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A fact from And Still I Rise appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry, contains two of the author's most famous poems?
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As usual, I've made a few copyediting tweaks as I went; as usual for your nominations, this seems excellent so far and essentially ready to promote. Remaining quibbles below. I'll do spotchecks of the sources and a "main aspects" check tonight or tomorrow. -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
"is author and poet Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry" -- I'd suggest cutting "and poet" here; clear from the three volumes of poetry
Done.
"perhaps to capitalize on her popularity following her reading of her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993" -- it's not clear to me why Random House would select this volume of poetry for The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou as a specific result of the inauguration reading; the "perhaps" here also makes me think this might need citation as an interpretation/inference
Hmm, this is the third of Angelou's poetry books and the first time someone's given me this feedback. I changed to wording to make it appear, um, less "interpretative". ;)
Was the full title of Cosmopolitan at the time Cosmopolitan Magazine? It seems like this should probably be written Cosmopolitan magazine.
Done.
"Angelou skillfully engages" -- the "skillfully" here probably needs to be more directly attributed to a speaker for NPOV reasons
I added the quotes before the word in question and after "engages".
" Neubauer and literary critic Harold Bloom" -- is it correct to attribute this to Harold Bloom here? The citation goes to Lynn Z Bloom. Bloom could be summarizing Bloom, but I thought I'd better doublecheck.
Nope, I was must missing a ref. Thanks for the catch; I added it.
"African-American scholar " -- this phrase is slightly ambiguous as to whether she's Af-Am or studies Af-Am culture/lit. Could it simply be dropped, or shortened to "scholar"?
Shortened to "scholar".
"The first part, entitled "Touch Me, Life, Not Softly", has been called "joyful"" -- needs its own inline citation--is this from Lippmann? -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.
2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).
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