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:15. ] (Dec 5,2008-Feb22,2009)<br> and therefore, I've officially declared today as ]!<br />
You have made remarkable contributions to the project,<br />
and the editors and readers of those pages are and always will be grateful to you for them.<br /> We all look forward to seeing you return and continue in such development. <br/>Thank you again for your outstanding efforts at article development.


Peace,<br /> ] (]) 20:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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:Thanks from me to and thanks for trying to save the Han / Roman article as your last action. If you decide to return I look forward to seeing more of your gorgeous content for me to review over at Good Articles. Merry Christmas! ] (]) 13:51, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


== Merry Christmas, Ottava Rima! ==
If you have any problems, concerns, or just want to comment on my actions and behavior in general, ], or if you would like to discuss things, my talk page and email is available for use. A ] has been created that will list areas that I might have problems with and may need help with. - Ottava Rima


Peace be with you, brother.
== Re: Problematic Decline ==


Serious. Peace. Let these things go and be filled with joy. Christ was not gifted to humanity for you to be unhappy.
Don't bother, as I was working with that user via email shortly after that. He's already gotten a new account and will begin editing again soon.


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In the future, if you do have a concern with something I've done, I'd really appreciate you talking with me first before you go running to the higher-ups. I find it somewhat ] that you didn't do this here. ] <sup>(]/]/])</sup> 21:31, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Take hope because your love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart
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:And to you to, Moni. But don't worry, I could never be unhappy in regards to Christ. :) I'm sure most people have read excerpts of my column to know that so far. ;/ Have a good New Year, too. ] (]) 15:48, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


:P.S. - A look at the user's block log would have told you this as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:KillYourselfNow ] <sup>(]/]/])</sup> 21:34, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


::I'm sorry if I misunderstood, but your notice above seemed to imply you were going to file a request with the crats whether I responded or not. In any event, I did discuss with the user the problem with their username, the other problems they were having (edit warring) and how to avoid both. When I felt the user had a satisfactory understanding of them, I released the block on his IP address to allow him to make a new account, something which is standard procedure when an account does not have any substantial edits attributed to it. I ''did'' what I was "supposed" to do; if I didn't do it the way you feel I should have, I'm sorry, but it's done now. There is no point in posting further at ], as that account is no longer active. The user is back editing, with a name that is acceptable under policy. ] <sup>(]/]/])</sup> 21:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


== DYK for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ==
:::Ottava, he emailed me. It seemed easier at that point to continue the discussion by email, and I noted such in the block log. If you believe I would unblock a user who I felt would continue edit warring, you are sorely mistaken. I am keeping an eye on his contributions. Contrary to your apparent belief, I am not being irresponsible here. Now if you do not mind, I have better things to do than be subject to baseless accusations of abuse. Good day. ] <sup>(]/]/])</sup> 23:11, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


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::::Ottava, this happens ''all the time''. You can see a comment from Jayron on the talk page now telling him to make another account, ''not'' to file a rename request. I don't see why you're making such an issue out of this, because it really isn't one. ] <sup>(]/]/])</sup> 23:32, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
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== Gerontion == ==Main page==
Congratulations, dude. ] (]) 18:29, 15 April 2010 (UTC)


== Two things ==
When you finish real life work, I would love it if you would take a look at ] which I have worked on a bit since I felt left out of the Four Quartets party:) ] (]) 00:21, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
:The ''Four Quartets'' pages has only about 50% of the information. I am currently in the middle of writing a real life article on the relationship of ''Four Quartets'' and ''The Waste Land'', so I have been distracted. However, I will drag you into all of that for a GA push for the five articles after I am done (possibly by this weekend if all goes well). ] (]) 01:07, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


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== Re Round ==
Over at the Ryulong ArbCom discussion, there has been use of the term "round". Perhaps we should change to a word that wouldn't seem so much like a boxing match? I just find it a tad odd. :) ] (]) 01:16, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
:I once compared workshops to rings... not of boxing but for ] (MMA). But yes, I agree... so, let's change it! What do you suggest?
:P.S. I suggest 'phase'. What do you think? -- ] - <small><sup>]</sup></small> 01:48, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
::Well, "phase" makes me think of some kind of sci-fi show. I don't know why. :) "Section" wouldn't have the right "progression" feel. "Part" may have the "incomplete" feel to it and suggest a progression. There are other words - session, stage, etc. We could just keep the term "round" and include a fight to the death at the end. That may liven things up around here. :)] (]) 01:59, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
:::'Stage' seems right. I'll update it later on today. Thanks. -- ] - <small><sup>]</sup></small> 02:15, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


== ] Newsletter XIV ==


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Commence half-frowny-face reaction. That is all. --] (]) 15:51, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
* For Round 1 stats, see ].
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;<big>Biggest Jumps</big>
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Actually...
Another big week sees new leaders in many of the pools. Many of the wildcards are in triple figures so others might want to pick up the pace to make it through!
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<small><span style="border:1px solid #999933;padding:1px;">]</span></small>, <font face="cursive">'''] // ]'''</font>, and ]]] </span></font>


==Banglapedia copyright problems==
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Hi, Ottava. I just wanted to thank you for having this brought to my attention. You might be interested in what we're doing with your tip; we've launched a ] (special, since this isn't a contributor) and are planning to appeal to the relevant WikiProject for assistance. It's going to be a lot of work cleaning it all up, but certainly it is much needed, and the longer problems like this go unaddressed, the more tangled clean-up becomes. --] <sup>]</sup> 17:23, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
;<big>WikiCup At a Glance</big>
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#{{flagicon|Wales}} Shoemaker's Holiday (346)
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== Cookie ==
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#] Mitchazenia (202)


Aparrantly no one comments on your talk page, so I thought I'd give you a cookie ... except I cba to find the cookie template, so I'll give you an IOU for a cookie :) --<span class="sigInvitatious"><span id="Imagine Wizard" class="plainlinks" >]&nbsp;(] <small>•</small> ] <small>•</small> </span>) <small>]</small></span> 01:48, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
;Pool C
#{{flagicon|Sweden}} Theleftorium (232)


== ] for ] ==
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#{{flagicon|Cambodia}} Paxse (174)


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== Barnstar ==
;Pool F
#{{flagicon|Switzerland}} Sasata (464)

;<big>Current Wildcards</big>
#{{flagicon|Thailand}} Rlevse (227)
#{{flagicon|Japan}} Wrestlinglover (186)
#{{flagicon|United States}} Useight (178)
#{{flagicon|Michigan}} the_ed17 (154)
#{{flagicon|Denmark}} Candlewicke (142)
#{{flagicon|Iceland}} Scorpion0422 (130)
#{{flagicon|Maryland}} Ottava Rima (123)
#{{flagicon|Colombia}} ThinkBlue (104)
#{{flagicon|Luxembourg}} Ceranthor (92)
#{{flagicon|Toronto}} Gary King and {{flagicon|Ireland}} Juliancolton (71)

*All scores are accurate as of 12:33, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |<font style="font-family:AR Blanca;font-size:20px">I just wanted to let you know that your monumental literary contributions are still very much appreciated. ] 19:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
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==GA Congratulations!==
]The article you nominated for ], ] has passed! ] <sup> ]</sup> 00:36, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


== Whoa... ==
== RE: your comment at the Graeme Bartlett RfA ==


I just stumbled across your story while looking up other things.
Apologies if this isn't the appropriate venue, but I didn't want to disrupt the RfA with my response. I didn't think it was worth opposing since in a situation as the question described there would most likely be other involved admins that would be willing to pull the trigger if a block was the sensible move. Not every admin should be compelled to make blocks, there's always others to do the dirty work. In my view its better to have a single admin who doesn't go far enough with these than an admin who hands out blocks like ice cream cones at the seashore. ''']]]''' 05:25, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Suffice to say, it's a whale of a tale. Being rather brutally honest, you were kind of like me back in 2007;
:If you have knowledge of a major misdoing, your first step should not be the warn the person and let them know that someone is onto their scheme. The first thing you do is you collect evidence and go to the proper authorities. I don't care if he blocks or not. You never go to the person who is destroying Misplaced Pages about things, because they obviously can't be trusted if they are doing it in the first place. The sheer amount of support there only verifies -why- Misplaced Pages is having problems with these sock masters. Newyorkbrad, for example, knows that the user MyWikiBiz over at WikipediaReview admitted to running a sock, and yet he wasn't phased at all by the answer to question 4. He knows directly that people are doing this, and yet doesn't see it as a priority. One of our Arbitrators! We really have only ourselves to blame for this sockmasters, because we are too weak to bother doing the right thing. ] (]) 13:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


