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****That website is quite a find though. I'm just looking at the "A" section [http://www.wiredforbooks.org/swaim/ here] and thinking, "oh, wow!". --[[User:NeilN|<b style="color:navy">Neil<span style="color:red">N</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:NeilN|<i style="color:blue">talk to me</i>]]</sup> 19:56, 25 May 2015 (UTC) |
****That website is quite a find though. I'm just looking at the "A" section [http://www.wiredforbooks.org/swaim/ here] and thinking, "oh, wow!". --[[User:NeilN|<b style="color:navy">Neil<span style="color:red">N</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:NeilN|<i style="color:blue">talk to me</i>]]</sup> 19:56, 25 May 2015 (UTC) |
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***** Yes, I bookmarked the site for both my Wiki-resources and for my personal browsing. There is always something to learn here - often more from editing than just from reading... [[User:Jbhunley|<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:16pt;color:#886600">J</span><span style="font-family:Lucida Calligraphy;font-size:11pt;color:#886600">bh</span>]][[User_talk:Jbhunley|<span style="color: #00888F"><sup>Talk</sup></span>]] 20:01, 25 May 2015 (UTC) |
***** Yes, I bookmarked the site for both my Wiki-resources and for my personal browsing. There is always something to learn here - often more from editing than just from reading... [[User:Jbhunley|<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:16pt;color:#886600">J</span><span style="font-family:Lucida Calligraphy;font-size:11pt;color:#886600">bh</span>]][[User_talk:Jbhunley|<span style="color: #00888F"><sup>Talk</sup></span>]] 20:01, 25 May 2015 (UTC) |
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{{ping|NeilN}} You're shifting the goal posts again. For future reference, do not condone or justify bullying, and also listen to BOTH sides of an argument.-[[User:MacRusgail|MacRùsgail]] ([[User talk:MacRusgail|talk]]) 16:57, 6 June 2015 (UTC) |
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This article has no sources and no claim of notability. I recommend that it be redirected to Walter Tevis until sources verifting notability can be found per WP:NRV. Does anyone know of any reviews of this book on or off line? All I can find about the book are comments that he "...also wrote..." it. JbhTalk 15:13, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
- Article has at least one source. I am also going to go to a print edition of "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" which is not some user edited website, to get a reference.
- Note to other users - nominator has been a persistent stalker of mine for some days now.-MacRùsgail (talk) 18:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- @MacRusgail: Enough. Read WP:HOUND. "Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles." Any more accusations of stalking and I will raise the matter at WP:ANI. --NeilN talk to me 19:15, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- @NeilN: Thank you. I spent a while writing a long reply and edit conflicted with your post. When that happens it usually means that what I had to say did not need saying at the time. JbhTalk 21:38, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- @MacRusgail: Enough. Read WP:HOUND. "Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles." Any more accusations of stalking and I will raise the matter at WP:ANI. --NeilN talk to me 19:15, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
@NeilN: "Enough. Read WP:HOUND" - Thank you, I am all too aware of "hounding" and stalking, I have been experiencing it for some weeks now, and you have done nothing whatsoever to understand my own viewpoint. Isn't it about time you did? -MacRùsgail (talk) 13:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- MacRùsgail, your viewpoint is wrong. I don't know how much more plainer I can be. --NeilN talk to me 13:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- @NeilN: - You aren't being plain here. In fact you're condoning harassment, as long as it conforms to rules that are concocted on parts of Wikipedia that most editors never see and never vote on! Following someone around is never acceptable whether on the computer or in a dark alley way. (I have had serious misgivings about this aspect of Wikipedia for a while. Basically it's a self-selecting oligarchy of people with a lot of time on their hands.) The only reason we are having this discussion on this article is because I wrote the thing and Jbhunley is following me around.
- "Any more accusations of stalking and I will raise the matter at WP:ANI" - Blame the victim mentality. I hope you never take up a legal/police role...-MacRùsgail (talk) 13:45, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Sources
The book review listed is not RS as it appears to be a blog. The publishers site has extracts from Kirkus Review, Newsweek and Publisher's Weekley. If there are published reviews to go with those extracts rather than simple comments all is good. I tried to find them but my guess is they are from the early '80s. While Tevis has written some very notable books I do not think he is notable enough that the book passes WP:NBOOKS criteria #5 but others may disagree. I suspect it is an 'also ran' compared to his other works. JbhTalk 21:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- Comment - Please double check some of the claims made in these comments. The OP has an extremely liberal notion of what constitutes a "blog".
