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It was not my intent to give the impression that I would consider legal action. I copied and pasted the Wikipedia's own notification about biographies of living persons "Contentious material about living persons .... must be removed immediately ... especially if potentially libellous." I can see how this may be construed as a threat. I apologize for any misunderstanding caused. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 03:26, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Please can you assist. My wikipedia page is redirected to a Tolkien page. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 14:41, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
It was not my intent to give the impression that I would consider legal action. I copied and pasted the Wikipedia's own notification about biographies of living persons "Contentious material about living persons .... must be removed immediately ... especially if potentially libellous." I can see how this may be construed as a threat. I apologize for any misunderstanding caused. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 10:31, 19 April 2020 (UTC) KingoftheWoods ( talk) 03:26, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi KingoftheWoods! The thread you created at the
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Hello, KingoftheWoods. We
welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things
you have written about in the page
David Day (Canadian writer), you may have a
conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the
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FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 05:25, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
OK toward that end, please note my answers to the following request for a citation on: His eight non-fiction books on natural history and environmental activism include The Doomsday Book of Animals, which became the basis for the 1990s Discovery Channel series Lost Animals of the 20th Century.[citation needed]
Re: the request for a citation for the Discovery channel series Lost Animals of the 20th Century, please cite the wiki entry: /info/en/?search=Lost_Animals_of_the_20th_Century
Also, please view: www.youtube.com David Day Lost Animals of the 20h Century – a site with 12 documentaries from the TV series – each doc clearly credits David Day as series script writer.
And finally Lost Animals of the 20th Century already has a citation in your David Day wiki article 1. Biography at ABC Book World
Television, radio, film and theatre
Lost Animals - 100 part television series (1995/1996) originally created for Britain's CHANNEL FOUR and Japan's NHK TELEVISION NETWORKS. Produced by CLARK TV, London, and WALK PRODUCTIONS, Tokyo. SERIES OF 100 SHORT TV FILMS - one hundred individual stories of animal species that have become extinct in the 20th century. All scripts by David Day. Series is based on David Day's DOOMSDAY BOOK OF ANIMALS. 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 - 'LOST ANIMALS' SERIES - in translated formats have been broadcast in twenty languages and networks worldwide: Australia, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, France, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Pakistan, South Korea, China, Hungary, Indonesia.
As for other citations related to David Day’s wiki biography, I should think Wikipedia should add the Penguin Random House short but succinct biography that might be useful in adding some useful information to the rather spare Wiki biographical article.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/2142156/david-day
DAVID DAY has published 40 books of poetry, ecology, history, fantasy, mythology and fiction. He has been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. He has also been a magazine editor, a columnist for the Daily Mail and Punch, a scriptwriter for television, a playwright for theatre, and a dramaturge for the Royal Birmingham Ballet. His books have won numerous literary awards and been selected as “Books of the Year” by Time magazine, New Scientist, Parents magazine and The Observer. David Day’s books–for both adults and children–have sold over 4 million copies and have been translated into twenty languages.
If any added biographical information might be wanting, please look at the already noted #1 citation:
1. Biography at ABC Book World in its final statements, citing the University Libraries’ 2015 biographical press release:
On this occasion, the UVic Libraries are proud to honour David Day (BA 1976 - Creative Writing) as its 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
David Day is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, ecology, history, mythology, fantasy, and children's literature. Internationally, he is best known for his literary criticism on J. R. R. Tolkien and his works. His books have won numerous literary awards and have been selected as "Books of the Year" by Time Magazine, New Scientist, Parents Magazine and the Observer. His books have sold over 4 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages.
Day, born and raised in Victoria, was a UVic Creative Writing graduate under the mentorship of Robin Skelton. His first book, 'The Cowichan' (based on his logging camp journals) was published in 1975. In 1976 he worked for the Toronto publisher, McClelland and Stewart, and two years later moved to London, England where he published 'A Tolkien Bestiary', the first of his six international best-sellers on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Day's landmark book on animal extinction, the 'Doomsday Book of Animals' with an introduction by the Duke of Edinburgh, was selected in 1981 as a 'Book of the Year' by Time Magazine. This was followed by 'Whale War' 1987, 'Eco-Wars' 1988, and 'Noah's Choice' 1990. Day has also been an environmental columnist for Britain's Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times and Punch Magazine.
