Talk:Patrick Rothfuss

message: I don't feel skilled enough editing Wikipedia articles (particularly where citations and references are concerned) to add this myself, but it seems appropriate to add to the already-existing section on Role-Playing Games that he was a special guess on the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role in 2016. Many other people who have appeared as guests on the show have it mentioned in their own Wikipedia pages. As reference, I would simply use the Youtube link for the video where he makes his guest appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpnCiF4im0
If someone else who is comfortable enough with how citations work on Wikipedia feels up to making this change, feel free to. 24.34.217.218 (talk) 18:38, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Guest appearance on Critical Role

message: This article seems to be written in a profoundly non-encyclopedic tone; it's enough to give me a hunch that it was either done by Mr. Rothfuss himself or copied from one of his author bios. This should be cleaned up and the random list of links to interviews should be replaced with a series of citations which can verify the above information. MrSmith85 05:53, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: While we may use Rothfuss's own site as a reliable source about him, 'twould help if we could bring material from other sources too. -- Avi (talk) 23:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other sources 

message: Regarding the Quill Award, there appears to be an investigation underway regarding the tactics used to get nominations and wins. Some have pointed out the Quill awards appear to no longer exist. Their official web site www.thequills.org is gone and www.quillsliteracy.org is only a placeholder page. The award appears to have only run from 2005 to 2007 and it no longer seems to exist. The problem with the Quill was anyone could vote any number of times and some of the winners appear to have conducted organized voting efforts to ensure wins. The matter is unresolved at this time but there is some speculation whether Rothfuss was one of those in inquiry. Rumormill says yes, but have to wait for offical word. Synthfin (talk) 03:52, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. Source? What official body is conducting this enquiry and where has this been reported? Are similar 'investigations' underway into the Writers of the Future Award which Rothfuss also won?--Werthead (talk) 09:24, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Rumourmill is worthless for anything, and irrespective Rothfuss passes notability through other means.  WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 14:32, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Quill Controversy

message: The "Awards and honors" section (formerly simply "Awards") contains several non-notable listings, specifically the Fantasy Literature listing and the Publishers Weekly  listing.  The Fantasy Literature entity is so non-notable that there is no Wikipedia article for it.  Hence, membership in a Fantasy Literature best-of-the-year is even less notable.  While Publishers Weekly is indeed notable, membership in their annual best-of-the-year lists does not seem to be.  I spent some time (admittedly, not an exhaustive amount of time) checking to see if the Wikipedia articles for other authors who had written a PW best-of-the-year book mentioned this PW recognition, and couldn't find any such mention.  Accordingly, I'll remove these two "honors".  --BehemothCat (talk) 22:18, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not too fussed about the removal of the Fantasy Literature mention but the Publishers Weekly honor seems legitimate. It's possible other articles don't mention it but, especially for an author with precisely one book to his credit, it seems both relevant and on point. (Oh, and "Awards and honors" is the typical name for such sections in use on at least 30,000 biographical articles.) - Dravecky (talk) 23:18, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-notable Awards and honors

message: will be removed. --Lexein (talk) 04:58, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a reason the "citation needed" tag exists, you don't *have* to be a rude, absolutist.Litch (talk) 07:33, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced claims or claims not from [[WP:RS]] 

message: Apparently the   and  parameters have been deprecated, in favor of writing about those influences, sourced from RS, in the article body. So any influences listed in the infobox won't be seen, and can be removed. --Lexein (talk) 17:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences 

message: ISFDB gives June 3. Does anyone have a source for June 6, as we say?
--P64 (talk) 17:52, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I've heard he's part-owner of a bookstore (A Room Of One's Own) in Madison. I can't seem to find this on their website or his, but I'm pretty sure it's true, as he's made an awful lot of public appearances there for someone who doesn't have a vested interest in the place (though it is a very nice bookstore, I can tell you). Can someone find a reliable source? Sumanuil (talk) 01:52, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Here’s a link.  https://madison.com/business/new-ownership-group-for-a-room-of-one-s-own/article_8f15e046-6d67-507d-9814-e259def1a69e.amp.html. Capitalismojo (talk) 14:24, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bookstore? 

message: Should this be changed? Perhaps to "philanthropist", or "internet celebrity" or something similar? The article doesn mention him having written anything in years, nor has he talked about doing so, and his own editor claims to believe he's given up entirely. It's very clear these days that his primary occupation is actually running Worldbuilders. It's true that writing is what made him famous, but we wouldn't keep "footballer" in the occupation box of a retired athelete...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.246.62 (talk) 10:30, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Occupation: Writer 

message: The infobox states that Rothfuss has a Master's Degree from Washington State University. Someone has tagged the statement with a . The bio on his own website states: "Patrick then went to grad school.  He’d rather not talk about it." It does not state that he graduated. https://www.patrickrothfuss.com/content/author.asp If there is no actual evidence that he has an M.A. this should be removed from the article.
*Looks like it is sourced now.Lulfas (talk) 00:16, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Master's Degree 

message: @ImaginesTigers Will you please explain why you removed mention of two podcasts Rothfuss started (The Story Board and Untitled Patrick Rothfuss) and his appearing on the podcast Writing Excuses (edit reason "Removing content attributed to fan sites")? Writing Excuses, for example, invites many different authors to discuss a variety of topics related to the craft of writing, so I wouldn't characterize it as a "fan site". None of the citations were being used as support for any controversial claim about Rothfuss, but merely noting that he produced a podcast or appeared as a guest on a podcast. Lee Choquette (talk) 01:25, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Podcasts removed from article 

message: curprev 09:56, 16 November 2023‎ 109.145.92.174 talk‎  21,029 bytes +3‎   Changed "ongoing" to "unfinished", since the only source we have for any continuing work on the series is Rothfuss himself, and the fact that he is unable to show people a single chapter he promised to release back in 2021 rather suggests there is no such work taking place. undo Tag: Reverted
curprev 10:08, 16 November 2023‎ Mountaincirque talk contribs‎  21,026 bytes −3‎   Restored revision 1185184607 by Melcous (talk): Let's not politicise this, the most recent source we have shows that author claims ot be working on the series, "unfinished" implies that it has been formally dropped, for which thee is no reference to support undo Tags: Twinkle Undo
The most recent source we have which isn't Rothfuss himself is his editor saying she thinks he has written nothing in years:
https://www.newsweek.com/kingkiller-chronicle-editor-believes-author-hasnt-written-anything-years-1520812 (cited as [17])
Do we consider Rothfuss' own assertions sufficient evidence in themselves? Is it standard Wikipedia policy to take people at their word regarding their own actions without any kind of substantiating proof? 109.145.92.174 (talk) 15:20, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Unfinished" versus "Ongoing"