Talk:Donna Leon

message: — Preceding unsigned comment added by SolerfanMC (talk • contribs) 12:49, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

message: I've added three 'fact' tags to the article:  (1)  Barnes & Noble's DOB is given as February 28th, most other sources give her DOB as September 28th, not the 29th, (2)  there are no definitive sources anywhere that I've found in my research that entitle her to use the title "Professor" as a teacher, (3)  the HR department at UMUC (Europe) is the only definitive source that I know of for the date that she terminated her employment with them; if the author of this article has a different reference source for her termination date then it should be shown, as her termination date impacts on the substance and quality of her novels written and published subsequent to that date.
I also revised the awkward word order, punctuation, and cite location of the reference to her refusal to have her Brunetti novels published in Italy.  Note: The reference link given is just one of many utterances and different reasons she has given for doing so in the many interviews she has given to English, American, German, and Spanish interviewers.
I took the liberty of adding a link to Alan Curtis' Baroque-music/opera/period instrument orchestra "Il Complesso Barocco" in the "External Links" section of the article, since she has been underwriting that conductor's orchestra, and her financial patronage may be a significant influence on the orchestra's favoring recordings and performances of Händel's operas, a composer who she says in interviews that she greatly admires.  She is prominantly featured in several group photos on the website of that orchestra, and has written CD liner notes in recordings of opera's which Curtis' orchestra has performed.
K. Kellogg-Smith (talk) 13:41, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Fact' tags and minor edits added 

message: This is a rather private person who writes Venetian mysteries and is clever enough to make a "cottage industry" of her character Detective Brunetti, with not only the several books of mysteries but also now a Brunetti "cook book" and "A Tour of Brunetti's Venice" or, some such title as that.  What will be next?  I applaud Ms. Leon in that and I do not think everything has to be said here except the essentials as she obviously likes to live a private life style in Venice.  I think what she states in her interview is that she likes a certain amount of anonymity when she walks the streets of her home, Venice, and is therefore deliberate and cleverly vague about her life for that reason.  It is OK to speculate privately but I do not think we need to try to nail down too many facts about her in the article since she obviously does not give them. Just my opinion. Mugginsx (talk) 05:51, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: After reading a few of her novels, I personally find her anti-religious, anti-american, pro-environmental socialistic diatribes to be so prevalent as to be intrusive into the otherwise fine plots.  They are certainly unnecessary to the storyline and seem to be a personal crusade for her. Possibly why she prefers to live abroad.  Again, just my opinion. Mugginsx (talk) 10:33, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ms Leon 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In a 2013 interview published here http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/death-of-german-tourist-prompts-venice-to-consider-limits-a-921845.html  , Donna Leon stated: '"When I came to Venice in 1968, people here still went swimming in the canals," says Donna Leon. Born in the United States, Leon now lives and writes on the upper floor of a palazzo behind the church of San Canciano.'  On the neighborhood, there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Canciano,_Venice  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:244:4000:FC6:4DC5:9673:9075:3061 (talk) 18:28, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Leon's settlement in Venice (1968) 

message: This article, which should be about the author Donna Leon, is currently mostly about her creation, Guido Brunetti. The usual arrangement for articles on authors and their characters is to have separate articles on each, so I propose to move the Brunetti content here to the Guido Brunetti page and leave a summary here. I'd like to find more information about Donna Leon herself to go here, but she seems a fairly private person, so I'm not holding out much hope. Thoughts? Swanny18 (talk) 21:39, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split? 

message: extensive duplication of content. He is  a fictional figure not a RW person,   and notable  only as a character  in her novels and TV derived from them. Since he is the principal figure in the novels, the material need to be be included can not be distinguished from the general article.  DGG ( talk ) 07:06, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  What, exactly, is "real-world notability"? Mentions in the Times? Information from independent websites? Book reviews? Film reviews? Take your pick... And the argument is consistency, (ie. no double standards) not OSE. Swanny18 (talk) 19:08, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

text: Noting page move and split. Klbrain (talk) 21:09, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Guido Brunetti]] 

message: That is how the article reads, with just a sprinkling of somewhat vague information about the supposed author.
Not really justified as an encyclopaedia in its current form, though good adverting for the books and spin-offs. 86.184.178.231 (talk) 10:59, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertising copy for the novels?