Talk:Kārlis Skalbe

Expert review
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As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether this topic is notable enough to have its own article. What is missing from the article at this time, actually, are multiple independent sources about the subject. For example, citing a book-form biography of this poet would certainly help. I'm quite sure that one must exist, and Google books shows some entries with the poet's name in the title (but not as the author), such as these. But I don't speak Latvian. Perhaps someone could help me in identifying one or two biographies of the poet?

Your opinions are welcome; please add your comments below. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:37, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, hadn't been following the project page closely and saw your request. Skalbe is quite notable both culturally as a poet/author and politially (minister of education). The article does require significant expansion. Most of my references are packed away right now, what's not packed away is in Latvian (so, slow going, translating, for which I currently don't have the bandwidth). Just wanted to let you know the article definitely needs to stick around and will need to be significantly expanded. (On a completely separate topic, noting your name, my parents spent some time in the DP camp at Wolterdingen.) —PētersV (talk) 18:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Slowly but hopefully surely
I dug out my "Collected Works" book, which is prefaced with a detailed biography of Skalbe, and started translating/summarizing. The "youth and schooling" section summarizes about six pages in the biography. If anyone else has the book, feel free to pitch in. I don't have it scanned at the moment, unfortunately. PetersV    TALK 08:10, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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