Good intentions, but poor execution.
== ] ==


Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to insult you or be mean or cowardly. Seriously, you made some INCREDIBLE edits (a quick once-over of your edit history will back me up here), but looking over your block log tells me that you were always rather confromational (a Wikiversity fracas with the equally-legendary Abd springs to mind), and as such, you were always "riding the ragged edge of disaster", to quote Jim Davis. And you got tangled up with the ArbCom...there's a pit that's hard to get out of. Banned, even stripped of the ability to edit your own talkpage and reply to me. That's a rather stiff punishment, no? You must have really screwed up somewhere (I'm not going to dwell on that). Still, in my eyes, you deserve a...what is it now, twentieth chance? (just kidding). But there are a bunch of people who are behind you all the way. I'm not one of them....I know bog all about you, really. Have a listen to Queen's ''Hang On In There'' and mull it over; try to see how it relates to your experiences.
Hey Ottava,<br>
]]]]] 20:02, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Was wanting to know what the situation was with this one. You mentioned having sources that would allow for a more extended discussion of literature style/impact &ndash; are those online anywhere or are they in a physical collection? Just wanted to see where things were at; I think the article has potential and your thoughts here are appreciated. Best, &mdash;<strong>]</strong>] 12:02, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
:I have many books on Fielding, some dealing with his theories of novels. I also have some notes for a few other pages that dealt with the journal. After next week, I will have a chance to start devoting full fledge to Misplaced Pages. I've been busy with real life stuff at the moment. ] (]) 13:24, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
::All in your own time. :-) &mdash;<strong>]</strong>] 13:45, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


== Main page appearance: The Covent-Garden Journal ==
==RfA !votes==


This is a note to let the main editors of ] know that the article will be appearing as ] on January 6, 2013. You can view the TFA blurb at ]. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director {{user|Raul654}} or his delegates {{user|Dabomb87}}, {{user|Gimmetoo}}, and {{user|Bencherlite}}, or start a discussion at ]. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you can change it—following the instructions at ]. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Hey there. I know you and I are like oil and water, but we just !voted similarly on two RfAs. And even agreed on some of the reasons for the votes. Looking for flying swine momentarily. ] &#124; ] 15:46, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
:Lets just hope that they don't have the flu. ] (]) 17:01, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


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== Response from WT:RFA ==
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''''']''''' was an English literary ] published twice a week for most of 1752. It was edited and almost entirely financed by novelist, playwright, and essayist ] ''(pictured)'', under a pseudonym. The ''Journal'' incited the ], a conflict between a number of contemporary literary critics and writers, which began after Fielding declared war on the "armies of ]" in the first issue. His proclamation attracted multiple aggressors and instigated a long-lasting debate argued in the pages of their respective publications. Initially waged for the sake of increasing sales, the Paper War ultimately became much larger than Fielding had expected. Further controversy erupted in June, when Fielding expressed support for a letter decrying the Government's 1752 Disorderly House Act in the ''Journal''. His remarks were viewed by the public as an endorsement of the legality of ]. The final issue of the ''Journal'' was released on 25 November 1752. In its last months, poor sales had resulted in a transition from biweekly to weekly release. Ill-health and a disinclination to continue led Fielding to end its run after the 72nd&nbsp;number. {{TFAFULL|The Covent-Garden Journal}}
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== Precious ==
"Burden of evidence is on the opposer? That is an utterly ridiculous statement that makes me have 100% -no- confidence in your ability to judge RFAs at all. The burden of evidence needs to be on the supporter, as this is a position of power and responsibility, and admin must be shown to be trusted. Anything else is a disgrace. Your comment is shameful in every respect and I hope you strike it immediately. If not, it will be used in any future closing of RfAs performed by you in order to see if you are really cut out to be a Crat."


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I'm honestly surprised by how venomous your response is. I've made a comment at ] that may shed some light on my attitude (in conjunction with ]). However, I'm totally confused by the "it will be used in any future closing of RfAs performed by you" bit. Of interest to you may be ] if you truly have a lack of faith in me as a bureaucrat, but this is the first I've heard that my attitude may not be "right"; too many editors I respect ''do'' have confidence in me as a bureaucrat for me to start second-guessing myself almost a year after becoming a bureaucrat. ] <span style="color: #999;">// ] // ] //</span> 10:17, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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:Anyone, anyone, who treats RfA as a vote does not belong at RfA. A bureaucrat that counts supports without rationals, or those whose rationals are "no big deal", "why not", or other frivolities, are treating it like a vote. Misplaced Pages is based on consensus, which requires discussion. That is our fundamental belief structure here. Your comments were 100% inappropriate and go against the basic structure of this place. ] (]) 17:41, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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::This is yet another example of where you and I simply '''don't''' see eye to eye. I consider the idea of not discounting no-rationale !votes as being akin to treating the entire process as a straight vote a laugh. I fail to see how my comments were "inappropriate," though; I think we're using different definitions of the word. ] <span style="color: #999;">// ] // ] //</span> 03:40, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
'''story, poem and play'''<br />
Thank you for the broad coverage of English language literature in quality articles, showing in '']'' and '']'', and for ] on conflict, consensus ... respect ..., - repeating: you are an ] (20 December 2009)!


--] (]) 12:55, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
== ] Newsletter XV ==
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:: Today, I like your TFA, "... a lot of examination and discussion over just about every line over months and months. I will welcome -all- concerns and comments, and I will thoroughly discuss matters with ] in order to ensure that changes would not disrupt the balance. I would also prefer to keep the balance over anything else. However, I do feel that the page is extremely thorough and well put together, as it represents just about -everything- on Giraud. So, I now present to you our dear ], the boy/young man who almost absolutely nothing is really known, for your consideration." --] (]) 11:48, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Cheers. ] (]) 17:25, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
;<big>Biggest Jumps</big>
This week, the players with the biggest difference between their points last week, and their points this week are:
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| 3 || {{flagicon|Cambodia}} Paxse || 175 || 259 || 84
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| 4 || {{flagicon|Wales}} Shoemaker's Holiday || 381 || 455 || 74
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| 5 || {{flagicon|Maryland}} Ottava Rima || 123 || 184 || 61
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* me too. — <small><span class="nowrap" style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:1px;"><b>]</b> : ]</span></small> 18:20, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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Welcome back, and I look forward to helping you come back into the community. ] (]) 18:21, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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Welcome back. I'll be really happy to see you contributing as prolifically as you did in the past. If there's anything I can do to make that easier for you, please say so here. I'll keep your talk page on my watchlist. All the best --] (]) 23:06, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
A great week for Sasata with the biggest jump in score for a long while - 336 - so well done! It's nearing the end of this round, remember, which will end on May 29. It would it your best interest to nominate GANs now to avoid missing out.
*All the Best Ottava!...] (]) 23:08, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
*A belated welcome back Ottava. --]<sup>(]) </sup> 21:58, 20 April 2016 (UTC)


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:Maybe kitty kitty here got into the beer Drmies left above? Good to see you back, OR. ] (]) 16:08, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
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;<big>Pool leaders</big>
In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
;Pool A
#{{flagicon|Wales}} Shoemaker's Holiday (455)


== New Article ==
;Pool B
#] Mitchazenia (208)


As I finish drafting material related to ''Lamia'', I have some material for an article on an award winning poet for someone else to use to create a page.
;Pool C
#{{flagicon|Sweden}} Theleftorium (279)


;Pool D
#{{flagicon|Cambodia}} Paxse (259)


