy heading anchors remain on the rebuilt pages, including the second Early Years heading on Trains. The review does not certify every existing claim elsewhere on the linked story pages.

Completed: eight source-based corrections and close readings

On 27 October 2026, eight older pages were substantially revised around identifiable sources:

Each includes one checked quotation identifying its speaker or narrative voice, work, consulted translation or edition, and chapter, book, section or verse. Analysis follows the passage in context and distinguishes editorial comparisons from claims of historical influence. Ten story pages provide reciprocal contextual links: Dracula, The Golden Goose, Faust and The Deal with The Devil, The Bremen Town Musicians, Babies in Baskets Floating Down Rivers, Snow White, The Sleeping Beauty, Frankenstein, Swallowed by a Fish/Whale, The Pilgrim's Progress.

Corrections include an unsupported Poe attribution; mixed angelic traditions and misassigned Goetia ranks; over-simple accounts of the Mahabharata’s ethics and ending; the river at New Orleans and the extent of the Canal du Midi; conflation of poison, forbidden fruit and different fairy-tale awakenings; Hector’s wound and the difference between breath and breathe; and shoulder anatomy, Atlas’s load and Jacob’s injury. Unsupported idiom origins, purported quotations and sweeping cultural assertions were removed or replaced with attributed, limited claims.

All eighteen article edits were previewed and checked after publication for matching saved text, rendered references, article links and reciprocal section targets. Existing article images and companion-page videos were retained, with legacy heading anchors on the rebuilt pages. The revised content does not certify every claim on the linked story pages.

Completed: corrections and quotations on control, responsibility and escape

On 27 October 2026, eight pages received verified quotations, contextual analysis and relevant story connections:

Swallowed by a Fish/Whale was rebuilt around identified passages in Jonah, Collodi and Melville. The correction restores Pinocchio’s escape with Geppetto and the Tunny’s subsequent help, distinguishes the novel’s Shark from other adaptations, removes an unsupported purported quotation and unsupported cross-cultural summaries, and replaces invented idiom origins with documented dictionary senses. Its images and legacy Pinnochio section anchor remain available.

The Living Death Metaphor replaces unsupported whole-work generalisations with sourced readings of Eliot, Perrault and Stoker. Theseus and the Minotaur makes the cited version’s explanation of the unchanged sails explicit. Other additions distinguish support from control, a creature’s self-explanation from authorial judgement, ritual transfer from false accusation, literal coercion from figurative threats, and agreement from affection and institutional recognition.

Quotations identify the speaker, work, consulted translation or edition, and chapter, section or verse. Austin’s and Campbell’s interpretations remain attributed to their respective published discussions. The story comparisons are editorial readings, not claims that those authors analysed the compared tales.

13 contextual reciprocal links were added across eleven story pages: Moby Dick, The Red Shoes, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Frankenstein, Beauty and The Beast, The Wild Swans, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, The Sleeping Beauty, Dracula, The Frog Prince.

All 19 article edits were previewed and checked after publication for matching saved text, rendered references and working article and section links. Existing images and videos were retained. The swallowing article’s planned restructuring was checked separately from additions that retain existing headings. This is a focused correction and enrichment record, not certification of every retained claim.

Completed: quotations on ritual, transition and symbolism

On 27 October 2026, eight pages received verified quotations, precise source attribution and contextual analysis:

The quotations are drawn from Turner’s Liminality and Communitas, Campbell’s published interview with Moyers, Andersen’s Little Mermaid, the King James Bible, Jacobs’s Three Little Pigs, Waite’s Hermit commentary and Weston’s translation of Wolfram’s Parzival. The additions identify the relevant speaker or narrator, edition, translation and section, verse or page. Turner’s passage is located in the abridged teaching reprint; the Andersen edition’s uncredited translator is recorded explicitly.

The readings examine the difference between return and recognition, payment and imposed consequence, ritual and magical procedure, arrival and admission, repeated form and changed outcome, a dangerous creature and its healing image, guidance and threatening illumination, and reaching a destination and fulfilling the encounter’s further conditions. Literary and religious accounts remain distinguished from historical or empirical claims.

Contextual reciprocal links were added to twelve story pages: Iron Hans, Mother Holle, The Little Mermaid, The Wild Swans, Cinderella, Garden of Eden, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Three Little Pigs, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Vasilisa the Beautiful, The Odyssey, St George and The Dragon. These are editorial comparisons rather than claims that the cited theorists analysed those tales.

All twenty article edits were previewed and checked after publication for matching saved text, reference rendering, article destinations and the new section links. Existing headings, images and videos were retained. This records focused additions rather than an audit of every retained claim.

Completed: quotations on comparison and interpretation

On 27 October 2026, eight pages received verified quotations with attribution, source context and close analysis:

The quotations draw on Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale, Evelyn-White’s translations of the Homeric Hymns, Turner’s posted 1997 text, Fauconnier and Turner’s Conceptual Integration Networks, Reddy’s conduit-metaphor chapter, Andersen’s Ugly Duckling and Forceville’s repository abstract. Citations identify the relevant translation, page, section or edition; the Andersen digital edition’s uncredited translator is explicitly recorded. The readings distinguish actions from fixed identities, conditions of return from general resemblance, spatial arrangements from their evaluation, selective projection from unrestricted mixing, reconstruction from transmission, humane treatment from exceptional status, multimodal storytelling from metaphor, and ingenuity from its beneficiaries.

