User talk:CleverBrownie

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Sapphic stanza

Hi, CleverBrownie. Just a little note on your recent edit to Sapphic stanza: Per WP:Verifiability, "All quotations ... must include an inline citation to a reliable source". Here at Wikipedia, this policy is constantly broken with regard to verse quotations (I don't know why); but it shouldn't be. While I agree that the citation you deleted was not great, I believe the quote was better off having any citation, than none at all. It's immaterial that the web page had a broken link, since it was the page itself that was being cited, not the linked source. And for quotes like this, it doesn't really matter what you or I think of the spelling; if we think something's off, best to find a better source that resolves it. So, I have added a citation that I think we will both agree is better (Loeb), and updated the text as best I could to reflect the new source. However, I can't read Greek -- so would you be kind enough to review the verse text against the new cited source to make sure it is quoted correctly? Because it's just squiggles to me, so very easy for me to miss stuff. Thanks much. Phil wink (talk) 19:16, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Phil wink. I'll see to it that I source such corrections properly. I have compared the updated stanza against the sourced Loeb-edition and found no discrepancies. Thanks for informing me. CleverBrownie (talk) 22:19, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Very much obliged. I'm not really familiar with the overall quality of Classics-related articles around here, but Wikipedia articles on poetry -- especially on technical and historical aspects of poetry -- are often terrible. If you've got the energy, you'll never be short of bad stuff to fix here. I've taken a few articles in hand, like Sapphic stanza, Hendecasyllable, and Heroic verse, but there's much left to do, and I'm lazy. Also (to earn CleverBrownie points, if I may) I'll note that I created the English article for Theodore Rodenburgh. Anyway, hope you stick around, and if there's anything I can do to assist in your campaign against error, let me know. Cheers. Phil wink (talk) 02:41, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]