Talk:Chuck Austen

message: Another interesting aspect of Austen's work is that while his mainstream work starts off strong and gets weaker as time goes by through mismanagement of his subplots his non-mainstream work, or non-continuity work, seems to shine and possess a strength not seen in works like Uncanny X-Men or Action Comics. Books like the Eternal and Worldwatch, in spite of their pornographic elements, containinsightful and interesting concepts and ideas that deserve further exploration.
IMHO, this sounds extremely generic and written just to pad the section. Could somebody be more specific, i.e. pointing out a concrete example? If not, this is just "weasel talk", see Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_terms, but if yes, please let it be known. --- Onomatopoeia 17:17, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And now it's gone from that to pure POV... to rephrase a character's loss of sanity and attacks on her friends as "An additional example was Polaris, which he turned from a second-stringer into a powerful and dangerous character." seems like little more than an attempt to put a positive spin on the matter for those unfamiliar, and should be revised. I might actually try and rewrite this section, taking in account the one truly important point there, the soapyness of his run, which has indeed been well received by a portion of the readership. Zeppocity 22:51, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Point taken, and I rest my case. Acclaim for Chuck defies me. Onomatopoeia 13:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Acclaim section?

message: Not entirely aware of this page's history before I came across it, hum, just making clear here that after some editing some time ago, I've gone ahead and divided the large, unfocused main text (which included a number of references that are inappropriate and unhelpful in an introduction), into two sections on his body of work, namely Mainstream Work and Other Work. References to supposed lack of quality and relating controversy should really be kept in the Controversy section and as such, there's none of that in them by now, I think... Aiming for neutrality, naturally enough. 
I'll grant however that expanding the introductory line might be a good idea, but I'm not quite sure how to do it without veering off into the controversy issues which, again, comes off as inappropriate to me.
Anyway, any issues as to the slight trimming and restructuring I've done? Maybe someone more familiar with Austen's work (a rare breed of animal, maybe: a Austen fan) can come by and write down some more on his early work...? Anywho, cheers, Zeppocity 01:20, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Does anyone have links to back pages of forums where Austen got bashed? It would help validate the sections dealing with fan criticism Rorschach567 15:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I've removed this section entirely, according to WP:LIVING. It's not OK to have a massive uncited criticism section on a biography of a living person, and obscene to drown out all actual description of his career with fan complaints about one of his writing assignments. 128.227.99.129 22:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: X-Men Section

message: "I was known for writing rather a lot of Marvel comics and a few DC comics a couple or more years back, and was notorious as the most hated man in comics for a period of time. Even I am not entirely sure why. Google my name if you’re curious, or visit Wikipedia where people who clearly don’t like me have made the reasons to dislike me sound almost intellectual and reasonable—even though they are largely untrue or very skewed."  --DrBat 03:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chuck Austen on Wikipedia 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:ChuckAusten.jpg

message: Was this organization Austen's creation, or Joe Casey's? The Church first appeared during Casey's run on "Uncanny X-Men", yet the "Church of Humanity" entry here states it was created by Austen.--Fingerknöchelkopf 07:15, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It first appeared in Joe Casey's run, but it was Austen who revealed their origins. --DrBat (talk) 16:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Church of Humanity 

message: His JLA run isn't even mentioned. (and it was very good, for a few issues)(Artie85 (talk) 21:18, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  JLA 

message: As this has become a meme, this needs at least a section within this article explaining its origin, as well as a link to the Newsarama and CBR interviews where he made the claims. As to adding the fact that a simple census of comic book forums would easily disprove Chuckles' number claim, I leave it to you kids to figure out how to add that info without someone coming along and trying to squash it under the excuse of "original research".
Removed the bit, since it's WAY too POV for the article (plus the term never really caught on, as far as comic fandom seeing it as Austen trying to negate legitimate criticism of his writings online). 
--BakerBaker (talk) 04:05, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Twelve Internet Trolls

message: I just spent quite a bit of time cleaning up and adding more info to Austen's controversial X-Men run. I put in many inline citations from reliable sources (WP:CITE) into the article. With so much sourced information from third party sources, the majority of all POV issues should be eliminated. Also, Austen IS controversial, so as of WP:SPADE, don't be shy to say so. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 14:02, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but as he's still alive, certain rules come into play, as noted at the very top of this very discussion page. This is why I made the changes I did. Nuetrallity is important on Wikipeda. Lots42 (talk) 03:22, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Another rewrite + NPOV tag lifted

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