Talk:Vachel Lindsay

message: This article is riddled with POV and uncited, unverified claims. I tagged the crap out of it. I will post a to do list that anyone can add to, it's above, add to it as you see stuff to work on. This work is kind of an offshoot to an improvement drive for Springfield, Illinois So let's get at it. It looks like at least one comment is recent, everything else is mostly unsigned. If there is anything good in there I will grab it and put it in the to do list or an appropriate talk section, otherwise I will soon delete any of the unsigned stuff that isn't part of a current discussion.A mcmurray 01:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While Lindsay most certainly meets the notability criteria on Wikipedia, I don't think that Wikipedia's job is to attribute value to anyone, merely to present the information and let the facts speak for themselves. I would say that there isn't any reason why material that is presented can't be objective, balanced and cover all significant scholarly views without emphasizing any one POV.  IvoShandor 07:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement

message: I might stand away from "The Congo" entirely.  The received knowledge of the day is almost completely mistaken; you have to go back maybe 50 years to find accounts from those who understood what Lindsay was doing with the poem.  I suspect the understanding of the poem will change radically in the next few years and that will make this section problematic.  His most enduring work has been "Art of the Moving Picture;" that would be a really good place to start.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blue7047 (talk • contribs) 03:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Congo

message: WP Chicago needs to stop adding this tag to every page that mentions the word chicago. This is out of control. IvoShandor 12:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicago

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:39, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: You're a successful professional (rich doctor). You have an odd, distinctive name (Vachel). When your son is born, you give him your name. This makes him feel that he is expected to be like you, a "Mini-Me." In order to assert his independence, individuality, and self–will, he goes to the opposite extreme and becomes a wandering, starving troubador. This is perfectly natural.Lestrade 19:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Self&ndash;assertion and rebellion

message: The second paragraph under "Suicide" reads VERY much like some conspiracy theories and is total original research. I'm going to remove it. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 04:02, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the panoply of the State" ?! 

message: The $500 award from Poetry Magazine is characterized as "a substantial sum at the time." I think a quantified estimate would be more useful. When I read it, I had no idea whether this "substantial sum" was like an award of $10,000, $50,000, $100,000 today. Putting an actual dollar figure removes this uncertainty and is useful to the reader. (And in fact, most people would probably not consider an amount like this a "substantial sum.") Many inflation calculators are available. The one I used is here: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=500.00&year1=1929&year2=2012  Omc (talk) 10:21, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: we have this template:inflation. Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 20:29, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Quantify "a substantial sum"