Talk:Jamaica Kincaid

message: I don't think the implication of this phrasing is that William Shawn wrote her books--it's just significant because she met her husband through her boss, who is also a literary figure of note.  Kincaid's work at the New Yorker is pretty famous (it's where she published Lucy and "Girl", for starters) and probably deserving of a whole section here.  So, I went ahead and restored the sentence.
The article could use some serious expansion, though, which might help put that factoid into more perspective; it's been on my to-do list for a long time, but I never seem to get around to it.  You up for it?  --Dvyost 20:57, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Another anon removed poor Allen from Kincaid's life, and again, pending discussion I've put him back--see above.  This article remains in bad need of expansion to put all this in perspective, but I think the key is going to be adding material rather than removing it.  --Dvyost 16:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: William Shawn

message: Why is subject person linked?  What would that article be about if it were an article?  Chick Bowen 03:37, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea; I think I'll remove it for now and then someone can relink if necessary later.  --Khazar 06:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Subject person?

message: The List of Caribbean Jews article has Jamaica Kincaid listed as a convert to Judaism. Does anyone have information confirming this? If so, it is something that is surely important enough to warrant inclusion in this article. Israelite9191 05:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conversion to Judaism?

message: The last two external links are apparently dead. They should be removed or updated, but I could not find replacements. Wilson44691 (talk) 19:39, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead links 

message: I am currently revising the entire article and will add themes and criticism and praise as sub sections under writing. Redwellie14 (talk) 16:04, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Revising Entry

message: I am adding a link to a full text version of "A Biography of a Dress". The link points to a legitimate source with full copyrights.Oddty (talk) 11:12, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  adding a full text source 

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message: Her writing has been criticized.  
* Well, gollee!  Has there ever been a writer worthy of the name who hasn't been criticized?   The substance of the criticisms is encyclopedic, but the mere fact of criticism doesn't make the grade as a stand-alone statement. --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 19:43, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
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message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. 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. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 07:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography