Talk:Chuck Palahniuk

message: I've quick-failed an A-class review of the Biography project, because there are two fair use images without fair use rationales, and entire sections are without references. As this is sufficient to quick-fail a GA review, it must quick-fail an A-class review as well. B-class is the highest it can get for now. Errabee 13:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-class or not 

message: I've removed this entire section because A) WP discourages trivia sections, and that's what this was; and B) most of it was unreferenced—and unreferenced material may be removed at any time, per WP:V—and the references for the Panic at the Disco! material were not to a reliable source but to a discussion board. If this material is returned to the article it should be properly sourced, and, rather than just given as a list of trivia, it should be rendered in prose and integrated with the article as a whole. --ShelfSkewed Talk 12:51, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This anti-trivia Wikipedia policy is so sad. Sometimes the most interesting part of the article is in the trivia. For a long time after explicit formulation of the policy, trivia sections continued to exist, but now enlightened wikipedians are going around deleting them. Someone should start a trivipedia or a WikipediB that does not desire to emulate a print encylopedia. The last link I can find to the deleted Chuck Palahniuk trivia section contains mention of his theorey that the same laugh tracks have been used since their invention in the 50's. Perhaps trivia-section-deleting illuminati might be so kind as to give a link to the trivia section, or even allow its continuation on the talk page. I see that happening on other pages. --Timtak (talk) 03:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of "References In popular culture" section 

message: I hid the image Palahniuk_books.JPG with  tags since it was deleted from wikimedia commons. I left all the info in the page in case someone knows if the image had a copyright on it or not, as it could be reuploaded.
The image in question.
--Kevman459 (talk) 04:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: Is he really gay? Or is someone making it up?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.51.65.172 (talk) 08:03, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, he's gay.--CyberGhostface (talk) 21:57, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He talks about it briefly in a new article in the London Times, re about his never discussing his homosexuality with his father, etc. See: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4396841.ece67.142.130.49 (talk) 19:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So why isn't this discussed in the WP article?  I remember it being included about a year ago or so.  This is a really important part of who he is and I also think it's important for many other reasons as well.  And there's thousands of other WP articles on gay people that explicitly reference their homosexuality.  I plan to either add it or reverse the changes in a week or so if no one has a reason why it shouldn't be in the article. --Evolross (talk) 21:29, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no (good) reason to remove it, so by all means, add it back in.--CyberGhostface (talk) 23:27, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

text: All the information about how he was "outed" is also missing including his threatening message to the author of the magazine article that outed him.  That stuff should all be back in here and it used to be.  I'm not sure why anyone would remove that unless someone was purposely "cleansing" this article...--Evolross (talk) 18:13, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Then restore the edits if you have the proper citations.--CyberGhostface (talk) 18:55, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm glad to see that it has been restored.  However I think it should be under a "Personal Life" section and not mixed in with his career information.  Anyone opposed to that reorganization?  Most articles referring to people put this kind of information in a "Personal Life" section.Evolross (talk) 20:30, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it really has no relation to his career at large yet should definitely be included in the article. I encourage whoever knows the proper citations to make a Personal Life section and move the info there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.34.219 (talk) 01:54, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is he really homosexual? 

message: Palahniuk now looks not much like the author picture shown in the article. For Palahniuk now (he is a massive, a rather monumental bodybuilder type now), see the London Times: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4396841.ece  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.49 (talk) 19:29, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, Wikipedia's policy is that free photos must be used over fair use, no matter how out of date or poor quality said photo may be. (For example, this used to be Stan Lee's main photo before I replaced it with this.) But if you can find a free photo of Chuck Palahniuk that's better than the current one, then you should definitely replace the current one. My recommendation would be to go to Flickr and either A.) Find a suitable image that's already commons-licensed or B.) Ask the owner to release it into the public domain for Wikipedia. That's where I've gotten most of my mine from.--CyberGhostface (talk) 21:50, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Thank, that's a good pic.--CyberGhostface (talk) 19:16, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph of Author 

message: Classification of Chuck Palahniuk as a Western Philosopher seems justifiable.  Flux (talk) 07:15, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qualification of Subject 

message: My main problem with is this is that there's no balance to it. It's just negative reviews. Palahniuk isn't the literary equivalent of Gigli--he's received a number of positive reviews. I think the article would be better benefited by having the section be about critical reaction both good and bad. And before anyone says "So fix it yourself", I'm not able to for a number of reasons, so that's why the maintenance templates are there in the first place, to direct editors to them.--CyberGhostface (talk) 19:12, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've re-included the criticism section. I also spent an hour searching the internet for book reviews. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find any reviews that were positive about Palahniuk in general. Some reviews were positive about individual books, but only reviewers who hate him chose to assess his style as a whole. I will keep looking for more even handed assessments. However, if none exist, I think that is also an acceptable outcome and does not violate WP:Neutral. Some artists are generally disliked by professional critics but still have a popular following, and if this is the case with Chuck, the article should reflect that. Ashmoo (talk) 08:32, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism section 

