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Contents 1 Confusion 2 Add section on Essays 2.1 Done 3 Poem of Disputed Origin? 4 Clean-Up of Box

[edit] Confusion

Split into year? 1820's, 30's, etc? Make it easier to read nuk!!69.105.108.18 03:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree...I will try to bring revision to attention68.123.226.197 19:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Add section on Essays

Could you add a section for Poe's essays? The Philosophy of Composition (1846) and Eureka (Edgar Allan Poe) (1848) are the only ones I'm aware of that have their own entries. Tjmayerinsf 09:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

The essays section was a fantastic idea... but maybe it should be updated to "Essays and Other Work"? I'm thinking specifically of The Conchologist's First Book, which is definitely not an essay. At some point, maybe other additions, like Poe's "autography" collection or his critical review of Twice-Told Tales. Thoughts? Midnightdreary 16:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to bring this up again. "Essays" is a bit limiting. I'm strongly suggesting "Other works" or "Essays and other works." The one that particularly stands out is The Conchologist's First Book, which is a textbook - and I'm certainly not going to suggest a new section for "Textbooks" be added. If there's no discussion, I'm going to go ahead and make the change. While I'm at it, I'll add The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (a novel) to the new section. Midnightdreary 04:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Done

Well I've gone ahead and updated it a bit. It's not perfect, but it seems to be a bit more inclusive. Feel free to revert it if it's no good. Midnightdreary 19:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poem of Disputed Origin?

The Divine Right of Kings (poem) is listed with Poe as author - see the source in the external links section. Should this be added to the template? -Midnightdreary 18:04, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-Up of Box

I found three vandalisms in the Edgar Allen Poe template box. If these vandalisms are so rampant in this particular box, maybe we should lock it somehow. Not like he will be producing any more works that we need to add to it any time soon. -JoshP 11:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

No, he probably won't be publishing anything new, but we may be adding new articles on some of these works. But everything Poe-related tends to get vandalized pretty heavily. I'm not sure if protection on this particular article would matter much. But, I can understand the reasoning, so I wouldn't stop anyone from doing it. Midnightdreary 19:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't mean locking down any of the articles, they can stay open. I just meant we could semi-protect the template box or something. I don't know how to do so, so I'll leave it up to anyone who cares. JoshP 10:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

You know, now that I've seen some additional vandalism, I might agree with JoshP about semi-protecting. I can't get over how many 7th graders like to add "COCKS" and "ANAL" or some kind of gay joke to Poe pages. Midnightdreary 19:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Yep, for some reason, they just see it as funny. I don't know why they choose Edgar Allen Poe though...But go ahead and do whatever you like. I really don't have any idea how to do anything beyond the basics. JoshP 01:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC)