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Draft: Supreme sundar, He is a well known stunt choreographer of tamil film industry, i have submitted lot of article. still i couldn't get approval. please do me a favor and assist this article and get approved
Vikash rajendran (
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10:47, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I am very happy to have had my pages on William Pittman Lett accepted for inclusion on Wikipedia. It was my first time doing this and very much a learning process. I got an entry level grade and would like to improve on this if possible. I will be adding some images once I have source approvals to include them on Wikimedia. However, I think the real isuue that the reviewer would have had concerns my references. I think that this is a unique situation. I have read and understood all the Wikipedia guidance on suitable referencing and know that it is preferable to cite second or third party sources rather than primary sources.
My problem is that there are almost no second or third party sources; those that exist do not deal directly with Lett but cover matters such as the generality of what the job was for a City Clerk in 19th century Canada. I have cited all these sources and provided links where available. Without being pretentious, I am the sole global authority on Lett and have written his biography and transcribed and compiled all of his poetry. I deliberately limited references to my own work except where the reference afforded the reader direct access to transcripts of his poems and correspondence. I therefore had no choice but to use primary sources in 19th century newspapers and the Archives of Ottawa and Canada.
The question therefore is whether it is reasonable to give a lower grade under these circumstances. If the references were the issue, could this grade be revisited?
I did try to use links to other material on Wikipedia without overly "peppering" the article and I did find these links very valuable in eliminating much explanatory and backgrounding text.
I tried to write in an encyclopedic manner, eliminating all personal commentary except where the observation or opinion is made by the other parties cited.
Perhaps it is too long an article, but then my purpose was neither to sell a book nor make money nor promote myself. Lett has been forgotten by historians and the academics of Canadian literature for a number of reasons, principally that his contributions to the development of Bytown and Ottawa were "behind the scenes" as the City Clerk. His poetry was written in a typically excessive Victorian style; he never published an anthology of his poetry beyond "Bytown and Its Old inhabitants" which was written in doggerel form. His literary importance is that he was the first and only 19th century current affairs "blogger" of Ottawa with the newspapers and oratory as his media. He provide the 19th century bridge to the Confederation School of Canadian poetry. I wanted to bring him to the attention of the Canadian and global public using Wikipedia as one means. I judged that the length of the entry did him objective justice.
I would like advice on what more I can do to improve the article and get it a "better grade". If this is not possible, then I would leave it as it is, with the addition of suitable images.
I am a fan and frequent user of Wikipedia in a suitably cautious fashion.....it continues to provide me with "sign-posts" to dig into deeper as I research a topic.
Your help would be most welcome. Thanks! Wirewool ( talk) 14:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC)Wirewool Wirewool ( talk) 14:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC) FINALLY, MAKE SURE TO CLICK THE "Save page" BUTTON BELOW OR YOUR REQUEST WILL BE LOST!!!-->}}
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Draft: Supreme sundar, He is a well known stunt choreographer of tamil film industry, i have submitted lot of article. still i couldn't get approval. please do me a favor and assist this article and get approved
Vikash rajendran (
talk)
10:47, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I am very happy to have had my pages on William Pittman Lett accepted for inclusion on Wikipedia. It was my first time doing this and very much a learning process. I got an entry level grade and would like to improve on this if possible. I will be adding some images once I have source approvals to include them on Wikimedia. However, I think the real isuue that the reviewer would have had concerns my references. I think that this is a unique situation. I have read and understood all the Wikipedia guidance on suitable referencing and know that it is preferable to cite second or third party sources rather than primary sources.
My problem is that there are almost no second or third party sources; those that exist do not deal directly with Lett but cover matters such as the generality of what the job was for a City Clerk in 19th century Canada. I have cited all these sources and provided links where available. Without being pretentious, I am the sole global authority on Lett and have written his biography and transcribed and compiled all of his poetry. I deliberately limited references to my own work except where the reference afforded the reader direct access to transcripts of his poems and correspondence. I therefore had no choice but to use primary sources in 19th century newspapers and the Archives of Ottawa and Canada.
The question therefore is whether it is reasonable to give a lower grade under these circumstances. If the references were the issue, could this grade be revisited?
I did try to use links to other material on Wikipedia without overly "peppering" the article and I did find these links very valuable in eliminating much explanatory and backgrounding text.
I tried to write in an encyclopedic manner, eliminating all personal commentary except where the observation or opinion is made by the other parties cited.
Perhaps it is too long an article, but then my purpose was neither to sell a book nor make money nor promote myself. Lett has been forgotten by historians and the academics of Canadian literature for a number of reasons, principally that his contributions to the development of Bytown and Ottawa were "behind the scenes" as the City Clerk. His poetry was written in a typically excessive Victorian style; he never published an anthology of his poetry beyond "Bytown and Its Old inhabitants" which was written in doggerel form. His literary importance is that he was the first and only 19th century current affairs "blogger" of Ottawa with the newspapers and oratory as his media. He provide the 19th century bridge to the Confederation School of Canadian poetry. I wanted to bring him to the attention of the Canadian and global public using Wikipedia as one means. I judged that the length of the entry did him objective justice.
I would like advice on what more I can do to improve the article and get it a "better grade". If this is not possible, then I would leave it as it is, with the addition of suitable images.
I am a fan and frequent user of Wikipedia in a suitably cautious fashion.....it continues to provide me with "sign-posts" to dig into deeper as I research a topic.
Your help would be most welcome. Thanks! Wirewool ( talk) 14:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC)Wirewool Wirewool ( talk) 14:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC) FINALLY, MAKE SURE TO CLICK THE "Save page" BUTTON BELOW OR YOUR REQUEST WILL BE LOST!!!-->}}