Talk:Duncan Campbell Scott

message: Interesting article, but I am struck by the lack of supporting references for some statements.  While biographical information is adequately supported by the reference to the Canadian Poetry Archives, it is important for assertions made about the residential schools issue to be supported.  I was struck by the unreferenced statement about mortality in the schools: "in some cases the mortality rate exceeded fifty percent due to the spread of infectious disease. With a total death toll estimated at 50,000 nearly one half of all the children who attended the schools died." Can anyone provide reliable references for this statistic? Count Vronsky 16:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I understand his views are pretty unpopular today but... "Assimilation, so the reasoning went, would solve the 'Indian problem,' and wrenching children away from their parents to 'civilize' them in residential schools until they were eighteen was believed to be a sure way of achieving the government’s goal. Scott ... would later pat himself on the back: 'I was never unsympathetic to aboriginal ideals, but there was the law which I did not originate and which I never tried to amend in the direction of severity.'"" These sentences are about as loaded as you can get. I would propose just removing them. 50.136.241.233 (talk) 18:14, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutral POV

message: The quote from Scott beginning, "I wanted to get rid of..." is given in two spots, in two different forms; neither is referenced.  Does anyone (maybe whoever put them in) have those references, and can we reduce the two to one accurate quote?  Cheers, Lindsay 19:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotation

message: The autoforward of Duncan Scott to this article needs removing, as there's a comic artist called Duncan Scott. He drew Colin the Vet and The Neds for The Beano, and currently draws Doctor Loo for Dandy Xtreme. I want to put this info into an article, but doing so would mean also creating a disambig - which is what actually should appear when you search for Duncan Scott. So free up the name please. Digifiend (talk) 16:05, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove autoforward 

message: I've already worked on articles on Roberts, Carman, Lampman, and Campbell. I'd like to do much the same for Scott. The problem is I don't want to mess up or detract from what's here already. What I'd like to do is: add (non-DIA) details to his Life; move DIA section to its own subheading of Life, but otherwise leave it as is*; put in a secion on his writing; add whatever honors he received to the beginning of "Reputation," but otherwise leave that as is as well. 
*One sentence I don't like in the IA section is that about sexual abuse being tolerated by the Department. I'd like to see some evidence of that. (Physical abuse, probably; beating children wasn't seen as abuse in those days; it wasn't 'tolerated' but encouraged.) But I don't want to open a can of worms by editing that part.
George Dance (talk) 01:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'd like to write on Scott as a Confederation poet. 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Duncan Campbell Scott's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "open":
From Archibald Lampman: Search results: Archibald Lampman, Open Library, May 9, 2011.
From Bliss Carman: Search results: Bliss Carman, Open Library, Web, May 9, 2011.
From Charles G.D. Roberts: Search results=Charles G.D. Roberts, Open Library, Web, May 9, 2011.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 18:26, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Duncan Campbell Scott]] 

message: "In 1894, Scott married Belle Botsford who was a Succ..."
:Okay...
"Succ or SUCC may refer to:
* sucC RNA motif
* State-universal coupled cluster
* succ, a bijective function used in math and many programming languages
* Sydney University Cricket Club
* An Internet Meme"
:So, let's be clear: did DCS marry an "Internet Meme", a cricket club, or a bijective function? --Oop (talk) 17:47, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's a 'Succ'? 

message: Btw, the nice folks at the "Poetry Nook" have pretty much copied the whole biography from Wikipedia without a single mention they did not write it themselves: https://www.poetrynook.com/poet/duncan-campbell-scott They clearly don't have a clue about what the BY in "CC BY-SA" means. --Oop (talk) 18:14, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  A copyvio at Poetry Nook 

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