In the 1994, he wrote the 'Lost Animals' British, a Japanese TV series of one hundred, five-minute documentaries on extinct species. It was narrated by Greta Scacchi and translated into 20 languages (currently on YouTube.) His 'Whale War' was also the basis of a British ITV documentary.
In 1994 and 1995, his 'Tolkien's Ring' and 'Quest for King Arthur' appeared: two of the five books with academy award-winning artist, Alan Lee. And in 2000, Day was dramaturg for the Royal Birmingham Ballet's millennium productions of 'Arthur I' and 'Arthur II'.
Day has also written nine illustrated children's books, while his children's novel, 'The Emperor's Panda', was runner-up for both the Governor General's Award and the National Library Award.
Day's CBC award-winning poems have been praised by the Canadian poets Earle Birney, Al Purdy and Margaret Atwood; while the late British poet laureate Ted Hughes wrote: "Day's poems are flight monologues - whirling kaleidoscopic surges through the weathers and times of his life.";
Most recently, he has published 'Nevermore: A Book of Hours' in 2012 and 'A Tolkien Dictionary' in 2013. His study of the life and works of Lewis Carroll, 'Decoding Wonderland', will appear in October 2015 to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. So once again, thank you Marchjuly, I will now go to the “Learn how and when to remove the template messages” site and see if I can remove the Multiple Issues template – one of which is the need for additional citations. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 21:20, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi KingoftheWoods! The thread you created at the
Wikipedia:Teahouse,
|
I am goingh to create a draft Draft:David Day (Canadian writer), starting with content from the article before it was redirected. Then I will attempt to refine it and add sources and co0ntent to make it clearly demo9nstrate notability, ifg that is possible. I cannot guarantee a positive outcome.
To avoid any question of Conflict of interest, i will ask you to comment on the draft page Draft talk:David Day (Canadian writer), but not edit the draft itself at all.
What I will ask you to do is search for sources, particularly off-line and older sources. When you find one, post info about the source to the draft talk page. Please include as much bibliographic info about each source as possible. If the source is available online, please include a link. If not, please scan and email me the relevant page or two.
Sources should all be reliably published, that is in a book published by a major publisher or respected indie publisher (not self-pub), national or major regional newspaper or magazine, scholarly journal, or the like. Please do NOT include local coverage, conference programs blogs, fan sites, wikis, online fora, one-person web sites, or anything similar. Please do not include anything written by you. Do not include sites selling your work.
Do include reviews of your work, provided they are by professional reviewers, and published in reliable sources.
Do not bother with anything that does not include at least two or three paragraphs about you or about your work.
Do include negative reviews or negative c0omment if reliably published, so we cannot be accused of cherry-picking only positive sources, or of spamming.
Once I have been able to assemble the sources into what I think is a valid article, I will move it back over the redirect, if and only if I think it is a valid article that clearly establishes notability, and is not promotional. Please do let me know if anything in the draft seems inaccurate to you.
I will place a conflict-of-interst declaration on you user page.
One thing I need you to understand: this will not be your page or article, it will be Wikipedia's article about you. You will not have any veto or control over its content, in fact you will have less right to edit it than a random person who has never heard of you. If there are negative reviews of your work published in reliable sources, they may well be included and you will not be able to have them deleted. If there are negative facts about you that have been publicly reported in reliable sources, hey may well be included and you will not be able to have them deleted. If you come to dislike the article, you may request that it be deleted, but there is no guarantee that such a request will be complied with -- you have no right to have it deleted at your choice. No "right to be forgotten" applies. And once it is posted to the main article space, the article may be copied or excerpted by anyone anywhere, and it will be nearly impossible to stop even the ones that fail to comply with the license terms. In short, having a Wikipedia article about you is not an unmixed blessing, so if you don't want me to go forward, say so NOW.
