User talk:Star reborn

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Harold the Dauntless
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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Prose by John Neihardt
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The Lord of the Isles
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Your contributed article, The Lord of the Isles


Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, The Lord of the Isles. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Harold the Dauntless. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Harold the Dauntless - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Poetry contributions
Hi Star reborn,

First off, I'd like to thank you for the poetry articles you've been contributing recently. These are valuable additions to the encyclopedia, and it's great that you've been able to track down so many poems which didn't have articles. However (there's always a but...) there are a couple of problems with your submissions. Firstly, they do bear striking similarities to each other, in both content and structure (for example, the entries on Harold the Dauntless, The Bridal of Triermain and The Lord of the Isles all opened with identical phrases: "XXX is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott. Written in 181x, it weaves together elements of popular English legend using dramatic themes." Also, many of the plot sections you have contributed end in a bullet list of cliffhanger questions, cf The Battle of Marathon: A Poem, Balder Dead, The Divine Enchantment). This may simply be your preferred style of writing, but it may also be because you are copying this text from another source (I note that your sole source for all these articles tends to be the Oxford University Press version of the text). If you aren't already aware of WP:COPYVIO, please make yourself familiar with it.

The second issue, which I've alluded to above, is the sparseness of sourcing - we need independent, ideally third-party sources to verify notability. These exist for all the poems you've written about; I've already added some to the Harold the Dauntless and The Bridal of Triermain, for example; you just need to cite them. I'm slowly going through your created articles and adding references, but it's along job; if you could take a moment to reference your work it would make life easier for the rest of us.

Apologies for the essay; as I said at the outset, your contributions are useful and appreciated - all I'm suggesting is that they could be improved. If you've got any questions, or you need help with any of your articles, please drop me a note on my talkpage (I'm already discussing your work there with another user).

Cheers, Yunshui (talk) 13:16, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * With respect to these articles, I am concerned that the images you have been placing on them as covers may not have accompanied published editions of the works. Can you please provide more information about the editions on which these works appeared (publisher, date, etc.) if they were published? Pending some further information, I have removed them for now. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:24, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

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