Talk:Mike Resnick

message: I think I've posted this on another page or two but I'm not a real wikipedian and don't know how to bring it up as a general issue. I've just finished revising/correcting the Novels/Collections listings and part of that involved deleting several forthcoming works. To be encyclopedic, the articles should report facts. A forthcoming work is not a fact (except for its forthcomingness). Titles and release dates are subject to change, some books are jettisoned altogether and, frankly, it's just not very useful information even if it turns out to eventually be factual. If there's already a wiki-wide policy to include such things, then I don't agree with it, but okay (but then, at the very least, they should be marked "Title (forthcoming)"). But, if there's not, it seems to me to be a good wiki-wide policy to explicitly disallow such things. -98.69.189.127 (talk) 20:56, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct that in general we report "actual-ness" and not "forthcoming-ness". You can see more here: WP:CRYSTAL, and slightly tangential to your question, but the same sentiment applies WP:NFF. -- The Red Pen of Doom 21:30, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks for pointing me to where the general guidelines on this are specified. Good to know. -98.69.189.127 (talk) 22:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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message: , an IP address only used to edit content related to Mike Resnick, has lately been systematically removing the mention of how Mike Resnick was involved in a controversy about sexism in the SFWA. I'm asking for third opinions about whether this content should be included. I'm of the view that it should, because it is reliably sourced and relevant to Resnick's work as a writer.  Sandstein  06:09, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm a regular volunteer at the Third Opinion project. I've removed your request there because 3O says, "Before making a request here, be sure that the issue has been thoroughly discussed on the article talk page. 3O is only for assistance in resolving disagreements that have come to a standstill." Having said that, however, I'd like to take off my 3O hat and say as "just another editor" that it doesn't appear to me that the source, io9.com, in the diff you've listed above is reliable. It appears to be a self-published source where anyone can post an article and which has no significant editorial board. It especially seems SPSish in this case since the article in question was written by its Managing Editor. Since the BLP policy calls for high-quality sources, io9.com seems a little weak to me for this purpose even if it manages to slip over the line into the RS category. I'd ordinarily be inclined to remove the text immediately under WP:BLPREMOVE, but I know that you're a responsible editor and that I can depend on you to either remove it yourself, take the question to WP:RSN or WP:BLP/N for resolution, or demonstrate here that io9.com is a high-quality RS. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 15:00, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the feedback. I don't share your view, since io9 is, as a publication of Gawker Media, part of a professional media organization, indexed by Google News; and Charlie Anders is a professional writer. But... whatever.  Sandstein  19:49, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Gawker is listed at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#Gawker as not reliable, the other source wasn't actually a source (just a link to the article in question), and I'm concerned about this being defamatory as the subject is recently deceased. I've removed it for now, but we can discuss if there's disagreement. --valereee (talk) 15:02, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
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