Ryan Wilson (1982-) is an academic, editor, literary critic, and poet from Baltimore, Maryland. He is the office manager of the ], editor of ''Literary Matters'', and an award winning poet and essayist. His first collection of poetry, ''The Stranger World'', will be published in June, 2017.
;Pool E
#{{flagicon|Mexico}} Durova (291)


===Personal life===
;Pool F
In 1982, Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia.<ref name="Awards"/> He grew up in Macon, Georgia and graduated from Tattnall Square Academy in 2000.<ref name="Literacy Matters"/>
#{{flagicon|Switzerland}} Sasata (800)


He has a B.A. (English) from the University of Georgia, an M.F.A. (Poetry) from The Johns Hopkins University, and an M. F. A. (Poetry) <ref name="Catholic"/> from Boston University in 2008.<ref name="Awards"/> Currently he is a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America, and he serves as the Office Manager of the ] and editor of ''Literary Matters'', the association's digital literary journal.<ref name="Literacy Matters"/> He lives in Baltimore with his wife.<ref name="Awards"/>
;<big>Current Wildcards</big>
#{{flagicon|Thailand}} Rlevse (244)
#{{flagicon|Denmark}} Candlewicke (236)
#{{flagicon|Japan}} Wrestlinglover (226)
#{{flagicon|United States}} Useight (224)
#{{flagicon|Maryland}} Ottava Rima (184)
#{{flagicon|Michigan}} the_ed17 (161)
#{{flagicon|Iceland}} Scorpion0422 (143)
#{{flagicon|Colombia}} ThinkBlue (134)
#{{flagicon|Luxembourg}} Ceranthor (104)
#{{flagicon|Isle of Man}} J Milburn and {{flagicon|Ireland}} Juliancolton (99)


===Publications===
*All scores are accurate as of 08:15, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
His works have been published in ''32 Poems'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''Able Muse'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''The Classical Outlook'',<ref name="Pushcart"/> ''Dappled Things'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''First Things'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''Light'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''The Hopkins Review'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''Iron Horse Literary Review'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''Measure'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''Raintown Review'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''River Styx'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''The Sewanee Review'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''The Sewanee Theological Review'',<ref name="Awards"/> ''Unsplendid'',<ref name="Awards"/> among others.


His first collection of poetry, ''The Stranger World'' was published by Measure Press in June 2017.<ref name="Awards"/> ] said, "The Stranger World includes heartbreaking lyrics, haunting narratives, inspired translations, and finely honed satires... written with the authority of mastery."<ref name="Literacy Matters"/> ] wrote, "Ryan Wilson’s mastery of traditional forms serves a fresh, distinctive poetry of candor and meditation: soulful rather than brittle, more observant than performative. The idiomatic, American blank verse of Wilson’s 'Authority' and 'L’Estraneo' is as fluent as that of Robert Frost, but with an oblique tenderness that reminds me of Frost’s friend Edward Thomas."<ref name="Literacy Matters"/>
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===Awards===
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* Sankey Prize for Excellence in Poetry (JHU).<ref name="Catholic"/>
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* Schmuel Traum Prize (BU).<ref name="Catholic"/>
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* Eleanor Clark Award (Robert Penn Warren Circle), winner.<ref name="Catholic"/>
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* Morton Marr Prize (''The Southwest Review''), finalist, 2009.<ref name="Catholic"/>
* International Poetry Contest (''River Styx''), honorable mention, 2012.<ref name="Catholic"/>
* Vassar Miller Book Prize, finalist, 2015.<ref name="Awards"/>
* Frost Farm Poetry Prize, honorable mention, 2015.<ref name="Farm"/>
* Jacques Maritain Prize (Dappled Things), winner, 2015.<ref name="Jacques"/>
* Vassar Miller Book Prize, finalist, 2016.<ref name="Pushcart"/>
* Walter Sullivan Prize for Promise in Criticism (''The Sewanne Review''), winner, 2016.<ref name="Sewanee"/>
* ], winner, 2017.<ref name="Poetry News"/>


===Works cited===
== Your comments in response to new york brad on RFA talk page ==
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<ref name="Awards">"Ryan Wilson’s recent publications and awards." Boston University Creative Writing. June 15, 2015 </ref>
<ref name="Pushcart">"Ryan Wilson’s Pushcart nomination and publications." Boston University Creative Writing. July 15, 2016. </ref>
<ref name="Catholic">Catholic University of America </ref>
<ref name="Farm">The Robert Frost Farm </ref>
<ref name="Jacques">"Winners of the 2015 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction." ''Dappled Things'' </ref>
<ref name="Sewanee">Johns Hopkins University Press </ref>
<ref name="Literacy Matters">"Ryan Wilson, Our Editor" ''Literary Matters'', The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. </ref>
<ref name="Poetry News">"Poetry News." Westchester University Poetry Center </ref>
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===External links===
"Someone who is unwilling to stand up to what they believe in didn't actually believe in it to begin with. I have no respect for individuals without convictions." You see, the problem with DougsTech isn't his opinions, nobody has suggested his opinions are disruptive, but his ''behaviour'', as in, how he expresses his opinions. If he start a discussion on an appropriate forum maybe he'd find people who agree with him, and nobody would have any problem with him at all. But what's he's doing now is disruptive.--22:04, 4 May 2009 (UTC) <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) </span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
* Beltway Poetry ''Quarterly''. http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/wilson-ryan/
:My comment wasn't about Doug. It was about people in general. If NYbrad would cower before angry masses then he would be showing weakness that can't really be respected. ] (]) 22:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
::Ottava, are you suggesting that if I make a particular edit or series of edits, and a vast majority of other editors (including yourself perhaps) tell me to stop, that I should keep on doing it to avoid "showing weakness"? You have never hesitated in speaking out against those you believe have done the wrong thing, but now you seem to be saying that people should never change their minds or back down in the face of opposition. I may be misinterpreting you, but I am having difficulty in reconciling this opinion with your previous actions. ] (]) 00:04, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
:::If you believe in what you say, then you wouldn't change your mind. If you change your mind, then you didn't believe in what you say. I have respect for the loyal opposition, but none for the cowardly ally. This is not about actions, but about beliefs. One should always pursue what they think is right, moral, and just. If not, then they shouldn't be doing anything at all. ] (]) 01:21, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
::::Is it not possible though to believe something to be right based on the evidence available to you, but then encounter new evidence that forces you to re-evaluate your beliefs? For example, based on your edits here I believe you to be a principled person who stands up for what you feel is right, and I respect you for that. If evidence was to come to light that you have infact murdered five people, I would obviously need to rethink my beliefs. An extreme example I know, but changing my mind in this case would not be a sign of "cowardice" nor would it diminish the strength of my previously held beliefs.
::::Anyway, I think the point of Brad's comment was not about changing your beliefs or ceasing to act on them, but more about the manner in which you act. Certainly you should persue what you believe to be right, but there are ways to do this and ways not to do this. If you were to ask me to cease posting on your talk page, continuing to post because "I know I'm right" would neither win your respect nor convince you to consider my views. ] (]) 10:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::The point of Brad's comment is that he has no opinion except for what the mob says. As such, his views cannot be respected, as there are none. Belief is higher than the mob, and if we followed the mob, then we would have nothing worth while. Your whole statement about murder has nothing to do with belief, and it shows that you don't understand the definition. Please, look up what "belief" is in the dictionary. ] (]) 14:33, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


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== Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Ryulong ==
I updated the article proposed above for anyone to use it. As a disclosure, I know the gentleman (he is a bit of a big to do in the literary circles). I also have a lot of notes for Lamia and am looking for someone who would be interested in working with me. Drop me a note. ] (]) 23:55, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
: <s>Hello. Just to let you know that you can move the above content to ] or ] if you wish. BTW, I'd love to help out, but I have other priorities. Sorry.</s> Well, best of luck. --] (]) 02:34, 20 July 2017 (UTC); oh well, 03:08, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
: Hmm... I can just reformat your references <s>and/or move the content to either page for you</s>, but that's it. Thanks. --] (]) 02:36, 20 July 2017 (UTC); okey dokey, 03:05, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
::I -can't- move the page or use it due to various restrictions. All I can do is offer it to other people. But thanks anyway. :) ] (]) 02:39, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
*Hey Ottava--the praise cited in note 2, are those blurbs from the book? They all sound good, but I typically don't regard those very highly. Thanks, ] (]) 12:03, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
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::: {{ec}} I've created the article at ] and made a couple of snapshots at archive.org to replace the Google caches. I hope it meets with your approval. Hopefully others will expand it. It should be ready for mainspace anyway as I believe it passes ] and ] part 4(c). Cheers --] (]) 12:09, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
::::Thanks. ] (]) 13:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


