Talk:Victor Ambrus

The article has multiple issues

It was tagged with an "unsourced" biography of a living person in Feb 2008. Subject definitely meets Wikipedia'sNotability guidelines but the article falls short of Wikipedia's standards. It needs expanding and the addition of reliable third-party references. I'll do what I can. He's a great artist and a classic children's illustrator.--Plad2 (talk) 22:35, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Forgot to mention that I also deleted a silly comment left here on the Talk page years ago.--Plad2 (talk) 22:36, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I added one more reference. - RepliCarter (talk) 23:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, issues, but it's no longer a Stub so I have upgraded it above.

The list of works is a "telephone book" but it omits four of the few in ISFDB including two Tolkien encyclopedias. ... (continued at #Sources) --P64 (talk) 21:11, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Works

(I have revised the a biography section heading from Bibliography to Works.)

1. The earliest listing gives publication date 1955, prior to emigration from Hungary. It fits the prose claim about "age 20", but both points need attention because the text otherwise implies that VA started his career in Britain after making a connection with Oxford U Press.

2. This LC Catalog Record shows a U.S. edition published 1963, presum. published in Britain 1962. That's title is not listed here but so early in his career that the list should be complete. (maybe a variant US title?)

--P64 (talk) 23:40, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Sources

{{Authority control}} in the article footer links LC and other catalog data.

1965, 1975a, and 1975b winners at Greenaway Medal Living Archive (2007?)

The article now gives these references for the facts that VA won the two Greenaway Medals for the three books. --not for any content, either biographical or substantial citation of his award-winning work -P64

--P64 (talk) 22:23, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Victor Ambrus at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits VA with illustrating five SpF titles (plus two covers). Only the first of five is listed here. Two of the others are 1979 and 1996 "Tolkien encyclopedias" that we list for author David Day without naming Ambrus. Both sets of listings should be revised.

--P64 (talk) 21:11, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Time Team needs update?

Today I improved the listings in sections References, Further readings, and External links (and promoted one F.r. to a Citation because it is used in a short reference). I marked {{dead}} two links to Time Team at Channel 4, one formal Reference and one External link.

It appears to me that Channel4.com has been reorganised *and* that Victor Ambrus is no longer a member of the team. Meet the Time Team (directory)

--P64 (talk) 03:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Picture

Is there not a better picture than the rather distant one which shows him 'on a Time Team shoot'? If so, that one could be moved to somewhere appropriate.

RASAM (talk) 11:26, 26 December 2015 (UTC)