Talk:John Brockman (literary agent)

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This article does not follow the guidelines for a biographical article. It should have a birth date, and a short summary of of the subjects accomplishments (why he is notable), followed by a more detailed sections. Sandwich Eater 16:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I suppose not so many people know that much about him, but he does look notable enough to have a page - e.g. BoingBoing has a glowing post about him at [1]... 89.102.137.90 06:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

free image

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrkbeta/3284775214/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.251.190.66 (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. Will upload. Richard001 (talk) 07:02, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does not show recent books

This article does not show recent books that John Brockman has edited:

This will make you smarter AND This explains everything — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karenkvn (talk • contribs) 14:52, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Often editor

Article should indicate when he is author, and when editor. Offhand, chronological order only within subsection of author works and within subsection of editor works will probably less laborious for users to extract role and sequence info from, than notations on each entry within the current single chronological list would. --Jerzy•t 22:19, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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