:::Drmies, I would normally agree but for the status of those two: Pinsky was the US Poet Laureate, which is a pretty big deal. ] (]) 13:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
The proposed decision is up in the above case. It is located ]. The proposed decision will be presented to the Arbitration Committee for voting on May 11.
::::Oh I know--I'm a big fan. I have his ''Sounds of Poetry'' laying around somewhere. But the sourcing here is tricky. Where did Pinsky say this? His publications are sourced to the BU website, and these blurbs are sourced to the journal that he himself edits. So what's left, I suppose, is the awards--one of which may be notable, but even that one, the Donald Justice prize, hasn't received much coverage (I mean both your subject winning it and the award itself). In fact, I don't see a single real secondary publication in here, so I won't be the one moving it to main space. If {{U|RexxS}} wishes to do so, that's his prerogative of course. ] (]) 13:34, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
::::::Awards are secondary to the author but primary to themselves. The problem with modern poets in general is that they tend to have very few news articles so award pages tend to be all we have left. Also has some background on the publication and Donald Justice Poetry Prize - "The award includes publication of his manuscript, The Stranger World". This suggested to me that the Pinksy quotes were connected to this. I'm still looking for some more sources. ] (]) 13:47, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
:::::::Awards themselves need secondary sourcing to prove they're notable awards. That Justice award is hard to gauge; it's not a big national one, of course. So it helps, sure, but whether that alone is enough is a matter of judgment. I am well aware of the problems with poetic sourcing (you know I've worked on a few articles pertaining to modern poetry...) and it's something that I'm working on; what we really need is a set of guidelines (we need to get away from "poet X published in these journals" and then list them all) and a list of notable publications and awards. Most of all, we need a list of publications and zines whose reviews are reliable and important. I know someone who writes on LitHub, and the moment he started doing that his career started happening--so clearly that's an important place in the world of poetry. Just like poetry.com, haha. If only poetry generated the kind of airtime that's dedicated to monster trucks, K-pop, rassling, and all that. ] (]) 13:55, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
::::::::Indeed! ] (]) 13:57, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
::::::::By the way, the Frost Farm Poetry Prize should probably have its own page, seeing as how it is from the Robert Frost foundation. is interesting, though. Poor Robert Frost and his legacy. ] (]) 14:01, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
::::::::: My hesitation in putting the article in mainspace to begin with, is that I'm no expert on the ''significance'' of the awards. If this were some here-today-and-gone-tomorrow pop star, they'd have hundreds of mentions in the popular press for every two-bit award they received. Sadly, no such channels exist for promulgating the news of more traditional artists' awards. However, my take is that the sections devoted to Wilson in particular by John Hopkins Press, and by Boston University amount to "''significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject''" – the touchstone of our notability criteria. I would also argue that "''The person's work ... has won significant critical attention''" which is ]. No doubt others may disagree, so I'll leave the final decision to publish the article in mainspace to someone else for now. Cheers --] (]) 16:23, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
:::::::::::I'll keep an eye out for more sources and links. ] (]) 16:33, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
:::::::::::By the way, I had a typo - it is ''Literary Matters'' and not ''Literary Manners''. ] (]) 16:38, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


Just a note: ] page has the Aiken Taylor award but not the breakdown of the other five titles: . These should probably be listed in the same section (or change the section name to "Prizes"). ] (]) 14:10, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
For the Arbitration Committee. ] (]) 01:10, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
:Similarly, ] could mention along with their others . ] (]) 14:14, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
:And another: Vassar Miller could be noted at the ] (a sadly under-served page). ] (]) 14:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


It's interesting that ] has just made its way into mainspace. You were right, {{u|Drmies}}: predictably, the quotes have attracted disagreement about their sourcing, and it would perhaps be best to reduce them to a summary as a compromise. We'll see how that pans out. --] (]) 17:18, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
== Nicolò Giraud ==
*Hmm a good occasion to do some updating: the LitHub person mentioned above is getting two books out with ]. Anyway, Rexx, what I mentioned above, those are also the standards I try to live by--I don't write in awards unless I can verify them, even if I know them to be true. And my standards--obviously notable ones (even if "obviously notable" to the experts only) can do with some kind of primary sourcing, from the organization, less obviously notable ones require secondary sourcing of the not-just-local-news kind. ] (]) 17:34, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
*Ah, yes, the Pinsky quote...can't find anything for that. I assume it's a note of sorts pertaining to an award, or possibly a blurb for a book. I don't like it, sorry. ] (]) 17:37, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
::The Pinsky quote can be found on the bio page at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writer's journal Literary Matters: . The same quote is also at Verse Daily and poems.com . Also, CUA has a faculty page that is available . Dappled Things has an interview . Also, Archive.Org has a file on him as part of their "Apostrophe Cast" program . And here is a review . And in searching, I found him at Yale Review to add to the others . ] (]) 20:25, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
::: Thank you, Ottava. I've transcribed them onto ] and asked if others would like to use them to expand the article (hint {{u|Drmies}}). Otherwise I'll try to find time to incorporate them myself to the best of my limited ability. --] (]) 21:50, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
::::Ottava, that they're repeated on various websites doesn't tell me anything about when the man said that and to whom and in what context... ] (]) 21:57, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
::::: My spidey-sense is telling me that the quotes smack of something you would read on the dust-cover of a book like ''The Stranger World''. Unfortunately, the nearest library copy to me appears to be in San Angelo, TX (7800 km away).
::::: Update: My spidey-sense didn't let me down. Have a look at https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-World-Ryan-Wilson/dp/193957420X – there's a link on the left under the front cover image, . Clicking that allows you to see the back cover. Lo and behold! There are the quotes from Pinsky, Yezzi, Warren and Jarman. So the answers to {{u|Drmies|the good Doctor's}} questions are: the quotes were said to the publisher's gopher who was canvassing for text for the back cover prior to the book's publication. Does that help? --] (]) 23:15, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
::::::The publisher is the group that awarded the Donald Justice Prize (Measure Press), and publication of the book is part of the prize. As for the Pinsky quote, he is a former laureate and has a relationship with Measure Press, often reviewing works. He also has a relationship with Ryan as per the interview ("Anyway, a few dozen drafts, a lot of help from Robert Pinsky, and a year later, “The City Under Vesuvius” came out in heroic couplets") and taught in the Boston University program where Ryan graduated. It would be a notable quote simply because he is a very notable individual. Bias doesn't really affect quotations, especially when most quotations are formed by bias. Would it settle any concerns if it was from Robert Pinsky's website? ] (]) 23:29, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


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==Complaint on the Linguistics Problem==
Hi, I've registered a complaint against the specific admins on the community page to 1. Jimmy Wales, 2. the Help Desk, 3. the Arbitration Committee. Do participate in this if you feel there's anything you wish to contribute to resolve this issue. Thanks, Supriya. ] (]) 16:21, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
:Um, what? ] (]) 16:33, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
::I saw that you were engaged in the debate on the talkpage some days ago, so I thought I'd ask you if you wish to participate further? ] (]) 16:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
:::It wasn't really a debate, and most agreed to allow in a small mention in the Semantics area. I didn't have anything specific in mind, I just wanted to make sure that people were willing to allow for some expansion. What you did was the inappropriate way of handling the situation. If you want them to adopt something onto the page, post a section saying what lines you want, where you want it, and how far you are willing to compromise on the language. ] (]) 17:04, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
==we hear==
I think you have made your point ]. Maybe be best just to let it run its course now? ] ] 19:30, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
:, and that was before all the stuff on the talk page. ] ] 21:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::Hipocrite has been an onwiki friend of Everyking and someone constantly attacking me for a long time. His oppose was never real. It was just a show. ] (]) 21:36, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:::I have not followed your edits at all, so I can't comment on your relationship with hipocrite but there comes a time when too many contributions to an RfA tips the balance. I'd say you are close to it, if not past it. So far you have documented your concerns more than enough, as far as i can tell. Do you have anything fresh to contribute? If not, anything extra just becomes counter-productive. ] ] 21:47, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::::The only real recent involvement I had on that page was based on Everyking's claims that defending the Catholic Church was hate speech in his answer to number 15. ] (]) 21:58, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:; also an onwiki friend of Everyking? ] ] 14:55, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::Off2riorob agreed with me. Ameliorate! agreed with me. Those are the blatant ones. Then there are also the angry people who emailed me because of Everyking's and Rootology's attacks on the Catholic Church and calling it hate speech. ] (]) 14:58, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::You knew well that the RfA was not the forum for such a debate. And predictably this is now at AN/I. ] ] 16:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::::I knew? Nice. You just rewrote everything. Everyking was the one that made it personal in question 15. That has cost him even more votes, as yet more have opposed because of it. ] (]) 16:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::All I'm saying is I could see where it was leading on the 9th May. You couldn't? And are you really trumpeting your behavior on that page as a success story? The answer to Q15 should stand as it is without your commentary. We can all read it. ] ] 16:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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I really wish you had left your own actions there buried, but you opened the door back to them to oppose EK. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 13:33, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:Saying that defending a matter of faith when it comes to gay marriage in a manner that does nothing to classify homosexuality in any matter is not hate speech. The fact that Everyking would claim it is only verifies that he is incapable of being an admin. Analyze my actions there and people will see how horrible WR is. ] (]) 14:19, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::Well, we can debate that side of it here before it derails the RFA inappropriately. I'm a firm believer that even if someone thinks gays/blacks/whatever is the best/worst thing ever should have no standing here on adminship if they don't post to advocate a strong POV on-wiki. You can go and found "catholicshateyousinceyouarent.com" for all I care, if it never touches your editing.
::But all that aside, using the "no kids in marriage" thing is the silliest excuse our church has ''ever'' come up with to oppose. Did you see the pending NY law and the Connecticut laws? My legal people back home in CT nailed a home run and a half--the state grants same-sex marriage, but the church legally doesn't have to honor it. The perfect execution of separation of Church and State. Bob & John or Karen & Sharon can marry--and legally, no different than Bob & Karen. But--the church doesn't even have to acknowledge it; they're mutually exclusive if a particular church decides on it, and the church has legal immunity against suits involving that. What are your thoughts on Connecticut handling of it? I thought it was particularly genius myself. Everyone gets what they truly want--the government doesn't tell the Church what to do, and the Church, who has zero authority over those not of their flock (and even then, it's still subject to the flock itself) can't tell non-believers squat. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 15:58, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:::Marriage and sex being based for children only is one of the oldest standards of the Catholic Church and was rooted in reconciling Paul's comments about sex and marriage. The Church does not say homosexuality is evil, or having feelings is bad. What it says is that sex is -only- for procreation and marriage is only for procreation. To claim that this is gay bashing is ridiculous, and to claim that it is hate speech is ridiculous. Many Protestants say that homosexuals shouldn't marry because homosexuality is evil according to the Old Testament. That is quite different than the Church's stance. It is quite different from Phelps's stance. To classify defense of the Church's belief that marriage is about children as hate speech is utter ignorance.
:::Now, the "separation of Church and State" does not exist. What exists is the 1st amendment line put in to support the Carrollton family (Catholics) and their right to be Catholics and have government positions. The rule was to allow people of all Christian sects and all religions to hold government positions without worrying about losing their rights to vote or speak as they did in Britain. This means only that the State cannot pass laws affecting religions, but the religious can put forth their views on morality.
:::My feelings on Connecticut? To be honest, they are redefining a thousands of years old term in order to make a few people feel validated. To give a title that deals with the traditional family makeup in such a manner is linguistically demeaning. ''1984'' was all about people rewriting definitions to promote a view. It is only of the oldest political ways of deception. ] (]) 16:05, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::::The major problem with all of this is that it presumes that Catholocism (or even Christianity) is the dominant religion of our times, or that religious morality can take the place of given legal rights. In our nation, affirmed again and again and again and again since throughout the 20th century and again now in the 21st, is that ''all'' citizens are entitled to the exact same rights and treatment by the government. Every single time when it ultimately comes push to shove, that anyone's rights in any way are minimized by the state relative to what everyone else has, the law is adjusted to equalize the situation. Short of us becoming a theocratic government--which would be 100% impossible under our Constitution--can you see any other way that this all ends under our laws beside all men and women having exactly identical rights? <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 17:15, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::Catholicism was the minority religion back when the 1st amendment was adopted. It was adopted to ensure that Catholics had a right to be involved in politics. Thus, I think your statement is backwards. ] (]) 17:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::::::Sure, we were the minority in ''this'' country then. But you didn't answer my question. Under the laws and traditions and historical direction of this nation from the 20th century onwards--hell, even back to the abolition of slavery--can you see any other way that this all ends under our laws beside all men and women having exactly identical rights? <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 17:20, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::::Our rights are defined in the Bill of Rights. Marriage is not a right. Marriage is a traditional agreement based upon consanguinity that was created in order to separate bastardization/illegitimacy from rightful legitimacy. It was created to protect the rights of the child and the mother from infidelities of the father. Those under 18 cannot marry without parental consent, first cousins or closer cannot marry, and people cannot marry non-humans. We also restrict voting which is a right given in the amendments to the Constitution, so your argument falls flat. ] (]) 17:24, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::::::::Well, it was legally my right to own slaves once, so your entire argument on diverting the discussion into marriage not being a right falls flat right there. Blacks couldn't marry whites once, either. Did you know I also could have been heretical if I ate shellfish once, as well? Based on my faith, I predict in 2012 a black man will marry a white man deep in the heart of Texas, and as the shrimp cocktail is served at the reception, the polar gravitational tilt will occur, followed by Four Horseman riding out on Harley Davidson (since American bikes are better) motorcycles. ;)
::::::::The times, they are a' changing. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 17:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::::And homosexuals can marry those of the opposite sex, so their right to marry is not removed. ] (]) 17:25, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::::::::Uh... the church, if they had their way, would ''stop'' gays from marrying. My whole point is--and always has been--is that religious law and belief has zero place as state law in any form in our nation, and state law has no business telling religion what to do with their private business. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 17:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::::::No. The Catechism and Papal bulls on the matter are quite clear: if anyone wants to marry someone of the opposite sex and have sexual intercourse for children, then that is acceptable. If people want to have sexual intercourse for anything but reproduction, that is not acceptable. It has nothing to do with being "gay" or not, as everyone is under the same restriction. ] (]) 17:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::::::::::This still all presumes that the Vatican has preemptive authority over anything but the citizens of the Vatican State, and actual clergy.... <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 17:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::::::::The Vatican has authority over all Catholics and can deny communion to those who knowingly break the catechism. ] (]) 17:59, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
::::::::::::Claimed authority; the Catholic church has many factions, sects, and groups. We Catholics are also not the singular Christian nor religious authority on this planet. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 18:05, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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As a side note, I'm going to make a prediction. As each state in turn adopts same-sex civil marriage as legal--NH already did but it isn't live yet; NY I think will pass--even many Republicans are now publically on their fence, since their constituents want it; and Rhode Island is so liberal I'm surprised they haven't done it yet--the whole of the Northeast beside New Jersey will be legalized. NJ is pretty lefty, as well, so they will be next. PA after. The question will be, afterwards, is what happens when other states start to adopt it--or the exact opposite. When a state next tries a legislative or executive approach to ban it, mark my words: it will be heading for the Supreme Court at last. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 17:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:I think you are forgetting that many states voted a ban into their constitution. The Supreme Court will just remove the ruling from lower courts as marriage is not a Constitution specified right. ] (]) 17:36, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


