Talk:Walter DeVries

PhD
I am removing (again) from the opening sentence the "Ph.D" following the subject's name. Per WP:CREDENTIAL, "Post-nominal letters indicating academic degrees (including honorary degrees) should not be included following the subject's name in the first line". If there is some specific reason for overriding the Manual Of Style, please achieve consensus here on the talk page before reinserting it. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:25, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Promo quotes
The quotes used here about DeVries's book have no specified source, they appear to have been culled from DeVries's official biography and are thus unlikely to be an attempt at balance. (They may even be solicited quotes.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Spelling the Name of the Subject
According to the subject's own official biography (fall 2019), some of his writings, reviews of his writings by others, and himself (a personal communication, summer 2019), his name is spelled:

Walt (or Walter) de   Vries.

So I believe that Wikipedia's Manual of Style should embrace this spelling.

Dr.Bastedo (talk) 01:06, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Image of Best-Selling Book
I think this visual image should be included in the biographic essay.

"The Ticket-Splitter" (1972) by de Vries and Tarrance.

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Dr.Bastedo (talk) 01:57, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Images of a Second Book
"The Transformation of Southern Politics" (1976, 1995)

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Image of a Third Book
"Checked and Balanced: How Ticket-Splitters are Shaping the New Balance of Power in American Politics" (1998)

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