Talk:Arthur Machen

message: and using similar plot lines most notably seen by a comparison of The Dunwich Horror to The Great God Pan.
Well, no. The only common theme is in the creation of a hybrid between humans and something else: In Dunwich, interbreeding with an alien being from another universe as a bridgehead for an invasion (or a retaking) of Earth:  in Pan, a cross with the ultimate source of life on Earth/a Nature principle, with all the unnerving  biological urgencies and atavisms that involves....  
But I can't work out a better expression at the moment, so I'm just registering disagreement with the above quote from the article. Malcolm Farmer 00:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: These infobox fields have been the topic of much negative discussion (see here, for instance), and it's been decided to omit them in a number of articles, such as the featured article J. R. R. Tolkien. I've therefore blanked the fields here, and I think a very persuasive case needs to be made before any use is made of them again. Deor (talk) 19:13, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Influences/influenced

message: I want to apologize for some accidental edit warring that I was involved in. I have been working on WP:DPL and Puritanism was one of the clean-up items. Part of my conversation with the other user can be found here. Xe7al (talk) 20:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Accidental Edit Warring

message: I've reverted the long string of edits by this IP, as they were riddled with copyvios and off-topic material, and I just don't have time at the moment to deal with the many changes one by one. For instance, in the section "The Machen Boom of the Twenties" the characterization of Far Off Things as "the first and most lyrical section of Machen's autobiographical memoir, especially beloved of those who celebrate the author as a major stylist of evocative prose. The sublime Welsh landscapes shape the childhood of the author in approved Wordsworthian fashion" was copied verbatim, with no credit or quotation marks, from this page at the Friends of Arthur Machen site, as was the characterization of The London Adventure with the sentence "Machen's final burst of autobiography abandons progressively its attempt to tell a story and becomes instead concerned with its own genesis, and with the strangeness of the universe we inhabit". A good deal of the material seems to have consituted unsourced opinions as well (unless it was copied from sources I haven't had the time to ferret out); and even if such opinions can be sourced, they may well be taken to give undue weight to certain views. If the IP wants to make changes in the article, I suggest that he or she propose or discuss them on this talk page before making such a series of numerous short edits that are difficult to unravel. Deor (talk) 19:52, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Reversion of edits by IP 220.233.86.59

message: "Machen, however, showed literary promise, publishing in 1881 a long poem "Eleusinia" on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries." 
I'm new to Wiki Editing so I hope this goes through. I just want to suggest that it'd be worthwhile to note that Eleusinia was self-published - this information can be found in any of the top biographies: Reynolds & Charlton; Sweetser; Valentine, as well as in 'Far Off Things.' Literary.elitist (talk) 19:14, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion

message: Text reinstated for popular culture reference to Machen, base on reliable citation to Los Angeles Times article.  Ordinarily, appearances in popular culture are sufficiently nontrivial to warrant mention a bio.  If there is some specific Wikipedia editing standard on triviality that is not met here, then please cite with specificity.  Otherwise, text should remain in the article.One-Off Contributor (talk) 19:17, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure that claim is verifiable, since Los Angeles Times is regarded as a WP:RS. But it sounds very trivial. Why does it not appear, where one might expect it, in the article for Afterlife with Archie? It might be quite relevant there, but I don't see how it helps us appreciate Machen himself in this article. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:10, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. This one appearance, which the source only mentions in passing, doesn't appear to rise to the level of inclusion set by WP:DUE and described by WP:IPC. Mentioning the brief appearance would be giving the impression that this series has had a significant impact on a cultural understanding of Machen, but the source doesn't really suggest that. This needs heavier sources. Grayfell (talk) 20:16, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

text: Just to clarify: The source isn't the print Los Angeles Times; it's one of the blogs (named Hero Complex) that they run on their Web site. That's not to say that it's unreliable—I'm sure that such a character actually appears in the comic. I just think that the comic appearance is utterly trivial in the context of the article on Machen (like most of the ooh-I-just-noticed-a-mention-of-this-person/place/thing-in-a-book/movie/TV-show material that populates "In popular culture" sections and articles in Wikipedia). Deor (talk) 21:00, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think leading newspapers often tend to incorporate "blog" columns, written by staff and vetted by the editor, as a way of appearing trendy. For all we know, of course, One-Off Contributor may have campaigned tirelessly for years with the writers or editor of Afterlife with Archie to  mention Machen in some way. But that doesn't really alter its triviality. It may be a surprising factoid, and I'd thank One-Off Contributor for making us all aware of it, but I still don't think it belongs in the article, especially as a ten-word single-sentence sub-section. Sorry. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:16, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
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message: Re: this large recent addition. I think it rather unbalances the article and wholly defeats the object of having a "Selected works" section. Perhaps it could be hidden under a drop down, or else moved to an article of its own? This is rather an ambitious and unprompted contribution from a seemingly brand new editor. What do other regular editors think? Martinevans123 (talk) 20:13, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The table contained a number of errors, some of the entries could only by a stretch be considered "weird", and it was not fully supported by the cited sources. I've reverted it, and its restoration should be contingent on a consensus for its inclusion here. Deor (talk) 22:37, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
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message: This seems odd and incomplete.  Is the cause of death unknown??  172.10.237.153 (talk) 00:09, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
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