Reciprocal links with contextual notes were added to fourteen story pages: Rumpelstiltskin, Mother Holle, Descent into the Underworld, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, The Wild Swans, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Snow Queen, Puss in Boots, The Brave Little Tailor. Applications of scholarly distinctions to the stories are identified as editorial readings rather than attributed to the quoted scholars.

All twenty-two article edits were previewed and checked after publication for matching saved text, reference rendering, article destinations and new section links. Existing headings, images and videos were retained. This records focused additions, not a fresh audit of every retained claim.

Completed: quotations on language and story interpretation

On 27 October 2026, eight language and interpretation pages received verified quotations with attribution, source context and detailed analysis:

The quotations come from Grice's Meaning, Talmy's posted overview draft, Lakoff's discussion of idioms, Aristotle in Butcher's translation, the Grimm collection based on Taylor and Edwardes, Butler's Odyssey and Carroll's Alice. Source descriptions identify the relevant page, section, translation or chapter. The additions distinguish a speaker's message from private motivation, comic inference from metaphor, idiom knowledge from imagery, historical terminology from present-day classification, attempted prevention from actual results, route descriptions from travel, a teller's framing from the whole narrative, and personification from its developed consequences.

Contextual reciprocal links were added to The Emperor's New Clothes, The Brave Little Tailor, Sisyphus, The Snow Queen, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Odyssey and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The theory-to-story applications are identified as editorial readings where appropriate; they are not claims that the quoted theorists analysed those tales.

All sixteen article edits were previewed and checked after publication for matching saved text, citation rendering, article destinations and the new section links. Existing headings, images and videos were retained. This records focused additions rather than an audit of every retained claim on those pages.

Completed: quotations on landscape, renewal and homecoming

On 26 October 2026, eight pages received verified quotations with attribution, textual context and editorial analysis:

The readings distinguish visible ground from departure in Genesis, Kay’s activity from conditional freedom, Bunyan’s uphill and downhill demands, Alice’s remembered report from its listener’s imagination, Inana’s revival from the conditions of exit, and arrival on Ithaca from recognition and social return. Sources identify the KJV, the editorial paragraph divisions in the Bunyan transcription, the specific uncredited Andersen translation, Carroll’s chapter, Oxford’s numbered Sumerian translation and Butler’s prose Odyssey.

Reciprocal contextual links were added on The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Snow Queen, The Pilgrim's Progress, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Odyssey and Snow White. All fourteen article edits were previewed and checked after publication for matching text, references, article destinations and the new section links. Existing headings, images and videos were retained. This records focused additions, not a comprehensive review of every retained claim or expression.

Completed: five further quotation and context additions

On 26 October 2026, verified quotations and contextual readings were added to Sisyphus, Gregory Bateson, Idries Shah, Paul Ricoeur and Archetypes. The additions distinguish Homer’s scene from Camus’s philosophical interpretation; identify the reprint location for Bateson’s framing statement; locate Shah’s wording in the ISHK transcript; label the wiki’s translation of Ricoeur’s French question; and identify the edited Purdue selection used to verify Jung’s wording without inventing missing edition details.

Reciprocal contextual links connect Sisyphus with Ricoeur, The Emperor's New Clothes with Bateson and Shah, and Rumpelstiltskin with Archetypes. These are explicitly editorial comparisons, not claims of historical influence or evidence that the named authors analysed those tales. The five principal pages and two companion story pages were previewed and checked after publication for exact text, references, existing internal destinations and preservation of headings and media. This records the identified additions, not a complete audit of every claim on those pages.

Completed: focused quotation and attribution review

On 26 October 2026, a focused review strengthened eight pages with checked quotations, contextual analysis and explicit provenance:

In Biblical Idioms, the gloss for casting the first stone was corrected: John 8:7 does not state that the accuser must be equally or more guilty. The companion biblical-idiom page now quotes the KJV's actual subject, love of money, and distinguishes its table summary from verbatim wording. The author additions retain Lakoff's qualification about variation between speakers, Johnson's autobiographical context, Black's qualification about some cases, and the source chain for Richards's phrase as quoted by Black. The Campbell additions identify the Foundation's quoted excerpts separately from its editorial commentary and retain the place of judgement in following bliss.

All eight edited pages were previewed and checked after publication against their prepared text, with functioning references and existing internal-link destinations. Existing headings, images and videos were retained. This is a focused review of the identified passages, not certification of every claim on these pages or a completed audit of the whole wiki.

Completed: quotations on landscape, movement and bodily imagery

On 26 October 2026, twelve further topic articles received verified quotations, precise attribution, contextual close reading and links to relevant story pages:

The additions examine unrecognised rescue at a shoreline, a becalmed ocean, flight beyond a ruler's reach, height as access to a further route, enclosure and unequal access, the reach of a threat, descent without control, a repeatedly moving stone, bloodstained hands and responsibility, motion after bodily separation, the thawing heart and the cultivation of anger. Sources include Andersen, Coleridge, Ovid in Riley's translation, Jacobs, the Grimms, Bunyan, Carroll, Homer in Butler's translation, Shakespeare and Blake. Narrators, characters and poetic speakers are identified, and edition-specific wording is retained.