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. You will not attack myself and other users, and you will take it to ANI or stop. Do you understand? Your obnoxious poisoning of the well needs to stop, since you're already on . Take it DR on ANI before you post another attack, or you'll be brought to ANI <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 15:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:Warning? You can't warn people, you are one of the ones making hateful comments. You compared the Catholic Church to the KKK. You attack people and are being incivil. Yes, you should be blocked. And look at my block log. I haven't been blocked for a very long time, so you think you can threaten me while promoting hate and lies like that? That is really sad. ] (]) 15:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::Please take it to ANI if you intend to continue doing this, or else the next time you do this, I will. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 15:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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:::I've been editing RfAs for a long time. However, I like how someone is able to attack someone's religion and people are okay with Misplaced Pages being used for it. Great stuff. Notice how I am also called one practicing hate speech and homophobic, yet I'm the only one there that works with the LGBT project, improves LGBT related pages, and even rescued one from AfD and improved it to GA level. Great stuff. ] (]) 16:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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:I now see how your archived talk pages get so numerous:) I am not really Catholic, and I was really more vested in quelling the arbitrary use of labels for religious groups, but I think the next best thing to getting an appology for being called a hater is to rack up a few GA's and FA's on Keats's odes. Maybe we can throw in a Ginsberg poem for good measure:) Oh, and I have been plucking away at ] for a little bit; a brief rewrite of the publication section might make for an easy upgrade. I am planning on devoting Thursday evening to some good pushes. ] (]) 18:36, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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:::Je comprends. Bon courage! ] (]) 18:43, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::::Well, French will be the hardest. Spanish will be the easiest. Latin will be... interesting. I hope I don't have to take a fourth language. Never specialize in multiple fields and try to do the work simultaneously. ] (]) 18:46, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::Hahaha, I can only imagine; I took Latin in elementry school, and now when I try to read Horace, I do it with a French accent. ] (]) 18:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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::Ryan's block for what? Reverting an edit that inappropriately discusses a situation that was closed without support KC's stance? Or putting forth something that supports KC's lack of process edits and actions? Or how about having a comment by Xeno that is prejudicial, inappropriate, and discusses KC's acting in an manner that she does not have authority to act in? ] (]) 22:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::If their edits on that RfA were that inappropriate, the crats and other contributors can take care of it. Your views on Everyking's RFA have been more than sufficiently clear. The main reason I opposed Everyking is because, though he can be a good editor, I saw too many situations where he could not view something in proper proportion or simply stay away from drama. You are doing the same thing now, and it isn't helpful to the project. So, let's both go do something else, OK? ] (]) 22:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


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::::As Moni points out, they are a BLP violation. Many people have already expressed their outrage at the comments. The fact that no one will remove them or block Everyking for making them is a disturbing lack of appropriate action. Rootology even compared me to Phelps, the guy that says "God hates fags" and attacks people all the time. The same guy that attacked the Catholic Church multiple times. A guy I spent many years refuting. And yet both Everyking and Rootology are allowed to use Misplaced Pages as a platform of hate. That is inappropriate. ] (]) 22:45, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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Again, you can't blame everyking for answering the question. If he had initiated that point as a reprisal against your oppose, or in some other context designed as retribution, then I would consider it block worthy, but not in the current context, sorry. Further, I was already warning you to back off before he even answered q15 so as far as I see it you are just trying to escalate this whole thing. How is that NOT disruption? ] ] 23:18, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:Really? You can't? He could have said that he "got me banned at WR". Or we "fought at WR". Instead, he claimed that I practiced hate speech. That is a severe violation. If refuting a major attack like that against my character is inappropriate, then people no longer care about our time honored traditions and standards here. ] (]) 23:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::One it was at a different site. Two, no one said you could not refute it. But you have taken it to many different pages and have not stopped. Will not stop. That is disruption. As I said before, you have to know when to step back. ] ] 23:30, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::No, he didn't. He said that ''on WR'' he had thought some of your posts, there, were in the category of hate speech. He didn't quote you, he didn't say whether he still thought that. He answered the question with history - past history between you two. You are acting like it was a current charge. It was not. ]<sup>]</sup> 23:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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::::No he answered the question. One that was asked because you would not stop going on about WR. He never directed any comment at you. ] ] 23:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::People aren't thinking clearly here. Using the term "hate speech" was clearly inflammatory, but wikipedia uses the term "disruption" basically as a device to silence unpopular editors. As I said earlier, don't give Ryan the satisfaction; Everyking is paying the price for his indiscretion without you having to say another word in your defence. --] ] 23:28, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::"''Everyking is paying the price for his indiscretion without you having to say another word''"; exactly, but try and tell that to OR. I tried to point out that he was in fact undermining his credibility but he will not stop. ] ] 23:33, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::EK was just answering a question about what happened. It seems OR brought it on himself really, he was well aware of what EK thought at the time, an if he hadn't trolled the RfA to such an absurd extent, no one would ever have asked what happened. ] ] 23:38, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::::He did not answer what happened. He said it was "hate speech". That characterization is an attempt to diminish my reputation with an untruth. ] (]) 23:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


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::::It appears to have been EK who made the original allegation of "hate speech", and who chose his own RfA to repeat that claim. Hardly a demonstration of good judgement on his part. --] ] 23:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::So, in retrospect, maybe the savvy move would have been to rebut and leave it at that, right? RfA over, no arguments. Its not rocket science, as they say. ] ] 23:44, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::I've gotten a lot of angry emails from people involved in the RCC page that see this as just the condoning of the same action. Misplaced Pages is not supposed to be a battleground so Catholics shouldn't be forced into a corner this way, attacked, accused of being hate mongerers, and just treated like crap. We have CIVIL, NPA, BLP, etc, to protect people and yet people are turning a blind eye. I protected KillerChihuahua from people at Misplaced Pages Review since September. I deleted posts. I banned IPs and random users. I even defended her on Misplaced Pages Review. And the thanks I get? As I told her in email, she made it clear that she doesn't care what kinds of attacks come from those on Misplaced Pages Review, so I wont care either. I guess Wikiversity can become a platform for hate against her again. That's the way the Wiki burns, no? ] (]) 23:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::::You started the fight, as far as I see it. And now you won't stop it. Please stop trying to frame this as a religious dispute, that is a red herring. My first comment to you regarding the rfa was on May 9th. ] ] 23:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::OR, what you have done or not done for me on any site has nothing to do with what you are doing now. I'm not sure what you're talking about, I have not received an email from you about this. ]<sup>]</sup> 23:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::::Ok, the email just came in. What is this, petty vengeance, retribution? OR, I cannot block someone because you want me to. I see no personal attack. I am sorry this disappoints you, but I would prefer you realize I am doing my best, and that you are placing me in an impossible position when you expect me to support your disruption. I am sorry if you feel you need to retaliate. ]<sup>]</sup> 23:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::KC, I blocked people making the same comments in regards to you from Misplaced Pages Review. I remember you complaining about them. I could have blocked you at Wikiversity many times for the same things as you characterize as disruption. Instead, I knew that those at Misplaced Pages Review did it because they want to cause problems within Wikiversity. So, we looked beyond it and blocked the real trouble makers. But since you made it clear that you think such actions are inappropriate, I wont be performing them at Wikiversity. ] (]) 23:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


== Miss ya ==
Per my note below - anyone who I find continuing to aggrivate this disruption by taunting or abusing Ottava here on his talk page will be blocked without further warning. Find something better to do tonight. ] (]) 23:45, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


Hope you are well and things are going OK. ] (]) 21:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
=== Disruption - Please stop now - final warning ===
:Ottava - I believe that you may be right that you may have been provoked on these points. However, your response has pushed past reasonable boundaries of proactive into the relm of active disruption.
:Someone else having provoked you is not a license to go around causing problems on Misplaced Pages.
:Though I have some sympathy for your situation, this has to stop. You've made your point. Further disruptive activity will result in a block. You are welcome to file an Arbcom case about the abuses, or a user conduct RFC. Those both may be appropriate at this time. However, '''''you need to stop'''''.
:Please find a way to de-escalate this. I understand that you feel attacked and want very badly to respond to that. But the situation has become unreasonable.
:This is not a judgement on who is at fault or degree of provocation. I will be following up on those points elsewhere. But at this point the focus of the current problem is your behavior responding to the provocations.
:Please take a short break, and if you still feel this upset tomorrow, write up a Request for Arbitration and follow it up there.
:Thank you. ] (]) 23:43, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::As I stated before, all I wanted was the descriptive "hate speech" removed. I can deal with Rootology's attacks on my talk page and on the RfA talk page, but the attacks in the answer are inappropriate. ] (]) 23:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
::Note - I wont be responding to the ANI thread anymore. If any Arbitrators want access to some of the emails I've received on the matter from people who are upset, I will ask permission to forward. ] (]) 23:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks again for all the high quality contributions

User:Ottava Rima has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Ottava Rima's day!
You have made remarkable contributions to the project,
and the editors and readers of those pages are and always will be grateful to you for them.
We all look forward to seeing you return and continue in such development.
Thank you again for your outstanding efforts at article development.

