User:Moriori/Scrapbook

Sharon Newman

I’m not sure what brought me to this article because I rarely visit fancruft, but I was horrified to see Newman was twice called a heroin (sic). So I had a closer read and decided to do a bit of tweaking, first by changing heroin to heroine.

I changed ”subsequent divorce to” Abbott to ”subsequent divorce from” Abbott. (People are divorced from someone, not to them). But it was reverted.

I changed ”she also bonda” to ”she also bonds” but it was reverted.

I changed ”take a different root” to ”take a different route” but it was reverted

I asked for definition of “she-ro” and got a not entirely satisfactory response, unreferenced, so I linked it to Wiktionary.

Most bewildering, I changed the subhead over a section ot text from ”Fugitivity and alter ego” to ”Alter ego as fugitive”. I did so to eliminate the word ”fugitivity”. My change was reverted, with an edit summary saying “Fugitivity is a word”.

So I went to the talk page of the person who passed this article GA, and asked what the word “fugitivity” meant. Despite his responses, and responses from a user who I think is showing an ownership tendency re the article, Wikipedia still does not know what the word means, and certainly does not have any sources to define it. If Wikipedia can't explain what the word means, we are failing our readers.

I’m not going to get into an edit war, so will just leave this here and think about it for a day or so before proceeding further.

WHERE POOR SAMBO LIES Full sixty Years the angry Winter's Wave   Has thundering daſhd this bleak & barren Shore Since Sambo's Head laid in this lonely Grave   Lies still & ne'er will hear their turmoil more. Full many a Sandbird chirps upon the Sod   And many a Moonlight Elfin round him trips Full many a Summer's Sunbeam warms the Clod   And many a teeming Cloud upon him drips. But still he sleeps _ till the awakening Sounds   Of the Archangel's Trump new Life impart Then the Great Judge his Approbation founds   Not on Man's Color but his_Worth of Heart James Watſon Scr.               H.Bell del. 1796