message: My point still stands three years later. Just because nothing has been done doesn't mean that the template should be removed. The section as-is still faulty. I don't see why this article needs a section devoted to just negative reviews. It would be like making a "criticism" section for Stephen King and just posting all the negative reviews that he has received over the years. Short of him being Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, it shouldn't be impossible to write a more neutral section that focuses both on positive and negative critical reception.--CyberGhostface (talk) 00:54, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 2011

message: Okay, I've removed it for the time being as nothing has been done or discussed in the four years since I've brought it to attention. Hopefully this won't be a problem for anyone.--CyberGhostface (talk) 23:40, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 2012

message: OK, I've come back to this article after many years, and see that the criticism section is gone. I agree that being entirely focused on negative criticism is a problem, but the solution is to add more balanced criticism rather than remove it altogether. I'm going to dig up to old section and re-include unless someone gives a reasonable objection. (And hopefully balance out the criticism). Ashmoo (talk) 15:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've re-included the criticism section. I also spent an hour searching the internet for book reviews. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find any reviews that were positive about Palahniuk in general. Some reviews were positive about individual books, but only reviewers who hate him chose to assess his style as a whole. I will keep looking for more even handed assessments. However, if none exist, I think that is also an acceptable outcome and does not violate WP:Neutral. Some artists are generally disliked by professional critics but still have a popular following, and if this is the case with Chuck, the article should reflect that. Ashmoo (talk) 08:32, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: 2014

message: I cleaned up the formatting of the criticism section because as it is it's somewhat awkward and clumsy. I also re-added a passage, that Palahniuk's work has been compared to "Goosebumps for adults." I think this is relevant criticism, and anyone who knows anything about literature would agree with it. The reason that Michiko Kakutani hasn't torn any of his books apart yet is because they aren't worth a serious critic's time. Whoever keeps deleting it should provide justification.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.47.2.174 (talk) 14:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Goosebumps" comment has been removed by two different editors, most recently by me, because it was added without a supporting reference and had the appearance of being just a random potshot. If the "Goosebumps" description can be supported with a reference from a reliable source, then please provide it. I reverted the other changes you made because you took a paragraph that was directly related to the one above--the paragraph on the Salon piece, followed by Palahniuk's response to it--and moved it down so that it appeared that Palahniuk's response was to criticism in general and not to the Salon piece specifically.--ShelfSkewed Talk 14:27, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism section (2010) 

message: Is he anti-semitic? I read the first few paragraphs of this book.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.130.64 (talk) 11:05, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how you would get that impression from the first chapter of Tell-All.  Plus, you certainly can't judge a person's character from a single chapter out of his entire bibliography.  I have never gotten the feeling that he is a anti-semitic, and I've read all of his work.--–m.f (t • c) 13:08, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tell-All 

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message: I've updated the infobox image to this one (a close-up -- the previous one was 11 years old). There's also this one, which would be better if he weren't looking in a weird direction. Opening this thread because I got a couple more, um, fun? pictures but I'm not sure if they would be appropriate for the article. At his BookCon autographing booth, when fans wanted to take a photo with him, he offered to put them in a choke hold for the picture. Definitely the most unusual author-fan interaction I saw. :) one, two, three. I opted not to add them, but figured I'd leave them here should someone disagree (I don't know how the fan in the pictures is, btw). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:15, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for updating the image, I like this new one better (especially considering the age of the previous infobox photo). I have a picture of him putting me in a chokehold from an event a couple years ago, and another of us in a fighting pose. I love that he does that at events. But, I think I agree – probably not fit for this article. –  Broccoli & Coffee (Oh hai) 18:10, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Ha, I didn't know that was a regular move for him. It's a good gimmick, I guess. Not much variation among everyone else. Well, except, of course, for Mary Higgins Clark who insisted on punching people in the face while making devil horns at the camera with her other hand. <BLP compliance>this is not true</BLP compliance> — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:43, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
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message: Is the tag in the Reception and criticism section necessary? It seems to be saying that the info needs to be integrated into the rest of the page somehow ... unless I'm misreading it? I don't know, just seems like Palahniuk is definitely a contentious, controversial dude so having a separate criticism section makes sense. It speaks to a pretty widely held view of him, held by both fans and critics. Why have the tag there? Tactical Fiend (talk) 00:26, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy tag in the Reception and criticism section necessary? 

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