Talk:Ann Patchett

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Date of birth

IMDB has her birthday as November 2. Donald Hosek (talk) 00:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

External Links

Is a link to Byliner.com inappropriate? It's a collection of links to works by the author, all of which are online, and free. I looked over the submission guidelines, and I'm not sure which rule the link violates. It's a private company, but it's a well-maintained collection and it's directly relevant to the author because it's her work. I'm new at this, so that may not be right, but seems like a good link. Pocushocus (talk) 18:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a good link. See the the linking policy, WP:EL for starters. There's no effective difference between linking to it and linking to on-line bookstores such as Amazon or B&N. If we allowed this type of link, every article would be full of dozens to hundreds of links to affiliate marketers, who would war amongst themselves for placement. Studerby (talk) 23:02, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

Patchett wrote a memoir, entitled The Getaway Car, and published it electronically in 2011. Doesn't it belong in her bibliography? I understand that it's not as long as a full book, but it's much longer than a magazine feature, and it was published individually, albeit as an ebook. Pocushocus (talk) 18:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edits of this date

Came here for details on Commonwealth (2016), and stayed on, after finding that information, and much else, incomplete and non-encyclopedic.

In addition to copyediting (Published works list, etc.), I call attention to the following issues, having corrected them as much as I can today:

Repaired the lede:

* Added dates to the published works in the lede (and in later sections);

* Reordered listed works chronologically;

* Copied material in the lede into the main body (e.g., DOB, as per WP policy, ledes are to summarize articles, not intro new material);

* Checked all lede content against the body and sources, finding most needed sources, but

* Ultimately noted that the lede, though accurate, was not representative of the article—no bookstore, overemphasis on awards, etc.).

Note the sources that now appear in the lede can be removed in the re-written lede; they appear now as placeholders, to indicated which material in the lede is and is not sourced (and to make clear that the new lede must be fully sourced).

Fixed citations.

* Provided or completed a large number of missing citations, fixing many dead links, esp. for awards, because these were quickly located, and allowed me to remove most tags from the lede (Orange, PEN/Faulkner, Pushcart, Helmerich and Wellcome prize citations and dates; Guggenheim date and citation; Hart citn for "Run" NYT piece; repeat-cited Dave Weich interview; Guardian, Atlatic, and Time citations);

* Generally standardized citation entries, using cite book and cite journal templates;

* Fixed the long standing dead link to AP's personal website, and noted that this repeat cited autobiography is a non-independent, non-third-party source, and

* Removed IMDB as a source, and noted GoodReads as a poor source.

Did other miscellaneous edits:

* Made the Published works section heading standard, copyedited that section, and noted need for full citations in it;

* Moved inappropriate IMDB citation for Patron Saint of Liars to ‎External links from main body, and did the same when a second checked citation was found not to contain content supporting the sentence to which it was attached;

* Noted a series of cases where updating material has begun being added without sources, and placed an in-text markup note stating "PLEASE DO NOT ADD UNSOURCED MATERIAL TO THIS BLP ARTICLE."; and

* Otherwise made the awards entries more standard, and touched up any other non-encyclopedic aspects I came across.

FInally, I added what I perceive to be a minimal set of article tags, gathering most issues into a "Expert needed" tag (so 3-4 tags could be avoided), and specifically calling for further attention to the need for independent, third-party sources (since most bio material remains drawn from interviews and a self-published web autobiography).

Spent hours. Revert only selectively, or you will throw away much new citation material, and value added content form this scholar. Le Prof 73.211.138.148 (talk) 19:19, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]