Talk:Martin J. Goodman

message: The information on this page is a word-for-word copy of the biography on Goodman's own website (see here), which makes it no more than self-promotion. However, author seems interesting enough to have an entry, so suggest a warning to readers.
Woodpig (talk) 14:39, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested Warning 

message: Readers should be aware that Martin Goodman's website describes his book 'On Sacred Mountains' as 'an important spiritual document', citing the Guardian, and that he does the same thing on his 'From the Author' comment on amazon.co.uk, but as anyone who reads the original review will see, it was a hatchet job. Follow the link and read it for yourself: it is a piece of unrestrained ridicule, ending: 'Either an important spiritual document, or an admonitory example of the effects of oxygen deprivation.' Goodman's ability to keep a straight face while using half this quotation to link his name to a national newspaper suggests sharp practice and charlatanism, entirely of a piece with the cut-and-paste biography imported here from his website. I suggest a complete rewrite or deletion of his page altogether.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.102.124.35 (talk) 19:57, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2010 

message: IMDB page for the Song of Lunch shows that book was adapted for TV by Niall McCormick, not Martin Goodman. Hull University page claiming Goodman is the adapter would therefore seem to be wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.198.251.134 (talk) 11:13, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  2011 

message: If this author gets an obituary one day, it would have to be short:  Fantasist, self-publicist, purveyor of dull prose ;gave vanity publishing a bad name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.197.30 (talk) 12:27, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  2012 

message: For encyclopedic articles on Wikipedia, we don't use embedded links, we use inline citations"Inline citations". Example.com instead. See WP:REFB. And there's certainly no need for both embedded links and inline citations. It took a long time to clean up this article, moving and expanding the embedded links to full citations, especially since many of the links had been allowed to rot (see WP:LINKROT), and were tedious to locate either archived versions, or to locate the new website where the information was moved. This has been a public service message for the editors of this page. Defensive article writing, that is, best practice to defend against link rot, is to archive sources as you go using either the Wayback Machine or Webcitation. --Lexein (talk) 11:42, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Construction notes 

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replies: text: I looked around for substitutes, and found nothing except profiles directly by Goodman or his publisher. Makes me think it might not be noteworthy without independent sources. --Ronz (talk) 17:25, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In case something here might be used as a reference. --Ronz (talk) 18:07, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
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