Talk:Anna Cora Mowatt

Anna Cora Mowatt's life in detail
If you are interested in more facts about this women's life or want to add more to this article, this is a link you need... - Epousesquecido 14:53, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

http://www.comm.unt.edu/histofperf/ACM1.htm

--- Is that Kristin or Richie who posted that link? I've got a better one, because Dr. Kelly S. Taylor has posted the pages online at a new host just tonight, and these actually work: http://alphacentauri2.info/AnnaCoraMowatt/Anna%20Cora%20Mowatt%20--%20Main%20Page.htm -Some upgrades are in the works, and if anyone's been stymied finding an online source for something about Mrs. Mowatt, Dr. Taylor might be able to supply - her dissertation was on ACM, and I believe it's fair to say that she's the foremost living scholarly authority on the subject. She's considering making a .pdf of a chapter from her book, The Lady Actress, available... 96.37.252.235 (talk) 03:17, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Current reference content v. old Wayback Machine links
I should have been explicit in my remarks above that the article has had to make do with Wayback links in recent years to (extensively) reference Dr. Taylor's work. The site linked above is updated by her, w/ more pictures and larger, and a number of new scholarly references that didn't exist as of the last update in 2007 added to the bibliography page with plans to reorganize to make clear what's not bibliographical to her research and the pages, but other sources available. There's a .pdf of an excerpt of her book/dissertation, "The Lady Actress: Recovering the Lost Legacy of a Victorian American Superstar" (http://www.tla.wapshottpress.com/) somewhere, and she plans to track that down and link, too, soon.

Disclosure according to whatever Wikipedia policy: she lives next door, and we share a wireless internet connection. I'm trying to talk her into coming here and having a look at the article, so to avoid confusion if she takes an interest...

96.37.252.235 (talk) 19:28, 10 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Seven months later, it's frustrating to see no interest in updating the article to use a current, updated, version of Dr. Taylor's Mowatt site. I trust an IP edit won't get automatically reverted if I add an external link tomorrow... 75.143.187.110 (talk) 15:18, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Done.


 * -It just doesn't seem right that the article extensively references an out-of-date, defunct, Wayback version when a current live version by the same author is available. I still hope someone better qualified who knows the ropes will correct that... 75.143.187.110 (talk) 19:27, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

...Saturday will make it a YEAR since the link to the current live & updated version of a dead site referenced SIX TIMES in the article was posted here on the talk page, with no luck getting a registered editor who knows the ropes interested, despite multiple contactings - if I go to the trouble to figure out the format and replace the wayback links to point at the CURRENT version of the same pages by the same Mowatt scholar, it is my sincere hope that no wiki cowboy on patrol reverts automatically w/o doing his due diligence, as I've tried to do mine... 66.169.87.13 (talk) 21:03, 7 July 2016 (UTC)


 * It's me again. Sorry, but Wikipedia is a lot of work to figure out the formatting and such, w/ too much risk that some editor-cowboy will come by to rack up points reverting half a day's work.  I'm asking for someone established here to take on the chore of de-crapulating this article with links to the updated and current version of the same page by the same scholarly authority, not much-lesser Wayback links.  I'm saying please.


 * The standard 'anyone can edit' answers are glib and annoying, I fear, because I care enough to share the information, not enough to sign up at yet another internet place just to do this and Black Lightning and risk having lots of hard work instantly plonked and have to either just take it or get into a dispute. -Those don't tend to run short, here, and I don't want to play.  Please help.  Thanks.  172.220.144.3 (talk) 18:38, 20 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I was going to grit my teeth and change the reference to point at the current, live, version of the ACM site - and how the devil DOES one get at that to edit? 19:34, 15 September 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.220.152.26 (talk)


 * Oh, for pete's sake. The reference to the Mowatt page of Perspectives in American Literature is in exactly the same situation - Dr. Ruben retired, and had to move his site, so Wayback archive link instead.  The correct -current- link is https://www.paulreuben.website/pal/chap8/mowatt.html and I can't fix it. 172.220.152.26 (talk) 15:08, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Okydoke; I think I finally figured out how it works, and have corrected the links to point at the current, live, references. I may have even got the syntax right [shrugs] I certainly hope my efforts to solicit help on this page, going back over four years, will be respected and not simply reverted. Checking behind me and fixing anything I inadvertently broke would be welcome, of course. 172.220.152.26 (talk) 15:59, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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