User talk:Cnilep/Archive/03 May 2014

Article with copyright violation

I reported the first section of the article Falls City, Texas for copy-pasting text from another website. One week later, the article is no longer listed in the Copyright problems page, whereas other articles tagged for the issue at a similar time were inspected (A similar article was reported for copying text from the same website, and it was handled). The article's issue hasn't been resolved, so when will it? TheGGoose (talk) 23:32, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, there tends to be a long back log of copyright problems. They try to deal with issues 7 days after they are listed, but sometimes it takes weeks or even months to deal with an issue. Listings from April 19 and 20 were not showing up on Wikipedia:Copyright problems, possibly because there are too many unresolved issues from the days before. I've manually added them to the page. Cnilep (talk) 00:24, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

As of today, someone eliminated the copied text in the article completely. This problem is solved. TheGGoose (talk) 23:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

The Golden Book of Springfield

My name is Gregory Knox and I've been working on the page for the Golden Book of Springfield. I wanted to thank you for your contributions to the page.

The problem with The Golden Book is that there is really little to zero secondary literature regarding the subject. Ron Sakolsky has put together an excellent introduction, but it's 120 pages long. A shorter version exists under the name "Utopia At Your Doorstep: Vachel Lindsay's Golden Book of Springfield."

I'd like to encourage you to check that out if you're interested in the topic, and also to help me with finishing the "Prophetic Interpretation" section. Honestly I do not want only my opinions to be represented on this page.

Thank you very much.

Best, Gregory — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hkelly217 (talk • contribs) 18:00, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for commenting here, Gregory. I am less interested in The Golden Book of Springfield, the book, than I am in The Golden Book of Springfield, the Wikipedia article. Your comments here raise two concerns. First, if there isn't much secondary literature available about the book, that suggests that it may not be "notable" as defined by Wikipedia. You may want to check out the guideline at Wikipedia:Notability (books) to ensure that the book is sufficiently notable to warrant a Wikipedia article. Note that "notable" does not mean "important" or "interesting"; it is defined in terms of treatment in secondary sources, awards, adaptations, or scholarly interest, among other things.

Second, Wikipedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, representing what reliable sources have said about the topic. They should not represent Wikipedia contributors own original analysis of a book or other topic. That means not only that your own opinions are not sufficient, but also that your opinions balanced with the opinions of other Wikipedia contributors misses the mark.

If an article can be written about The Golden Book of Springfield which adheres to Wikipedia's fundamental principles, then I will be happy to regard it as a valuable contribution. Thanks again, and happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 05:05, 30 April 2014 (UTC)