Talk:Mario Vargas Llosa

message: Congratulations and thanks to everyone who has helped in bringing this article up to FA status.  It's a real achievement.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm confused here. I see many editors chalking up this as another FA (and it should be), but I haven't seen any edits yet to suggest it has finally been approved. Once such edits are in place, please link them. Many thanks, Geometry guy 23:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're just not looking in the right place. Look at WP:FA! Or see this recent change: . Wrad (talk) 23:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Lincolnchan98 (talk) 00:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yay! Congratulations to the amazing editors who have made this into such a great article! I am really personally glad about this one (which is why I wanted to be sure above, sorry for the hesitation): it is extraordinary to produce an FA biography on a famous author in so little time. Massive kudos to the MMM project for making it happen. Geometry guy 00:48, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

text: And so you should be happy, Lincolnchan98!!  :)  You did a great job here.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 00:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Excellent work, guys! Biographies can be really difficult to get through FAC, and you did a wonderful job in a short amount of time. Karanacs (talk) 01:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Pile on congratulations! Wonderful work, all! Awadewit (talk) 01:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulations Lincolnchan98 and all the other editors! I must admit, I was constantly watching this page to see who reached FA first. hehehehe. Either way...we all got there in the end! Congratulations! Carlaty (talk) 23:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Congrats on the FA, one of the things Wikipedia could improve is on world literature. (Just look at the pages for Vargas Llosa's majork works Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.208.184.46 (talk) 10:56, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congratulations and thanks!! 

message: Is there any way to change the colour of the infobox from green to something else? I was looking at some of the other articles and they have gray ones. The green looked nice when it was a GA but now it's an FA! Lincolnchan98 (talk) 07:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *The infobox color is chosen by the pre-determined template. As far as I know, it is not possible to change it without changing all of the infoboxes in that series. (Another reason to dispense with the infobox!) Awadewit (talk) 13:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox

message: The first paragraph of the lead section currently states that Vargas Llosa is considered one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and world-wide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. At the same time, the third paragraph of the lead mentions that Vargas Llosa is considered one of the major Latin American writers of all time, alongside other greats such as Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, and Carlos Fuentes.. It seems to me that this second assertion is redundant as it makes a similar claim to the one in the first paragraph; it even uses the same source as a reference. I think the above alluded sentence should be deleted or merged into the first paragraph. To compensate for this deletion it might be a good idea to merge the third and fourth paragraphs. --Victor12 (talk) 12:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and have edited the lead accordingly, also to reflect the article body a little better.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 19:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section 

message: I have two citations if someone want to mention this in the text:  and Luigi Manzetti, Privatization South American Style, p.234. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, . Biruitorul (talk) 06:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Agnosticism

message: OK, I've been sent three images by Vargas Llosa's personal assistant.  I may need some help, however, explaining the rationale.  I'm uploading one of them at the moment.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 22:32, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And, ugh, the plan is going to hell in a handbasket, because I'm getting the error message "The file has no extension (like ".jpg")."  And yet it *does* have an extension.  :(  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 22:35, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Drat and double drat.  Will try again another day.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 22:36, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: There is a parragraph that reads that Vargas Llosa and García Márquez have not spoken in the last 30 years, and it's quoted with note number 29. I consider that a myth, because five or six years ago, in the elegant neighborhood of Polanco in Mexico City, I saw them eating together along with their wives and joining them were Carlos Fuentes and Sylvia Lemus, as well as Héctor Aguilar Camin and Angeles Mastretta. It would be a good idea to confirm that quote. Otherwise, the rest of the article is very useful. Thanks!!!
--Ciudadana (talk) 07:13, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vargas Llosa and García Márquez 

message: A few questions should be settled before an FA article spins into total chaos. Should the Nobel Prize have its own section? How long should it be? Where should it be placed? Lampman (talk) 11:20, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally would not make the Prize its own section.  Rather, I would add a paragraph at the end of the "Contributions" section including the Prize citation and later information about his Nobel lecture, etc. It might also work as a paragraph at the end of the "Later life and political involvement" section. That section currently ends with mention of another prize, so it seems to fit, but I wouldn't really consider the Nobel Prize to be "political involvement" as such.--Danaman5 (talk) 11:52, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think an "Awards and recognition" section would be appropriate, where all his awards could be reviewed/listed. The Nobel could then be a subsection of that. BartlebytheScrivener (talk) 18:52, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Except a complete list of everything he's ever won could possibly violate Wikipedia:NOTDIRECTORY, which is unacceptable for an FA. Lampman (talk) 19:02, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

