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Reviewer: AdamBMorgan ( talk) 10:01, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
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This page should be retitled "James Whitcomb Riley (poet)" to avoid linking confusion with "James Whitcomb Riley (passenger train)," and a disambiguation page should be created. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 68.88.233.11 ( talk • contribs) 17:39, December 11, 2004
It seems this page has been vandalized. I deleted a sentence that read "Many of his phrases are present in 'yer mom's' reading of his poetry," or somesuch. I think the image has been vandalized, as well. User: GreeneC'06
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What year did Riley write this? I want to add it to the Duck test page.
It is not in these books either:
Ikip ( talk) 15:27, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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WP:COI disclosure: I'm a member of Phi Kappa Psi, as was James Whitcomb Riley. Charles Edward is currently undertaking a major revision of this page, and his excellent work suggests featured article status isn't far away. I'll leave this up to him, and the Wikipedia community as a whole, about including fraternity membership in this article. If it is decided to include this, here are some sources:
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I've removed the paragraph about "Living the life of Riley" twice. This may be true, but I can't confirm it, and the sources given are not acceptable. One was a blog, which does not meet WP:RS, and the other an encyclopedia with no publisher or page numbers given, making lookup nearly impossible. A scan of google books failed to return a result on that book. Furthermore, a search on the phrase in general finds other sources saying it is a term from the Irish-American community and "Riley" was slang for an Irishman. It denoted immigrants who found a better life in the US over that which they had in Ireland. I cannot find any connection of the term to James Whitcomb Riley. — Charles Edward ( Talk | Contribs) 14:55, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Generally speaking, there is some consensus on literature-related articles on Wikipedia that infoboxes should either not be included or remain as minimal as possible as they seek recognized status. Some examples: Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Dickinson, James Russell Lowell, William Butler Yeats, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, etc. I recommend at least simplifying it. -- Midnightdreary ( talk) 13:57, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
I have been collecting books for 30 years and have several printings of Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury. The book is dedicated to his brother John A. Riley who had passed away and been the inspiration of the work. I see no mention of him having a brother.
CharlesU ( talk) 14:33, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
How is her name correctly spelled? It currently appears both ways.
JamieMcCarthy ( talk) 04:40, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a photograph of a young(-ish) Riley in a book about the American flag over at openlibrary.org I don't know how to go through the rigamarole of dealing with rights and uploading the thing to WikiCommons, but if you are interested have a look at this page https://archive.org/stream/storyofamericanf00fall/storyofamericanf00fall#page/100/mode/2up 79.76.114.69 ( talk) 19:17, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
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