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May 2013
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John Payne
I'm afraid I've had to do a bit of (temporary) "surgery" on this one. My remarks on the "talk" page are apposite, although perhaps a little blunt - please don't take them personally, we both (I am sure) want nothing more than a better article at this point. Just to help you get what I suspect will eventually be a fine contribution into shape, might I make the following points?


 * 1 We just CAN'T cut-n-paste large blocks of text straight into Wikipedia!! Apart from the issues of plagarism, not to mention breach of copyright, it very often (as here) just won't work because of conflicts between the way the text is formatted in the source from which you cut it and the way it is formatted here.


 * 2 Even when adding "our own unaided work" (in fact ESPECIALLY when adding "our own unaided work") we do need to bear in mind that we are writing an encyclopedia article, not (say) a controversial letter to the editor of a literary journal. In fact anything at all controversial we may say needs good academic standard referencing, and needs to be balanced. Giving undue weight to a an opinion or point of view not shared by the consensus of most scholars is especially inappropriate.

Best wishes - and hoping you will be able to make acceptable changes to these well meant efforts. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 19:58, 4 December 2013 (UTC)