Talk:For Want of a Nail (Proverb)
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The article didn't exist, and this has so much history and relevance to causuality, folklore and even chaos theory, I had to add it. Does anyone know how to create a disambiguation page? There are three references to "the nail" in wikipedia - even an article titled "For want of a nail" that descibes a book published in the 70's - which I find extremely misleading due to seven century history of this proverb. I personally think the article about the book should be retitled "For want of a nail (Novel)" to remove any ambiguity - but I don't know how to do that... Timmccloud (talk) 04:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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I thought I'd drop by and respond to your assessment request. The article is off to a good start, so good work on that. Not sure if "For Want of a Nail" should be in quotations in the first instance. I would also consider writing the history section as prose - the bullets just don't do justice. Anyway, I've rated this as a start class pending further expansion and referencing. Don't worry about that "importance" field... most of our articles end up at low importance and it's really only for the internal use of the poetry project. Take a look at our project page WP:POETRY to take a look at some of our recognized content; it might give you some ideas as far as where to go next. I'm only on Wiki intermittently the next few days but feel free to drop a comment on my talk page if there are questions. --Midnightdreary (talk) 13:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
- Regarding the use of a list rather than prose in the History section, see WP:EMBED. I think you'll find that prose is the way to go. As long as it's all reference appropriately (which it is), it shouldn't matter how you present the information. Hope that helps! --Midnightdreary (talk) 20:16, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
