Talk:Nick Laird

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"The couple have lived in Monti, Rome, Italy, from November 2006 to 2007" ?

This a) uses the wrong tense (it should be just "lived") and b) the dates make no sense. If they lived there from November to January the following year, for instance, that could be as little as 32 days and would constitute nothing more than a long holiday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.33.226.247 (talk) 20:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Why is there a Wikipedia entry on such a minor writer?

This guy sounds like an upperclass british twit with good connections(famous girlfriend)..

A lot of this stuff sounds like a vanity write-up..God save art if we end up giving such self-important douchebags the attention they so crave...Wikipedia is now just a tool of the Man.

Two last paras sound suspiciously like pasted-in blurb... ZephyrAnycon 00:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't realize that's something new to Wikipedia.

72.80.103.145 02:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He's a notable writer, married to an even more notable writer, your incoherent, misspelled tirade notwithstanding.

Ruthfulbarbarity 17:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zadie Smith is his wife not his girlfriend. No reference is made to his social class... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.210.187.186 (talk) 16:50:06, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

Nick Laird is one of the most talented young writers out of Ireland in the last 10 years. His book of poetry won the prestigious Irish Rooney Prize. This is a small island who has produced some of the greatest writers in the English language, and 4 nobel prize winners in literature, excluding the genius Joyce who amazingly never won it. So if Laird is rated highly in Irish literary circles then he's worthy of Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.107.125.40 (talk) 04:21, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Laird treats meeting a "black person" as an important event. This shows how clever the stupid drool is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.251.193 (talk) 14:35, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't care who has won the stupid Nobel prize or about stupid novels generally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.251.193 (talk) 15:32, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:51, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]