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Trivia and Pop sections deleted[edit]

Wikipedia guidlines discourage Trivia sections: "Avoid creating lists of miscellaneous facts". Just because someone is mentioned elsewhere is no justification for including it in an article. Articles are not supposed to be exhaustive collections of minutiae, of everything anyone can think of about a subject. Please resist the temptation. Same applies to a "Pop Culture" reference that's no less trivial. — J M Rice (talk) 16:27, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The short bibliography[edit]

I have removed the short bibliography section, because I thought the template was a more adequate and organized list.--AppaAliApsa (talk) 04:54, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I have created a Maeterlinck template, does anyone else think that the Short bibliography section of the page is necessary? --AppaAliApsa (talk) 12:47, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correction needed[edit]

"He began to study mysticism and lambasted the Catholic church in his essays for construing the history of the universe." I'm sure this can't be what the author of this article meant, but I can't work out what he did mean. Misconstruing, perhaps? Лудольф (talk) 14:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Misconstruing" is certainly possible from a grammatical point of view, and it would fit well with Maeterlinck's "lambasting" of the Catholic Church. It would be helpful if we got input from whoever added the text (sometime between January and April 2008 I think), or someone who has access to the cited source, but I reckon we can just change it. In fact, I'll do it now. Cheers, --PLUMBAGO 15:37, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Call for Contributors[edit]

You'll find some great stuff about Maeterlinck and Sam Goldwyn in Hollywood in a book of screenwriter memories, Schmucks With Underwoods. I'd do it myself but I'm marking term papers. Best, Profhum (talk) 21:05, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bit of a S..t?[edit]

Is there any more information about what became of Leblanc, the first actress? Or anything about how he responded to the accusations of plagiarism? 122.163.206.66 (talk) 07:15, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot find any reference to a reaction to the charges of plagiarism. He must have been aware of it. pietopper (talk) 16:57, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From the text I gather that Maeterlinck got the idea of his book from an article form Marais publised in the Dutch press. Is that it? If so, many people (actually, most people) would not regard that as plagiarism. If that is the case, and since no court-case was won against Maeterlinck (not even brought forward, apparently) and no one has ever heard again of that Marais, while Maeterlinck is a well established author... Wouldn't it be more sensible to downgrade a little bit the plagiarism section? It so dominates the article that it seems that's the most interesting thing about Maeterlinck. WP is an encyclopedia, not a gossip magazine, and I have never seen any encyclopedia give such prominence to these(at least dubious) claims. By the way, who's the guy providing the only quote claiming "academic plagiarism"? Never heard of him either. Is he an authority? On what, exactly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.213.205.18 (talk) 00:04, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Identifying sources[edit]

Article cites two or more quotations from a reference work given solely as 'Cole (1980)'. --Jumbolino (talk) 08:03, 7 October 2011 (UTC) From the text I gather that Maeterlinck got the idea of his book from an article form Marais publised in the Dutch press. Is that it? If so, many people (actually, most people) would not regard that as plagiarism. If that is the case, and since no court-case was won against Maeterlinck (not even brought forward, apparently) and no one has ever heard again of that Marais, while Maeterlinck is a well established author... Wouldn't it be more sensible to downgrade a little bit the plagiarism section? It so dominates the article that it seems that's the most interesting thing about Maeterlinck. WP is an encyclopedia, not a gossip magazine, and I have never seen any encyclopedia give such prominence to these(at least dubious) claims. By the way, who's the guy providing the only quote claiming "academic plagiarism"? Never heard of him either. Is he an authority? On what, exactly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.213.205.18 (talk) 00:02, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to help you here. Firstly, the texts citing "Cole (1980)' do not refer to the plagiarism allegations, but to an altogether different aspect of Maeterlinck towards the end of the article. The section of the alleged plagiarism is quite well referenced, with 5 or 6 different academics, articles, and books quoted, some of them by internationally renowned personalities such as Robert Ardrey. The plagiarism accusation does not rely on an "idea" published in an "article" in the Dutch press being stolen (although that would also be plagiarism, contrary to your assertion that "most people" would not regard it such) but on a whole natural phenomenon, published as a book (which you can buy in the original or in translation from Amazon.) The book was serialized in Dutch magazines, which is (probably) where Maeterlinck came across it. I personally own both Maeterlinck and Marais' books, and my personal opinion is that there is no doubt about the plagiarism. As for Marais being "never heard of again," well, perhaps you should read the Wikipedia article on him. He is revered as one of the most important poets, authors and thinkers in the Afrikaans language, as well as being one of the original thinkers and researchers in the science of ethology according to Robert Ardrey. It seems that there are quite a lot of people that you have "never heard of."

Having said all that, I changed the heading of the section. pietopper (talk) 14:04, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fleming?[edit]

How come he was a Fleming, being born in a French speaking family? --Jidu Boite (talk) 05:32, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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