Talk:The Wicked Son
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I do not understand why someone wants to delete this page. I am summarizing the author's points by using quotes that are all footnoted. It is not a biased description of Mamet's words - that is why I am being so careful to use his own words. If the person who wants to delete it is calling Mamet biased, that is censorship. This is a published work by a famous author, whose ideas are already in the public marketplace of ideas. I found Mamet's ideas important and fascinating and wanted to share them.````Rosedora —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rosedora (talk • contribs) 04:49, 30 June 2008
- The first thing you must understand is that anyone can nominate a page for deletion under the proposed deletion process. Just as equally, though, anyone can oppose that deletion. It sounds like the person who nominated this article for deletion didn't think it through completely. You can always ask that person on his or her talk page if you don't understand why they did something.
- As for the article itself, it is a fine essay, but unfortunately not so good as an encyclopedia article. An encyclopedia article must get its information from third-party sources -- that is, things that other people have written about the article's topic. In this case, the article would have to reference things that other people have written about The Wicked Son; referencing The Wicked Son itself is not sufficient. Encyclopedias collect and summarize other sources; they do not analyze the topics themselves.
- For more information, please read Wikipedia:Your first article and the other helpful pages that are linked there.
- -- Powers T 12:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree with Powers view. However, I've added some sources to the article, which can help other editors and the article's creator to do what he suggests. Voceditenore (talk) 12:55, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hi - this is the original author. i have tried to follow your advice by improving format of footnotes and adding a bunch of references, including some more reviews and also books on same topic. i must have done something wrong, for page is now a mess, with footnotes and references intermixed and repeated, and most of my new ones not showing, and I couldn't get back in to fix it. waldenpond (talk) 15:29, 1 July 2008 (UTC)Rosedora