User:A Musing

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[edit] Sandbox

Only rule in Sandbox is no throwing sand.

[edit] HELP!

You should feel free to play in my Sandbox, where I work on drafts that are not yet ready for prime time. Current Sandbox work is focused on History of poetry. But, it's not really underway yet. So not much to do quite yet.

But, the History of poetry page itself could use help. Come on, wander on over.

[edit] Other sandboxes

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[edit] Contributions

My biggest contributions to date have been helping the Franklin D. Roosevelt page to Featured Article status and rewriting the Poetry article and pushing it through the Featured Article process. I also help with Portal:Poetry. Below are a whole bunch of pages I've made some level of contribution to, which I like to keep track of here for one reason or another.

[edit] History

Historic Deerfield Amherst College Natural History Museum Martin Van Buren Jacksonian democracy Democratic-Republican party Albany Regency Alien and Sedition Acts Jacksonian democracy Martin Luther

Franklin D. Roosevelt Criticism of FDR Franklin D. Roosevelt's record on civil rights Franklin D. Roosevelt's terms as Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralysis Roosevelt family

[edit] Arts

Museums10 Mead Art Museum Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield Amherst Center for Russian Culture Emily Dickinson Museum Harvard University Art Museums Busch-Reisinger Museum Boston modern orchestra project Alfred Mahlau photo.net Culture in Boston, Massachusetts Boston Public Library Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art gallery Düsseldorf School

Poetry New Directions Publishers Tony Hoagland Isabella Whitney Trochaic octameter Anapestic tetrameter List of women writers Portal:poetry List of years in poetry Centuries in poetry

[edit] Education

Dyslexia Learning disabilities Head Start Intelligence quotient (don't blame its many flaws on me!) Amherst College

[edit] Flying Pig Award

This is not an award I have earned, but one I am holding to give on the day there is a protracted, civil discussion resolving some of the issues about Luther and anti-Semitism on the Martin Luther page. Help us out, be civil, and get yourself a Flying Pig Award!

		THE FLYING PIG AWARD
		Awarded to Don Quixote de la Mancha for achieving the inconceivable.

[edit] Kind awards

		The Exceptional Newcomer Award
		With only two months of editing under your belt, your work on poetry is an accomplishment attained by few Wikipedians, even those who have been contributing for years. I'm proud to present you this award. --Spangineer[es] (háblame) 12:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

For his genialness and his tenacious desire to keep to the business of editing articles I award A Musing Sam this Editor's Barnstar! Drboisclair 01:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seduction of Culture

Dear Sam: I ILLed the book, but I'm not sure why you referred to it. What should I look at? Bob --CTSWyneken^(talk) 15:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Working on the Luther Page

I'll be at the page again, working at paraphrasing the Schaff quoted material and eventually working on diversifying the citations there. I also want to revisit other issues in the article (except the Jews topic. 8-) ) I'll leave that one for a later day. (maybe in some sort of peer review setting.). --CTSWyneken^(talk) 15:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Luther GA Nom Comments

The Martin Luther article has been nominated for Good Article status. A reviewer dropped by and said that everything but the Luther and Antisemitism section qualified. Mantanmoreland said, in effect, the section was just fine but the rest was hagiographic. While I intend to leave the issue well enough alone, I thought you might be interested in helping see if he will offer us some suggestions. --CTSWyneken^(talk) 15:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FDR

You will find a reference in the WP document on the Te4hran conference. It is described in the memoirs of the Polish president in exile who was present at Yalta. Give me time and I will dig it out.Roger Arguile 08:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poetry portal

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the compliment. There was one quote from Samuel Johnson about poets that I thought would be good for the page. I'll find it, but how do I submit it? I can keep my eye out for other quotes as well (I find those the easiest). Is it possible to store quotes so that they automatically come up? That way I could contribute a bunch at once, which would make it enormously easier. I assume for poetry that we'd need to have something published before 1923 for copyright purposes, right? Other than that, I have no ideas at present, but if I get any, I'll pass them along. What could you use help with? I'm running across some interesting poets as I do the year pages, but I haven't been spending enough time reading through some of the individual poet articles. I was surprised to see quite a few died in World War I. Noroton 00:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1913 in poetry discussion

Hi Sam,

Thanks for your comments. I cut and pasted them and the other comment and my response on the Talk:List of years in poetry page. Thanks for the input. Noroton 17:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)