Talk:Peter Watts (author)

message: Pretty sure this isn't the same Peter Watts, actually. I think this is some guy who probably set this page up either as a joke, or to prove something.62.231.137.138 (talk) 15:18, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: no joke. this is the article about the notable Canadian author. if some info here is about a different Peter Watts, please help pick it out. -- 99.233.186.4 (talk) 18:49, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Canadian one?

message: That Watts was detained at the border is fact. That section of this entry has been edited for further neutrality in hopes that the article itself won't become part of the controversy.
It will need further work concerning references and such which I'm not doing at this time because of other time constraints. And, obviously, this secton of the entry is going to change as the matter proceeds.
There is a question, however: given that the situation is ongoing should this section be be trimmed down to only a couple of lines? --Kovar (talk) 19:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think your concluding paragraph adds much, since it crosses the line a bit into Original Research (see WP:OR). I think cutting the section down to a couple of entirely factual lines is a better idea. --Pleasantville (talk) 12:53, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

text: But we're writing an encyclopedia, not a series of book-length biographies. Exact dates, name of judge ... it's almost ten times as long as the rest of the text about his personal life. I'd say it's very typical of how Wikipedia can give undue weight to events that probably should be included, but be given a few sentences at most. This isn't what defines Peter Watts. /Julle (talk) 00:20, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've begun trimming it down. I think it ought to be shorter still, though. /Julle (talk) 00:25, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And now it is, and, I would argue, the paragraph still has all the relevant information. /Julle (talk) 20:12, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Detention

message: I was just reading his short bio in Years' Best SF #15 (p.181) and it mentions that Blindsight "has, however, won multipe awards in Poland for some reason". But the pl wiki entries on him and that book mention nothing about it winning any Polish awards. Would anybody have any idea what's going on? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  16:48, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This one, for example. And this one. Ausir (talk) 04:21, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards in Poland 

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