- "I do not think he is notable enough that the book passes WP:NBOOKS " - Yes, and we know why that is. Nothing to do with the creator of the article at all.-MacRùsgail (talk) 13:26, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- Pretty clearly a personal blog and your reference for the meaning of the title was synthesis. --NeilN talk to me 13:36, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
My apologies, but The Blake Song Settings page does not look like a blog to me, otherwise I would not have included it. It is a webpage about William Blake's songs and their musical settings. I consciously avoid obvious blogs these days as references.-MacRùsgail (talk) 13:54, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- MacRùsgail, Jbh referenced the book review site as a blog - it was. The reference to The Blake Song Settings is not useful. Please read WP:SYNTH. --NeilN talk to me 14:29, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- From an uninvolved editor, this seems like a case where referencing standards have clearly become much higher than in years past. You can easily find articles similar to this on Wikipedia but the demands for newly created articles are much more strict these days. MacRùsgail has created quite a few articles and I think he is running into the demands that new articles now face in the wake of NPP, Prods and CSDs. I think NeilN is right that is probably best to work on these articles in user or draft space before moving them into article space once they are ready. Lots of folks on the new page patrol don't pay attention to articles that are a work-in-process and will tag an article for deletion as soon as it is posted. Liz Read! Talk! 17:44, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- "the demands for newly created articles are much more strict these days" - They keep on being altered one way and another in parts of Wikipedia which are not easily accessible, or even known by the bulk of editors. However, in this case it is perfectly clear that the complaint was made originally on the basis of who created it. This is basically a licensed form of vandalism. It doesn't improve or broaden Wikipedia, in fact it weakens it, through the decision of people who often have little or no knowledge of the subject in question.
- " I think NeilN is right that is probably best to work on these articles in user or draft space " - Having had a number of articles interfered with IN my user space, I tend to disagree. In fact I'm loathe to work on other articles (not all my own work) in case a certain editor decides to destroy them all.
- There is an over-reliance on Google, which apart from being run by an insidious company, leads to the regular use of on-line references, which invariably disappear after a few years, as websites do. Then we're back to square one.
- In future, I would suggest users tag articles, rather than maniacally trying to delete thousands of them without actually reading them.-MacRùsgail (talk) 16:48, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
- MacRùsgail, if your edits are disruptive, they will be "interfered" with. And I've pointed to WP:SYNTH many times now with respect to the book's title. Are you not reading the policy, not understanding how it applies, or just ignoring it? --NeilN talk to me 16:55, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Notes on sources and my edit
- Rm Worthington Library salutes Walter Tevis. There is only a bare mention of the book in this source is - "He successfully crossed genres with a handful of cherished volumes of speculative fiction - ...The Steps of the Sun ..."[1].
- Penguin Classics, Walter Tevis is a publishers biography and simply says "He wrote three more novels -- Mockingbird, The Steps of the Sun and The Queen's Gambit..." [2]. This is simply a bare mention and does not contribute to notability.
- [3] this is a "...uncut, behind-the-scenes interviews were the foundation of Don Swaim's long-running CBS Radio show, Book Beat." which seems to be a good source, I would prefer if there were some indication the interview were actually run on the show but I can not get it to play. All in all a very good find though. JbhTalk 19:22, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Jbhunley: The corresponding mp3 file available here plays. --NeilN talk to me 19:34, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- @NeilN: Thank you. Its the things right in front of me I miss :) JbhTalk 19:37, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- I do not know if I would say this contributes to notability. The interview is more about the author's use of science fiction as a narrative device and there is only about three and a half minutes (from abt 07:00-10:30) about this book, most of which is a plot summary. If there is some evidence this part of the interview was broadcast I would feel a lot better about it since it would show that what the author had to say about this book was significant and worth air time ie the definition of notability. Other's opinions may differ and I am enough on the fence that I will not argue the point if that is the case. JbhTalk 19:50, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- That website is quite a find though. I'm just looking at the "A" section here and thinking, "oh, wow!". --NeilN talk to me 19:56, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I bookmarked the site for both my Wiki-resources and for my personal browsing. There is always something to learn here - often more from editing than just from reading... JbhTalk 20:01, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- That website is quite a find though. I'm just looking at the "A" section here and thinking, "oh, wow!". --NeilN talk to me 19:56, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Jbhunley: The corresponding mp3 file available here plays. --NeilN talk to me 19:34, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
@NeilN: You're shifting the goal posts again. For future reference, do not condone or justify bullying, and also listen to BOTH sides of an argument.-MacRùsgail (talk) 16:57, 6 June 2015 (UTC)