Talk:Lope de Vega

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Contents 1 Vandalism reverted - December 2006 2 Vandalism - April 2007 3 Article text removed - March 2008 4 Tagged article for tone and Improved References 5 Request for assistance posted to relevant Wikiprojects

[edit] Vandalism reverted - December 2006

I reverted a passage referring to Hugh Heffner (sic) and other irrelevant crudities. If there's a reason for that to be there, please reinstate and explain here.Militiades 15:28, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism - April 2007

I corrected some vandalism in the page.

unsigned comment added by 85.136.92.68 (talk) 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article text removed - March 2008

Editors, please be advised that the entire text of the article between the opening paragraph and the References section was removed, per the edit summary "entire article is unsourced", without prior tagging or discussion, by Otolemur crassicaudatus on 24 March. I reverted shortly thereafter, with a request for discussion prior to blanket removal of the majority of the article. "O.c." reverted back within a few minutes, citing WP:RS and WP:V in the edit summary. I also left a message on his talk page, protesting the behavior; the response, in summary, is that he believes he is appropriately enforcing WP:V. The article, is, actually, not entirely unsourced, because it has a 1911-Britannica tag.

I am requesting the assistance of editors interested in the article; it truly could use better references; we also need to get the removed text restored, hopefully without edit warring; the text needs to "be there" in order to be able to add citations where appropriate.

As time allows (have to "run" off to work now), I will also request assistance at the Wikiprojects which would have interest in this article: Theatre, Bio, and Spain. Thanks, Lini (talk) 11:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

The deleted text has been restored, along with the additon of a reference, that I used for some additions to the list of works (apologies to the WP project for not adding the reference at the time that I made the additions to the article). This reference (Hayes), as a biography of Lope de Vega, is also a good general reference for the article. After giving the matter some thought, and given a closer look at the content and history of the page, I am making the assumption that the removal of the text on 24 March was done in error, without a careful enough look at the article, because the article was indeed, already referenced (1911-Britannica), and also already had one in-text citation (of the Catholic Encyclopedia), which was removed in the blanket removal of text. Therefore the rationale "entire article is unsourced" was incorrect, and the action was not appropriate. --Lini (talk) 01:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tagged article for tone and Improved References

I have placed tags on this article requesting work on the article to improve the tone (needs updates from 1911 Britannica verbiage to be more consistent with 21st century encyclopedic tone) and for the incorporation of additional references. Thanks, Lini (talk) 01:56, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for assistance posted to relevant Wikiprojects

I've posted the following request for assistance at the talk pages of the Spain, Theatre, and Biography (Arts and Entertainment) projects:

I'm putting out a request for any interested members of the Spain, Theatre, and/or Biography (Arts and Entertainment Workgroup) Projects to provide some assistance with the article on "Lope de Vega". The tone of the much of the text still seems to be from the 1911 Britannica; I believe the article could benefit from the incorporation of material from some additional references, along with the documentation of those references on the article page. "Lope" is definitely a notable figure, with articles listed at 29 "Other Language" interwikis, as of 6 April 2008, and listed as a Featured-Article on Spanish Wikipedia. There should be no shortage of references available :) I'm requesting assistance at this time, because another editor recently (in my opinion mistakenly and/or inappropriately) deleted much of the article text as being in violation of Wikipedia:Verifiability; I believe this should not have happened, and as of 6 April have restored the deleted text; but the occurence does underscore the fact that the article could use some updating and improved referencing; hopefully by a collaboration of editors.

--Lini (talk) 02:55, 6 April 2008 (UTC)