Talk:Rupi Kaur

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This page should not be speedy deleted because...
This page should not be speedily deleted because... Rupi Kaur is perhaps the most famous contemporary Canadian poet. She has been featured in countless publications including the Huffington Post, the Montreal Gazette, The Guardian, CBC, The Toronto Star, and many more. Her critically acclaimed book, Milk and Honey, has stayed in the top three most purchased poetry books on amazon.com for several months. Kaur has gone on to be invited to talk at several universities throughout Canada. This page should not be deleted as Ms. Kaur is an important figure not only in Canadian literature, but also in contemporary poetry world wide. --Cooperrr1986 (talk) 02:35, 23 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Upon conducting a good faith web search, I rescind my nomination for the speedy deletion of this article. I now believe that the subject does meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability and have to the page. --Erick Shepherd (talk) 04:51, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

This page needs to be edited to add info
This page seems factually sound, although there are a few problems with it. The main issue is that it is very bare bones and lacks much information. I think more in depth sections about her book and her spoken word and art work needs to be made, among other things. There also might be some close paraphrasing on the page. I plan to edit this page and address these issues in the near future. Dakotarose777 (talk) 21:16, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Reliable sources?
Most discussions of allegations of plagiarism in Kaur's poetry that I've seen, including the discussion in this Wikipedia entry, use poor-quality sources as well as overly broad definitions of plagiarism. This Wikipedia entry even cites a user comment on an Amazon.com page, which I am sure doesn't come close to qualifying as a reliable source. Jk180 (talk) 23:27, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree. That whole section should be removed. "... has drawn significant attention, with 127 likes" is not worth including in the article. sikander (talk) 23:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I removed the paragraph about the Amazon comment. --Apoc2400 (talk) 10:39, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Proposed Edits
I would work on adding more details like the Talk page says is necessary, as well as ensuring that there is no plagiarism and reliable sources are being used as the Talk page mentions a need for — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deena.husami (talk • contribs) 19:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Many wiki pages of celebrities with English-unconventional names will show, in parentheses, an IPA transcription of said name. Is there any place where Kaur has audibly pronounced her last name that we could add one to this page?

73.169.192.71 (talk) 20:17, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Any scholarly source
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TikTok
How is people finding some TikTok cringey notable enough to include here? Oscar666kta420swag (talk) 07:51, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Neglects to mention why Rupi Kaur is famous
The entire reason that Kaur is known is because her poetry is laughably bad. We don't say "her poetry is bad" on Wikipedia, we say "these critics have said that her poetry is bad [1][2][3]" but without saying either it becomes yet another "random collection of arbitrary facts" article where a person could read and memorize the entire page and still come away with no understanding of why the subject is notable. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 09:20, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Reception section
I think it's pretty odd that a large portion of the Reception section is dedicated to people responding and dismissing criticism of her writing, yet we don't have a single source leading back to that criticism. Seems odd and unbalanced to have a section full of people responding to criticism, without any of the actual criticism being presented, especially when the response to the criticism is based in large part around accusing people of bigotry - it seems like an instance in which you'd want to make it easy for people to actually see the criticism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Centrist marxist (talk • contribs) 14:52, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Is Rupi Kaur a more important poet than Marianne Moore or Gwendolyn Brooks?
Based on the lengths of their respective Wikipedia pages, it seems like this site thinks she is. This article has really gotten out of hand.

Let's start with the elephant in the room: Rupi Kaur is an Internet meme. She's famous because she's an incredibly bad self-proclaimed "poet" whom the dumbest people online like, and is known to most people who have heard of her solely through parody and mockery of her work. You can dress that up in Wikipedia neutral language and citations as much as you want, but it's still the case. It's ludicrous that she's getting more coverage than people who are actually important to the history of poetry as opposed to the history of Instagram and online humor.

Second fact: Wikipedia has a recency bias that stems mainly from the tendency to add a sentence to an article for every news article that comes out about its subject. People who are actively generating news in the present day when it's easy to find thousands of outlets online get huge pages that are just accumulations of often unhelpful sentences piled on each other. Most of the information in this page is totally pointless to understand Rupi Kaur at the level of an encyclopedia entry and is somewhere between the level of detail one would expect from a book-length biography and meaningless public relations speak. For example, right now the article contains the sentence "After meeting her business partner, she became more calculated." This assertion has nothing to do with understanding why Rupi Kaur is notable and adds nothing to the article.

I think this page needs a full rewrite that just focuses, in about three paragaphs, on the important facts about Kaur's biography, citations to critics who have explained why her poetry is terrible, and a reasonable (2-3 sentence) rebuttal from her defenders. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 17:29, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia doesn't invent the coverage we merely coalescence it; if you resent the popular discussion of her then write to Rolling Stone and The New York Times and The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal and the BBC and Rebecca Watts and P.N. Review and the National Poetry Library.


 * Again, we don't dress up anything; we report that she's a notable poet, as does the citations we whole-heartily parrot. Lastly, why would we butcher the article? Kaur's notability has been secured, we're thus working to creating a comprehensive biography. To put your request in context: three paragraphs don't even cover the entirety of Emily Dickenson's teenage years. I don't imagine you're requesting something similar happen to her, featured, article. Mind you, on the flip side, we do already have three paragraphs summarising Kaur's biography. It's the lead. Wikipedia doesn't bend to our enjoyment of the subjects - I don't even like Kaur's poetry.


 * But, as you say, Marianne Moore and Gwendolyn Brooks are important to poetry, why don't you work on their articles? DMT Biscuit (talk) 20:09, 22 July 2021 (UTC)


 * "Coalescing" an ever-growing list of trivia based on how much coverage a subject gets in online media in 2021 is neither the correct standard for weight and depth on Wikipedia, nor the standard it purports to follow.  Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 21:27, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Your definition of trivia is bizarre. How is a discussion of her career, style and reception trivial? It appears more worthy of inclusion than Dickenson's final letter: "Little Cousins, Called Back. Emily". DMT Biscuit (talk) 09:52, 23 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Here are the first four things I noticed scrolling to random parts of the article:
 * The number of people who attended a specific poetry reading the Kaur did in 2009.
 * The fact that Kaur participated on the middle school speech team in seventh grade.
 * Quotes about the exact number of pens she used when writing poetry in college.
 * An entire paragraph with multiple quotes describing a period of a few days in which some photos were not available on Kaur's Instagram.


 * This is all trivial, especially for someone who is only notable for the exact same reasons as Pepe the Frog or the Harlem Shake. To compare it to writings of Emily Dickinson (presumably who you meant in referring to this "Dickenson" person), which are studied in order to understand one of the most important poets of all time, is ludicrous. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 10:03, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Early Life rewrite
At present the 'Early Life' section is poorly written and needs to be edited for clarity and concision. I think the descriptive detail is too much and goes beyond what we would usually expect from a Wikipedia article. Can we try to focus on 'just the facts' and avoid straying into an overly developed chronicle of every minor facet of her life? Boredintheevening (talk) 17:16, 29 September 2023 (UTC)