The twelve articles were previewed and checked after publication for exact matches to the prepared source, citation rendering, categories, article links and retention of existing headings, images and video. The newly added story links were checked for existing destinations. This records the additions, not a complete verification of all pre-existing article material.

Completed: quotations on control, repetition and the work of figurative language

On 26 October 2026, twelve further articles received source-checked quotations with precise attribution, edition or translation details, and contextual analysis:

The additions examine a forgotten stopping command, the conditions behind a seemingly magical recipe, a child's experience of exclusion, Faustus's deadline, Alice's changing purpose, Smith's unintended economic result, Orwell's criticism of apparent substance, Aristotle's account of tragic construction, Hamlet's demand for further evidence, Penelope's deliberate delay, Dickinson's personification of Death, and Hamlet's combination of martial and maritime images. Character speech and authorial argument are identified separately, and interpretive observations retain the surrounding passage's qualifications.

The twelve articles were previewed and checked after publication for exact matches to the prepared source, citation rendering, categories, article links and retention of existing headings, images and video. This entry records the additions rather than a complete verification of pre-existing material.

Completed: quotations on recognition, access and the consequences of a journey

On 26 October 2026, twelve further articles received source-checked quotations with speaker or narrator attribution, edition or translation details, and contextual close reading:

The six fairy-tale additions examine comfort and support, the agency of a carried object, limited public explanations, friendship and consent, recognising approaching help, and version-specific accounts of awakening. The other passages examine Harker's recognition of confinement, Wiglaf's account of collective consequences, prosperity and friendship in Critias, Frost's uncertain return, Brutus's persuasive use of a current, and Alice's alternative ways of gaining access. Beowulf's succession summary now identifies Hygelac's son Heardred instead of referring to several sons.

Quotation wording and context were checked against the named sources. All twelve articles were previewed and checked after publication for exact matches to the prepared text, citation rendering, categories, article links and retention of existing headings, images and video. This entry records these additions and the named correction; it does not certify every earlier claim on the pages.

Completed: quotations on access, shared spaces and the purposes of movement

On 26 October 2026, sixteen further thematic articles received source-checked quotations with speaker or narrator attribution, edition or translation details, and contextual analysis:

The additions distinguish usable provision from mere possession, access from appearance, movement of a container from movement within it, and a shared vehicle from a shared purpose. Rain now distinguishes Gatsby's reunion and rainy funeral instead of assigning the funeral weather to his killing. Ships now acknowledges Starbuck's objection to Ahab's purpose instead of describing the entire crew as sharing his obsession. Stray drafting language was removed from the Trees introduction.

Quotation wording and context were checked in the named sources. The sixteen pages were previewed and checked after publication for exact matches to the prepared text, references, categories and article links. Existing headings, illustrations and videos were retained. This records the additions and named corrections, not a complete verification of earlier material.

Completed: quotations on access, limits and changed conditions

On 26 October 2026, sixteen more articles received verified quotations with speaker or narrator attribution, identified editions or translations, and contextual close reading:

The passages examine the limits of assistance, signs that lose their ability to identify a target, equipment that changes usefulness, access to crossings, the effects of boundaries, mistaken measurement, and movement that does not secure a lasting change. The Shadows article's claim that Stoker's Dracula manipulates shadows was replaced with Van Helsing's statement that he casts none, with attribution to Chapter XVIII.

Quotation wording and surrounding passages were checked in the named sources. All sixteen articles were previewed and checked after publication for exact matches to the prepared source, reference rendering, categories and article links. Existing headings, illustrations and videos were retained. This record covers these additions and the specified correction, not a comprehensive verification of every earlier claim on the affected pages.

Completed: quotations on evidence, choices and constrained movement

On 25 October 2026, twenty more articles received verified quotations, precise speaker or narrator attribution, edition references and contextual analysis:

The passages develop distinctions between evidence and inference, permission and access, intention and movement, temporary help and continuing benefit. Frost's two-line extract qualifies the description of the roads; Andersen's tin-soldier quotation retains explicit uncertainty about the fall. Perrault's 1922 collection is identified as Samber's translation revised by Mansion. Ovid is quoted in Riley's prose translation, and Ozaki's tale remains identified as an adaptation.

The quotations were checked against source wording and surrounding context. All twenty articles were previewed and checked after publication for exact source matches, rendered quotations, references, categories and article links. Existing headings, illustrations and videos were retained. This records the new additions rather than a complete review of earlier claims.

Completed: further story and imagery quotations

On 25 October 2026, twenty further articles received brief primary-source quotations with speaker or narrator attribution, identified versions, linked texts and contextual analysis:

The additions develop specific distinctions already relevant to the pages: access and exit, help and dependence, perception and judgment, visible performance and concealed cost, changed location and changed appraisal. Grimm quotations identify the consulted English collection or Margaret Hunt's translation; the Andersen extracts identify the digital English version without inventing a translator attribution; Ozaki's Japanese tales remain identified as adaptations. Literary speech and narratorial claims are distinguished from general advice or empirical evidence.

