Talk:Marguerite Agnes Power

draft comments
Hi I'm providing online support for your class at UMD and I have some comments on your draft: Looks like a good start. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thanks! Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:20, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I found a few sources on the subject which might be helpful:
 * ISBN 1408834383 (p. 76) has a brief mention of one of her works, Letters of a Betrothed, which she wrote under a pseudonym (see ISBN 0786457635 (p. 233) for a source on that). I think those two sources might be valuable to support a sentence or two on the work.
 * this appears to be a short biography, including a lot of material we'd like to summarize in the article. I believe that you should be able to get that through your library's subscription service and it looks like it will be very valuable. It appears to be the proper source behind the wikisource page you have linked. What I would do is provide the bibliographic information for that source in the citation (so a reader will know where it comes from originally). You can leave the link to wikisource if you like, but it's not required.
 * Finding additional sources is tough, as Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington is often referred to as Marguerite Power (or Marguerite Power Gardiner) There do appear to be a few more floating about but it's hard to tell as few are indexed online.
 * The first section of a wikipedia article (referred to as the "lead") does not require a section heading.
 * Phrases like "Sadly she is often forgotten when others discuss the works she made contributions to." are usually not included in wikipedia articles. Remember, we want to stick to the facts about a subject and not insert opinion. If we have a source that notes she was largely forgotten (which seems likely, given the above info I found), we should note that but leave it up to the reader to determine whether or not this was sad.
 * Lady Blessington should be wikilinked to Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (you can retain the original text with a "pipe"): Lady Blessignton will render as Lady Blessignton.
 * ...an account of a winter's residence in Egypt." A writer's residence?
 * For the "More Works" section, two things. First, section headings are not title cased. The first word is capitalized and following words are not (unless they're proper nouns). Second, references inserted into sections headings are technically possible but vanishingly rare on wikipedia. If you'd like an inline citation to 'cover' the list of works you could put a sentence in the section before the list saying something like "Elizabeth Lee compiled a list of Power's works for the Dictionary of National Biography" then put the reference right there. I'd also just list all her works in this sentence, including the two you've mentioned in prose so far.


 * I made a few edits, like the removal of the section heading at the beginning of the article, adding a wikilink, and moving the citation for works into the section - and changing that section heading to "Works". The citations were not really formatted, so I formatted the first one in a template as an example and then started templates for the other two sources so that the fields that need to be completed are identified.


 * If you have more than one use of the same source, you can name the first use - with the full citation information with a name, like and each subsequent use just needs a tag like -- CaroleHenson   ( talk ) 06:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)