Talk:Darwin Porter

Multiple issues
Can someone please point out a few of the multiple issues, so I can try fixing them? Thanks heaps Yagsian Asked (talk) 11:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Quote attribution
I have moved here, this sentence, which I find is not sufficiently sourced. Please specify the exact source, publisher, year, full name of author, title and page where this quote exists: According to James Kirkwood, Jr., co-author of A Chorus Line, "Darwin Porter writes with an incredible understanding of the milieu - hot enough to singe the wings off any butterfly!"
 * Quoted in Darwin Porter, Butterflies in Heat (1997 edition), p.1. Onefortyone (talk) 22:34, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Veracity
Some of Porter's claims appear to have been questioned. e.g. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1367265/Frankly-dears-I-dont-believe-word-DAMN-YOU-SCARLETT-OHARA-THE-PRIVATE-LIVES-OF-VIVIEN-LEIGH-AND-LAURENCE-OLIVIER-BY-DARWIN-PORTER--ROY-MOSELEY.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2943309/Rampant-Ronald-Reagan-Former-president-ladies-man-Hollywood-days-new-book-lays-save-affairs-stars-Doris-Day-Lana-Turner-Monroe.html. A 'Criticism' section has therefore been added to the article. Engleham (talk) 08:24, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Someone has confused the Criticsm section of the article with Critical Reception, and added long reviews of specific books, which I think is not the point of the section. Instead it should focus on instances of real criticism to the author which, I believe is mostly about the veracity of their claims. Jcnegron (talk) 06:47, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

So many issues
This reads more like the author's personal website and not a Wiki article. 2603:8001:2A00:7428:C5CD:6449:56ED:A72E (talk) 12:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Is this paid content? How is a virtual PR piece like this tolerated?
Darwin Porter's "biographies" of celebrities are a joke. Something like "Brando Unzipped" is obviously made up, created from bits and pieces of other biographies and fictionalized, with fake dialogue. How is this not mentioned? Is this paid for content? This is mind-boggling.Montju (talk) 05:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)