I will try to be available on a regular basis, but I am an unpaid volunteer, and I also have other issues on Wikipedia to address. There are no deadlines here.
I am, as it happens a long-term Tolkien fan. I bought the first edition of the Silmarillion. I own all the Christopher Tolkien's Histories of ME in HB, and most of Shippey, and Splintered light, and various other critical works on JRRT. I am not, however, a published critic.
If you want me to go ahead with this, please reply and ping me. Thank you. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 22:28, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
The works of Tolkien have served as the inspiration to many painters, musicians, film-makers, writers, and game designers, to such an extent that Tolkien is sometimes seen as the "father" of the high fantasy genre. The profusion of interest has led writers such as Robert Foster and David Day to produce non-academic guides to Tolkien's works.Mot much of a mention, but it is something.
Thank you very much. I appreciate your efforts tremendously. I am sourcing the documents to scan now. It may be tomorrow before I get them to you. Will that be okay?
KingoftheWoods ( talk) 17:37, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Jeromi Mikhael
Thank you. I am sourcing them now. I will be in touch as soon as I have them ready to scan.
David
KingoftheWoods ( talk) 17:37, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hi KingoftheWoods! The thread you created at the
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Please help me with... My personal information is wrong. I can verify with sources if necessary. Also, a number of my books are inaccurate and there are a large number missing (I have ISBNs) and also there are two books belonging to another David Day on there.
Thank you for your attention.
David Day KingoftheWoods ( talk) 19:07, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Driverofknowledge. I wanted to let you know that one or more of
your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the
sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the
Teahouse. Thanks.
Driverofknowledge (
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20:23, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Your recent edits to
WP:TEAHOUSE could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on
legal threats and
civility. Users who make such threats may be
blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for
dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by
reliable independent sources and focusing especially on
verifiable errors of fact. Thank you.
John from Idegon (
talk)
22:03, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
It was not my intent to give the impression that I would consider legal action. I copied and pasted the Wikipedia's own notification about biographies of living persons "Contentious material about living persons .... must be removed immediately ... especially if potentially libellous." I can see how this may be construed as a threat. I apologize for any misunderstanding caused. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 03:26, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Please can you assist. My wikipedia page is redirected to a Tolkien page. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 14:41, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
It was not my intent to give the impression that I would consider legal action. I copied and pasted the Wikipedia's own notification about biographies of living persons "Contentious material about living persons .... must be removed immediately ... especially if potentially libellous." I can see how this may be construed as a threat. I apologize for any misunderstanding caused. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 10:31, 19 April 2020 (UTC) KingoftheWoods ( talk) 03:26, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi KingoftheWoods! The thread you created at the
Wikipedia:Teahouse,
|
Hello, KingoftheWoods. We
welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things
you have written about in the page
David Day (Canadian writer), you may have a
conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the
conflict of interest guideline and
FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 05:25, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
OK toward that end, please note my answers to the following request for a citation on: His eight non-fiction books on natural history and environmental activism include The Doomsday Book of Animals, which became the basis for the 1990s Discovery Channel series Lost Animals of the 20th Century.[citation needed]
Re: the request for a citation for the Discovery channel series Lost Animals of the 20th Century, please cite the wiki entry: /info/en/?search=Lost_Animals_of_the_20th_Century
Also, please view: www.youtube.com David Day Lost Animals of the 20h Century – a site with 12 documentaries from the TV series – each doc clearly credits David Day as series script writer.