Peace,
John Carter (talk) 20:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

Thanks from me to and thanks for trying to save the Han / Roman article as your last action. If you decide to return I look forward to seeing more of your gorgeous content for me to review over at Good Articles. Merry Christmas! FeydHuxtable (talk) 13:51, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Ottava Rima!

Peace be with you, brother.

Serious. Peace. Let these things go and be filled with joy. Christ was not gifted to humanity for you to be unhappy.

Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Take hope because your love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart

--Moni3 (talk) 15:44, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

And to you to, Moni. But don't worry, I could never be unhappy in regards to Christ. :) I'm sure most people have read excerpts of my column to know that so far. ;/ Have a good New Year, too. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:48, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


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Congratulations, dude. Ceoil (talk) 18:29, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

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Commence half-frowny-face reaction. That is all. --Moni3 (talk) 15:51, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

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Banglapedia copyright problems

Hi, Ottava. I just wanted to thank you for having this brought to my attention. You might be interested in what we're doing with your tip; we've launched a special "CCI" (special, since this isn't a contributor) and are planning to appeal to the relevant WikiProject for assistance. It's going to be a lot of work cleaning it all up, but certainly it is much needed, and the longer problems like this go unaddressed, the more tangled clean-up becomes. --Moonriddengirl 17:23, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

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Cookie

Aparrantly no one comments on your talk page, so I thought I'd give you a cookie ... except I cba to find the cookie template, so I'll give you an IOU for a cookie :) --Imagine Wizard (talk contribs count) Iway amway Imagineway Izardway. 01:48, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

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Barnstar

The Writer's Barnstar
I just wanted to let you know that your monumental literary contributions are still very much appreciated. INeverCry 19:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Whoa...

I just stumbled across your story while looking up other things. Suffice to say, it's a whale of a tale. Being rather brutally honest, you were kind of like me back in 2007;

Good intentions, but poor execution.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to insult you or be mean or cowardly. Seriously, you made some INCREDIBLE edits (a quick once-over of your edit history will back me up here), but looking over your block log tells me that you were always rather confromational (a Wikiversity fracas with the equally-legendary Abd springs to mind), and as such, you were always "riding the ragged edge of disaster", to quote Jim Davis. And you got tangled up with the ArbCom...there's a pit that's hard to get out of. Banned, even stripped of the ability to edit your own talkpage and reply to me. That's a rather stiff punishment, no? You must have really screwed up somewhere (I'm not going to dwell on that). Still, in my eyes, you deserve a...what is it now, twentieth chance? (just kidding). But there are a bunch of people who are behind you all the way. I'm not one of them....I know bog all about you, really. Have a listen to Queen's Hang On In There and mull it over; try to see how it relates to your experiences. Xterra1 20:02, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

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Precious and missed

Today, I like your TFA, "... a lot of examination and discussion over just about every line over months and months. I will welcome -all- concerns and comments, and I will thoroughly discuss matters with Haiduc in order to ensure that changes would not disrupt the balance. I would also prefer to keep the balance over anything else. However, I do feel that the page is extremely thorough and well put together, as it represents just about -everything- on Giraud. So, I now present to you our dear Nicolo Giraud, the boy/young man who almost absolutely nothing is really known, for your consideration." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Seven years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:10, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Cheers. Drmies (talk) 17:25, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Welcome back, and I look forward to helping you come back into the community. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:21, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Welcome back. I'll be really happy to see you contributing as prolifically as you did in the past. If there's anything I can do to make that easier for you, please say so here. I'll keep your talk page on my watchlist. All the best --RexxS (talk) 23:06, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Happy

Happy cat dance

(found by Opabinia regalis, where ice-breaking is also mentioned) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:20, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Maybe kitty kitty here got into the beer Drmies left above? Good to see you back, OR. John Carter (talk) 16:08, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


New Article

As I finish drafting material related to Lamia, I have some material for an article on an award winning poet for someone else to use to create a page.


Ryan Wilson (1982-) is an academic, editor, literary critic, and poet from Baltimore, Maryland. He is the office manager of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, editor of Literary Matters, and an award winning poet and essayist. His first collection of poetry, The Stranger World, will be published in June, 2017.Photo, released CC-BY-SA 4.0 according to ref 7

Personal life

In 1982, Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia. He grew up in Macon, Georgia and graduated from Tattnall Square Academy in 2000.

He has a B.A. (English) from the University of Georgia, an M.F.A. (Poetry) from The Johns Hopkins University, and an M. F. A. (Poetry) from Boston University in 2008. Currently he is a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America, and he serves as the Office Manager of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers and editor of Literary Matters, the association's digital literary journal. He lives in Baltimore with his wife.

Publications

His works have been published in 32 Poems, Able Muse, The Classical Outlook, Dappled Things, First Things, Light, The Hopkins Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, Raintown Review, River Styx, The Sewanee Review, The Sewanee Theological Review, Unsplendid, among others.

His first collection of poetry, The Stranger World was published by Measure Press in June 2017. Mark Jarman said, "The Stranger World includes heartbreaking lyrics, haunting narratives, inspired translations, and finely honed satires... written with the authority of mastery." Robert Pinsky wrote, "Ryan Wilson’s mastery of traditional forms serves a fresh, distinctive poetry of candor and meditation: soulful rather than brittle, more observant than performative. The idiomatic, American blank verse of Wilson’s 'Authority' and 'L’Estraneo' is as fluent as that of Robert Frost, but with an oblique tenderness that reminds me of Frost’s friend Edward Thomas."

Awards

  • Sankey Prize for Excellence in Poetry (JHU).
  • Schmuel Traum Prize (BU).
  • Eleanor Clark Award (Robert Penn Warren Circle), winner.
  • Morton Marr Prize (The Southwest Review), finalist, 2009.
  • International Poetry Contest (River Styx), honorable mention, 2012.
  • Vassar Miller Book Prize, finalist, 2015.
  • Frost Farm Poetry Prize, honorable mention, 2015.
  • Jacques Maritain Prize (Dappled Things), winner, 2015.
  • Vassar Miller Book Prize, finalist, 2016.
  • Walter Sullivan Prize for Promise in Criticism (The Sewanne Review), winner, 2016.
  • Donald Justice Poetry Prize, winner, 2017.

