Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry/William Blake

Welcome to the William Blake Task Force.This Task Force organizes and coordinates Wikipedia's coverage of Romantic poet and artist William Blake. In Fall 2013, User:Sadads will be having a WP:GLAM-Wiki internship with The William Blake Archive, and has started the project to organize and support efforts to improve content related to William Blake, the collection of The William Blake Archive and other topics related to Blake's contributions to both literary and visual culture. More information about the collaboration, which will include content development and events related to the William Blake Archive, will be coming soon! Make sure that you add this page to your watchlist!

If you are interested in Blake or improving Wikipedia's examination of Blake scholarship, we would love to have your support. Please add yourself to the list of members. Also, check out the most recent update to find out what is going on in the project

GLAM-Wiki cooperation agenda
The following is a list of things User:Sadads plans to encourage during the end of Summer 2013 and Fall 2013 while he is an intern supporting cooperation with the William Blake Archive:
 * Assess articles related to Blake on Wikipedia
 * Sponsor multiples edithons, including at least one at Kansas State University and one at University of North Carolina, two universities where Archive editors are located, Oct.11 Edithaton at Kansas State will have more information soon
 * Run a Wikipedia Education Program assignment with cooperation from a professor at Kansas State University focused on the poetry of Songs of Innocence and of Experience
 * Run at least one edit drive to improve content related to Blake -
 * Reorganization and clear labeling Blake Archive files on commons, ensuring that they credit both originating institution and the Blake Archive
 * Document the process and activities involved with Blake Activities - this will be done mostly at User:Sadads's blog http://alexstinson.wordpress.com/

User:Sadads would strongly encourage discussion of further possible activities or feedback on the talk page for the task force

Scope and categories
Generally, content worked on by the project will fall within the scope of Category:William Blake. Below is a category tree to help with navigating and curating content.

Article assessment
To assess articles as part of the William Blake project, add the following template We assess articles within the project on the assessment scale provided at WP: WikiProject Poetry. Importance should indicate an articles relative relationship to Blake scholarship or public interest in Blake.

Criteria for importance can be broken down in the following ways:
 * Top Importance- Blake's Biography, complete works by Blake (whether epic poems or full publications), work treated extensively in scholarship or taught extensively in schools
 * High Importance - Important poems or illustrations, important Blake scholars, people or places important in understanding Blake's life
 * Mid Importance - Less important poems or illustrations, characters from Blake's mythology that receive considerable attention
 * Low importance - derivative works of little importance, minor characters in Blake's mythology, individuals on the periphery of Blake's life

Content developed
The below section is to both document content that has been significantly improved and to help communicate the successes of the GLAM-Wiki Collaboration with The William Blake Archive

This section will contain a list of content brought to GA, FA, FL or Featured picture by the project. This section will contain a list of articles brought to DYK by the project.
 * Recognized Content
 * DYKs

New Articles
This section will contain a list of new articles created by the project.


 * Samuel Collings
 * William Blake Archive
 * Anthony Stephen Mathew
 * Visionary Heads -7435 views ->
 * The Grave (poem)  - 2436 views
 * Notebook of William Blake
 * The Human Abstract (poem)
 * Introduction (Blake, 1794)
 * The Voice of the Ancient Bard
 * Beulah (Blake)

From Fall 2013 course at K-State:
 * The Little Boy Lost
 * The Little Boy Found
 * Spring (poem)
 * Night (poem)

Articles Improved
This section contains article that have been expanded throughout the project:
 * Golgonooza (expanded)
 * David V. Erdman ->
 * Spectre (Blake) ->
 * The Mental Traveller (substantially expanded)
 * Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (expanded a bit)
 * The Sick Rose ->
 * The Tyger ->
 * Infant Joy ->

Content added or improved in other languages
This section will contain a list of new articles and significant improvements to articles in other language Wikipedias
 * Russian:
 * Вала (Блейк) (=Vala (Blake) )
 * Лува (=Luvah )
 * Порождение (Блейк) (=Generation (Blake) )
 * Беула (Блейк) (=Beulah (Blake) )
 * Эдем (Блейк) (=Eden (Blake))
 * Тириэль (поэма) (=Tiriel (poem))
 * Мифология Уильяма Блейка (=William Blake's mythology)
 * Тириэль (=Tiriel)
 * Ахания (=Ahania)
 * Тармас (=Tharmas)
 * Ульро (=Ulro)
 * Альбион (Блейк) (=Albion (Blake))
 * Голгонуца (=Golgonooza)
 * Лос (Блейк) (=Los (Blake))
 * Уризен (=Urizen)
 * Гилкрист, Александр (=Alexander Gilchrist)
 * Головы призраков (=Visionary Heads)
 * Иллюстрации Уильяма Блейка к Книге Иова (=William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job)
 * Древние (группа художников) (=Ancients (art group))
 * Сампсон, Джон (=John Sampson (linguist))
 * Swedish
 * The Grave (dikt)

Wikisource

 * The Notebook (or "Rossetti Manuscript") was used by Blake from c.1787 until c.1818.
 * Notebook c.1793 (64 pages in total)
 * Notebook c.1800-1803 (10 pages in total)
 * Blake's apology for his Catalogue
 * The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule
 * Do what you will this life's a fiction

Visionary heads (new)
Some other Visionary Heads (in the order of Martin Butlin Catalogue)

Other outcomes

 * An editathon at Kansas State University

To do

 * Robert Blair's poem The Grave ✅
 * Statue of Newton (after Blake) in the British Library courtyard - See image at File:NewtonBlakePaolozzi1.jpg
 * Expand two most popularly taught Blake works Songs of Innocence and Experience and Marriage of Heaven and Hell
 * William Blake's illustrations of The Divine Comedy - User:Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy) interested
 * Poems missing from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
 * Flesh out Ancients (art group) and the associated biography pages particularly - Francis Oliver Finch and John Giles - two members of the Ancients (art group), Arthur Tatham
 * Articles for items listed at http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/indexworks.htm
 * Adding information about extent copies, and publication notes (the Blake Archive's description are most authoritative and recent in this regard)
 * A Large Book of Designs - Commons Category and Record item at William Blake Archive
 * The Approach of Doom - An early experimental print by Blake, at British Museum record and mentioned in There is No Natural Religion - Another scholarly source.
 * Anthony Stephen Mathew- supporter of Blake found on There is No Natural Religion, an we have a   Portrait of Mathew on Commons ✅
 * Expand the sourly lacking information about Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Gilchrist (writer) and their Life of William Blake - Google search of Archive's mentions of Gilchrest
 * Expand information about major scholar David V. Erdman ✅
 * Add reference for the mythological character Fuzon (Blake)
 * Rossetti Manuscript - http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/3-1862.blms.radheader.html and the poem from that manuscript Never pain to tell thy love ✅
 * For Children: The Gates of Paradise - record at http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=gates-child&java=no
 * For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise - record at http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/indexworks.htm, also on wikisource at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/For_the_Sexes:_The_Gates_of_Paradise
 * Humanity (Blake), Emanation (Blake) and Shadow (Blake) - three more mythological elements of the fourfold nature of humanity according to
 * Improve John Varley (painter), collaborator with Blake on Visionary Heads