Talk:Anne McCaffrey

message: I removed the link to "Red Star" as it had nothing to do with the "Red Star" described in her stories.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.20 (talk) 23:22, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Red Star Link Removed

message: This article belongs to :Category:People opposed to fan fiction, but this page shows that it is not true. I suggest removing the page from the category. Ifyr 16:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  People opposed to fan fiction 

message: This is an impressive list. Anyone care to state how many novels she wrote to date?--SidiLemine 11:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  how many?? 

message: This whole section is unreferenced, and while I think much of it is interesting, it is also entirely Original Research. I would suggest that unless sources are found then it is deleted. DJ Clayworth (talk) 16:01, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the Talk page. Here ideas are discussed about the article.  Naturally most talk on talk pages is "original" and ipso facto "unreferenced". With respect, those are not sufficient grounds for deleting comments on the Talk page. Gubernatoria (talk) 16:29, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am talking about the Themes section of the article, not the talk page. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:55, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

text: I support your suggestion with one modification. The Music section is rather relevant and is cited. It could easily be moved to Life or Work. I agree that the bulk of the Themes section sounds like original research, and in my opinion doesn't really contribute to describing her works. Tkech (talk) 04:35, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately the 'citations' for the Music section are simply references to the books, i.e. primary sources and not admissible. DJ Clayworth (talk) 18:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Themes 

message: Apparently Anne McCaffrey was born aged 83 !! That's so utterly utterly hilarious, I hope no-one has the urge to edit it out, as it will cause most visitors to chuckle out loud, as I did. (Not only was it an unbelievably corny thing to include, did the person who put it in really not work out that - even without the unintentional comedy of it - the age would have to be re-calculated and updated each year??)88.105.168.228 (talk) 16:00, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: To interpret it that way would be absurd, so it's reasonable to assume that our readers won't. It's clear you didn't work it out; if you check the page source, you'll note that it is automatically calculated and updated by the MetaWiki software.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:52, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Notwithstanding what you say, what on earth is to be gained by including the age of the author after his or her date of birth - is it assumed that readers are too stupid to work this out for themselves? When I'd got over laughing at the manifest absurdity, I felt somewhat patronised, and I don't believe that Wikipedia should aspire to such. 88.105.246.123 (talk) 12:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age 

message: Thanks to User:Mirokado for much thoughtful attention to the article and careful comment here this week. Cascading indentation is not adequate to distinguish respondents, when there is much use of block quotation, bulleted or numbered lists, etc. —at least, I find that confusing. Rather than indent more deeply, I have gone back to all my replies (some new this hour) and inserted the bold prefix P64:. This will be useful and perhaps adequate if the current pattern continues (long formatted contributions by M, some replies by me, and nothing yet from anyone else). 
Feel free to delete this section if this is a bad idea or a better one is easy to implement. --P64 (talk) 23:49, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You are welcome. Your reply style is perfectly clear and you have not changed anything I said when interleaving a response, so that is OK in this case. --Mirokado (talk) 00:52, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion with User:Mirokado 

message: (I apologize for belated notice.) On visits to some public library branches I have compiled notes on the Dedications and Acknowledgments in many of the Pern books and some others.
:User:P64/FSF#Dedications, Acknowledgments, etc
*For example, Jack Cohen: dedication All the Weyrs of Pern; special acknowledgements Dragonsdawn and the Tower & Hive series.
*For example, Steve Beard: dedication The Skies of Pern; special acknowledgments Pegasus in Space and The Skies of Pern.
This month I have worked a lot on articles related to this biography. I will begin to get back to AIM herself this weekend, after the world championships conclude. --P64 (talk) 21:50, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent work! --Mirokado (talk) 14:36, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acknowledgments and Dedications 

message: :(quoting the lead paragraph) For more than thirty years she has lived in a home of her own design, "Dragonhold–Underhill" in County Wicklow, near Dublin.
User:EmpathicCelt has just now restored there some wording from the capsule biography that appears in some AIM books (endpapers, dust jacket, or back cover?). If we do use this wording it needs to be credited. For the record, beside possible undue emphasis in the lead paragraph, I had doubts about this because it doesn't fit the Dragonholder account of their/her house purchase in 1976 or so, and subsequent move into Dragonhold. On the web I have seen some remarks about her current home, and some photos, which also do not fit the Dragonholder account. The truth may be more than one home called Dragonhold; thirty years in County Wicklow; some shorter time in the famous "home of her own design". --P64 (talk) 22:05, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: She had a house called "Dragonhold" from 1976, opened stables nearby and designed the new house, started in 1990, next to the stables. That is built into a hillside so she called it "Dragonhold-Underhill". Thus twenty rather than thirty years and you are right, that is too much detail for the lead and also probably too much detail for a BLP. I will rephrase the sentence and add references to Roberts 2007 and Trachtenberg. We can see how that looks. --Mirokado (talk) 12:58, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home of her own design 

