Talk:Cormac McCarthy/Archive 2

Santa Fe Institute
Several times the article mentions the Santa Fe Institute without ever clarifying what is it and the nature of McCarthy's involvement with it. Kumagoro-42 01:28, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The Santa Fe Institute is an interdisciplinary think tank (research institute). I will wikilink it, and see what I can find re: his residency/involvement there. While the core group are physicists, they invite artists of various disciplines on a regular basis. Netherzone (talk) 13:40, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Year of second marriage
Is there a reason why the date of his second marriage to Annie DeLisle is stated as being 1966 in the second paragraph of the "Writing career" section, yet it is listed as 1967 in the info box and in the "Personal life:Family:Marriages" section? Netherzone (talk) 13:51, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The only source cited for this in the article has it as 1966 (and her name as Anne). Cordless Larry (talk) 14:06, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It would also be worth citing this chronology. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:09, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Cordless Larry for your quick response. I've changed the date from 1967 to 1966 in two places, and added the citation you mention (Cambridge Chronology). There may be a better place for this citation in the article - if you have any thoughts on the placement, let me know and I will make that change. Netherzone (talk) 15:05, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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Pulitzer Prize-winning as 🦚
Someone reverted my last edit of the Pulitzer Prize as “peacocking.” As I understand it, peacocking 🦚 is vague and unattributed adjectives. This is a specific, cited award and is relevant to his biography. It literally will be in the first line of his obituary when the time comes. Jenny8lee (talk) 06:38, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * No doubt it's an important achievement that should be noted in the lead, but imo it's best left out of the very first sentence. William Faulkner is not introduced as "a Nobel Prize–winning American writer"; Steven Spielberg is not introduced as "an Academy Award–winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter". "Peacocking" would not be my concern per se so much as undue emphasis. And again, to your point that it is a specific and imminently noteworthy fact about Cormac, it's not that undue. His Pulitzer Prize should be and is duly noted elsewhere in the lead—just not as the very first adjective in the article. —BLZ · talk 22:42, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Second BLZ. ~ HAL  333  00:39, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Disagree. I think it makes sense to put this in the first sentence. Josh a brewer (talk) 02:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Why? It doesn't really speak to McCarthy's accomplishment or noteworthiness, only our (subjective) ability to identify his most relatively prestigious award. It puts his reception before his work or even who he is at the most basic level. Cart before the horse. Presumes the general reader of any background or nationality will be familiar with the Pulitzer. Potentially suggests mistaken notions such as that McCarthy is a winner of multiple Pulitzer Prizes, or that there is a single "Pulitzer Prize" to be won when there are only categories of the Pulitzer Prizes. —BLZ · talk 21:10, 9 October 2021 (UTC)