text:  It has been confirmed this was a hoax, as unlike rock stars, Garcia Marquez doesn't have a twitter account.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.87.1.167 (talk) 22:20, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobel Prize 

message: Are we sure that his father was a busdriver? A friend of mine told me that his father worked for the airline Panagra. --Forich (talk) 21:54, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Guardian's profile on Vargas Llosa says his father was a radio operator. BartlebytheScrivener (talk) 23:44, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vargas Llosa's father's a busdriver? 

message: A long political article he wrote in 1990, available for free and just in time for Columbus Day. Someone with editing privileges please add as appropriate to external links or mention article in discussion of politics and then link in endnotes. 
http://harpers.org/archive/1990/12/0007669  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vargasllosachange (talk • contribs) 23:31, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone please add link  

message: In the Info box (upper right side), add to the Notable Awards:
Premio Cervantes 1994
because this is the maximum prize in the Spanish-speaking world, after the Nobel. 
Gisellas (talk) 08:02, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Gisellas, 9 October 2010 

message: why the nobel prize medal-picture has been removed from the top of the main article's photo?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.43.122.182 (talk) 00:07, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  nobel prize medal 

message: "He has supported moderate conservatives" in the introduction is very misleading.
He has supported both left wing and right wing candidates (including Brazil's left liberal Lula). He favors liberal candidates, both left and right. He opposes dictatorial politicians, both conservative and socialist. All this is stated here: Mario Vargas Llosa: ”Ryktet om den latinska liberalismens död är överdrivet” (Swedish).
He is a classical liberal. 
That is essentially the same as market liberal, which is the same as "liberal" or "liberalist" in many European countries and a wider term than "libertarian", which in many European countries means a strict minarchist. Also "liberal democrat" is correct, although U.S. people tend to mix "liberal" with leftist, even though "liberal" originally meant the same as "market liberal". True, liberals originally (1789-1799)sat on the middle-left, whereas socialist including Robespierre and herbertists sat on the far left and conservatives on the right. --Rebaha (talk) 20:11, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately I don't read Swedish. Usually those calling themselves classical liberals today are known as conservative, however. Lula is surely not a classical liberal. Maybe the statement should simply be removed because of that: it may be an oversimplification. Red Bulls Fan (talk) 21:30, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A similar issue was brought up before, see Talk:Mario Vargas Llosa#Neoliberalism? with no results. --Victor12 (talk) 14:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Supporting conservatives"

message: The names of some of the prizes mentioned in the "Impact" section are italicized, some not. Is this a meaningful difference, or a mistake? Bishonen | talk 13:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Italics

message: Vargas Llosa's La Guerra del Fin del Mundo (The War of the End of the World) was influenced by Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands),  by the Brazilian sociologist Euclides da Cunha. See the studies by Leopoldo M. Bernucci, principally the first: 
*Historia de un malentendido: un estudio transtextual de La guerra del fin del mundo de Mario Vargas Llosa. New York/Bern/Frankfurt am Main/Paris: Lang, 1989. 
* A imitação dos sentidos: prógonos, contemporâneos e epígonos de Euclides da Cunha. São Paulo: EDUSP, 1995. 
* Os sertões, Euclides da Cunha. Annotated edition. São Paulo: Ateliê Arquivo do Estado/Imprensa Oficial, 2001.
Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 19:45, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Os Sertões]] by[[Euclides da Cunha]] as literary influence 

message: He was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival, but I'm not sure where this info should go in the article. Source here. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk) 14:34, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Berlin Film Festival

