i agree with your assessment of the austen article obviously i was planning to do just what you did when i got to my dissertation chapter on austen however i recommend that when the article is complete that you post a message to the talk page of the jane austen article and ask people to comment on your page and invite them to improve it replacing the whole page might not be viewed as being bold but as a unilateral assertion of authorship i know that you have no such intention i am just letting you know what might happen if you did that wikipedia is supposed to work by consensus this is sometimes effective and sometimes not so it is often a good idea to solicit consensus to head off any edit wars janeites can be possessive and dogmatic talk i will do a little peer review of the life works criticism section on the talk page of your draft i think it would be a good idea to post your initial outline for the page that way the material i add will not have to be reorganized later hopefully talk let me say how happy i am to find someone writing such a thoughtful and thorough page it is rare for literature articles around here also if you want to work on samuel johnson together sometime in the future please let me know i belong to an eighteenth century listserv for academics and that article in particular has been cited on the listserv as representative of the problems with wikipedia since i am not a johnson expert i have not tried to tackle it yet but i think that if we work together we could do a good job i also know someone else that might want to work on that page talk request i hate to bother you as i'm sure you are quite busy with your dissertation etc but i'm in need of someone to copyedit an article that i am hoping to bring to fac in the near future i have been working on battle of arras for some time now and am relatively satisified that it meets the other criteria but it desperately needs a thorough copyedit and i was hoping you would oblige of course i understand that you may not have time and won't be put out if you have to decline although if you could recommend someone else for the job that would be helpful as well thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide if you can give me a few days i can do it talk