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Contempt of fans? what? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.236.102 (talk) 13:06, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I don't know what that's about either. I removed the unsourced text "However, her attitude towards other works in the same universe and contempt of fans have sparked controversy among certain groups in the fanbase." from the article. She's not my favorite SW author by a long shot, but I'm fairly sure this unsourced accusation butts up against libel, especially as it has implications for her livelihood. If anyone has such sourcing, please return the text and cite it properly (although I'd be surprised. I mean she's good friends with Jerry and Mike of Penny Arcade, and... I don't know I just don't think it's accurate). Knnos (talk) 12:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

She engaged in very heated debates with fans over the number of clones created http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Karen_Traviss . She states in one of her novels, there was only 3 million which is less than the number of troops involved in either side in WWII. The US alone sent 16 million troops. This ended with her deleting her entire blog from stawars.com. As of 8/08/09, she stated will never write another Star Wars novel again, ever. Due to Lucas changing back stories http://karentraviss.typepad.com/blog/2009/08/end-of-one-era-start-of-another.html . I would add this all into teh article, but I am so sick of the crazy editors here that I don't even wother. Wikipedia used to be fun, now its just facist BS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.57.96.1 (talk) 15:06, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Halo

Note: I read on a page on Halopedia that Traviss will be writting a few Halo books. 148.61.7.80 (talk) 15:28, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, same here. Source: [1] I think that should be noted somewhere. Anonymous

Why This Reference?

John Hickman. "Implacable Justice: Arguing Politics and Theories of Law via the Encounter with Powerful Alien Species." Extrapolation. (September 2007) 48(2): 302-313.

Not sure what this is doing in the reference section. Anyone know? 208.61.112.212 (talk) 04:05, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, I found a link for it: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1421/is_2_48/ai_n29374468/ I understand why it's cited now. I'm going to add the link to the reference in the article. 208.61.112.212 (talk) 16:22, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Remove Some Book Titles from Descriptive Paragraphs?

It seems like some of the book titles in the first three paragraphs (particularly in the Star Wars paragraph) aren't needed and could be more profitably replaced with descriptions of each series more broadly. Anyone object to me doing so? 208.61.112.212 (talk) 16:08, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bad Cite

Footnote Number 1: http://www.gearheadsofwar.com/

Doesn't support the sentence it is supposed to be supporting. Anyone have an actual cite? 208.61.112.212 (talk) 15:59, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Karen Traviss?

There is next to no biographical information about her: date / place of birth, education, family, etc.

Without such information this is not a biographical article. It is a publicity feature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.86.82 (talk) 04:42, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sensationalist reporting - non-reader comment

Recent addition of non-reader is born from a Youtube clip, she explains she doesn't read novels but she does read comics and primarily engages herself in visual media as a television and media writer. Including it is in poor taste and was used by Ben Kuchera to drive traffic. 0:14 - 0:55 explains this and using it out of context for defamation seems in poor taste. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sline09 (talk • contribs) 01:33, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Star Wars Retcon

At the moment the section does not reflect upon what happened very well and ignores a lot fo what she did to the Expanded Universe. The so called retcon performed by the Clone Wars series was the writers simply keeping in line with canon established prior to Traviss' editing the universe. She was known to have ignored much of the EU's canon in her novels and rewritten much of the Mandalorian history in her writings. --141.241.241.230 (talk) 12:51, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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