Talk:Peter Ackroyd

message: Peter Ackroyd is openly gay. Why isn't there a Category link to LGBT people, or to gay writers?
Nuttyskin 03:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ... and yet.... Whatever his declared sexuality now, he has identified as gay in the past. He seems to have moved from a position of living openly with a partner (who died from AIDS) to saying nothing about the subject, apart from pithy comments to the Independent (as above). I think some mention should be made of his past life and his attitudes to it now. I'm not 100% that one off-the-cuff comment to a paper and general silence on the subject elsewhere should mean an automatic removal of the LGBT category.--80.1.181.1(talk) 18:32, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sexuality

message: I changed the description of Albion, because it is not the most scholarly of his books; the rather obscure Notes for a New Culture surely deserves that prize.  --Jbmurray 05:57, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Albion

message: I added this mainly because the introductory para (see here) doesn't summarize subject's notability, but a few sub headings would also help. I may well get back to this, but it could be a while so don't hang back!
--Old Moonraker 16:02, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone (anon) had taken this tag away. The intro paragraph is not acceptable as it stands. I don't think I am in a position to summarize his notability, so I replaced it with an "improve lead" tag. Sam Staton (talk) 12:06, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the repair. I really must get round to this. --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Redact the above: other users have made big improvements. --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:44, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cleanup" tag 

message: I've added an  tag  to "His works are comparable to Martin Amis, John Banville and Sebastian Barry". In any case, it doesn't meet the WP:LEDE criteria: an "introduction...and summary of the article below". --Old Moonraker (talk) 20:32, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Thanks User:Charles Matthews. --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:02, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Comparable to [[Martin Amis]]" 

message: Are there more than one writer called Peter Ackroyd ? I found an Peter R. Ackroyd who writes about the Bible, but are te Astronomy books and London by the same person ? (And if not, which of them wrote the Newton book ). --Kummi (talk) 21:08, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The novel First Light and the biography of Isaac Newton are both by the subject of this article. Reverend Peter Runham Ackroyd, biblical scholar, died in 2005. --Old Moonraker (talk) 05:09, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Peter Ackroyd' must surely be a committee of writers.  'He' produces at least 2 substantial works every year, which is not humanly possible for a single writer.  (Just kidding.)81.146.36.100 (talk) 00:05, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  One and only ? 

message: In Early career section, I think it is George Meredith who is meant, not George Gissing. I dare not correct it myself because I read the novel quite a long time ago. Please correct this section if I'm right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.52.24.125 (talk) 20:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right: be WP:BOLD. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:03, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gissing or Meredith? 

message: "I don't think I even read a novel till I was about 26 or 27". But he got a degree in literature. What??? 123.243.29.122 (talk) 05:39, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reading a novel