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Samuel Gutierrez Wikipedia's Sappho article
In my article I see a lack of a good introduction over Sappho. In the small Paragraph over her introduction it only provides little details over her, practically only including the beginning and end with no middle. Without the revision of the introduction, many students who plan on researching her through Wikipedia may never know her full potential, and life as a Greek female poet. She deserves a more in-depth introduction with a strong thesis statement providing the reader with a excellent introduction. The article lacks examples of her poetry. In the talk page others who have contributed explain the lack of poetry examples, probably because her literature is in bits and fragments and hard to find. I see plenty of room for improvement on this article and cant wait to begin researching over one of the few female poets of her time. With the world being a male dominant society in her time it was hard to pull the strings in her work she did.

Reading List
Moses Hadas. (1953). The Greek Poets.

Marguerite Johnson. (2007). Ancients in action Sappho.

Glenn W Most. (1982). 1 Ancient Writers Greece and Rome.

Jim Powell. (2007). The Poetry of Sappho.

Martin Puchner. (2013). The Norton Anthology World Literature.

Harold Zellner. (2010). The Poetic style of the Greek Poet Sappho

Original
Sappho (/ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔ̌ː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω, Psappho [psápːʰɔː]) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Revised
Sappho (/ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔ̌ː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω, Psappho [psápːʰɔː]) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos, which was off the coast of Asia minor. She was well known for her brilliant talent as a poet. A later poet would call her the tenth Muse. The Alexandrian scholars at a library included her in the list of nine lyric poets. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The little we know is through her poetry it suggest she was married and had a daughter, but this isn't a proven fact it is only assumed. Sappho's poetry recalls a world in which women engaged in a life of their own, away from a male dominant society. As readers of her poetry we must always remember that her poems are to be performed by a group of girls dancing and singing to musical instruments. Many believed she was a teacher of a female group on Lesbos, others thought she had religious interactions. Her poems influence the nineteenth century modern term lesbian. Although in present day society we view this term as a adjective to describe women and there erotic feelings for the same sex, Sappho's meaning of the word is to describe she is behaving as one from Lesbos her birthplace. Through Sappho's poetry she shows the reader her view on love. Many scholars believe Sappho saw love played like a game as she treated it that way too, through her poetry. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost. She is the only female ancient Greek author who's work still survives at all; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.[ ]

Original Contribution
In My Wikipedia article I provided the reader with more facts they may have never known before. A few of the examples I added were the facts such as her island was off the coast of the Asia minor. Another thing I added was the fact she was called the "Tenth Muse". According to the text they don't really know exactly about her life but they predict she was like every other normal women in society with a family and children. I added what they claimed her poems were suppose to include while being read which was groups of girls dancing and singing to musical instruments. I also informed the reader with a fun fact about how she Is known for the coined phrase "Lesbian". Through this I learned that the Greeks in fact did create the word but had a completely different meaning of it.The only reason her work is still hanging on is through the small surviving fragments left behind.