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I just copied over and edited slightly a bibliographical e-mail I sent to someone on Bismarck to help her in an assignment. Not by any means comprehensive, but it's a start. | I just copied over and edited slightly a bibliographical e-mail I sent to someone on Bismarck to help her in an assignment. Not by any means comprehensive, but it's a start. | ||
:Forgive me for being blunt, Rob, but I'm not sure that it wouldn't be better to delete this and start from scratch. It looks to me as though this article is something of a less-polished paraphrase of the wikipedia article on Bismarck. The wikipedia article isn't as bad as it might be, but it's not really very sophisticated. I actually have at hand A.J.P. Taylor's biography of Bismarck. It's not the best or most up to date biography of the man, but it's decent enough, and should be fine as the basis for a basic encyclopedia article on him. Would you mind terribly if I started over and wrote something based on that? [[User:John Kenney|John Kenney]] 01:37, 12 March 2007 (CDT) | |||
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I just copied over and edited slightly a bibliographical e-mail I sent to someone on Bismarck to help her in an assignment. Not by any means comprehensive, but it's a start.
- Forgive me for being blunt, Rob, but I'm not sure that it wouldn't be better to delete this and start from scratch. It looks to me as though this article is something of a less-polished paraphrase of the wikipedia article on Bismarck. The wikipedia article isn't as bad as it might be, but it's not really very sophisticated. I actually have at hand A.J.P. Taylor's biography of Bismarck. It's not the best or most up to date biography of the man, but it's decent enough, and should be fine as the basis for a basic encyclopedia article on him. Would you mind terribly if I started over and wrote something based on that? John Kenney 01:37, 12 March 2007 (CDT)