User talk:Supernaut72
Sword and sorcery
[edit]Hi, Supernaut72. I see you've been having some trouble with the Sword and sorcery page. The issue is that you are saying things without support, which is not how Wikipedia works. If you want your edits to stick, you'll need to find sources that support them. Take a look at these pages for help: Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:No original research, and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and let me know if I can help you at all. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 14:51, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
- Which aspects of my edits lack objective support? This Wiki is full of unsupported, non-edifying content and uses citations from other authors instead of scholars on the subject. My edits reflect specific aspects of these stories not present in other genres of fantasy. I cant reprint the entire stories to demonstrate this.
- Every aspect of what I had posted is sefl evidently driven by the historicity of the origins of Sword and Sorcery and what specifies it as a subgenre all it's own.
- The term was coined to describe Howards unique recipe for his fantasy works, and my edits included those very aspects.
- L. Sprague De Camp and Lin Carter were critics of Howards work and shouldn't be used as references to the historocity of the origins of S&S. Not to mention thier opinions aren't scholarly.
- However, I have made contact with two scholars on this matter and I'm putting together references with nuetral citations on the matter, instead of citing authors who had financial interest in making a living off of editing Howards works, as well as pastiche literature that breaks away from historically representative aspects of the subgenre.
- This Wiki is by far the worst mess I've seen on the platform and it meeds to be rectified. Supernaut72 (talk) 15:02, 22 August 2023 (UTC)