Each quotation was checked against its source wording and surrounding passage. All twenty articles were previewed and checked after publication for source matches, rendered quotations, references, categories and article links. Existing headings, images and videos were preserved. This entry records the new additions, not a complete review of every earlier claim on the pages.

Completed: contextual quotations from primary sources

On 25 October 2026, a new inventory of 333 main-namespace pages, including five redirects, informed a selective quotation pass. Thirty articles received short passages where the wording supports their existing discussion:

The quotations identify their author or fictional speaker and their work, chapter, book, verse lines or page as applicable. Translation and edition are specified where relevant. Brief commentary explains the local relevance and distinguishes a character's speech, an author's theory and an experimental claim. The Chaucer extracts retain Middle English; Frankenstein explicitly uses the 1831 revised text.

The source wording and surrounding passages were checked in primary texts, scholarly reproductions, author or foundation pages, and original research papers. All thirty article edits were previewed and checked after publication for exact source matches, rendered quotation blocks, citations, categories and article links. Existing headings, illustrations and video sections were retained. The inventory is not a claim that every page needed a quotation or that every existing quotation was reverified.

Completed: four further Grimm tales

On 25 October 2026, four new sourced articles were added:

  • The Juniper Tree: narrative testimony, distributed knowledge, changed family roles, an English expression and the Glass-Moran-Yorinks opera.
  • Fitcher's Bird: the limits of the egg test, collaborative rescue, transport and disguise, an expression and Cindy Sherman's photographic adaptation.
  • The Golden Goose: generosity and compelled following, the different motives within the procession, distinction from the Aesopic golden-egg story, and the DEFA film's recorded differences.
  • King Thrushbeard: concealed resources, sabotage and judgment, narrative roles, humility language and the DEFA adaptation's characterisation of the princess.

Each article names its consulted Margaret Hunt text, separates narrative events from editorial reading, distinguishes established expressions from original allusions, and provides a reading task and related pages. The Golden Goose article specifically records that the consulted text ends without a further task sequence and without an explicit release of the followers.

Thematic Reading Routes: Stories, Idioms and Movement, Fairy-Tale Motif Index, Stories and literature and Fairy Tales, Idioms and Everyday Speech now provide incoming links and comparisons. The motif index's previous collection-section anchor was retained while its heading and list were expanded.

All eight article and navigation pages were previewed and checked after publication for source matches, reference errors, categories and missing article links. Section links within this batch were also checked. This entry records this batch rather than an audit of the entire wiki.

Completed: Bluebeard, Pied Piper and literary companions

On 25 October 2026, four existing pages received source-based expansion and correction:

  • Bluebeard: two kinds of evidence, distributed rescue, the consulted edition's closing verse, dictionary senses and Bartók's opera.
  • Pied Piper: the different dates in Grimm and Browning, the people who bear the broken bargain's cost, narrative roles, documented expressions and objects recorded by Museum Hameln.
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: narrative roles, the trial's procedures, the sister's framing perspective, rabbit-hole meanings and the Royal Ballet adaptation. The existing contextual video and illustrations were retained.
  • Peter Pan: the 1911 novel is now the named narrative source. The summary corrects Hook's fate and the Lost Boys' eventual adulthood. Close readings cover the nursery window, unreliable reports, ticking and memory. Sourced cultural material identifies the 1929 hospital gift and the Cudlow House photographic record in Rustington. Unsupported biographical details and broad psychological assertions were replaced.

The additions distinguish story events, editorial readings, dictionary meanings and invented examples. Thematic Reading Routes: Stories, Idioms and Movement, Fairy-Tale Motif Index, Stories and literature and Fairy Tales, Idioms and Everyday Speech provide incoming links and comparisons while preserving genre distinctions.

All eight article and navigation pages were previewed and checked after publication for exact source matches, citations, categories and missing article links. This records this specific batch, not an audit of the entire wiki.

Completed: four companion fairy-tale expansions

On 25 October 2026, four existing story articles were expanded while retaining their earlier summaries and comparisons:

  • Rapunzel: Grimm's 1812 and 1857 disclosure scenes, changing narrative roles, unequal access, the hair idiom and Disney's Tangled.
  • Hansel and Gretel: shared initiative, false and disappearing evidence, household changes on return, technical breadcrumbs and Humperdinck's opera.
  • The Sleeping Beauty: distinct causes of awakening, Basile's different treatment of agency and consent, Perrault's post-marriage danger, narrative roles, the wake-up-call idiom, ballet and Disney. The existing Royal Ballet video was retained unchanged.
  • Beauty and The Beast: decisions under changing constraints, narrative roles, the sisters' immobilisation, the beauty saying, Cocteau's film and Glass's opera.

Primary texts and identified editions support the narrative details; dictionary, accessibility, publisher, archive and arts-organisation sources support the language and adaptation examples. Editorial readings and invented examples are labelled. No idiom origin is inferred merely from a resemblance.

The articles are integrated into Thematic Reading Routes: Stories, Idioms and Movement, Fairy-Tale Motif Index, Stories and literature and Fairy Tales, Idioms and Everyday Speech. The eight article and navigation pages were previewed and checked after publication for exact source matches, working article links, categories and citation errors. This entry records this specific expansion, not a review of the entire wiki.

Completed: source review and thematic reading routes

On 25 October 2026, four older reference articles were revised against identified sources:

  • Marionettes now distinguishes string, glove, rod and directly manipulated puppets; corrects the Augsburger Puppenkiste history; replaces unverified literary examples with a passage from Collodi; and separates dictionary meanings from editorial comparisons about support and agency.
  • Moby Dick now describes Ahab's death by the running harpoon line and Ishmael's survival on Queequeg's coffin life-buoy accurately. Close readings name their chapters; the cultural examples cite the BFI and New Bedford Whaling Museum. Unverified celebrity quotations were removed.
  • The Sun now separates NASA's physical account, specific cultural examples, biblical passages, documented expressions and editorial interpretation. John 8:12 is identified as light imagery rather than an explicit solar identification; the unsupported ray/rei English homophone claim was removed.
  • Onomatopoeia now uses a documented cross-language comparison and distinguishes sound imitation, broader sound symbolism and debated ideophone terminology. Unsupported claims about brain mechanisms and national attitudes were removed.

All four retain their existing contextual video sections. The new Thematic Reading Routes: Stories, Idioms and Movement provides five ordered routes: compelled movement; forbidden knowledge; bargains and obligations; recognition and disguise; and returning home. Each includes comparisons of narrative roles, language and a reading task. It is linked from Reading Guide: Routes Through the Wiki, Stories and literature, Subject index and Fairy-Tale Motif Index, as well as the relevant revised articles.

The nine content and navigation pages were previewed and checked after publication for exact source matches, categories, citation errors and missing article links. This entry records the completed review of these four articles, not a fact-check of the entire wiki.

Completed: contextual video additions across the wiki

On 25 October 2026, an inventory of all 328 mainspace pages, including five redirects, identified 52 pages with existing YouTube embeds. Screening titles, introductions and section headings across the inventory was followed by topic-led searches and review of selected article contexts. This was a video-selection pass, not a full fact-check of every article or a review of every possible recording.

23 recordings were added to 23 articles: five on language and interpretation, six on fairy tales and their adaptations, four on literature and myth, and eight on physical imagery and movement. The dated additions in the Video Library list each article, recording, publisher and purpose. The library now indexes 75 embedded recordings; the earlier 52 were retained.

Sources include Lancaster University, YaleCourses, Gresham College, The Poetry Company, Marina Warner at Talks at Google, Royal Ballet and Opera, New Adventures, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, All-Star Orchestra, the National Gallery of Art, TED-Ed, the Met Office, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, the Natural History Museum, the National Theatre and NASA Goddard. A Sotheby's discussion includes V&A curator Kate Bailey and other participants on the cultural influence of Alice.

Each addition has an introduction, a named uploader and a direct link to the original recording. The introductions distinguish research and interpretation, artistic adaptation, and physical background. Existing article bodies, references and categories were preserved. A Berkeley lecture candidate was excluded after its YouTube embedding-metadata request returned an error; unofficial reuploads and less directly relevant promotional material were not selected.

All 24 published revisions (23 articles and the Video Library) matched their reviewed source. Parser checks found the expected embed identifiers, retained categories, no citation errors and no missing internal article destinations. Every new Video section and its index destination was checked. YouTube oEmbed returned embedding metadata for all 23 selected uploads. The published Cinderella player was also checked in the browser and played successfully. These checks do not certify playback in every region or review every recording in full. Availability and caption tracks may change.

Completed: fairy tales of recognition, belonging and control

On 25 October 2026, a fifth set of eight story reference articles was added:

The new Fairy-Tale Motif Index provides eight comparative routes and an alphabetical list of all forty story additions. Each new story identifies the consulted text and separates summary, editorial close reading, archetypal roles, documented idioms, original allusions and sourced cultural examples. The articles retain consequential differences between editions and media, including the Goose Girl’s testimony, the nail-broth variant, Ozaki’s Moon-Child and Goethe’s ballad.

Fairy Tales, Idioms and Everyday Speech, Reading Fairy Tales: Archetypes, Motifs and Narrative Roles, Stories and literature, Subject index and Idioms A-Z now connect the additions. Further comparisons were added to Food, Hunger and Nourishment, Agency and Motion: Moving and Being Moved and The Return Journey: Bringing Experience Back into Everyday Life.

All additions and integration edits were previewed before saving. Published sources were compared with the drafts; references, categories, internal destinations, all forty motif-index destinations, incoming index links and the eight new expression section links were checked. Existing material was retained. No images were uploaded in this pass.

Completed: fairy tales of access, time and listening

On 25 October 2026, a fourth set of eight fairy-tale reference articles was added:

Each article identifies the consulted English telling and distinguishes story summary, editorial close reading, archetypal roles, documented language and original allusions. Cultural examples include illustration, pantomime, animation, ballet, opera, illustrated book circulation, ceramics, civic identity and wartime propaganda. Differences in translation, narrator judgment, coercion and endings are retained where relevant.

