# Talk:James Whitcomb Riley

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Reviewer: AdamBMorgan (talk) 10:01, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

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This page should be retitled "James Whitcomb Riley (poet)" to avoid linking confusion with "James Whitcomb Riley (passenger train)," and a disambiguation page should be created. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 68.88.233.11 (talk • contribs) 17:39, December 11, 2004

No, since the train is named for Riley, there should be no disambiguation needed.  That would be like having to rename George Washington to George Washington (United States President) so people don't get confusted with George Washington University.  --rogerd 01:23, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

It seems this page has been vandalized. I deleted a sentence that read "Many of his phrases are present in 'yer mom's' reading of his poetry," or somesuch. I think the image has been vandalized, as well. User: GreeneC'06

RE:

Poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849 – 1916) wrote "when I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
What year did Riley write this? I want to add it to the Duck test page. 
It is not in these books either: 

The complete works of James Whitcomb Riley By James Whitcomb Riley, Edmund Henry Eitel.
The complete poetical works of James Whitcomb Riley By James Whitcomb Riley
Ikip (talk) 15:27, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:COI disclosure:  I'm a member of Phi Kappa Psi, as was James Whitcomb Riley.  Charles Edward is currently undertaking a major revision of this page, and his excellent work suggests featured article status isn't far away.  I'll leave this up to him, and the Wikipedia community as a whole, about including fraternity membership in this article.  If it is decided to include this, here are some sources:

"Exchanges", The Alpha Phi quarterly, 14 (2), Champaign, Illinois: Alpha Phi: p. 142, 1901, OCLC 7793553 {{citation}}: |page= has extra text (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Van Cleve, Charles L. (1902). Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity From Its Foundation In 1852 To Its Fiftieth Anniversary. Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company. p. 199. OCLC 2140880. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Keehn, Roy D. (1910). Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (7th ed.). Chicago: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. pp. 143, 246, 399. OCLC 5469453. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Crowder, Richard (1957). Those innocent years; the legacy and inheritance of a hero of the Victorian era, James Whitcomb Riley. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. pp. 112, 160, 217. OCLC 1371175. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
NYCRuss ☎ 17:40, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for this information! I will be sure to integrate it into the article. I am off for a break for a bit though. :) —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 18:21, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure that you'll do a great job of integrating this in. NYCRuss ☎ 18:13, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I've removed the paragraph about "Living the life of Riley" twice. This may be true, but I can't confirm it, and the sources given are not acceptable. One was a blog, which does not meet WP:RS, and the other an encyclopedia with no publisher or page numbers given, making lookup nearly impossible. A scan of google books failed to return a result on that book. Furthermore, a search on the phrase in general finds other sources saying it is a term from the Irish-American community and "Riley" was slang for an Irishman. It denoted immigrants who found a better life in the US over that which they had in Ireland. I cannot find any connection of the term to James Whitcomb Riley. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 14:55, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Generally speaking, there is some consensus on literature-related articles on Wikipedia that infoboxes should either not be included or remain as minimal as possible as they seek recognized status. Some examples: Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Dickinson, James Russell Lowell, William Butler Yeats, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, etc. I recommend at least simplifying it. --Midnightdreary (talk) 13:57, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I think I got this. I started a reception\critism section. I still don't have a realy good source for it, I kinda pieced that together from a few source. It still feel like its missing something. Do you have any thoughts? —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 17:16, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I have been collecting books for 30 years and have several printings of Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury. The book is dedicated to his brother John A. Riley who had passed away and been the inspiration of the work. I see no mention of him having a brother.

CharlesU (talk) 14:33, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

How is her name correctly spelled? It currently appears both ways.
JamieMcCarthy (talk) 04:40, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

There is a photograph of a young(-ish) Riley in a book about the American flag over at openlibrary.org  I don't know how to go through the rigamarole of dealing with rights and uploading the thing to WikiCommons, but if you are interested have a look at this page https://archive.org/stream/storyofamericanf00fall/storyofamericanf00fall#page/100/mode/2up  79.76.114.69 (talk) 19:17, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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