And finally Lost Animals of the 20th Century already has a citation in your David Day wiki article 1. Biography at ABC Book World
Television, radio, film and theatre
Lost Animals - 100 part television series (1995/1996) originally created for Britain's CHANNEL FOUR and Japan's NHK TELEVISION NETWORKS. Produced by CLARK TV, London, and WALK PRODUCTIONS, Tokyo. SERIES OF 100 SHORT TV FILMS - one hundred individual stories of animal species that have become extinct in the 20th century. All scripts by David Day. Series is based on David Day's DOOMSDAY BOOK OF ANIMALS. 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 - 'LOST ANIMALS' SERIES - in translated formats have been broadcast in twenty languages and networks worldwide: Australia, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, France, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Pakistan, South Korea, China, Hungary, Indonesia.
As for other citations related to David Day’s wiki biography, I should think Wikipedia should add the Penguin Random House short but succinct biography that might be useful in adding some useful information to the rather spare Wiki biographical article.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/2142156/david-day
DAVID DAY has published 40 books of poetry, ecology, history, fantasy, mythology and fiction. He has been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. He has also been a magazine editor, a columnist for the Daily Mail and Punch, a scriptwriter for television, a playwright for theatre, and a dramaturge for the Royal Birmingham Ballet. His books have won numerous literary awards and been selected as “Books of the Year” by Time magazine, New Scientist, Parents magazine and The Observer. David Day’s books–for both adults and children–have sold over 4 million copies and have been translated into twenty languages.
If any added biographical information might be wanting, please look at the already noted #1 citation:
1. Biography at ABC Book World in its final statements, citing the University Libraries’ 2015 biographical press release:
On this occasion, the UVic Libraries are proud to honour David Day (BA 1976 - Creative Writing) as its 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
David Day is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, ecology, history, mythology, fantasy, and children's literature. Internationally, he is best known for his literary criticism on J. R. R. Tolkien and his works. His books have won numerous literary awards and have been selected as "Books of the Year" by Time Magazine, New Scientist, Parents Magazine and the Observer. His books have sold over 4 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages.
Day, born and raised in Victoria, was a UVic Creative Writing graduate under the mentorship of Robin Skelton. His first book, 'The Cowichan' (based on his logging camp journals) was published in 1975. In 1976 he worked for the Toronto publisher, McClelland and Stewart, and two years later moved to London, England where he published 'A Tolkien Bestiary', the first of his six international best-sellers on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Day's landmark book on animal extinction, the 'Doomsday Book of Animals' with an introduction by the Duke of Edinburgh, was selected in 1981 as a 'Book of the Year' by Time Magazine. This was followed by 'Whale War' 1987, 'Eco-Wars' 1988, and 'Noah's Choice' 1990. Day has also been an environmental columnist for Britain's Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times and Punch Magazine.
In the 1994, he wrote the 'Lost Animals' British, a Japanese TV series of one hundred, five-minute documentaries on extinct species. It was narrated by Greta Scacchi and translated into 20 languages (currently on YouTube.) His 'Whale War' was also the basis of a British ITV documentary.
In 1994 and 1995, his 'Tolkien's Ring' and 'Quest for King Arthur' appeared: two of the five books with academy award-winning artist, Alan Lee. And in 2000, Day was dramaturg for the Royal Birmingham Ballet's millennium productions of 'Arthur I' and 'Arthur II'.
Day has also written nine illustrated children's books, while his children's novel, 'The Emperor's Panda', was runner-up for both the Governor General's Award and the National Library Award.
Day's CBC award-winning poems have been praised by the Canadian poets Earle Birney, Al Purdy and Margaret Atwood; while the late British poet laureate Ted Hughes wrote: "Day's poems are flight monologues - whirling kaleidoscopic surges through the weathers and times of his life.";
Most recently, he has published 'Nevermore: A Book of Hours' in 2012 and 'A Tolkien Dictionary' in 2013. His study of the life and works of Lewis Carroll, 'Decoding Wonderland', will appear in October 2015 to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. So once again, thank you Marchjuly, I will now go to the “Learn how and when to remove the template messages” site and see if I can remove the Multiple Issues template – one of which is the need for additional citations. KingoftheWoods ( talk) 21:20, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
![]() |
Hi KingoftheWoods! The thread you created at the
Wikipedia:Teahouse,
|
I am goingh to create a draft Draft:David Day (Canadian writer), starting with content from the article before it was redirected. Then I will attempt to refine it and add sources and co0ntent to make it clearly demo9nstrate notability, ifg that is possible. I cannot guarantee a positive outcome.
