Talk:Homer Davenport

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Montanabw - here's a few links to photographs, etc in the Library of Congress. I do NOT know the copyright status on these. Photograph Photograph2 Ealdgyth | Talk 21:11, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

See my comments in the Babson article. You can probably chance it if the site is maintained by the US Government, check the wiki guidelines, but generally if I can't find a copyright of any other sort, I'll consider it US Gov't work and call it good. Montanabw 04:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tone

Though this article is improving, there is still an issue with the unencyclopedic tone. Items like "great food" at a festival and "free-thinking" parents do not meet wikipedia guidelines. Same with "work became so influential" and "penchant" and other peacock terms. See in general WP:MOS and WP:BETTER. Aboutmovies 05:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

The way this article was initially written strikes me as a copyvio, but I can't find a source on the Internet, so perhaps it is copied from a book? Here's the diff from when the language with questionable tone was added, if anyone can get ahold of the books and check if they have been copied verbatim. Katr67 21:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I spent about four hours last night trying to get rid of the worst stuff, I missed the bit about food, will fix that. FYI, if you want to help fix the peacock adjectives, go for it. My original stake in this was the Arabian horse stuff, and the rest was originally someone else's work, so whatever we can fix, I am all for working together. I think the original editors may have abandoned it. Montanabw^(talk) 23:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good, I just didn't want to get into an edit war with someone trying to promote this person/the annual festival. I'll see what I can do to tone it down. Aboutmovies 23:47, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I tweaked it some, I suppose it doesn't really have to be in there, though the fact that the guy has his own festival is of some interest. Feel free to fix, I have no investment in that bit. Montanabw^(talk) 21:53, 16 October 2007 (UTC)