Fairy Tales, Idioms and Everyday Speech and Reading Fairy Tales: Archetypes, Motifs and Narrative Roles now connect the tales through access, knowledge, helper roles, time, return and listening. Eight expression entries, the literature and subject indexes, and additions to Locks and Keys, Time as Space and Movement and Music, Rhythm and Harmony provide routes into the collection.

All additions and integration edits were previewed before saving. Published sources were compared with the reviewed drafts; references, categories, internal destinations, incoming index links and all eight new expression section links were checked. Existing material was retained. No images were uploaded in this pass.

Completed: fairy tales of work, voice and belonging

On 25 October 2026, a third set of eight fairy-tale reference articles was added:

Each identifies its consulted English telling and distinguishes the story summary from editorial analysis. The articles cover archetypal and changing narrative roles, spatial and material images, documented expressions and original allusions, and specific cultural adaptations or uses. Tragic endings, religious framing and differences between versions are retained where relevant.

Fairy Tales, Idioms and Everyday Speech and Reading Fairy Tales: Archetypes, Motifs and Narrative Roles now connect these tales through work, cooperation, shelter, voice and agency. Eight expression entries, the literature and subject indexes, and three relevant topic pages provide further routes into the collection.

All additions and integration edits were previewed before saving. Published sources were compared with the reviewed drafts; references, categories, internal destinations, incoming index links and all eight new expression section links were checked. Existing material was retained. No images were uploaded in this pass.

Completed: further fairy tales, evidence and agency

On 25 October 2026, a second set of eight fairy-tale reference articles was added:

Each article identifies its consulted telling, separates story events from editorial close reading, discusses archetypal and narrative roles, examines language without inventing idiom origins, and cites a specific cultural adaptation. Version comparisons retain differences in the mechanisms of awakening, transformation, acquisition and reward.

Fairy Tales, Idioms and Everyday Speech now includes the eight tales, further language distinctions and comparative routes. Reading Fairy Tales: Archetypes, Motifs and Narrative Roles adds worked comparisons of evidence, authority, helpers, agency and reward. The stories, subject and idiom indexes and three relevant subject articles provide incoming links.

All additions and integration edits were previewed before saving. The published sources were compared with the reviewed drafts; citation rendering, categories, article destinations and the new idiom section links were checked. Existing material was retained. No images were uploaded in this pass.

Completed: fairy tales and cultural language

On 25 October 2026, eight tale articles and two connecting references were added:

The articles identify the versions used, separate story events from editorial close reading, document expressions, and cite specific adaptations. The Andersen digital edition's uncredited translation is identified without assigning an unverified translator. Dictionary senses are distinguished from quotations, technical terms and illustrative allusions.

The articles and navigation edits were previewed and checked after saving for matching source, references, categories and internal link destinations. Incoming links were added from the stories, subjects, language and reading indexes and related articles. No new illustrations were uploaded in this pass.

Review priorities

The following items were identified in source and navigation reviews on 7 and 9 October 2026. Completed work is recorded below; open items remain in this table.

Pages Work to check Completion criterion
Idiomslist All twelve object groups now have usage notes with sourced examples or explicit contextual reading guidance. Entries not specifically covered by those notes still need individual dictionary or corpus checks. Add evidence beside remaining expressions, checking complete wording, register and regional usage without assuming that every item is an idiom.
Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Bluebeard The available digital versions are now identified. Fuller bibliographic provenance could be added if a matching print edition or scan is established. Add only verified edition or translation information; retain an explicit uncertainty where no translator is credited.
Other retained sections in the twenty-page quality pass The six articles listed in the deeper review below have now received a second source pass. Other older historical, religious, literary and idiom claims still need individual evidence. Check claims against named sources or primary passages, distinguish interpretations and retain useful supported material.
Five retained older illustrations These files now have descriptions recording known upload facts and unresolved source information. Their article appearances have been replaced with documented public-domain images; the Tower card's exact scan source has been identified separately. Add original creator, source and reuse terms only if evidence becomes available. Retaining a file for page history does not establish permission to reuse it.

For an external link that fails, record the URL, date and observed problem. A failed automated fetch alone does not establish that the source has disappeared. Check the publisher's catalogue, a stable identifier or an authorised archive before changing it.

Navigation and accessibility review

On 7 October 2026, the public article inventory contained 270 pages: 265 articles and five redirects. Article links had no missing main-namespace destinations, and no article lacked categories or onward article links. All 218 explicit section links checked against 70 destination pages resolved. The maintenance index already had an incoming link from the contributor guide; it now also has a home-page link.

Page-level improvements preserve existing wording: all 104 wikitext tables now have labelled, keyboard-focusable horizontal-scroll containers and explicit column-header scope. Eighteen duplicate level-one headings were converted to lead labels while retaining their anchor names. Leading skipped heading levels on Elevation and Goldfish Bowl were corrected, and I.A. Richards received a portrait description.

Open site-wide work: phone-width checks found that the legacy Vector sidebar and top controls restrict or overlap article content. Fixed-width video players also overflow, and the installed YouTube extension outputs frames without accessible titles. The current administrator session can edit articles but MediaWiki refuses shared CSS editing. Prepared styling, video-title and server-configuration changes require an authorised interface editor or hosting administrator to apply and verify. These site-wide issues are not marked complete.

