Talk:Ann Patchett

Date of birth
IMDB has her birthday as November 2. Donald Hosek (talk) 00:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Edits of this date
Came here for details on Commonwealth (2016), and stayed on, after finding that information, and much else, incomplete and non-encyclopedic.

In addition to copyediting (Published works list, etc.), I call attention to the following issues, having corrected them as much as I can today:
 * Repaired the lede:
 * * Added dates to the published works in the lede (and in later sections);
 * * Reordered listed works chronologically;
 * * Copied material in the lede into the main body (e.g., DOB, as per WP policy, ledes are to summarize articles, not intro new material);
 * * Checked all lede content against the body and sources, finding most needed sources, but
 * * Ultimately noted that the lede, though accurate, was not representative of the article—no bookstore, overemphasis on awards, etc.).
 * Note the sources that now appear in the lede can be removed in the re-written lede; they appear now as placeholders, to indicated which material in the lede is and is not sourced (and to make clear that the new lede must be fully sourced).


 * Fixed citations.
 * * Provided or completed a large number of missing citations, fixing many dead links, esp. for awards, because these were quickly located, and allowed me to remove most tags from the lede (Orange, PEN/Faulkner, Pushcart, Helmerich and Wellcome prize citations and dates; Guggenheim date and citation; Hart citn for "Run" NYT piece; repeat-cited Dave Weich interview; Guardian, Atlatic, and Time citations);
 * * Generally standardized citation entries, using cite book and cite journal templates;
 * * Fixed the long standing dead link to AP's personal website, and noted that this repeat cited autobiography is a non-independent, non-third-party source, and
 * * Removed IMDB as a source, and noted GoodReads as a poor source.


 * Did other miscellaneous edits:
 * * Made the Published works section heading standard, copyedited that section, and noted need for full citations in it;
 * * Moved inappropriate IMDB citation for Patron Saint of Liars to ‎External links from main body, and did the same when a second checked citation was found not to contain content supporting the sentence to which it was attached;
 * * Noted a series of cases where updating material has begun being added without sources, and placed an in-text markup note stating "PLEASE DO NOT ADD UNSOURCED MATERIAL TO THIS BLP ARTICLE."; and
 * * Otherwise made the awards entries more standard, and touched up any other non-encyclopedic aspects I came across.

FInally, I added what I perceive to be a minimal set of article tags, gathering most issues into a "Expert needed" tag (so 3-4 tags could be avoided), and specifically calling for further attention to the need for independent, third-party sources (since most bio material remains drawn from interviews and a self-published web autobiography).

Spent hours. Revert only selectively, or you will throw away much new citation material, and value added content form this scholar. Le Prof 73.211.138.148 (talk) 19:19, 14 September 2016 (UTC)


 * The link to "Commonwealth" goes the wrong place at the moment -- to the article ... about the generic term. For the intergovernmental organization, see Commonwealth of Nations. For other uses, see Commonwealth (disambiguation). I suppose someone will write an article about Patchett's book, "Commonwealth." What should that article's name be? Two sensible names might be Commonwealth (book) or Commonwealth (novel), but both of those are already taken. Le Prof, thanks for your work thus far -- if you would like to fix this, fine with me! Oaklandguy (talk) 05:56, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The link to "Commonwealth" goes the wrong place at the moment -- to the article ... about the generic term. For the intergovernmental organization, see Commonwealth of Nations. For other uses, see Commonwealth (disambiguation). I suppose someone will write an article about Patchett's book, "Commonwealth." What should that article's name be? Two sensible names might be Commonwealth (book) or Commonwealth (novel), but both of those are already taken. Le Prof, thanks for your work thus far -- if you would like to fix this, fine with me! Oaklandguy (talk) 05:56, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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Awards not yet added
Suggesting rather than adding because WP:COI I have a family connection to the author.&mdash; soupvector (talk) 01:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * 2017 election to American Academy of Arts and Letters.
 * 2020 election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

❌: I have reviewed your change carefully and I have decided that your changes wont be a major improvement to the article. many thanks Trains2050 (talk) 17:55, 9 June 2020 (UTC)