Talk:Michael Bishop (author)

Death notification

There has been no newspaper reports of Michael Bishops death - but several close friends and family have notified Georgia SF fans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BillRitch (talk • contribs) 02:55, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

GA Failed

This article has failed the GA noms as it is not through enough and could use more details in the body of the article about the persons personal life. If you feel that this review was in error feel free to take it to WP:GA/R. Tarret 14:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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GA on hold

I liked reading it but fix up these things pls. I'll wait for 7 days.

• In Unicorn Mountain (1988): "Based upon the novel’s title and jacket art, a casual reader might have expected 1988’s Unicorn Mountain (Arbor House/Morrow) to be just another entry in the proliferating fantasy field of the Eighties." This is not a good way to explain a book

Removed Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

• Perhaps Bishop’s most critically acclaimed novel is the Nebula Award winning No Enemy But Time. perhaps is very vague

Fixed Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

• Swap all but first part of the lead with Career Highlights. that's actually ment for lead

Swapped Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

• years of book are repeated in headers and first lines on each book

Fixed Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

• Ditto with publisher details in images and first lines.

Removed details when they're referred to in the text

• In The UrNu Sequence: N.B.: The novels A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire and Under Heaven’s Bridge are only tangentially connected to the series and thus not part of the sequence proper. who thinks so? add a source.

Added source Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

• In Selected Short Fiction it became one of only a handful of genre stories to appear in the prestigious anthology series. The story might have languished in limbo, had the author not pulled its submission to Harlan Ellison’s never-published anthology The Last Dangerous Visions. POV and maybe OR or hoax.

Added source Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

• Ext. Links after sources.

Fixed Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

• Still I let off the fair use issue.

All images have the fair use license. Was anything else missing? Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Hometech (talk) 18:46, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for reading this and offering advice. If there's something else that needs work, please let me know. Thanks again. Mhhutchins (talk) 15:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Michael Bishop (author)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS): See notes on Lead below.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): See notes below on References.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects) b (focused) See notes below on Broad/Focus

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias WP:BLP:

5. It is stable.

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales) b (appropriate use with suitable captions) See notes on Images below.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

User:Hometech began a review here: Talk:Michael Bishop (author)#GA on hold but has since gone inactive. To move things along, I can help complete the review. --maclean (talk) 02:27, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Notes

• References
  • Please add the "|publisher= " field to all references.
  • Please clarify what "SFRA 2009 Program Book: 15" is referring to. What is SFRA? This is used to reference much of "Biography" but a "program book" sounds like promotional literature. Can the contents be confirmed elsewhere? or is the info exclusive to this program book?
• Images
  • There are 6 non-free images using Fair Use rationales. However, the rationales do not describe why the image is necessary — why is it important that we see the covers of some of his books? I could understand 1 such non-free image, maybe 2 if there is something important to communicate, but 6 is really pushing it.
• Lead
  • There is a significant amount of info in the lead that does not appear in the article. WP:LEAD asks that the lead summarize the article, therefore the items found in the lead should be at least be mentioned, and preferably expanded in the article. The lead sprawls over 9 short paragraphs whereas WP:LEAD states that the "lead should contain no more than four paragraphs".
• Broad/Focus
  • I don't believe this article is broad enough and is too dominated by a bibliography. While the bibliography is excellent, it could be split off onto its own article. Currently, this article has little on the man's life and much on his writing career. Can a section be provided like Influences or Style? The lead alludes to more going on his life than the article discusses.

Conclusion

I am not promoting the article to GA at this time. I acknowledge that effort has been made to reduce the number of Fair Use images and add publisher information to the references. However, there are still remaining issues. Anyone may re-nominate the article at any time, but I suggest the above issues be fully dealt with beforehand. --maclean (talk) 20:00, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah one issue is the introduction which is too long and focuses on minutiae. Seriously, do they need to list the books that he wrote introductions for, or to list all the popular magazines that he has written an article for? Angry bee (talk) 20:35, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

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Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 11:03, 18 November 2019 (UTC)