Talk:Robert Rosen (writer)

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Conflict of interest, neutrality disputed, other problems

Most of this largely uncited and unfooted article comes from editor User:Mr. Paraiso, who appears to be a single-purpose account for promoting the works of this article's subject — one of whose pseudonyms, according to this article, is "Bobby Paradise."

WP:BLP states that claims made for or by living persons must meet a very high standard of reliable sourcing and footnoting. Many of the claims in this article appear to be from personal observation, violating the policy of no original research, and is non-neutral in that is paints favorably slanted portrait of the individual BY the individual.

The conflict of interest vios aside, this article needs to be cut down immensely in order to provide only reliably sourced and footnoted facts, from third-party sources, and without the use of uncited WP:PEACOCK claims such as "best-selling." I would separate advice editor User:Mr. Paraiso to desist from seeding Wikipedia with his promotional advertising for an ostensibly upcoming book that may or may not achieve notability threshold by Wikipedia standards. Please note the Wikipedia policy WP:NOTADVERTISING. --Tenebrae (talk) 22:15, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Best-selling" status is cited on "Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon" page as follows:

Nowhere Man was a bestseller in the United States (Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2000), England (Mojo, October 2000), and Japan (Amazon.co.jp, October 2000). The book also became a media phenomenon in Latin America when Random House Mondadori brought out a Spanish-language edition in 2003. Extensive coverage and major excerpts in such publications as Proceso [1], La Jornada [2], El Universal [3], Reforma, Semana, Gatopardo, Soho [4], El Heraldo [5], El Mercurio [6], La Tercera [7], Las Últimas Noticias, and The Clinic propelled Nowhere Man to bestseller status in Mexico and Colombia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.66.21.225 (talk) 03:18, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The information about US, UK, and Japan has been added to article. Information about Latin America has not been added to avoid redundancy in Nowhere Man and Rosen articles.

Information on Rosen's testimony at the copyright infringement trial can be found in footnoted source [1] in the article "DOUBLE THEFT - ROSEN TESTIFIES". Much of this information is in "Nowhere Man," as well. Information on "Beaver Street" can be found in footnoted sources [3] and [4].