User talk:Kiromei

Welcome!
Hello, Kiromei, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Draft
Hi! I just wanted to say that the draft topic seems really interesting! I know that finding sourcing for people who lived prior to the 1900s can be difficult, so I recommend that you check with the Alabama Department of Archives and History to see if they have any news articles on Clark or any other type of coverage that could be considered notable. Your university may also have some archives as well, but the state archives will be an invaluable resource.

Also make sure to look for variations of his name as well as any nicknames - during this time period it was common for there to be multiple spellings as well as people going by different last names. An outlaw would be even more likely to do this. It looks like he may have gone by the names Tom Clark or Thomas Clark. I'm not sure if Pennsylvania Butch is the same guy, but it's worth looking into and this uses the term "Mountain Tom". I don't think that the paper I linked can be used as a reliable source but it's something to use as a start.

Hope this helps! Definitely check with your state archives! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:47, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello! Thank you for the advice. I will definitely visit the archives to try to find out more information on Clark. In regards to nicknames and name variations, should I also bold those names within my article once I add them and create subsequent redirect syntaxes for them? Kiromei (talk) 00:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, if it's going to be a redirect. Good catch! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:54, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Maybe

 * Christina Olivares is a Cuban-American poet and essayist. She is the author of No Map of the Earth Includes Stars, winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize , and of Interrupt, a 2015 chaplet by Belladonna* Collaborative . She is a recipient of a 2018 BRIO Nonfiction Award , two Jerome Travel and Study Grants (2014 & 2010) , and a 2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency . Author page and bio . No Map of the Earth Includes Stars was reviewed by Jacket2 and micro-reviewed by the Poetry Foundation's Harriet . Her poetry has been anthologized in Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 . Her nonfiction has been published in Makhzin and the Kenyon Review Online . Olivares received her MFA in Poetry from CUNY Brooklyn College and her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Amherst College.

I saw you made one edit today--that's not a lot. You have to pick up the pace a bit. Dr Aaij (talk) 21:56, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Robyn Bolam
Hi! Good job on the new article - my main recommendation is to continue to look for secondary reliable sources to help establish notability since many of the sources you used are primary. You can still use primary sources to back up basic details - it's just that the article could still use more secondary sources. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:24, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * For example, you can use things like this news article that reviews one of her poems. Definitely check your school databases as well, as academic and scholarly sources will be the some of the most heavily verified and strongest possible sources you can get. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:26, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey, I think you're just about done with this--there really isn't all that more to write on this person, though indeed minor improvements can still be made. Pick another one, a bigger one, one where you can have--as I said in class a few times--all kinds of sources: books, journal, magazines. Dr Aaij (talk) 02:45, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi! I saw that you nominated this page for DYK, but you didn't add the sourcing to the nomination. Looking at the sourcing, it doesn't look like she specified the length of her stay nor does the source for the Fellowship itself mention length. I think that if you were to use this hook, you would need to remove the length of time. It's not in any of the sourcing, nor is the length of her time at the castle specified in the article - keep in mind that the hook needs to be something that is entirely in the article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:36, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Kiromei, what Shalor said. PLEASE add the source, and follow her suggestions for the hook etc. She knows what she's doing. Dr Aaij (talk) 00:37, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Hook
Hi! It looks like the DYK reviewer requested a different hook, as the hook was inaccurate. Maybe something along the lines of


 * "...that English poet Robyn Bolam was awarded a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship in 1993, which enabled her to spend a month at the retreat for writers in Hawthornden Castle?" Source: Royal Literary Fund

Or you can do:


 * "...that English poet Robyn Bolam published her first poem at 15, in an anthology titled Next Wave Poets 1?" RobynBolam.com


 * "...that English poet Robyn Bolam was encouraged by poet Peter Porter to apply for the Eric Gregory Award, which she won in 1981?" RobynBolam.com

You can totally use these, if you like! Pinging. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:13, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Shalor, thank you so much for helping out here. This student hasn't been spotted in a few weeks. :( If you think those hooks are fine, can you propose them? I saw User:Cwmhiraeth was on the job, at the DYK nomination. My problem is that I cannot find independent verification for the award (she's not listed in the article either), and maybe Cwmhiraeth, who knows me a bit, knows that I hate referencing things to people's own websites... Anyway, if y'all are fine with it, let's just put it up so the student will at least have gotten that out of the class... Dr Aaij (talk) 15:06, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see now that she is listed in the award article, but under her married name, so that's one problem solved. Either of the last two hooks is fine with me... Dr Aaij (talk) 15:10, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Can do! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:14, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Robyn Bolam
Alex Shih (talk) 12:02, 4 December 2018 (UTC)