Works cited

  1. ^ "Ryan Wilson’s recent publications and awards." Boston University Creative Writing. June 15, 2015
  2. ^ "Ryan Wilson, Our Editor" Literary Matters, The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.
  3. ^ Catholic University of America
  4. ^ "Ryan Wilson’s Pushcart nomination and publications." Boston University Creative Writing. July 15, 2016.
  5. The Robert Frost Farm
  6. "Winners of the 2015 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction." Dappled Things
  7. Johns Hopkins University Press
  8. "Poetry News." Westchester University Poetry Center

External links

Update

I updated the article proposed above for anyone to use it. As a disclosure, I know the gentleman (he is a bit of a big to do in the literary circles). I also have a lot of notes for Lamia and am looking for someone who would be interested in working with me. Drop me a note. Ottava Rima (talk) 23:55, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello. Just to let you know that you can move the above content to Draft:Ryan Wilson or User:Ottava Rima/Ryan Wilson if you wish. BTW, I'd love to help out, but I have other priorities. Sorry. Well, best of luck. --George Ho (talk) 02:34, 20 July 2017 (UTC); oh well, 03:08, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Hmm... I can just reformat your references and/or move the content to either page for you, but that's it. Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 02:36, 20 July 2017 (UTC); okey dokey, 03:05, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I -can't- move the page or use it due to various restrictions. All I can do is offer it to other people. But thanks anyway. :) Ottava Rima (talk) 02:39, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
  • Hey Ottava--the praise cited in note 2, are those blurbs from the book? They all sound good, but I typically don't regard those very highly. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 12:03, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) I've created the article at Draft:Ryan Wilson (poet) and made a couple of snapshots at archive.org to replace the Google caches. I hope it meets with your approval. Hopefully others will expand it. It should be ready for mainspace anyway as I believe it passes WP:GNG and WP:CREATIVE part 4(c). Cheers --RexxS (talk) 12:09, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. Ottava Rima (talk) 13:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Drmies, I would normally agree but for the status of those two: Pinsky was the US Poet Laureate, which is a pretty big deal. Ottava Rima (talk) 13:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Oh I know--I'm a big fan. I have his Sounds of Poetry laying around somewhere. But the sourcing here is tricky. Where did Pinsky say this? His publications are sourced to the BU website, and these blurbs are sourced to the journal that he himself edits. So what's left, I suppose, is the awards--one of which may be notable, but even that one, the Donald Justice prize, hasn't received much coverage (I mean both your subject winning it and the award itself). In fact, I don't see a single real secondary publication in here, so I won't be the one moving it to main space. If RexxS wishes to do so, that's his prerogative of course. Drmies (talk) 13:34, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Awards are secondary to the author but primary to themselves. The problem with modern poets in general is that they tend to have very few news articles so award pages tend to be all we have left. Also has some background on the publication and Donald Justice Poetry Prize - "The award includes publication of his manuscript, The Stranger World". This suggested to me that the Pinksy quotes were connected to this. I'm still looking for some more sources. Ottava Rima (talk) 13:47, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Awards themselves need secondary sourcing to prove they're notable awards. That Justice award is hard to gauge; it's not a big national one, of course. So it helps, sure, but whether that alone is enough is a matter of judgment. I am well aware of the problems with poetic sourcing (you know I've worked on a few articles pertaining to modern poetry...) and it's something that I'm working on; what we really need is a set of guidelines (we need to get away from "poet X published in these journals" and then list them all) and a list of notable publications and awards. Most of all, we need a list of publications and zines whose reviews are reliable and important. I know someone who writes on LitHub, and the moment he started doing that his career started happening--so clearly that's an important place in the world of poetry. Just like poetry.com, haha. If only poetry generated the kind of airtime that's dedicated to monster trucks, K-pop, rassling, and all that. Drmies (talk) 13:55, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Indeed! Ottava Rima (talk) 13:57, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
By the way, the Frost Farm Poetry Prize should probably have its own page, seeing as how it is from the Robert Frost foundation. This is interesting, though. Poor Robert Frost and his legacy. Ottava Rima (talk) 14:01, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
My hesitation in putting the article in mainspace to begin with, is that I'm no expert on the significance of the awards. If this were some here-today-and-gone-tomorrow pop star, they'd have hundreds of mentions in the popular press for every two-bit award they received. Sadly, no such channels exist for promulgating the news of more traditional artists' awards. However, my take is that the sections devoted to Wilson in particular by John Hopkins Press, and by Boston University amount to "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" – the touchstone of our notability criteria. I would also argue that "The person's work ... has won significant critical attention" which is the notability guideline for creative writers. No doubt others may disagree, so I'll leave the final decision to publish the article in mainspace to someone else for now. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 16:23, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I'll keep an eye out for more sources and links. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:33, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
By the way, I had a typo - it is Literary Matters and not Literary Manners. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:38, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Just a note: The Sewanee Review page has the Aiken Taylor award but not the breakdown of the other five titles: . These should probably be listed in the same section (or change the section name to "Prizes"). Ottava Rima (talk) 14:10, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Similarly, Southwest Review could mention The Morton Marr Poetry Prize along with their others . Ottava Rima (talk) 14:14, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
And another: Vassar Miller could be noted at the University of North Texas Press (a sadly under-served page). Ottava Rima (talk) 14:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

It's interesting that Ryan Wilson (poet) has just made its way into mainspace. You were right, Drmies: predictably, the quotes have attracted disagreement about their sourcing, and it would perhaps be best to reduce them to a summary as a compromise. We'll see how that pans out. --RexxS (talk) 17:18, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

  • Hmm a good occasion to do some updating: the LitHub person mentioned above is getting two books out with Riverhead Books. Anyway, Rexx, what I mentioned above, those are also the standards I try to live by--I don't write in awards unless I can verify them, even if I know them to be true. And my standards--obviously notable ones (even if "obviously notable" to the experts only) can do with some kind of primary sourcing, from the organization, less obviously notable ones require secondary sourcing of the not-just-local-news kind. Drmies (talk) 17:34, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
  • Ah, yes, the Pinsky quote...can't find anything for that. I assume it's a note of sorts pertaining to an award, or possibly a blurb for a book. I don't like it, sorry. Drmies (talk) 17:37, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
The Pinsky quote can be found on the bio page at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writer's journal Literary Matters: . The same quote is also at Verse Daily and poems.com . Also, CUA has a faculty page that is available . Dappled Things has an interview . Also, Archive.Org has a file on him as part of their "Apostrophe Cast" program . And here is a review . And in searching, I found him at Yale Review to add to the others . Ottava Rima (talk) 20:25, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, Ottava. I've transcribed them onto Talk:Ryan Wilson (poet) and asked if others would like to use them to expand the article (hint Drmies). Otherwise I'll try to find time to incorporate them myself to the best of my limited ability. --RexxS (talk) 21:50, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Ottava, that they're repeated on various websites doesn't tell me anything about when the man said that and to whom and in what context... Drmies (talk) 21:57, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
My spidey-sense is telling me that the quotes smack of something you would read on the dust-cover of a book like The Stranger World. Unfortunately, the nearest library copy to me appears to be in San Angelo, TX (7800 km away).
Update: My spidey-sense didn't let me down. Have a look at https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-World-Ryan-Wilson/dp/193957420X – there's a link on the left under the front cover image, . Clicking that allows you to see the back cover. Lo and behold! There are the quotes from Pinsky, Yezzi, Warren and Jarman. So the answers to the good Doctor's questions are: the quotes were said to the publisher's gopher who was canvassing for text for the back cover prior to the book's publication. Does that help? --RexxS (talk) 23:15, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
The publisher is the group that awarded the Donald Justice Prize (Measure Press), and publication of the book is part of the prize. As for the Pinsky quote, he is a former laureate and has a relationship with Measure Press, often reviewing works. He also has a relationship with Ryan as per the interview ("Anyway, a few dozen drafts, a lot of help from Robert Pinsky, and a year later, “The City Under Vesuvius” came out in heroic couplets") and taught in the Boston University program where Ryan graduated. It would be a notable quote simply because he is a very notable individual. Bias doesn't really affect quotations, especially when most quotations are formed by bias. Would it settle any concerns if it was from Robert Pinsky's website? Ottava Rima (talk) 23:29, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

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How did you get two articles to FA status while banned? Benjamin (talk) 05:26, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Which two are you referring to? Ottava Rima (talk) 15:15, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
None, in particular; any, or all of them, I suppose. Really, I'm just curious what the procedure is for contributing while banned. Benjamin (talk) 15:17, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
There is none. Most of the articles were written well before hand. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:19, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
How is that "while" banned, then? Benjamin (talk) 15:23, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome
Ten years!

and today's TFA is an article about a poem ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:25, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Eight years!

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A barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar
I just started making my way through the articles on T. S. Eliot you wrote. Thanks again for your dedication to qualitiy work. Viriditas (talk) 21:20, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

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Miss ya

Hope you are well and things are going OK. Herostratus (talk) 21:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)