Talk:Florence Van Leer Earle Coates

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I am in the process of creating an introductory biography of poet Florence Earle Coates. Thank you for your patience and consideration.Londonjackbooks (talk) 16:42, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've downgraded the speedy deletion to a notability tag, as I take published poet as being an assertion of importance.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  17:07, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * At least in terms of publications by and about, this person must be considered a minor poet, at best. I agree that publication is a sign of notability. However, if you look at the [WorldCat Identities] page for this person, you get a picture of her importance, which is that her poems have not been republished since 1920, and only two publications have included a poem of hers in recent years (you have to click on the orange bar to retrieve the records). Compare this to the page on [Emily Dickinson] and you can see a huge difference. I am not opposed to including Coates, but one must have a sense of proportion.
 * I would like to see the "refs" that are unsourced comments removed. Any unsourced data should not be included.LaMona (talk) 16:17, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

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'Fugitive verse'?
Coates also penned several other works of fugitive verse...
 * This needs defining. I don't think it's an established genre. Valetude (talk) 03:08, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This article provides clarification, 'fugitive verse' meant ephemeral or occasional verse (see fugitive), typically published in newspapers. The linked article is a draft for an article in a peer-reviewed journal, but unfortunately the final article is behind a paywall. In my view you could cite the draft article, but if you can access the final article then it would be preferable to cite that. Verbcatcher (talk) 21:00, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Election to the laureateship
Coates was unanimously elected poet laureate of Pennsylvania by the state's Federation of Women's Clubs.
 * Why would the women's clubs be electing the poet laureate? It would normally be a literary society or the state senate. It would have been notable enough for a woman to receive the honour at all in those days. But what is the connection? Valetude (talk) 03:21, 26 November 2021 (UTC)