Talk:Peter Hessler

message: Per Wikipedia guidelines, "Material that fails verification may be tagged with  or removed. Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons should be removed immediately and not tagged or moved to the talk page." I have removed the "Biography" "Career" and "links" of this page. Mr. Hessler or the fans who created this page had plenty of time and fair warning to add sources and citations to the material, but they did not, so we must follow Wikipedia rules and immediately remove the self-serving information that previously constituted a majority of this entry. As the statement below says, this was not Mr. Hessler's personal homepage and should not appear as such. External links to Hessler's speeches and book reviews were especially self-serving and do not belong on Wikipedia. None of the biographical information was sourced and appeared to be written by Hessler himself. Saying his books are "well known" in the very first paragraph of the entry without any citation to this claim was also a bit self-aggrandizing. I would have just moved this data to the talk page to be edited later, however Wikipedia rules state "not...moved to the talk page" so I did not. if someone has a problem with this, then redo the page according to Wiki standards and not just because you are a fan of Hessler's books. User:Hopechina
:I stumbled upon this article when I was patrolling recent changes, because you haven't mentioned your rationale for content removing in edit summary while removing substantial portions of the article, so I have not much to say on this problem, with the exception of following:
::a)As a biography of  living person, this article certainly should be referenced more thorouhly;
::b)Removing of large portions of fairly neutrally written text is not a way to improving article under pretension of wp:BLP policy, because informations on family life, studies and jobs, as given here, are hardly controversial or contentious in any sense.
::c)Removal of material of such kind would be possible, in my opinion, only after it fails verification.
:Removal of whole sections on Biography and Career is hardly justifiable, when not previously specifically challenged - the right way is to tag which claims in the article are supposedly contentious, and then remove them - not a wholesale blanking of section content. 
--ja_62 12:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:EL - Just trimming would be enough, perhaps, in my opinion this is not a example farm, as the links are illustrating his work as an author/pundit on China issues. As I stated previously, I just stumbled on this article by chance, when I was patrolling recent changes. (And I'm still wondering how can anyone perceive information on his private life and books he authored so dangerously contentious that only complete blanking was just enough).--ja_62 13:06, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced and poorly sourced material removed

message: Sorry, but this entire Wikipedia entry reads like Hessler's own personal web page or some fan's blog rather than an encyclopedia. There is one single source cited for the entire entry!  It's loaded with external links.  There are so many other violations of Wiki guidelines it's not funny.  Look at the number of editors who keep this page updated, yet not one of them has pointed this out. Clearly they are fans.  I propose either the people who created this page (Hessler himself?) get back here and add inline footnotes and parenthetical references, or trimming the Hessler page down to what is sourceable.  The same for his wife's page (which I personally don't think should even be on Wikipedia just because she is Hessler's wife and has published one book). In the meantime, I have added Refimprove and No footnotes banners. Oh0000 (talk) 07:46, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this Peter Hessler's personal web page?

message: As of 2006, he is working on another book about the rural villages and factories in China.
Does anyone have any evidence of this?  I've actually heard Hessler speak in person twice, and the last time I heard him (spring 2006), he was saying that he thought he would be leaving China fairly soon to move to a different part of the world (I believe he mentioned India) and start writing there.  I don't doubt that he might have changed his mind but a citation for this is needed.  Terence7 00:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, since I have reason to believe this sentence is false, I'm removing it until someone can find a citation. Terence7 06:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I've seen the article, and at its conclusion he does indicate that he is flying back to the U.S. (though he doesn't specify why or for how long).  He has another article in the New Yorker of 28 March 2008, which would seem to indicate that he has not actually moved out of China. Terence7 (talk) 04:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Future plans?

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