Talk:Annie Proulx

message: An encyclopedia as People Places and Things. Sad. Fifty years from now the editing of perishable stuff like this wll be enormous. The article could be reduced to 250 words and still be relevant.--Buckboard 06:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, but the information is here, so let's keep it.Dvmlny 05:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Perishable stuff

message: why this notation? logically a nation should follow  as a modifier of national idenity, no? last i looked, quebec was a province, not a sovereign nation. would it not be more appropriate to list "canadian", or "franco-canadian origins", etc.? -- Denstat 07:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this has been taken care of.Dvmlny 05:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Quebec origins?

message: Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Brokeback Mountain didn't win Best Picture! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.196.7.89 (talk) 15:26, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate the concern, but just be sure to keep it out of the article section.Dvmlny 05:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I think the whole section on the Oscars 'Dust-up' needs to be re-thought, or just excised from the article entirely.  At the moment it certainly has undue weighting for what - at least in the context of such an important writer of contemporary literature in English - is an exceedingly minor controversy.  Perhaps mention of it could be reduced to a passing reference somewhere in the body of the article, which is frankly the most coverage it deserves in an encyclopedia article. SpaceyHopper 16:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of any response, I have made the change I suggested above.  86.31.112.89 10:20, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Whether her post-Oscar's article should stay or not, the paragraph speculating on the meaning of 'heffalump' needs to go. It is pure wikieditor guessing. If someone can provide a notable source for the speculation, by all means re-include it. Ashmoo (talk) 13:31, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah.  I'm going to delete that whole section again.  It's been re-written since I last changed it, but it's still crap. SpaceyHopper (talk) 10:24, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted this section again.  It's full of opinion asides, commentary, original resource and is totally uncited.  There may be some facts in the story, but all the stuff about what it's supposed to mean is clearly some Wikipedia's editor's opinion and personal interpretation.   It does not belong on this page.  And that's before we even begin to consider whether it's notable enough to have an entire section to itself.  --Escape Orbit (Talk) 22:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I believe this section is notable because it made international news at the time, and because it was, by design, a very public statement of dissatisfaction by the author herself.  The ensuing controversy was so great that Ms. Proulx was forced to shutter her own site (this was noted on the site), and even today she continues to answer questions about the incident.  I've taken pains to cite the article in question, and could gladly scare up hundreds more clippings that make reference to this event.  Is it as important as her biography and novels?  No, but it did break through the national consciousness for several weeks and draw a line in the sand for the sensibilities of literary adaptation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.87.85.7 (talk) 11:10, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is far more neutrally phrased than previous attempts, but the fact that it is uncited remains a problem.  Clearly the opinion piece was written by Proulx, but you have provided no evidence that it caused any reaction or controversy.  If it made international news then you'll have no problem providing cites. Please do. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 11:25, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hope the recently appended citations are of some use.  The reaction in the blogosphere was explosive, but I have tried to hew toward more moderate MSM sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.87.85.7 (talk) 21:39, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Oscars Dust-up

message: There is a short story, "The Customs Lounge", by "E.A. Proulx", in the September 1963 issue of If, a science fiction magazine.  The magazine gives no biographical information.  Given the unusual name, this seems very likely to be Annie Proulx.  Does anyone have any further information about this story?  Mike Christie (talk) 14:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An ISFDB editor pointed me at a reference, so I've included the story and reffed it.  Mike Christie (talk) 21:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early story? 

message: I've cut down the section on BR Myers' attack on Proulx's work, for a few reasons.  What was there made it sound as if Myers' criticism was targeted primarily at Proulx, when in fact she was just one several writers that he attacked.  Also, to have given a whole (albeit short) paragraph to the Myers attack gives the incident an unjustified and misleading weight; Myers is not an authority on contemporary American fiction, his specialism is North Korean Studies.  Finally, this article is supposed to cover Annie Proulx; Myers and A Readers Manifesto are both fairly covered in Wikipedia articles of their own, to which this article is linked. SpaceyHopper 14:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Critics

message: The title of the article, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions, should reflect how the person is commonly referred to: 
:Generally, article naming should prefer what the greatest number of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature. 
:This is justified by the following principle: 
::The names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors, and for a general audience over specialists.
:Wikipedia determines the recognizability of a name by seeing what verifiable reliable sources in English call the subject. 
Per this Wikipedia article on Proulx, "She has written most of her stories and books simply as Annie Proulx" and she is known as such, not as "E. Annie Proulx"; therefore the title of this article is "Annie Proulx," not "E. Annie Proulx." Softlavender (talk) 03:54, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title corrected 

message: Your chance to improve this article! EAP will appear on the BBC radio programme World Book Club discussing The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. This is a page with ways to submit questions. Recording will probably take place in August or September 2008. I will add the date when when it is announced. EdQuine (talk) 12:07, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ask E. Annie Proulx your questions about ''The Shipping News''

message: How do you pronounce her name? Those symbols don't show up on my computer, so I need someone to just explain it to me using normal letters. Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 08:53, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Proo" (as in 'proof')  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.174.255.215 (talk) 03:53, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation? 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: There's a video interview with Proulx at The Wheeler CentreThe Wheeler Centre (Australia) online... she talks about Bird Cloud, the property she lives on, and some of the people who have influenced her writing.  Not sure if anyone can be bothered adding and referencing that data!  http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/annie-proulx/   202.137.76.76 (talk) 00:05, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Video interview

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 08:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography