Talk:Jerry Pournelle

message: Niven says in Playgrounds of the Mind that Jerry was an ex-communist. Should this detail not be in the politics section and has Jerry every given a reason for why he made an about face?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snookumz (talk • contribs) 07:50, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've read somewhere that he joined a graduate student cell in his department at the University of Washington in the late Fifties.
65.88.88.127 (talk) 21:46, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ex-communist? 

message: Links to BYTE and Dr'Dobbs journal both require subscription. IMHO they should be removed.
Well, that requirement was removed, so this objection is MOOT. 
Mike 06:45, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to Journals 

message: Who checks the accuracy?
:You do. I do. So does anyone else who is inclined to do so. Jamesday 04:14, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who maintains Jerry Pournelle's page? 

message: I see the article describes JEP as Sam Yorty's campaign manager in his third (1969) campaign for mayor.  However, this doesn't seem consistent with contemporary news accounts.  The Los Angeles Times for April 15, 1969 has an article about Henry Salvatori taking over as Yorty's campaign manager; Pournelle is described in that same article as a "Campaign Research Director".  Then in September Pournelle quit his post as Executive Assistant to Mayor Yorty to work on his book with Stephan Possony ("Key Assistant to Yorty Quits After two weeks", LA Times, September 30, page A8); from the article, it appears that Pournelle was a relatively minor functionary in the campaign.  (Presumably if Yorty's campaign /manager/ had quit five weeks before the election, it would have gotten more than one column on page 8.)
Salvatori is also cited as Yorty's 1969 campaign manager in a number of sources available online, including his obituary:
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/08/local/me-10735
A 1971 article in Society magazine entitled "Los Angeles Liberalism", by Richard L. Maullin, says that Yorty had two campaign managers -- Salvatori and Preston Hotchkiss -- but does not mention Pournelle.
Does anyone have a cite for JEP being campaign manager, as opposed to "research director"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.214.117.70 (talk) 14:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about "campaign manager" 

message: Bogus link by indefinitely blocked spammer deleted from external references.
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Yale s (talk • contribs) 01:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LinkSpam removed 

message: Would someone like to add information about his appearances on this WEEK in TECH?
Yavoh 02:34, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This Week In Tech 

message: Dr Pournelle says this is false.
receiving a reserve commission as a Lieutenant of Artillery
I am removing it.  Jokem 02:37, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Artillery 

message: I just created an article on this author's book. Birth of Fire, and have noticed there articles on many other books by this author. I'm wondering if, due to the small size article alloted for each book. If we should simply create a main article on Jerry Pournelles books. Like 
Books by Jerry Pournelle  and then we could list out each of his books and a plot summary etc. if we have one. 
Anyone up for this? It'd be kind of like the lists of video game characters or 'sci fi universe locales'. Easy to access, compressed, and a lessening of strain on the Wikipedia servers. 
I say we go ahead with this once we get a general consensus. I'll wait about a week or two if the responses are slow. And if this plan goes forward then I'll be glad to help. (We'll need to delete the old articles though. I'm not quite sure how to do that).   
Nateland 00:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, no problem. I just felt it awkward for there to be seperate articles for each of his books. (Although a condensed article would probably be just as awkward. For the Deathworld series we integrated it all into a single article. But there was only a paragraph synopsis available for each book. Nateland 15:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article for Jerry Pournelles books? 

message: The article contains two separate lists of books written by Pournelle, under "Writing career", and under "Bibliography".  If there is no objection, I will combine them.  --Blainster 10:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see the first list is chronological while the second is alphabetical.  Are both really needed? --Blainster 17:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate book lists

message: He looks drunk in that picture! Is there none better?  —Tamfang 04:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Noted by JEP himself at http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view502.html#Monday - obviously meaning :Image:Jerry Pournelle crop.jpg. Let's see how long before they come up with something better... --Malyctenar (talk) 16:33, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  portrait 

message: Is Jerry Pournelle related to Samuel Edward Konkin III?  They do seem to resemble each other.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.35.112 (talk) 08:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know in which photos you see a resemblance, but I knew them both personally when I lived in Los Angeles, and in person they looked very little alike.  And no, they aren't related beyond the both-members-of-the-same-species extremely-distant-cousin relatedness we all of us on Earth share.  -- Davidkevin (talk) 21:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  SEK3? 

