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The problem is one of self-advertisement, a perennial problem with Wikipedia. As it is, there is a constant flow of self-aggrandizement by publicity hogs who just want to see themselves listed as the hottest of hot patooties in whatever section of the universe they infest. As a result, more moderate Wiki editors than SlimVirgin have long since set up principles of which you have run afoul:
1) articles about a person should not be written by that person or their close friends and associates, not should articles about a project be written by principals in said project
2) as a rule, anything published or edited by the subject of the article is considered suspect as a source of information and not a valuable measure of notability or significance
I've just created an NYRSF Index page
I created a page on this site to host the (rather large, cumberbersome) NYRSF index, carefully maintained by the marvelous Eugene Surowitz. What we have indexed is about 4.3 million words of science fiction criticism and reviews not on the web. (I need to go into the main NYRSF site and make a l...
The Wikipedia style is not in harmony with your goals here. Literary characterization, however much you or I might relish it, is part of the deprecated Original Research (a Wiki-NoNo). The nominal collective goal of the Wiki project, for better or worse, is encyclopedic material, presented in a neutral and non-judgmental style, made up of information extracted from previously published works and backed by cites from neutral, preferably peer-reviewed, sources.
How to Write an Author Bio: A Tutorial for Wikipedians & Others
We write three kinds of author bios in this household: short story introductions for year's best collections (which have tight wordage constraints); longer author notes for our larger historical anthologies. (A complete set of our author bios from The Ascent of Wonder is available online.) Th...
These things can be seductive timewasters, ain'a? I come out as Brunner, which suits me fine (outside of our respective religious opinions, anyway). I should only be so good a writer!
So I took the Which SF Writer Are You Quiz . . .
And it tells me that I'm Benford, which is interesting, because he's a good friend of ours and calls a lot just to chat about life and the state of the world. Actually, in terms of personality quirks, I can see a certain resemblance between Benford and I, particularly in the department of a cer...
I edit Wikipedia and add cites to printed materials all the time. I think you just ran into some morons.
Has Wikipedia Declared the Death of Print?
So, the story continues. . . . After the initial shock of encountering what goes by the name of editing at Wikipedia, and formulating my plan to reinstate the SF author bios on ISFDB because the Wikipedia editors actively discourage those with expertise from contributing, I had some further di...
Such a delightful change from the Darrell Sweets of the fantasy universe.
A really terrific David Bowers cover for our Year's Best Fantasy 6, forthcoming from Tachyon
We are delighted with the cover and are very please that Jacob Weisman exerted the effort to get such a nice cover painting and good design. (David Bowers' web site is at www.dmbowers.com.)
Damn! 92 is too young. Express my sympathies to David (though I doubt he remembers me).
Sad News
Friday, David's mother, Constance Nash Hartwell, suffered a severe stroke. She turned 92 in September. Whatever happens from here, it's pretty clear that the person we knew isn't coming back. I have set up a Flickr photo set for pictures of her. If you have pictures you would like to contribu...
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