Talk:Robert W. Service

message: I understand photos of Service as a young man are hard to find and may no longer exist. However, he is such an interesting historical firgure, especially for young people, that some special effort should be made to locate one and obtain permission to include it with his wiki biography. I would undertake this task if requested. However, wiki may already have on hold photos which, for one reason or another (copyright owner's refusal to release?) have not yet been posted. One further note: For some reason, perhaps envy, or perhaps his reclusive personality, Service was ostracized by the Bloomsbury and Gertrude Stein establishments. This needs to be included here. -SH 
Unsigned comment by User:70.232.60.4 03:40, 14 April 2006 
:There are a number of copyright-expired photos available from the National Archives of Canada , in particular this one , but I have been unable to save it on my computer. Maybe there is some kind of copy protection, but the page does say the copyright has expired. Maybe someone more savvy than me could upload it to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. Luigizanasi 20:32, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure that  is PD. It says "Copyright:  Périmé" and I don't know what that means. --Droll 02:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perimé means "expired" or "Lapsed" according to my Harrap's New Shorter French and English dictionary. Also aucune in "restrictions on access" means "None". Luigizanasi 03:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo of young Robert Service

message: I'm not meaning to toad; I just happened to come here after looking at the Pauline Johnson page and there's some "critical analysis".  Sadly, I know what to expect here, given the snottiness of the CanLit poetry establishment and the associated critical circles; George Bowering's sniffing at rural/wilderness poetry in BC, much of modelled on Service, is typical: he says something to the effect that "it's not studied in universities, and there's a good reason why".  In my own estimation, Service is the Canadian Homer (not Simpson); simple, direct verse that tugs at the gut and speaks in the common tongue, and hangs in the mind like a good tune.  A long way from bill bissett and Al Purdy, and thank god for that.  Anyway, just opining that a selection of reviews, contemporary and modern alike, if they can be found, might add to the page; not that I agree with them, only it would be interesting to see the posturing of the literary establishment as they debunk his taste in iambics and AABCCB rhyme; which few, if any of them can manage.  Service works best when spoken out loud (like Homer), and it resonates with the rawness of the land; the critics generally resonate with the rawness of the ivory tower, and not much more...Skookum1 07:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Service is an excellent poet. If the Canadian literary establishment don't want him, we Scots will reclaim him quick as winking. -- Derek Ross | Talk 08:35, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism and Reviews 

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 07:40, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Did Service become a Canadian citizen?  If not, he should not be called British-Canadian. 31.52.253.130 (talk) 13:42, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citizenship 

message: Four months ago, a one-article IP address 'editor' removed the entirety of the history of Service's Yukon years. Fortunately, it was a 'blanking,' and easy to revert. 4,000 people view this article per month on average, and no one seemed to notice. Oy. Will leave the hack a somewhat severe admonition. Tapered (talk) 23:48, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hack job edit 

message: I have found a hardbound coffee of a book titled rhymes of a red Cross man authored by Robert W Service so I have it in my possession in Salt Lake City Utah it was in my mothers things after she passed she obtained it in Myrtle Beach South Carolina originally by a peach farm are there in that’s all I really know other than the author is obviously known for his writings when you Google him so if anybody’s interested in this book I have it thank you very much for your time and have a wonderful day 2601:681:4B00:B150:C86F:F788:E76C:61D (talk) 07:59, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A hard noun copy of one of these books located