Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Peters
Dear Ray Saintonge, Not one bit of those articles constitutes "original research". It is 100% cited to highly reliable third party sources. They are exact summaries of thousands of pages of source material. Furthermore, Simple English is about the use of simple language to convey encyclopedic cont

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Peters
Dear AGK, I think it is safe to say that I have always been an outsider at Wikipedia. Sincerely, Jeffrey Peters aka Ottava Rima On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:24 AM, AGK wrote: > On 22 June 2010 01:05, Jeffrey Peters <17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu> > wrote: > > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professi

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Peters
Dear Ray Saintonge, Not one bit of those articles constitutes "original research". It is 100% cited to highly reliable third party sources. They are exact summaries of thousands of pages of source material. Furthermore, Simple English is about the use of simple language to convey encyclopedic cont

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-22 Thread AGK
On 22 June 2010 01:05, Jeffrey Peters <17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote: > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently > working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition > Masters in Classical Lit [snip] > Both rewrites/expansions can be found

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-22 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Dear List, > > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently > working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition > Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the > donation > of two fully written pages on two important poems o

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-22 Thread Ray Saintonge
geni wrote: > On 22 June 2010 01:25, MZMcBride wrote: > >> Jeffrey Peters wrote: >> >>> Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project >>> that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a >>> whole: >>> >>> >>> >> http://simple.wikipedia.org/wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-22 Thread Ray Saintonge
Noein wrote: > Oh Kubla Khan! Jorge Luis Borges was fond of the palace's story and the > poem. Thank you for your hard work. > > Given Borges's English ancestry among the erudites of the Haslam family it would not surprise me to find Coleridge walking in that door. Ray ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread randallparr5000
THANK YOU . RANDY R. PARR HAVE A NICE D. -Original Message- From: Samuel Klein To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: 21-Jun-2010 23:26:13 + Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jeffrey Peters <17

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jeffrey Peters <17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote: > Dear List, > > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently > working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition > Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you t

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh Kubla Khan! Jorge Luis Borges was fond of the palace's story and the poem. Thank you for your hard work. On 22/06/2010 02:05, Jeffrey Peters wrote: > Dear List, > > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently > working on

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Jeffrey Peters <17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote: >.. > > I would like to ask more writers of quality content on the standard > Wikipedia to simplify their material, after returning to the sources to make > sure the simplifcation falls within the source materia

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread MZMcBride
Jeffrey Peters wrote: > I would like to ask more writers of quality content on the standard > Wikipedia to simplify their material, after returning to the sources to make > sure the simplifcation falls within the source material, so that Simple > English will have more high quality pages. That sou

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Peters
Dear MZMcBride, As you can see from *The Author's Farce* ( http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Author's_Farce), I work first by writing a standard page then simplify it. It is currently at the 11th grade level, which is actually below many Simple English DYK noms that I have simplified from other

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread geni
On 22 June 2010 01:25, MZMcBride wrote: > Jeffrey Peters wrote: >> Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project >> that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a >> whole: >> >> > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immor

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread MZMcBride
Jeffrey Peters wrote: > Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project > that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a > whole: > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortalit y > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us

[Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Peters
Dear List, My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the donation of two fully written pages on two important poems of the English l