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message: I realize I may not be correctly interpreting the use of the term "Middle Class" as used in the article, that the meaning may be different in a different country, etc.; however, is it really correct to say that he was "born into a middle class family?"  He describes the house he lived in as a child as being HUGE; when he was a child he had several roomS; they were clearly very well politically-connected; and I believe they owned large amounts of land.  It seems to me that they were literally wealthy; and could be described as "upper class" in terms of socioeconomic description. 69.127.212.149 (talk) 16:36, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Middle class" ? 

message: Mayder Dravasa says here that Llosa won the Prix Formentor in 1964 for Time of the Hero. Other sources say it was won by Gisela Elsner for Die Riesenzwerge. It's a bit confusing as there was two prizes that the Formentor Group awarded, the Prix Formentor and the Prix International. They can sometimes both be confused as the 'Prix Formentor'. It's my understanding that Llosa didn't win it but came second. Do your sources concur? Your thoughts are appreciated. Best wishes Span (talk) 07:57, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure.  This says he lost it the previous year, to Georges Semprun.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 17:28, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

text: And this (in Catalan) says it went to Semprun in 63 and Elsner in 64.  That looks a fairly authoritative source to me, what's more.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 17:31, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

text: Oh, and look at the footnote in the Dravasa book: her source is a conversation with Jaime Salinas in 1988.  He misremembers, I take it.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 17:33, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right. All the other sources I have found today say he came second. It's a reminder to self to always interrogate the source. Thanks for checking. Best wishes Span (talk) 18:00, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Prix Formentor

message: I deleted a biased statement from the lead. It also violated two other rules by not being sourced and by not being discussed in the body of the article. Anything said in the lead is supposed to appear in the body. 
The deleted statement said Vargas had supported moderate political parties until siding with the left-wing candidate over the right-wing candidate in the most recent election for president of Peru. This statement is actually flawed as prose because it's ambiguous whether the party descriptions are to be taken as restrictive or nonrestrictive. The more natural interpretation is restrictive. Under this interpretation, the editor is asserting that the left-wing is inherently less moderate than the right wing, which is crass POV. The alternative possible interpretation is that the descriptors "left-wing candidate" and "right-wing candidate" are description only as opposed to being the basis for determining which (if either) of the two candidates was more moderate. Then the fact that there was a candidate to the political left and one to the political right would be an incidental fact of this one election, not a generally determinative factor in all elections or even in all Peruvian elections. However, under this farfetched interpretation also, the statement is identifying one of the candidates as being more moderate, so it is still probably POV. At the very least, it is unsourced. Dale Chock (talk) 20:38, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Moderate", "left-wing", "right-wing" 

message: I never heard of this famous writer until the past few months, since when his new book on the Irish patriot Roger Casement, The Dream of the Celt has received huge coverage. I had hoped this article might have some background to his interest in Casement. Would anybody be able to add something? 109.77.151.160 (talk) 11:02, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: ''The Dream of the Celt'' (Roger Casement)

message: In the 'Later life and political involvement' section, this is not clear: 'With his appointment to the Investigatory Commission in 1983...'  What Investigatory Comission? I supose it is common knowledge for peruvians, but not everyone is familiarized with it.  Nowhere in that paragraph is there an explanation of that comission.--Forich (talk) 04:56, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, the explanation is in a previous section.  It was made in the first mention of the commission.  My bad.--Forich (talk) 00:57, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Investigatory commision? 

message: In 2004, Mario Vargas Llosa was invited to serve as a mentor for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that pairs masters in their disciplines with emerging talents for a year of one-to-one creative exchange. Out of a very gifted field of candidates, he chose Antonio García Ángel as his protégée.http://www.rolexmentorprotege.com/pairing/2004-2005/mario_vargas_llosa_and_antonio_garcia_angel
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thread_title:  Awards and honors 

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message: This is a well-written article, on an interesting author. However, I think it could need some tender & loving care. There are MOS and accessibility issues with the long lists of works and awards, as well as low-quality sources, such as IMDb. His more recent history (2010s) is rather poorly presented, with lists of trivial and insignificant incidents. We also have some dead links and poorly formated references. This should be able to amend, although it necessitates editors familiar with the sources. Eisfbnore (会話) 11:31, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: SandyGeorgia (Talk)  17:53, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR needed