Talk:Bell hooks

Additional section on hooks' Buddhist beliefs
I noticed that there is no mention of hook's buddhist beliefs and its influence on her life. I plan on fleshing out an entire section about her journey and experience with Buddhism as well as the specific influence it’s had on her life and her work. Buddhist thought has influenced and shown up in many of her academic and activist work. I will also include details of her identity as a Black Buddhist and its importance in her writing and personal life. I will use the article “bell hooks, Black Feminist Thought, and Black Buddhism: A tribute” as well as hooks' interview with Helen Tworkov from 1992 to detail hooks’ discovery and incorporation of Buddhist theories.

Beabeets (talk) 04:35, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Consistency
The article switches from referring to her as Watkins, to referring to her as hooks. It looks really sloppy and inconsistent. We need to pick one and stick to it for the whole article. Jozsefs (talk) 11:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Actually, I think the article currently does a really good job at handling her name. Both "Watkins" and "hooks" appear in both the first sentence and the infobox, as is appropriate. Otherwise, she is only referred to as Watkins in the Early Life section, with the article switching to using hooks at the point of her adoption of the pen name and then consistently using hooks after that. All this strikes me as for the best, including for readability. CAVincent (talk) 05:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Corrupted link
In citation #42 —The link to article “What bell hooks taught me” is corrupted. Mlh414 (talk) 15:24, 15 January 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ Fixed using an archive link. Thank you for reporting this. Stefen Towers among the rest!   Gab • Gruntwerk 02:26, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

"Bell hooks" or "bell hooks"
I understand the name is in lowercase. However, the image captions "bell hooks in October 2014", "bell hooks in 2009" and et cetera seem confusing.

Shouldn't "Bell" be capitalized simply because it is the first word in the sentence, regardless of stylization? — Urro[ talk ] [ edits ] ⋮ 17:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC)


 * It seems to me that her name should be in lowercase even when it starts a sentence. A lot of other writings that use her name (such as her obituaries) opt to still start sentences with an all lowercase "bell hooks". — Toothlesswalrus (talk) 21:25, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia policy as per MOS:PERSONAL is quite clear on the matter, as is long-established consensus on the pages of other persons with names stylized in all-lowercase (cf. k.d. lang, danah boyd, maia arson crimew).
 * On a more abstract note, while Wikipedia depends on reliable secondary sources for facts (e.g. "bell hooks' name is stylized in all lowercase"), attempting to make it dependent on such sources for style would be a massive headache, given the wide variety- and inconsistent usage- of standards and conventions of style. American vs English spelling conventions are quite enough without opening up equivalent headaches for capitalization, punctuation, and spacing. Anything that can be a wiki-wide standard should be, for the sake of both editor workload complexity and reader experience consistency.
 * Thepsyborg (talk) 18:18, 20 July 2024 (UTC)