message: The article has had  since some time in July. Currently article with infobox has a mixture of dmy (International) and mdy (American) with the references using at least predominantly iso format. MOS:DATE says that the dates used in the article and for publication dates in references should be consistent and either dmy or mdy. Access dates and archive dates in references should either be consistent with the article or in iso format. I will make the article MOS conformant: the international format is what is already specified by use dmy dates and seems reasonable for an author translated into many languages resident in Ireland. For this make-it-consistent exercise I would also make all the access and archive dates iso format. At the same time I will tidy up any remaining usages of "confirmed" or similar in references, standardising on "Retrieved (date)". Any comments before I do this? --Mirokado (talk) 22:49, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it! Bluap (talk) 02:04, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. Most done, a few more to do after I have watched NCIS :) --Mirokado (talk) 19:15, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date formats 

message: This information is reliable, Sharon Lee is an author who was friends with Ms. McCaffrey. One of us can update the link when there is an official obituary.Zola (talk) 22:31, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Confirmed by Tor Books at http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-in-remembrance . Dicrostonyx (talk) 04:01, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Death Date

message: The image used on this article is still pretty awful (as users were commenting higher up on this talk page back in 2006). I understand why it was used if it was the only free image we had, but it seems to me to do a disservice to its subject. Now that she's dead, and a better free image couldn't be obtained, would it be permissible to replace it with a better, non-free image? Or have I misunderstood how our image policy works? Robofish (talk) 23:29, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia had another one that was better and CC licensed, so I put it in. Be bold in editing, right? Oh wait... that's TVtropes. I think Wikipedia usually espouses timidity. Oh well, 'tis done. -Fuzzy (talk) 04:27, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Bold is good.  However, none of the photos on Commons is entirely satisfactory.  We need more photos to choose from. —Stepheng3 (talk) 18:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the timidity comes from our hands being smacked away whenever we try to edit/add something.  One person thinks they mean well by an edit/addition, then the next person comes along and erases it for some inane reason.  Wiki has become its own "public domain!" — WylieCoyote (talk) 20:42, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You may be right about the causes of timidity.  However, editors who mistake a revert for violence against their person won't stay long in any case. Best regards, —Stepheng3 (talk) 21:44, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

text: I uploaded a new picture.  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anne_McAffrey_Ruhsam.jpg  There really is a dearth of good photos of her that are licensed properly.  Anyway, I'm not married to it—change it back if you like. Braincricket (talk) 07:19, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Eh, looks like it's going to be speedily deleted anyway. Braincricket (talk) 07:32, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Early in the article, the words "DuPont transferred the family temporarily to Düsseldorf, Germany" appear with no context or previous mention of the name "DuPont". There is no previous indication of who or what DuPont is. Please fix this. --- Dagme (talk) 10:11, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  DuPont 

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message: : See also #Why American?
In the  we now say "Nationality: Irish (naturalized citizen)". Do we know when she became a citizen? have a source?
Template  is the first line of code since February 2013. Do we have an editor who knows Irish English reliably? At Hiberno-English#Spelling we say "British English spelling is used throughout the island." The linked article does not cover spelling. I am generally at a loss re Oxford spelling, certainly including when it should be used at EN.wikipedia. Anyway, which British spelling is Irish? 
--P64 (talk) 17:49, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Irish citizenship is mentioned here, further details may be available within the associated biography (Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons). As far as spelling goes, Irish English would tend to be similar to common British (non-Oxf) English, based on some style guides (ITI, NUI Galway, CIB). What might occasionally differ from UK usage are non-spelling elements such as terminology and wordings. Dl2000 (talk) 01:07, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish 

message: Some of the articles providing background information for the Dragonriders of Pern series arewere the subject of a multiple deletion request: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holds of Pern. Dragonriders of Pern iswas a candidate destination for any resulting merged content. --Mirokado (talk) 21:01, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see Talk:Pern#Merging etc which I hope will document actions taken in response to the comments at the AfD. --Mirokado (talk) 22:01, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple article deletion request 

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message: I am confused as to why this has it's own wiki category at all. In the Dragon riders series they figured out that "Dinosaur planet (a.k.a Ireta) is also the planet they call Pern. They are all part of one series. Kamon420 (talk) 11:43, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
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