Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Allan Marris
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 21:34, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
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Charles Allan Marris
- ... that in The Arraignment of Paris, poet Denis Glover stated Charles Allan Marris was the "arbiter of all our art and letters / presenting rotten apples to his betters"? Source: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
5x expanded by Therapyisgood (talk). Self-nominated at 22:32, 29 November 2021 (UTC).
Interesting literary person, fine expansion, but on one source, - is there anything else? Just asking. In the article, I don't think the death is lead material, and believe that the typical obit phrasing (survived ...) should be changed to the normal style (was married ...) Sorry, I am not happy with the hook. It's a long quote which I'm not sure I even understand, mentions an unknown unlinked publication, and an unknown linked one who wrote that, - that tells me too little about our subject, not NZ, not what he did ... - please try something else. Even in the aarticle, the quote seems not self-explanatory. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:09, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: cut death from article lead. Changed wording around son and daughters. Added context around quote in article. How about:
- Alt 1: ... that due to his
GregorianGeorgian ideals, New Zealand editor Charles Allan Marris was often in conflict with avant-garde poets such as Denis Glover? Therapyisgood (talk) 22:58, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
thank you, and I leave the choice to the prep builder. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:04, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