message: This is a Wikipedia entry about an opinionated science fiction author, not the president of the United States. The 'Politics in fiction' section can be shorted a lot.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.40.148 (talk) 22:26, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  article is too long 

message: http://www.nyoatrader.com/blog/2010/01/18/a-look-into-the-future/ - Bevo (talk) 17:28, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 1979 Tom Snyder interview with JP online

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ISBN-10: 0449239624 ISBN-13: 978-0449239629 So, this is a book edited by Jerry Pournelle. I need to cudgel some other data together from various sources, maybe there is a copy at a library nearby. This is a fairly important book, with a still VOICE-speaking Stephen Hawking story, the "Purple People-Eater" theory before Hawking radiation. You hereby are granted permission to edit the page "User:TheLastWordSword/Black Holes (anthology)". Please. --TheLastWordSword (talk) 22:06, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black Holes Redlink 

message: The recurrent themes section seems to be original research, at least, sources are not cited.  I'm shortening this and putting it into the politics section. Guy who reads a lot (talk) 00:18, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recurrent themes 

message: There were two bibliography sections, so i condensed this down to one-- it would be nice to put these into chronological order, and check some of these, but I'm not sure I have time right now. NumberC35 (talk) 22:08, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs ordering 

message: Checked Factiva for cited article.  Checked Star Tribune's own archives.  The cited article appears in both places. WP:VNT applies -- if the report is erroneous enough to merit deletion, please provide a citation of a source that provides more accurate information. Hal (talk) 10:13, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding "erroroneous" report 

message: On Leo Laporte's interview show, Triangulation #90 & #95, Pournelle indicated that he and Larry Niven were in the process of writing a sequal to Lucifer's Hammer.  I started to add this and Scray undid the revision as unsourced just as I was about to add the sourceTriangulation interview with Leo LaPorte.  Scray also indicated WP:NOTNEWS.  I understand the sourcing thing (about to be fixed), but what is it about a world-renowned author who is writing a sequel to a successful novel that is not noteworthy?  Cyberherbalist (talk) 06:31, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A book that does not exist, the title of which could change - at this point it's the author's speculation and it simply sounds like "news" rather than encyclopedic content.  -- Scray (talk) 11:35, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I see your point. Cyberherbalist (talk) 01:58, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Novel: ''Lucifer's Anvil'' 

message: Has anyone been able to find the citation of Bullock (no. 10 on the page as of now)? I'm unable to find a reference to it on Google anywhere but two Wikipedia pages (and various mirrors) and I have not found it in the year it was supposedly published in that particular journal (which was titled differently in 1999). If anyone can find it, please let me know--I'm trying to do research on this topic and I can't just cite an article I'm not sure exists.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikibolian (talk • contribs) 22:10, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation?  

message: I have added some details of Jerry Pournelle's life, with citations.Sbelknap (talk) 21:06, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Details 

message: This seems remarkably peacockish.  He was notable as a SF writer, and that's very predominantly it.  I don't think we'd have an article on him at all on the strength of his polisci or psychology.  (Or in "mathematics, systems engineering and experimental statistics" that he seemed intent on wringing out of those same two "advanced degrees" in those subjects -- hey, might as well refer to them both as doctorates!)  Even his Byte column seems marginal in that regard (and frankly really only flowed from the other anyway).  I'm very much inclined to refactor the lead accordingly.  109.255.211.6 (talk) 05:24, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polymath? 

message: In 2014, an IP editor added a statement to the effect that Pournelle had "won first prize in a late 1960's essay contest run by (Avalon Hill's)  magazine on how to end the Vietnam war".
This is, as far as I can tell, technically correct (the best kind of correct): Pournelle was indeed listed first among the winners. However, the wording "Pournelle (...) heads the list of 10 best comments on the Vietnam situation. Actually, the list was pared to 30 excellent entries of which the following [10 names, beginning with Pournelle's] were picked at random out of our collective hat" would imply that this was not in fact such a great honor.
I would further note that the parameters for the essay were: "select items from a checklist, then - in 50 words or less - justify your choices". Winners received gift certificates for $6 (in 1968 dollars).
As such, I feel that the article is not improved by mentioning the essay. Are there any objections to removing it? DS (talk) 02:23, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been a week and no one has objected, so I'll remove it. DS (talk) 01:00, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Essays