Talk:Matthew Stadler

message: I understand the Wikipedia guidelines and have made no major contributions to this page, nor will I make future ones. Though I had no role writing this article I became involved in editing it because there are inaccuracies. I encourage disinterested Wikipedia editors to please update and correct the article. If you could even just put in a whole new article, without any input from me, maybe the warning (above) can be removed. Thanks. MatthewStadler (talk) 22:48, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  user MatthewStadler not making any major (or further) contributions to this page 

message: I updated the article's ratings to reflect the recent major revisions made by Eddorn. I also removed the warning about MatthewStadler's edits considering that the article has been completely revised since that time. Gracehoper (talk) 19:10, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the quality of the article not the subject that is questionable.  "A year before Stadler's first novel was released, he began to run a writing class at his kitchen table in Seattle."   Do we have a reliable third party verifiable source for this notable event? Lame Name (talk) 17:05, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed ratings and notices 

message: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and as such the content of an article should meet the requirements of notability and verifiability.  Content should be referenced to reliable third party sources and should not be original research.  Any content that is not acceptable should be boldly edited.  Lame Name (talk) 12:54, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requirements for a Wikipedia article 

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message: I propose removing the notability tag. Stadler has won a number of awards for his novels, including the Lambda award, and was widely reviewed in major magazines and newspapers at the time of their publication.
I believe the appearance of non-notability of the subject comes from the page's current focus on his more recent non-fiction and his ideas on urbanism, which have been less widely seen. This isn't a problem with the subject's notability but with the emphasis of the article. 
Edmund White wrote in the NYTimes: "What makes Allan Stein unusual is the lyric suppleness and restraint of the writing, a kind of mandarin American casualness that is peculiar to such West Coast writers as Dennis Cooper, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian and Robert Gluck, a school of refined but deceptively offhand stylists. Matthew Stadler is its newest star. In Allan Stein we encounter the trademark passages of stark beauty...With it Stadler demonstrates that he is among the handful of first-rate young American novelists, one with a wide reach and a quirky, elegant pen."
This should be enough in itself to demonstrate notability, no?
Distingué Traces (talk) 23:00, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove notability tag?