To avoid any question of Conflict of interest, i will ask you to comment on the draft page Draft talk:David Day (Canadian writer), but not edit the draft itself at all.
What I will ask you to do is search for sources, particularly off-line and older sources. When you find one, post info about the source to the draft talk page. Please include as much bibliographic info about each source as possible. If the source is available online, please include a link. If not, please scan and email me the relevant page or two.
Sources should all be reliably published, that is in a book published by a major publisher or respected indie publisher (not self-pub), national or major regional newspaper or magazine, scholarly journal, or the like. Please do NOT include local coverage, conference programs blogs, fan sites, wikis, online fora, one-person web sites, or anything similar. Please do not include anything written by you. Do not include sites selling your work.
Do include reviews of your work, provided they are by professional reviewers, and published in reliable sources.
Do not bother with anything that does not include at least two or three paragraphs about you or about your work.
Do include negative reviews or negative c0omment if reliably published, so we cannot be accused of cherry-picking only positive sources, or of spamming.
Once I have been able to assemble the sources into what I think is a valid article, I will move it back over the redirect, if and only if I think it is a valid article that clearly establishes notability, and is not promotional. Please do let me know if anything in the draft seems inaccurate to you.
I will place a conflict-of-interst declaration on you user page.
One thing I need you to understand: this will not be your page or article, it will be Wikipedia's article about you. You will not have any veto or control over its content, in fact you will have less right to edit it than a random person who has never heard of you. If there are negative reviews of your work published in reliable sources, they may well be included and you will not be able to have them deleted. If there are negative facts about you that have been publicly reported in reliable sources, hey may well be included and you will not be able to have them deleted. If you come to dislike the article, you may request that it be deleted, but there is no guarantee that such a request will be complied with -- you have no right to have it deleted at your choice. No "right to be forgotten" applies. And once it is posted to the main article space, the article may be copied or excerpted by anyone anywhere, and it will be nearly impossible to stop even the ones that fail to comply with the license terms. In short, having a Wikipedia article about you is not an unmixed blessing, so if you don't want me to go forward, say so NOW.
I will try to be available on a regular basis, but I am an unpaid volunteer, and I also have other issues on Wikipedia to address. There are no deadlines here.
I am, as it happens a long-term Tolkien fan. I bought the first edition of the Silmarillion. I own all the Christopher Tolkien's Histories of ME in HB, and most of Shippey, and Splintered light, and various other critical works on JRRT. I am not, however, a published critic.
If you want me to go ahead with this, please reply and ping me. Thank you. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 22:28, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
The works of Tolkien have served as the inspiration to many painters, musicians, film-makers, writers, and game designers, to such an extent that Tolkien is sometimes seen as the "father" of the high fantasy genre. The profusion of interest has led writers such as Robert Foster and David Day to produce non-academic guides to Tolkien's works.Mot much of a mention, but it is something.
Thank you very much. I appreciate your efforts tremendously. I am sourcing the documents to scan now. It may be tomorrow before I get them to you. Will that be okay?
KingoftheWoods ( talk) 17:37, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Jeromi Mikhael
Thank you. I am sourcing them now. I will be in touch as soon as I have them ready to scan.
David
KingoftheWoods ( talk) 17:37, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
![]() |
Hi KingoftheWoods! The thread you created at the
Wikipedia:Teahouse,
|
![]() | This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can , contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse. |
Please help me with... My personal information is wrong. I can verify with sources if necessary. Also, a number of my books are inaccurate and there are a large number missing (I have ISBNs) and also there are two books belonging to another David Day on there.
Thank you for your attention.
David Day KingoftheWoods ( talk) 19:07, 25 July 2021 (UTC)