[Vwoolf] woolf in wikipedia

[Margaret Tudeau]

Dear all,

I have recently signed up to the list at the suggestion of Stuart (Clarke). I'd like to propose a collective project to check and correct the (very many) references to Woolf in Wikipedia articles. This idea came to me after I stumbled across a glaring (and inexplicable) error in a footnote (currently note 3) to the article on 'Ellipsis'. This prompted me to do some research into the phenomenon in Woolf who may have been the first to use the verbal form 'dot, dot, dot' in a fiction. In due course I will correct this error. In the meantime I would appreciate feedback on the idea of a crowd searching by, and via the list, to make sure the Wikipedia references to Woolf are correct. After all, for better or worse, students use Wikipedia all the time. Indeed, it was thanks to a student essay that I came across the above mentioned error....:)


Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Professor of English Literature 
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
mtudeau at fastmail.fm