Talk:Tom Clark (poet)

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A large portion of the article was copied from here. It is legal to read an encyclopedia article or other work, reformulate the concepts in your own words, and submit it to Wikipedia, although the structure, presentation, and phrasing of the information should be your own original creation. Please follow this guideline (from Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright). Look at Wikipedia:Citing sources to get advice on how to cite sources. I assess the remaining material as Stub. Hekerui (talk) 11:04, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - please see my comments on your own page. Clark is a significant writer and his involvement in 20th century US poetry should be correctly documented, but you are making this very difficult for the two of us who are trying to do this, by continually reducing the page to its bare bones. You seem to have removed links to all the subjects of the biographies too.

What is the procedure on Wikipedia for citing biographical information on a living person, when that information comes from the person themselves?

Sorry, I don't mean to be tetchy but your contribution really hasn't been helpful in placing correct info about this poet in the public domain. Zephirine (talk) 11:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, please don't link parts of book titles in the bibliography, it is confusing, a book title should link to an article on the book, if there is one. Instead, place such links in other article text, for example by listing who he wrote about.

Information from people themselves is usually original research and conflicts with the guideline of Wikipedia:No original research. Wikipedia articles should rely primarily on reliable, third-party, published sources. As for when reliable self-published sources are allowable, check Wikipedia:Reliable sources. The guidelines on biographies of living people are here: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Hekerui (talk) 11:36, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]