Talk:The Knickerbocker

Student Project

Hello! I am a student working with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program and I have chosen to adopt this article as part of my project. As it is now, I think the historical background is very well researched and there are some very interesting facts included, especially the one about the chicken joke! Over the next few weeks however, I plan to enhance the article by researching its origins and content more thoroughly and exploring the ways in which the magazine contributed to the American Environmental Movement. If anyone has any suggestions and/or corrections please let me know; this is a learning experience for me and I would welcome the input of a sagacious wikipedian or even just another student :)MelPav (talk) 14:50, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Check out my user page to see the content I am currently working. MelPav (talk) 02:41, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

See: User:MelPav/sandbox. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:30, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

This semester I improved this article by further researching its history and societal contributions. I also focused on its impact on the American Environmental Movement, looking at the multitude of influential works it published. Additionally, I added images to the page as well as sources and links to help readers better understand the subject matter as well as to make the article a gateway to other topics. I am also currently working on adding some transcribed text to wikisource to make the magazine's writing more accessible to interested readers; specifically the letters from the editor which reveal a great deal about the magazine's origins and mission. My suggestions for future development would be to look at the other issues/ movements articles published in the magazine besides environmental ones and how The Knickerbocker affected or inspired modern publications. MelPav (talk) 16:00, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Wolfert's Roost as children's book. Failed Verification/Synthesis

I've tagged this sentence: "Yet, this simplicity made his work accessible to children as well as adults exposing them to the wonders of nature at a young age." as insufficiently supported by theis source: West, Clinedinst B. (2010). The Works of Washington Irving Wolfert's Roost and Other Short Stories. Honolulu, Hawaii: World Public Library Association. WPLBN0000579727. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

While I've not actually made it past the paywall, the TOC and the abstract are identical to the TOC and page 1 content here and the author has the same name as this illustrator making me pretty confident that the source library has misattributed an eBook of a work by Washington Irving to its illustrator, in which case the cited work is irrelevant to the claim. What may be relevant to the claim is that the source library has put this work in the children's section, in which case the url is relevant but it is the web page not the book that should be cited. On the other hand why is this one website special? Amazon does also list Wolfert's Roost as a children's book but worldcat does not and trying to analyse that further would be WP:Original Research. In any case that does nothing to link criticism of the work (see preceding sentence) to its suitability for children, which is the questionable synthesis. TuxLibNit (talk) 18:27, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

This article was the subject of an educational assignment at SUNY-ESF supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Fall term that ended on 7 December 2012. Further details are available on the course page.

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