The image scan also found many entries without an explicit alt parameter; some already obtain useful alternative text from captions. Review the rendered image and its purpose before adding a description. This was a navigation and targeted accessibility review, not a full accessibility certification or a check of every external source link and video caption track.

Completed: image provenance and replacements

On 9 October 2026, five undocumented illustrations in three articles were replaced by images with documented public-domain sources:

Four new files were uploaded with creator credits, original source links and rights statements. Captions and alternative text describe the images without treating artistic details as narrative evidence. Browse public-domain photographs and historical images.

The existing Tower card was retained. Its file is byte-identical to the 300 × 514 pixel Commons version uploaded on 7 May 2008, with SHA-1 checksum 708bebbe96e55b3ab1a6c68a571ac9e08d74384d. Its description now credits Pamela Colman Smith and links the matched scan and source record, including the original scan credit to Holly Voley.

The five replaced uploads remain available for page history in Category:Images awaiting source information. Each description records known upload facts, the unresolved creator/source/reuse status and the replacement image. No public-domain claim has been assigned to those originals.

The three article previews had no citation errors or missing destinations; all six displayed images loaded and had descriptive alternative text. Published article and file-description text was read back, and all four uploaded file hashes matched the downloaded source files. All five replaced originals had no current article usage when checked. This closes the current illustration replacements, while the retained originals' provenance remains unresolved.

Completed: deeper review of six articles

On 9 October 2026, six articles from the earlier twenty-page pass received a deeper review of their remaining factual claims, literary examples and expression lists:

  • Faust and The Deal with The Devil: separated historical biography from legend, identified the different dramatic endings, and sourced publication and operatic adaptation details.
  • Lightning: sourced specific deity representations, corrected Thor's attributes and Magni's parentage, checked expressions and the history of Thursday, and attributed the Tower interpretation to Waite.
  • Head and Neck: sourced cervical anatomy, the Ovid and Gawain examples, and the Crown of Thorns passage; focused the expression list on the head and neck.
  • Burdens: distinguished Gospel accounts from the devotional Stations, carrying yokes from restraints, and the different literary arrangements of burden, support and release; added dictionary evidence beside established expressions.
  • Garden of Eden: sourced Cain's protective mark, attributed the Catholic doctrinal account, identified particular versions of Elysium, Shangri-La and Avalon, and separated established expressions from proposed allusions.
  • Monsters: sourced the Hydra, Midgard Serpent, Dante, film and Behemoth examples; distinguished viewpoints and established word uses from invented meanings.

Six older illustrations received descriptive alternative text and revised captions: the storm, Thor and Tower images in Lightning; the Passion and albatross illustrations in Burdens; and the contemporary fantasy image in Garden of Eden. The captions identify visible artistic details without treating them as evidence for every detail of the associated narrative. This pass added no new image files and made no new rights claims for those older files.

All six article previews had no citation errors or missing article destinations. All eight article images loaded, including the two historical illustrations retained from the earlier pass, and each had descriptive alternative text. The published source of all six articles matched the reviewed drafts. The relevant remaining-source task for these six articles is closed; the broader wiki review and site-wide accessibility work remain open.

Completed: twenty-page quality pass

On 9 October 2026, twenty older articles received targeted corrections, source references and related-page links. The pass focused on identifiable factual errors, conflicting story versions, unsupported examples and claims that presented a possible interpretation as a fixed meaning. It was not an exhaustive fact-check of every retained paragraph.

  • Pied Piper - distinguished the Grimms’ prose legend from Browning’s poem and corrected the surviving-child variants.
  • St George and The Dragon - identified the Golden Legend account and separated legend, artwork and interpretation.
  • Faust and The Deal with The Devil - distinguished Marlowe’s twenty-four-year bargain from Goethe’s wager.
  • The Company of Wolves - corrected the film date and adaptation context; retained the owner’s editorial note.
  • Aquatic Gods - replaced unsupported deity lists and a generalised gender rule with documented examples.
  • Scapegoat - separated the Leviticus ritual, the English word and modern blame; removed unsupported clinical profiles.
  • Apocalypse - distinguished revelation, catastrophe and dystopia, with a sourced horsemen account.
  • Garden of Eden - corrected creation and expulsion details, the unspecified fruit and Shangri-La attribution.
  • The Firmament - added Genesis and museum references and removed an unsupported literary example.
  • Rainbows - corrected optical explanations, selected literary examples and false homophone claims.
  • Lightning - corrected the scientific introduction and removed invented expressions.
  • Hurricanes and Gales - distinguished gale force from tropical-hurricane thresholds and checked selected storm narratives.
  • Rockets - corrected Schmidlap, Bumper and Dragon milestones and removed an outdated future forecast.
  • Vacuums - clarified pressure, practical vacuums and the distinction between physics and interpretation.
  • Goldfish Bowl - replaced an unsupported chronology with a dictionary sense and a documented Matisse example.
  • Burdens - corrected selected accounts of Corey, Atlas, Boys Town and the Ancient Mariner.
  • Dungeons - replaced generalised prison history with documented Tower examples and corrected biblical episodes.
  • Head and Neck - sourced the adult skull count and corrected the Ganesha and John the Baptist accounts.
  • Word Play - checked pangrams and distinguished acronyms, initialisms, tautonyms and repetition.
  • Monsters - corrected Frankenstein naming and Gothic chronology and removed unsupported examples.

