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It would be appreciated if readers of this talk page could take a moment to look at the article to see if it needs any attention before its main page appearance, and / or if they could add the article to their watchlist and keep an eye on edits made on April 26.
The blurb as it stands now is below:
Original Stories from Real Life is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-century British feministMary Wollstonecraft. It begins with a frame story that sketches out the education of two young girls by their maternal teacher Mrs. Mason, followed by a series of didactic tales. The book was first published by Joseph Johnson in 1788; a second, illustrated edition, with engravings (pictured) by William Blake, was released in 1791 and remained in print for around a quarter of a century. Wollstonecraft employed the then burgeoning genre of children's literature to promote the education of women and an emerging middle-class ideology. She argued that women would be able to become rational adults if they were educated properly as children, which was not a widely held belief in the 18th century, and contended that the nascent middle-class ethos was superior to the court culture represented by fairy tales and to the values of chance and luck found in chapbook stories for the poor. Wollstonecraft, in developing her own pedagogy, also responded to the works of the two most important educational theorists of the 18th century: John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (Full article...)
I wish Adrianne Wadewitz were still alive, so she would say that herself to you guys (in a much less clumsy way, sorry for my English): «Please, it's about the subjects, not about the encyclopedia itself that we write. Even less is it for our own personal fame or recognition. I wrote an article about Fanny Bullock Workman, not so much because I wanted to become famous, not so much because I wanted to promote Wikipedia, rather it was for the sake of women mountaineers, and most of all, for the sake of Fanny Bullock Workman herself». In my opinion, this is the only way this encyclopedia will build its own credibility. By representing a reference on the subjects themselves, not by representing some kind of "salon de notoriétés". If I had to vote about the deletion of an article about her, in place of Wadewitz herself, if I wanted to be as honest and faithful as I can before her memory, I think I would vote in favor of deletion. Akseli9 (talk) 20:25, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Update: The deletion discussion itself has received coverage at:
Original – 'The Impact Of Wikipedia' -- how Wikipedia works, in the voices of a few of those who make it. Produced during Wikimania 2012 by the Wikimedia Foundation for the 2012 Wikimedia fundraising campaign. Featuring Adrianne Wadewitz.
Adrianne was interviewed by the PBS Newshour at an Edit-A-Thon in March, 2014. This interview will be featured in a piece they are running about Wikipedia this coming Sunday, May 18th. The piece will also be posted online, I will add a link once it is.
Pbjamesphoto (talk) 20:57, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Runge, Laura (May 12, 2014). "Adrianne Wadewitz, 1977-2014". ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. 4 (1). ScholarCommons; University of South Florida. Retrieved May 19, 2014. On behalf of all the editors, I dedicate this issue to her memory.
Academic journal dedicated its entire issue to Wadewitz.
