Talk:Charles Gidley Wheeler

Comments on original article
The original article Charles Gidley Wheeler was not written by me. It remained on Wikipedia for several months with the note that it needed Wikifying. My recent changes to the article were made with this aim in mind.

As you will see, it is not true to say that all my works are self published. Only two out of the total of eight are.

I've also inserted my television credits.

I apologise for spamming. I didn't realize I was doing so!

Best regards,

Chgwheeler 10:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Reviews
Further to the above: For the last twenty years I have been aware that, because of their tendency to hint at failures of leadership among senior officers of the Royal Navy, some of my novels, particularly The Raging of the Sea, The Crying of the Wind and the self-published Jannaway's Mutiny are strongly disliked by the editors of the Naval Review and most senior officers of the Royal Navy. There's no doubt in my mind that if the article on Charles Gidley Wheeler is deleted, there will be some in the British Ministry of Defence who will see it as a tactical victory.

I'd like to add that The Raging of the Sea was favorably reviewed the New York Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and the Los Angeles Times; and Armada was favorably reviewed in The Washington Post. Chgwheeler 14:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC) Chgwheeler 14:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * If you could find verifiable sources for those reviews, you would meet Wikipedia's notability criteria under the following clause: "The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, which has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.". Linkable sources are preferred but newspaper clippings are acceptable. You could use Template:Cite news and add a sentence like "CHGW is a _________ author and _________ whose work has been acclaimed in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and the LA Times. ". If this is done, there would be no controversy over whether this article should be deleted. Regards, Skomorokh  incite  14:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)