SusanMcMaster

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Help request

Dear me, I think I put my long comment on another page, but sent to you. I'll try to find it. In the meantime, I was not the author of this page on me -- it arrived to my surprise maybe 10 years ago. Since then the info has changed, as I've published more books, placed for prizes, become President of the League of Canadian Poets, had books translated and read internationally, etc. I don't know whether any of this makes the article "important". I do know readers often refer to it. So when the note came on about secondary sources, I added Canadian Who's Who plus some others, a review in the Ottawa Citizen, and was about to add some more, when they got removed and your kind note came up. This hasn't happened before -- my edits have been accepted... I'm not now sure what to do? Any help you can give will be appreciated. SusanMcMaster (talk) 23:01, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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Morningside and Go for Susan McMaster

Hi -- don't know if my answer got through at all? Both of these were CBC radio programs, Morningside with Peter Gzowski, interviews 1970s and 1980, Go with Brent Bambury in Ottawa, also CBC radio, again interview. Also appeared on other CBC and other radio shows, occasionally on tv, during these 2 decades, e.g., As it Happens. Thanks, Sue SusanMcMaster (talk)

Edit request

Dear Editor -- I hope you'll be able to help me with a little problem. Perhaps a year ago now, I made some factual corrections to my bio page. This page was not originally mounted by me, in fact I don't have any idea who did do it. Perhaps it happened through the League of Canadian Poets -- I was president for a while -- or other such sources, e.g. the Writers Union of Canada, or maybe the Canadian Who's Who then published by the University of Toronto. In any case, I corrected a few errors and kept the bibliographical list up to date as I published new books. I had no problem for a long time: the page has been up for more than a decade, I believe.

But just this year, a box saying that "the subject of the page (me) is changing it" appeared -- very embarrassing, and I now hesitate to send people to Wikipedia -- even though I never put in qualitative or descriptive material, just facts.

Earlier I contacted an editor because there was also a notability question; she very kindly removed that warning when I sent some corroborative quotes. So that's all fine.

She also told me the other box would disappear in a month or two if I didn't edit the page myself. I haven't done so, but it's been a long time, at least since last winter. Can you please remove the warning? It looks like I'm a blowhard playing my own horn! Aackk!!

The page is under the heading "Susan McMaster". I do appreciate your help, and will be very grateful for anything you can do. Thanks very much!!

SusanMcMaster (talk) 01:32, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

 Done: The tag was removed by SlimVirgin a few days ago. No harm, but, in future, you should make these requests on the article's talk page, not your user talk page. You can find the full directions here. Rebbing 17:34, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Removal of "clarification" and "weasel word" tags

Gosh, Sarah, I just checked the page and it looks great, with the odd qualifications that the word "poet" in the second paragraph is marked with "clarification" and "weasel words". I'm confused, since the whole article is about my work as a poet. By now I have about 2 dozen poetry books and recordings, published by established and respectable trade publishers and publications, including 2 magazines including poetry that I founded and edited myself, one the first feminist art mag in Canada (1973-80, doctoral thesis and articles, Dr. Tessa Jordan, University of Alberta), the other the flagship mag of the National Gallery of Canada (Vernissage, 1990-present, though I'm now retired from there). The paragraph reads:

Since 1996, she has been the poet[clarification needed][weasel words] in Geode Music & Poetry, making four spoken word and music recordings with Jennifer Giles on keyboards, Alrick Huebener on bass, Gavin McLintock on sax, and friends, including Dave Broscoe, Jamie Gullikson, Mike Essoudry, Petr Cancura, Mark Molnar, John Higney, Linsey Wellman, Penn Kemp, Colin Morton, and Max Middle. She has performed and recorded with SugarBeat and Geode at 50-plus venues, including the Banff Centre, the National Library, the Kingston Fringe Jazz Festival, Rasputin's, the Blue Skies Music Festival, the Ottawa Folk Festival, the Elora Music Festival, Artscape, WordBeat, Morningside, Go, the National Arts Center Fourth Stage, and the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and has read and performed at festivals and venues in France and Italy.

Perhaps it would help to change the first phrase to:

Between 1996 and 2010, she was the solo spoken word performance member of the group Geode Music & Poetry,

[Note that while I still perform my work with musicians, the Geode group is closed down now.]

I suppose this happened because the word poet is now trendy, e.g., "I'm the poet of motor car racing...", but it seems odd that it turned up here, when I actually and literally am a poet, on paper and in performance. Anyway, I'm sure you will explain what I need to do, or make the change if needed, to remove those qualifications?

Once again, I really appreciate your attention. I know there's always too much to do!

warmly, SusanMcMaster (talk) 12:13, 16 July 2016 (UTC)