Historical illustrations added

Four public-domain images were added with captions and alternative text:

The Greenaway image comes from Project Gutenberg; the other three come from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s public-domain Open Access collection. Each file page records source and rights information. The files can also be browsed in Category:Public domain historical images.

All twenty edits were checked in preview for citation errors, missing article destinations and image loading. The published source of every article matched its prepared revision. All four new file descriptions and their use in the intended articles were verified. Remaining citation work in retained sections is recorded in the review priorities above.

Completed: public-domain visual additions

On 9 October 2026, a review of 285 mainspace pages identified 168 without an image. A selected visual pass added 16 files to 30 articles: 13 original explanatory diagrams released under CC0 1.0, and three historical public-domain illustrations from Project Gutenberg. Images were chosen for their relationship to the text; the review did not treat every unillustrated page as needing a picture.

The diagrams compare containment, boundaries, access, routes, movement, scale, force, fictive motion, conceptual mapping, blending, temporal viewpoints, context and research workflow. Captions identify constructed examples and distinguish the original drawings from published authors’ figures. The historical illustrations are Tenniel’s Alice in the White Rabbit’s house and White Rabbit with a watch (1865), and the frontispiece after Theodor von Holst for the 1831 revised Frankenstein.

Each addition has alternative text and a caption. File pages record source, creator, date and public-domain or CC0 terms. All 30 article edits were previewed; the added images loaded, no preview errors were found, and the saved source was checked against the prepared revision. All 16 files were confirmed as used. Existing text and references were retained, apart from replacing the basic ASCII blending network with the new diagram; the worked example and table remain.

Articles illustrated in this pass

Reusable visual files

Completed: Johnson, Talmy and annotated examples

On 9 October 2026, three reference pages were added:

The author pages use university profiles, author-hosted work and publication records. Their tables provide selected reading or clearly labelled original examples. The annotated examples page contains five invented passages, with evidence for each proposed reading and limits or alternatives. Published text, reference rendering, categories and internal destinations were checked. Incoming links were added from the author and concepts indexes, the reading guide and five relevant existing articles. These pages complete the fifteen additions in this expansion, alongside the comparison and literary articles recorded below.

Completed: three literary journeys

On 9 October 2026, three literary reference articles were added:

The articles identify the source edition or translation and locate episodes by chapter, book or numbered paragraph. Story summaries are distinguished from editorial comparisons. Bunyan's religious context is retained, and the Odyssey article distinguishes Butler's translation from his introductory commentary. Each article includes an accessible comparison table, sources, categories and onward links. Published content, reference rendering and article links were checked. Incoming links were added from the literature and subject indexes, the reading guide, and articles on scale, burdens and the return journey.

Completed: routes, nourishment, light, music and humour

On 9 October 2026, five reference articles were added:

The additions include source references, labelled original comparisons, tables with column headers and horizontal-scroll containers, categories and related reading. Literary examples identify their texts or versions; the humour article distinguishes a corpus study from evidence of audience response. Published text, reference rendering and article links were checked. Incoming links were added to the subject and concepts indexes, the comparison library where relevant, and six related articles.

Completed: scale, distance, pace and fictive motion

On 9 October 2026, four reference articles were added:

The articles distinguish sourced definitions, literary events, research findings and original reading examples. They include comparison tables, references, categories and onward links. The published pages and their navigation links were checked. Incoming links were added to Subject index, Concepts and language, Comparative Metaphor Library, Situational Relational Positioning and Paths and Trails, as appropriate.

Completed: Chaucer corrections and idiom usage notes

On 7 October 2026, The Physician's Tale, The Manciple's Tale, Sir Thopas's Tale and The Monk's Tale were checked against Harvard's Middle English texts and interlinear translations. Targeted corrections address Virginia's response, Phoebus's accusation against the crow, Thopas's dream and encounter with Olifaunt, and details concerning Delilah, Hercules and Nebuchadnezzar. Each article now identifies source passages and separates events from characters' or narrators' judgements. The existing article structures were retained.

Idiomslist received usage notes across all twelve object groups, distinguishing established expressions, descriptive wording and suggested associations. Dictionary references support named examples. Small corrections address the ball-in-their-court gloss, courtroom and shipping senses of dock, the forms set in stone and bite off more than you can chew, and other wording. This is a sourced first pass, not a claim that every expression has been individually verified; the remaining work is recorded above.

Completed: source notes and reading comparisons

On 7 October 2026, the following twenty articles received short additions connecting source passages, edition details or contextual reading with related pages. Existing prose was retained. One malformed Apollodorus URL in Theseus and the Minotaur was repaired.

These additions do not mark every claim in every article as exhaustively reviewed. A source note should identify what it supports; a comparison should remain recognisable as a proposed reading.

Earlier reader improvements

Built-in maintenance reports

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Recording a review

Use a compact entry: page; issue; source or evidence; proposed addition or correction; date; status. Close an item when the published page has been checked, rather than when a draft has merely been prepared. Keep any correction as small as the evidence permits, and preserve useful existing material.

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