Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Authors

Requests
This article needs disamb. for almost every name. Please edit when you find the time. -- Simonides 02:51, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Suspension
Came across this on the WikiMoney page and thought it sounded interesting. I do a lot of work on articles about Irish authors and wondered where you saw this going? Please clarify the aims of the project here if you have time. Filiocht 08:25, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Sorry I took so long to reply! I created this list a long time ago when I was trying to create a comprehensive list of "famous" (the meaning being very broad here) writers and works from every continent; needless to say I gave up because it seemed trivializing, futile, endless and so on... but if you wish to revive it, I would be happy to hear about any comments you have and any additions you want to make. Cheers! -- Simonides 21:40, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Biography portal
I've created Wikiportal/Biography to see if anyone else thinks it's a good idea and would be willing to participate. It's still just a rough sketch of an idea. Matt 01:07, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[[John Dufresne
Could use some help on this article. Thanks--Beth Wellington 23:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Content removal
This was taken from the page. Not sure this content applies to this topic (looks like translation) but I've moved it here just to be on the safe side. --Cabiria 06:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Danilo Angrimani Nephew is author of books Nicola, a romance transgênero; Espreme that leaves blood - a study on the sensationalism in the press, having as object the periodical Popular Notice; e Vila Clementino, a monograph on the history of a quarter. Grandson of Italian immigrants, been born in São Paulo, Danilo studied in flat colleges, supported repressive professors and had to learn useless substances, as the periodic table, trigonometry and the theorems (of Tales, of Pitágoras). Of good, he is that at this time he could play ball in fertile valley field, take a walk of bicycle and learn to namorar. Adult, worked in mediocre jobs and was using of the impersonal environment of the motels (Henry Miller comforted it in this time). He survived to the military dictatorship (“the imagination to the power”, Danny le Rouge). He walked of motion. He swam in river. He slid in waterfall. He was vegetarian, orientalista and coattailer (Herman Hesse, Mahatma Gandhi and “Hair” are of this time). He travelled of airplane (of this time, not of hitchhiking). He saw the pictures (“Paris is a Party”). He turned reporter (because of Hamilton Ribeiro and of the magazine “Reality”), and professor. He made mestrado and doutorado (School of Frankfurt… Adornment, Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin). He feels homesicknesses of Michel Maffesoli and anfiteatro Émile Durkheim of the Sorbonne. Mainly of that coffee, in the Quartier Latin, where he could sit down to the side of Jean Baudrillard. She likes the nature, as Thoreau, but it seems to each more aseptic or distant day. She prefers silence the noise; the acolhedora hut to the ostentation of the cold palace. It dreams in knowing Vicenza, to discover why its grandmothers had run away from there. It would like to have known Freud. Pressente that literature still has the force of a brick and waits to use it to crash the show window of the sorts. At night in the dark one, when it feels fear, it would like to pray. But it forgot the letter.

Suggestion
Maybe, like the Chemistry WikiProject, we could try using an importance scale and a quality scale to indicate what needs to be done and what articles are most important to get right. Ie. WikiProject Chemicals/Assessment? Ben davison 23:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup of Category:French writers
I have begun an extensive cleanup of the category to try and keep the number of entries in there reasonable. I'm not sure how many people actually watch this talk page but I could use some help and guidance with regards to subcats. Pascal.Tesson 05:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Max Weber
Max Weber is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 14:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Invitation
Hello! the Biography WikiProject has been reorganized and we wanted to see if you guys were interested in merging with us? We've reorganized it so that it's more like the Military history project with task forces for the specialized areas. One of the task forces we though we'd create would be Writers-- by merging with us and becoming a task force, you wouldn't lose anything! You'd keep your same page here, it would just be redirected to Writers task force (which we'd create) and you would continue as before, except that instead you'd also gain the benefits of being part of a larger project. We would give you a parameter to our Project banner (writers-task-force=yes) and a note would appear that says the article is a part of that task force (see example on military history article), plus having peer reviews and collaborations, and being able to grade articles by class and importance so that the articles can be part of the WP:1.0 project and much more... Let me know what you think! plange 17:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * In case anyone wanders in here, you're welcome to join the Arts and Entertainment work group over at WikiProject Biography. Here is the Writers area there. plange 02:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Article Creation and Improvement Drive
Aleksandr Pushkin, Mark Twain and Jane Austen have been nominated for collaboration in the Article Creation and Improvement Drive. Errabee 09:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Members
Hello. Just to let everyone know, this project, to ensure that it not be mistakenly deleted, has to have a listing of active members. Right now, it doesn't. I have added a members section to the main project page. Please add your name to it if you consider yourself a member of this project. Thank you. Badbilltucker 20:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

James Joyce
James Joyce is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy (Talk) 21:46, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Aaron Sorkin article over at FAR needs reviewers
Hello all. Would any of you mind reviewing the Aaron Sorkin article over at FAC? It's an excellent article about Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and might give some of you ideas on how to improve other articles on authors. So if you have the time come on over and do a peer review. Thanks.-BiancaOfHell 11:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Robyn Young Request
Could someone create a page for the author Robyn Young. Her site is found here http://www.robynyoung.com/index.html

Thanks Salavat 15:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Request for comment on Biographies of living people
Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
 * 1) supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
 * 2) opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced article if they are not sourced, so your project may want to pursue the projects below.

Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people
If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here
 * List of cleanup articles for your project

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

Ikip 02:11, 26 January 2010 (UTC)