Talk:Roland Michel Tremblay

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Notability ?[edit]

I am not sure that this biographic article meets the Wikipedia criteria of Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (people), specifically:

The person has not yet been the primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person.
The person has not yet made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in their specific field.

I also suspect that it may violate the policies found at Wikipedia:Autobiography. This could be grounds for Wikipedia:Proposed deletion. Could the editor please address these issues? Thanks --NYArtsnWords 21:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I am the author of this page. I am not that familiar about all this, however I will try to answer to the best of my abilities.

This person, Roland Michel Tremblay, has been the primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source was independent of the author. He has six books published in France by two different publishers, and none of it was vanity publishing or required any contribution from the author. These publishers are well recognised as not doing such in France.

There are many articles in mainstream magazines and newspapers both in France and in Canada about the author, however, all of them are in French. The best place to review these articles are on the author's website, where he has put them online, including a radio interview on CBC Radio-Canada, the equivalent of the BBC in Canada. From there, if you wish, you can go on and verify the legitimacy of these magazines, radio stations and newspapers, however they are all genuine and independent from the author:

http://www.anarchistecouronne.com/#articles_entrevues_medias

Roland Michel Tremblay has made a widely recognised contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in literature, in the French world, which might explain why you might not have heard of him before. The purpose of this page in English, which I have written alongside the French one, is because Roland Michel Tremblay has moved on from writing in French and now writes full time in English. The biography was taken on his website with his own permission, including the use of the photos.

His contribution in English is marked by his work on a film concerning Albert Einstein for Channel 4 in the UK (E=mc^2, The World's Most Famous Equation), and his work on the television series Strange Days at Blake Holsey High for NBC (Black Hole High). If you require proof for these, I can forward to you the scans the author provided me with about his contracts concerning these specific jobs for which he was not credited. A look at his website however should convince you that there is no doubt the author worked on these important and genuine television series and film, even, that he played a major role in the development of these projects since all his research, synopses and work as a development producer is online:

http://www.anarchistecouronne.com/workfilmtv.htm http://www.anarchistecouronne.com/references.htm

I hope I have addressed all of your concerns here, otherwise, please let me know. I can say that other concerns arise on the French page I did on the French Wikipedia website about copyrights, and yet, over there, they accepted my entry after the author himself intervened to confirm that he own all the copyrights to everything that appeared on wikipedia in French and in English, because all of it was part of his own autobiography he had written himself on his website, and also the photos which came from him and can be distributed freely in these licenses which I still understand nothing about. You can read this discussion here, hopefully your French is acceptable?

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discuter:Roland_Michel_Tremblay http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discuter:Roland_Michel_Tremblay&action=history

I hope this answers your questions. I think Roland Michel Tremblay is a well known French speaking author who has proven himself many times over, and is about to break through in English with already acceptable achievements, and he deserves to have a page on Wikipedia both in French and in English.

Regards,

Mark Tea mark.tea@virgin.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markytea (talk • contribs) 04:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]