Talk:Richard Wilbur Award

Speedy deletion

This article appears to be a hoax or joke article, deliberately combining two unnotable and minor literary awards into one in order to evade WP:N and WP:RS. This is a pattern of abuse by user User:Alicb and User:Maryannz in an attempt to prop up the latter's fame as a poet through poetry-related fancruft. This conduct has been witnessed by myself and other reviewers on Wikipedia and other mirrors so I have created an account so that I can address this issue with the community. Thanks and please feel free to reach out with any questions. PoetryFan (talk) 17:57, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

I am responding to the post above. User:PoetryFan appears to have been disciplined and blocked. His post above is uncivil and libelous. The Wilbur Award is genuine, and it's of interest of the community of poets who write in form. I update it annually as new winners are announced, and I edit it, or ask others to do so, to remove errors such as the conflating of two awards with similar names, or a link to the wrong person's page. User: MaryannzMaryannz (talk) 22:31, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Just piping in to second Maryannz's comment, for whatever that's worth. The Wilbur award is real, and coveted. "PoetryFan" is probably a frustrated finalist. --MopTop (talk) 01:11, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

I just want to point out that this article hasn't actually been nominated for speedy deletion, so it's probably not in any jeopardy. There is a formal SD template (for more info see Template:Db. A cantankerous comment with an ominous heading in the article's Talk page doesn't count. Even if this article is flagged for SD, an admin would be expected to consult the Talk page before deleting. Uogbuji (talk) 05:39, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Attribution

References copied from Richard Wilbur Award to Rhina Espaillat. See former article history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:39, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

References copied from Richard Wilbur to Richard Wilbur Award See former article history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:14, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

A question

The sources say it is a "biennial" award done on even-numbered years. That includes their latest announcement. However, it looks to have been done annually. I am reporting only what I observe. I don't have an explanation. Do you? 7&6=thirteen (☎) 01:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Replying to the question above: The contest accepts entries in even numbered years. The judge selects two winners, one for the odd-numbered year immediately following, whose name is announced in the spring following the contest, and one for the even-numbered year following that. In the past, the winner for the even-numbered year was asked to keep the information confidential for a year. More recently, both winners have been announced at once. Maryannz (talk) 18:22, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Citation format

I intend to change the inline citations to WP:SFN. Per WP:CITEVAR I have to ask if anybody objects? Since I added all of these citations, I doubt it. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 01:35, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I put in three changed them all, so you can see how they look. The link to the book in the bibliography section. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:39, 27 October 2018 (UTC)