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The Last Chronicle of Barset

I am currently working on collecting materials to update this Wikipedia entry on Anthony Trollope's novel. This project has been taken on as part of a special assignment in a Modern English Literature course at Kansas City Kansas Community College. This assignment is being completed under the guidance of Associate Professor Adam Hadley. If you have any questions or input regarding my work on this entry, please place comments here. Thanks! Bdhook (talk) 20:00, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to see someone working on Trollope. I've done articles on several of the novels (and actually got The Vicar of Bullhampton to GA status), but have lately been occupied elsewhere and haven't had the time to work in that corner of Wikipedia. Will be watching Last Chronicle, however, and am eager to see what you make of the article. Good luck! Ammodramus (talk) 20:46, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and a quick note: In writing about Last Chronicle, you'll be making frequent references to the financial instrument that Crawley allegedly stole. Per MOS:TIES, it's a "cheque". I got dinged for that after editing The Way We Live Now, in which a ~~check~~ cheque also gets stolen. Also, per WP:STRONGNAT, dates in the text should be in DMY format (e.g. 20 March 2012), although it's acceptable to use YYYY-MM-DD format in the footnotes. Ammodramus (talk) 21:24, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you've started editing The Last Chronicle of Barset following the examples of The Warden and Barchester Towers.

These are not good examples to follow. If you'll look at the talk pages, you'll see that they're rated as Start-class: this means that they're beyond stubs, but not by much. Articles about novels should follow the guidelines set out at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate; and you'll notice that on those guidelines, the plot summary should be brief, and there's no place for a list of characters. Instead, we need a lot of stuff about the novel's writing history and background, publishing history, contemporary and current reception, major themes, etc., etc. All of this needs to come from cited sources—WP:NOR expressly forbids your including your own thoughts and opinions about the work's quality, themes, significance, etc.

Rather than going through the novel and making your summary of its contents and your list of its characters longer and more detailed, you need to be going through Trollope biographies, critical essays, and the like. Remember that a WP article isn't supposed to be your essay about the novel; it should be a well-sourced distillation of what reliable sources say about it.

If I may suggest: a great many literary scholars see Mr. Crawley as a portrait of Trollope's own father. That's something that should probably be brought into the article. You might also note the contemporary reaction to the news that the Barsetshire series was over: there was considerable despair among Trollope's readership. Ammodramus (talk) 22:07, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and: If you're linking to an online version of Last Chronicle, could I suggest that you use the University of Adelaide version (see the external links)? That allows you to link directly to the chapter, so the reader doesn't land at the Project Gutenberg page and then have to decide whether to download a version of the novel. Ammodramus (talk) 22:37, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Come to the First Topeka Meetup, January 15!

Come celebrate Wikipedia Day with other Kansas Wikipedians sponsored by Wikimedians Active in Local Regions in the United States (WALRUS) and hosted by the Topeka and Shawnee Public Library. Come chat, hang out and enjoy good company while find out more about Wikipedia in our regional community! RSVP at Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day.

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Hope to see you there Sadads (talk) 20:24, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Upcoming event at the WWI Museum in Kansas City

Hello! I would like to invite you to a Wikipedia editathon about WWI and Dissent on November 22 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Join us for the U.S. branch of this international event as we write more social history from the era around WWI into Wikipedia! All editors are welcome, contributors to topics around WWI other than Dissent also encouraged! Food and drinks will be supplied by the WWI museum, Sadads (talk) 21:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Grand Lodge

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