Talk:John Kennedy Toole

message: Thanks,  Infrogmation. I'll refrain from the temptation to add anything to the Toole page and concentrate on expanding  Jimmie's Wikipedia page.
Art101 23:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks for your clarification 

message: I was wondering how Toole could have met up with Flannery O'Connor the night he died (in 1969) when she had died in 1964? Clearly there's something wrong.
Sontag12  —Preceding comment was added at 19:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching that! I'll go back and see where that came from. How strange. Brandoid (talk) 00:16, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a little more research. I believe that I misinterpreted a text. I have reviewed several others, and it appears that John Kennedy Toole visited the home of then deceased writer O'Connor. I will revise my addition. Brandoid (talk) 00:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Flannery O'Connor?

message: : Toole's father worked as a car salesman and mechanic before succumbing to deafness and failing health...
He succumbed to deafness? Wow, must have been a particularly malignant form of deafness.... And, if he "succumbed" to it, then "failing health" might be a bit of an understatement.... rowley (talk) 20:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Succumbing to Deafness? 

message: According to Selective Service, the Vietnam War draft lottery began in 1970.  The Korean War draft ended on 1950.  This article states that Toole was drafted in 1961, and served 2 years.  
Can you please clarify?
http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm
173.70.172.98 (talk) 06:38, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There was a peace time draft at the time; see Conscription_in_the_United_States#Cold_War_and_Korean_War. The sss link you reference is about a reinstatement of the draft lottery during Vietnam, which was to get more troops troops in addition to the already existing draft. Infrogmation (talk) 23:41, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Service 

message: Unfortunately after much work on this, myself (I was Quadzilla99) and another user have decided that due to the issues raised above, the main source used just isn't reliable enough to stand up to FAC or GA level scrutiny. I truly believe everything in here is accurate as I feel I read the book with a critical eye and left out anything which sounded like conjecture, but there's just really no way to know for sure. I'm leaving this note here in case I retire again, and someone decides to nominate the article they know to tread lightly. Hopefully a good bio comes out on him, but I don't see anything in the pipeline. AaronY (talk) 08:30, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article rating 

message: Is there a widespread consensus that the appropriate title abbreviation of A Confederacy of Dunces is
"Dunces"?  If this was customary for Toole himself, or his editors, I must agree with it. 
However, in my own personal experience, the word "Confederacy" is the appropriate abbreviation.
If there is a rule for this practice, it is apparently that the first noun in a title would be selected.
This would be Confederacy, not Dunces, and the latter occurs within a prepositional phrase.Cdg1072 (talk) 04:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviated title 

message: It appears that most of the article is based on a single source (Nevils and Hardy), which does not seem ideal. I think the article should cut down its reliance on the single source for most of its content. Shreevatsa (talk) 22:19, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Cory MacLauchlin's Butterfly in the Typewriter (2012) is mentioned in the 'External links' section but isn't used as a reference in the main text - does it contain anything that could be useful? JezGrove (talk) 23:30, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I was the main writer of the article and I don't think Butterfly in the Typewriter was available then but I have it here now and it should be used in the article. Unfortunately, I am retired now but at the time there was only one book on the topic and to write a featured article which was my goal they wanted heavy use of book sources. Failing that anyone using web sources would be helpful if they wanted to diversify the number of sources. AaronY (talk) 07:59, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Based on a single source? 

message: Has the possibility that Mr. Toole suffered from an undiagnosed brain tumor ever been mentioned?  His headaches and increasingly erratic behavior and paranoia might seem to render such possible.  The article states he refused to see a neurologist as a physician recommended.   Perhaps he had feared this possibility himself regardless if it were true and never let on. Was an autopsy performed?  Perhaps not as the cause of death was obvious so what would have been the point of exploring health concerns at that point.  In any event, a real tragedy and loss.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 23:33, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brain tumor ever considered?   

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion 

message: The phrase "... there was an openly gay contingent which flaunted their homosexuality." is pretty homophobic. Would it be better to say that they didn't hide their homosexuality? Thbpr (talk) 13:49, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word flaunt