Talk:The Gay Place

DYK Nomination
I guess the fact nothing is showing up here anymore is that the nomination was accepted, and moved from the nomination page to the backlog queue.--ubiquity (talk) 16:40, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

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"Governor Arthur Fenstemaker (Jackie Gleason) and legislator Roy Sherwood (Paul Newman) share a drink in an imaginary scene from the unmade film of The Gay Place." Uh, if it's imaginary and unmade, how do we have a photo of it? Pumpkin Sky  talk  02:38, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Fake image from a fake movie. Needs to be deleted. Pumpkin Sky  talk  02:40, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

"One of the best American political novels ever written"
I restored the sentence in the introduction on critical response to the book, removed by Zaldax (talk | contribs). This opinion is widely held, well-cited, establishes notability on what might be an obscure topic to some, and summarizes more detailed content found later in the article. According to WP:POV, "it is appropriate to note how an artist or a work has been received by prominent experts and the general public." --ubiquity (talk) 09:17, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

This is a very strong statement, though, and seeing as how this book isn't a household name I think this statement really needs more than one source. I deleted it as POV because it's easy to find a single source praising something; that's really the sort of thing that needs more than one source to back it up. If this is done, than I've no problem with it. Cheers, Zaldax (talk) 13:09, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, looking at the source, I noticed it comes from University of Texas Press, aka the publisher. Yeah, that's definitely gonna need another source.... Zaldax (talk) 13:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

I have lots of other sources, please give me a few days to find them. --ubiquity (talk) 07:55, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It didn't take me as long as I thought it would. I added seven sources, each asserting that it is one of the best political novels ever written; please let me know if you think it needs more. --ubiquity (talk) 08:30, 15 August 2012 (UTC)