Talk:Ann Powers

message: Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America doesn't even get a mention in the Books section. I don't want to crap up it up with a stub that makes no sense, but it makes for a strange gap in the timeline.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.91.164.7 (talk) 01:36, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Books

message: Any idea where Powers went to university? She was in a Ph.d program at UC Berkeley, I know, dropping it to go to work for the New York Times, but what about her undergraduate work? --Calton | Talk 16:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Education

message: I am pretty sure the following part of the entry is false as the wikipedia entry on her "grandmother" doesn't add up:
Powers is the granddaughter of American actress Stephanie Powers, and appeared with her grandmother in an uncredited cameo in an episode of the ABC drama series Hart to Hart. (Getting Aweigh With Murder, Season 2, Episode 15, original air date 4/14/1981)
Pklala (talk) 22:06, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lineage

message: Hey , I can see the argument for IARing this, but since her husband's already blue-linked earlier in the body of the entry as well as (thank you) in the infobox, does he need to be a third time in the personal life section? Oh; perhaps it argues for consolidating the Early and Personal life sections (especially since latter is quite short anyhow). Then when mentioned under Career he could simply be referred to by his last name. Just a thought. I'm not fussed about it. Thanks for all your work on the entry. Innisfree987 (talk) 01:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: -- Apologies, I am not sure what IARing means. Please let me know. I guess maybe the WikiLink in the career section should go, though their work at EMP is pretty important? It seemed super odd not to have a WikiLink there in the personal life section, where I think most people would logically look and/or see it. IMO, I think Early life and education should stay how it is and not have personal life info added to it. I also do think the Personal life section can stay short and sweet, no need for consolidation really.... I was going to add more to the page maybe. Appreciate your c/e eye on this. Thanks for the thanks!!! It's much appreciated. A friend on Facebook tagged me to help Ann as she was super unhappy with the state of her entry, so she gave me a list of inaccuracies (there were a lot). Best, - Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 01:31, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh ha, ironically that's my mistake not to put a blue link on WP:IAR--"ignore all the rules"--in this case regarding the WP Manual of Style guidance that terms should typically be linked only at its first occurrence in an entry. But I agree it'd be weird not to have a link in the personal life section as well, if they remain separate! The logic for limiting links (that it distracts the reader) isn't too pressing here, I don't think. In any case, no big deal. Innisfree987 (talk) 01:47, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:   Ah, dumb me. Thanks for explaining. I have been editing for a while but I didn't know that WIKI:Rulez abbreviation for Ignore All Rules. I took out the WikiLink in the Career section so it's now just in the infobox and personal life section. Thanks again!!! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 02:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikilinks 

message: It looks like this has gone downhill since I last commented here and it doesn't look great for any of you. BrillLyle, I think it'd be best if you step away- looking quickly at your contrib history it looks like you were doing this. Rebbing- comments like this are borderline personal attacks:  and , and at a minimum baiting. I'm not even sure if at this point we're even talking about the content anymore which seems to have been resolved. jcc (tea and biscuits) 19:20, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: * Both editors have personally attacked me here. I don’t see “borderline” anything. I see full on name calling that has become very personal. And now Rebbing has followed Ca2James’ edits on the other page Now too. It’s a pattern of small-minded no benefit to editing harassment. See James Dolan (computer security expert). If I don’t speak up and defend myself then this behavior and these destructive patterns of deleting content go unchecked. I want nothing to do with either one but as it stands they seem to be following my editing. — Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 23:48, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

text: * And now Ca2James is posting on my talk page. About THIS entry. I would like this harassment to stop. They don't know what they are doing with editing, and quite frankly I do. I want this to stop. Really. How many times do I need to request they stop harassing me and move on to other work. I am working on other entries. It's unseemly, this "work" they are doing. They are refusing to stop. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 00:52, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

text: * And LEGENDARY (in his own mind) Jytdog has posted a Discretionary sanctions thing on my talk page. This is beyond harassment. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 01:37, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Let's stop this

message: My first instinct upon seeing this article, is that it should be a candidate for deletion under WP:Notability. Ann Powers is a music journalist who wrote a book or two. There are literally thousands of people like her, anything in particular that make her notable? And don't give me: "But NPR & LA Times" that's hardly notable in itself, there are thousands of journalists who have worked for either of the two without getting an article on Wikipedia.
If there isn't consensus for deletion, this article is way too long and needs to be cut down in size. Every little detail in her life isn't relevant, and frankly, as it is, the article looks like a vanity project that someone who knows Ann Powers did. 90.184.72.43 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 04:24, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Article too long/Deletion?