User talk:Amy Baily

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Bernard Bailey[edit]

Not at all — glad to try and help, and may I in turn thank you for your graciousness.

What you say certainly seems convincing, and I'm 99 percent certain that everything you say is true. I'm glad you understand the need for citations. If Bernard Baily is listed in the masthead of those magazines you mentioned, then that's citation enough to add that information (with a footnote saying so).

As for the "farm periodical" cite — that comes from Jerry Bails' Who's Who if American Comic Books, originally published when Mr. Baily was still with us, and from what I gather, much of the material in that book-set and later website came from questionnaires filled out by the living creators themselves. Certainly, the Who's Who is not infallible, so if you have the time and interest (and beware! Wikipedia editing can be addictive! :-) ), you might simply gather some published information about Mr. Baily's company — maybe there was a profile in Folio, Publisher's Weekly or a local newspaper? — and that journalistic, contemporaneous source should effectively counter the Who's Who entry. (Dr. Bails died in 2006, and the future of updates/corrections to the Who's Who is up in the air.)

I hope this helps. As it happens, I'm privileged to have originated Mr. Baily's Wikipedia entry, and though no one editor "owns" any article (see WP:OWN), I confess I take pleasure in seeing that, from apparent evidence, Mr. Baily's family has happened upon it. I'm sure you or your cousins have a scrapbook of articles and the like that could confirm hard-to-find information.

And, my Lord — I don't know why I didn't think of this before (well, I do actually ... it's because it's 2:33 a.m.!) but you and your cousins should contact editor Roy Thomas and associate editor Jim Amash at Alter Ego magazine, which specializes in interviews with classic comic-book creators. The address and phone are: 1812 Park Drive, Raleigh, NC 27605, (919) 833-8092.

I'm sure the magazine would jump at the chance to write the definitive article on the co-creator of the Spectre and the Hourman. Once your information is in (fact-checked and vetted) print, well, there you go!

Please keep me posted on any progress you or Mr. Baily's sons might have. Comic books are an important part of America's cultural history, and Alter Ego had become the single most important repository of creator and creator-family interviews. Good luck and Godspeed! --Tenebrae (talk) 06:40, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great catches...[edit]

...on the spelling. I am soooo embarrassed. Where's a proofreader when you need one? (In my defense, I was sitting in a "family house" room visiting my cancer-stricken mother in the hospital next door when I wrote the initial bio. Writing about your dad helped take my mind off things for a couple/few hours.) Hope you're well yourself. With kind regards, -- Tenebrae (talk) 14:20, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]