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What's a lexilink? -- Smerdis of Tlön 03:18, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I imagine it is a link to a lexicon, so it is to an encyclopedia. -- Martin S 07:56, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I know the real identity of Henry Raddick and while I can't reveal the info, I can tell you that it wasn't Donaldson.
I won't edit the page because I have no legit source other than my word, and it will just end in a nediting war in which I have no desire to be involved, but what I say is fact.
70.81.118.38 04:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
OK, why is Henry Raddick redirected here, but no longer mentioned in this article? Not R ( talk) 22:49, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was no consensus for move due to very little participation. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 01:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hoax letter writers → List of spoof letter writers — "List" should be added as this is primarily a list of names, rather than an article about the writers. Secondly, "spoof" is a more accurate and more frequently used term to describe this topic. "Hoax letter writers" implies malicious intent. "Spoof" is less ambiguous as it's clearly humourous. Googling "Hoax letter" confirms this: virtually all the results refer to criminal or terrorist hoax letters. Saikokira 01:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Francis Wagstaffe is another pseudonymous author who has been removed from the main article. That was the name used by the Rev. Canon Toby Forward when he wrote spoof letters to Anglican bishops, in order to publish their replies as "The Spiritual Quest of Francis Wagstaffe." He has the distinction of having had his collection of short stories, "Down the Road, Worlds Away" by "Rahila Khan" (Virago Upstarts, 1987) withdrawn and pulped by the publisher. NRPanikker ( talk) 19:46, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Other readers who are better informed than I may be able to help decide whether the epistolary novel " Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman" published in 1934 under a pseudonym by the romantic novelist Dora Black should be counted as a collection of hoax letters. It was obvious to me that it was a work of fiction, but the famous literary critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was taken in by it in recent years. What should settle the question is how it was received at the time. I don't have ready access to bound volumes of literary magazines from the 1930's, or of the British and Indian newspapers where it may have been reviewed when it first came out. NRPanikker ( talk) 05:48, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
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What's a lexilink? -- Smerdis of Tlön 03:18, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I imagine it is a link to a lexicon, so it is to an encyclopedia. -- Martin S 07:56, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I know the real identity of Henry Raddick and while I can't reveal the info, I can tell you that it wasn't Donaldson.
I won't edit the page because I have no legit source other than my word, and it will just end in a nediting war in which I have no desire to be involved, but what I say is fact.
70.81.118.38 04:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
OK, why is Henry Raddick redirected here, but no longer mentioned in this article? Not R ( talk) 22:49, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was no consensus for move due to very little participation. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 01:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hoax letter writers → List of spoof letter writers — "List" should be added as this is primarily a list of names, rather than an article about the writers. Secondly, "spoof" is a more accurate and more frequently used term to describe this topic. "Hoax letter writers" implies malicious intent. "Spoof" is less ambiguous as it's clearly humourous. Googling "Hoax letter" confirms this: virtually all the results refer to criminal or terrorist hoax letters. Saikokira 01:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Francis Wagstaffe is another pseudonymous author who has been removed from the main article. That was the name used by the Rev. Canon Toby Forward when he wrote spoof letters to Anglican bishops, in order to publish their replies as "The Spiritual Quest of Francis Wagstaffe." He has the distinction of having had his collection of short stories, "Down the Road, Worlds Away" by "Rahila Khan" (Virago Upstarts, 1987) withdrawn and pulped by the publisher. NRPanikker ( talk) 19:46, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Other readers who are better informed than I may be able to help decide whether the epistolary novel " Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman" published in 1934 under a pseudonym by the romantic novelist Dora Black should be counted as a collection of hoax letters. It was obvious to me that it was a work of fiction, but the famous literary critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was taken in by it in recent years. What should settle the question is how it was received at the time. I don't have ready access to bound volumes of literary magazines from the 1930's, or of the British and Indian newspapers where it may have been reviewed when it first came out. NRPanikker ( talk) 05:48, 7 March 2023 (UTC)