Talk:R. Scott Bakker

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The author's name is R. Scott Bakker, and I don't know how to fix the error, since every page seems to link to this article. You can see the correct name in the article text - it's just the title of the article that's off now.

Page moved. Rycanada 23:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just added some more information that RSB has revealed about the Aspect-Emperor series.--Werthead 23:57, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bakker specifically created his own official forums which is called the three seas. http://forum.three-seas.com/ I have no idea why SFF is calling itself the official forums, as I thought he only had one official forum. -- Anon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.176.92 (talk) 06:10, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He has two. I believe the SFFWorld forum predates his 'official' one, and both are still in use by fans and during his periods of activity on the Internet he visits both of them.--Werthead (talk) 16:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Scott

R. Scott Bakker clearly wrote this article about himself, so I just wanted to say hi. 2601:405:4400:9420:786C:BB49:1CB0:3F2F (talk) 14:16, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bakker fans so desperate to read something new from him they attribute his wikipedia page to ole RSB. 2600:1700:DF50:D9B0:C520:FBE0:A071:7ED (talk) 17:26, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It’s true that the article seems overly positive of his ideas and work. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 17:18, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was especially nice of him to list every single one of his blog posts individually and refer to them as "philosophical essays". 2601:602:A001:17C0:68DA:973F:A4D8:40A8 (talk) 08:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

I am attempting to edit this article in good faith after independently hearing about R. Scott Bakker and finding the Wikipedia article in the state it was in. It appeared the article was written primarily by fans, and was full of external links to fanpages and interviews. I have cleaned up as much as I easily can, but I am finding it extremely difficult to find verifiable, reliable, independent sources discussing the author's works to the extent described in the article. I have not been able to find many reviews of his books outside of self-published blogs, and most of his philosophical work published in journals is uncited. Much of what I have found online about R. Scott Bakker is wholesale copy-pasting the poorly cited Wikipedia article, or is entirely in the realm of fansites and blogs. Looking for input from other editors on determining if this author meets Wiki standards for notability. Mintopop (talk) 23:53, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not logged in at the moment but I 100% agree with this estimation of this page. It does appear to mostly be a vanity project which just went unnoticed for over a decade. Each of his series appear to have their own articles, if nothing else those should be merged into this one. 2601:602:A001:17C0:68DA:973F:A4D8:40A8 (talk) 08:25, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]