Talk:Author

Deep linking to an authors books

I'm not sure the convention for pages in author are where this would be discussed, but what is the policy about adding deeplinks to an authors books on online bookstores? I was interested in adding this to an authors page, but opted not to without knowing what the wiki convention is. Does anyone have any feedback on this issue?---- {{unreferenced}} If someone knowable has some spare time: Please insert a paragraph on the notion of "corporate authorship". Tipically in the U.S., they use the term "work for hire" (USPTO). What does it exactly mean? - Does it apply only when there are employment contracts, or does it apply also for mandated work?

Another term, someone could elaborate on is "collective authorship". Thanks.

Means that work done while working for others (you may even have not been asked to do it) or during a time-frame you were paid to work for others (if no restrictions were stipulated on a contract) belongs to the one that has paid you.

Collective authorship of a work means that the work belongs to more than one author.

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I don't know who you are 209.105.200.36, and I don't mind changing from List of novelists to authors (not that it is worth the trouble), but it it totally uncalled for to remove all the one-line comments and I am going to put every one of them back. What you have done is damn near vandalism.

I'll type them all in if I have to, but I'd rather just go back to a previous version. Ortolan88 19:37 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)

Please check the article now to make sure I restored the version you speak of. I am checking now to make sure no valid edits were made to the "authors" version. --mav

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209, This is much better. In fact, it is excellent! I do think the lists on the list should be named list of biographers not biographers, but otherwise this is a great start on what I was just talking about in a long comment in Talk:List of novelists. Please take a look, and join in an effort to get all the names on all the right lists. Ortolan88 09:21 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)

Good work and cooperation! Need help. There is a great list of "Poets" showing by country etc., far better than what I have under "Authors". Can't figure out how to get rid of mine and connect to this really good list. Also, maybe it should be called "Lists of notable or noteworthy or famous or something" to avoid overload.

There are lots of articles that say things like Robert Frost poet, so we want to keep a page that will pick them up. It seems to me that here is what we could do at that point:

1. Keep the page Poet and use it to define what a poet is, does, how they are different from other kinds of writers.
2. Perhaps also put some of the very best, known all over the world, poets on that page by name.
3. Put the rest of the poets on List of poets, and then subdivide that list into List of Persian poets, List of imagist poets, whatever.

Something like that. Ortolan88 10:50 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)

I shifted some things in "Poets". See if this works or improve on it.

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As Author (also by 209.105.200.xxx) included a longer list,

• I redirected List of authors to Author and
• moved Talk:List of authors to Talk:Authors

Docu 07:20 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)

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Correction

It appears that this page claims that Bob and George had the first author character. This is a very common misconception. The first author character was in Neglected Mario Characters. I'm going to correct this. -Sprited Spheniscidae

Fallacy

The information contained on this page concerning the New Criticism is incorrect; New Criticism is actually quite the opposite of what is here presented, the Death of the Author is actually a similar view to many of the New Criticism.

On "Fallacy" and Addition

I agree that the statement on New Criticism's view of authorship is wholly inaccurate (we might cite the New Critical discussion of "the intentional fallacy," which already has an entry), but I don't think Barthes's views in "Death of the Author" resemble the views of the New Critics. Barthes's views are much closer, it seems to me, to post-New Critical views, particularly structuralism and reader response criticism. Also, I think it's important to point out that "author" is not applied solely to literature. For example, there might be a meaningful link from this article to the entry "auteur theory". Jk180 21:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC) 5ljsfgs

Pseudonyms

It would be useful to further comment on authorship with regards to the use of pseudonyms. An important question in that field would be, how the adoption of a (non-narrator) persona by a writer affects the authorship of his/her text: Is a person writing once under his/her real name and once under an adopted name still the same author; or is it two different authors that are writing and just happen to spring from the same person?

On rhetoric

The lengthy middle section on Barthes & Foucault's ideas seems geared towards a specialist audience already steeped in the rhetoric of deconstruction and literary theory. Oughtn't it be revised for a general readership? Also, what about the counter-reaction of those who oppose the 'Death of the Author' theory? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.9.8.150 (talk) 05:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Author/Writer different?

Heard that Author is one who gets published and paid for it! While writer doesnt. Is this true? Thanks!(DatedbmeforfilesPMThur.Aug20,20092stcent.Dr.Edson Andre' Johnson D.D.ULC"X")SoCalKid (talk) 18:34, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Wages

Packaging Companies make the statement that authors don't get paid wages false. Shouldn't this be mentioned? I'm not sure how valuable the wages section is at all to this article. I'd vote to remove it.AnjouRd