Talk:Neil Gaiman/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

War and Peace?

I can't recall having read such a painfully long and detailed promotional article about an author. I've just done a word count and can confirm that the article about Gaiman is longer than the one about War and Peace, a fact easier to explain by self-/fan-publicity than by literary merit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.175.56.5 (talk • contribs)

Agree. This is clearly a self-promotional article of exactly the sort that reduces the value of Wikipedia as an 'encyclopaedia'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.175.56.65 (talk) 07:21, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

You often talk to yourself like this? —David Eppstein (talk) 07:29, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

   A palpable hit by Eppstein!! And enough fun to make my weary day before noon.

This ‘’Casus macht mir lachen’’, as IIRC (after ~6 decades since we were introduced to Goethe’s Meisterwerk) observes... I think I finished the more-read ‘’erster Teil’’, in a bilingual paperback edition. I’ll presume the colleague is blameless, and merely YA sufferer of what I (probably) misremember as “the full flower of blown youth” (perhaps from ‘’Hamlet’’). Thanks to both colleagues, for probably my biggest smile of the morning. Cheerio, as they may still say. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:199:C201:FD70:143B:600F:1F84:C055 (talk) 17:23, 26 November 2020 (UTC) --2601:199:C201:FD70:143B:600F:1F84:C055 (talk) (ex-User:Jerzy, ex-User:JerzyA 17:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Lockdown breaches

Other editors - if my edit to the Personal Life section expanding on the existing content about his lockdown breaches does not meet the required standards of Wikipedia, please abide by Good Faith and edit it further in a manner which does abide by the standards rather than simply reverting it. Star-one (talk) 09:28, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Further reading

• Ekman, Stefan (2005). "Down, Out and Invisible in London and Seattle". Foundation. 34 (94): 64–74.
• Tiffin, Jessica (2008). "Outside/Inside Fantastic London". English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies. 25 (2): 32–41. doi:10.1080/10131750802348384.
• Prescott, Holly (2010). ""Rid Yourself of This Surface Mentality": Re-Thinking Urban Space in the Contemporary London Descent Narrative". Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 43 (2): 185–198.
• Elber-Aviram, Hadas (2013). ""The Past is Below Us": Urban Fantasy, Urban Archaeology, and the Recovery of Suppressed History". Papers from the Institute of Archaeology. 23 (1): 7, 1–10. doi:10.5334/pia.426.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• Vanderbeke, Dirk (2014). "The Sub-Creation of Sub-London: Neil Gaiman's and China Miéville's Urban Fantasy". In Vanderbeke, Dirk; Honegger, Thomas (eds.). From Peterborough to Faëry: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds; Essays in honour of Dr. Allan G. Turner’s 65th Birthday. Walking Tree. pp. 141–165. ISBN 978-3-905703-31-3.
• Benczik, Vera (2017). "The Doubled City: The Displaced London in the Urban Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville". In Limpár, Ildikó (ed.). Displacing the Anxieties of Our World: Spaces of the Imagination. Cambridge Scholars. pp. 162–176. ISBN 978-1-4438-1702-8.
• Bida, Aleksandra (2018). "Homecoming in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere". Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 49–63. ISBN 978-3-319-97967-0.
• Elber-Aviram, Hadas (2021). "Chapter 5 'My home, the city' Secondary-World London". Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 165–197. ISBN 9781350110694.

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. I don't think we need an extensive further reading section. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:54, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Edit request January 30 2022

Under the Twitter section, please add (at the bottom):

In January 2022, when the board of trustees of McMinn County Schools in Tennessee, in a 10-0 decision, removed the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus from its curriculum for 8th grade English classes, overriding a State curriculum decision, Clemmons was critical of the decision. He tweeted: "There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days."

 Done (replacing (auto-corrected?) 'Clemmons' with 'Gaiman') Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 12:37, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

References

Edit request

Please spell Royal National Theatre as the theatre itself spells its own name rather than using the US English version of the word theatre/theatre 2A00:23C4:F70B:E700:B07C:10D9:9C9:890 (talk) 08:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Done Gadjetc (talk) 08:41, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Edit request

Please spell Royal National Theatre as the theatre itself spells its own name rather than using the US English version of the word theatre/theatre 2A00:23C4:F70B:E700:B07C:10D9:9C9:890 (talk) 08:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Done Gadjetc (talk) 08:41, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Divorce

Was announced today the he is no longer with Amanda Palmer, and will be getting a divorce. (again) Aka charlos (talk) 01:57, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 February 2023

change misspelled "Anasi Boys" to "Anansi Boys" Jarlapple (talk) 05:33, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

 Done Cannolis (talk) 08:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2023

Please add Staged season 3 episode 1 of Staged to the Filmography section. As seen here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23713410/ 2600:1700:96F1:550:51C8:921A:976C:B54D (talk) 01:01, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Edit request

Reference 123 misspells "Edinburgh". Thanks.

Please add "Ghost story writers" to article; category is correct, as he written ghost stories, including Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Thanks. 79.67.152.6 (talk) 01:16, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Bump. 2A00:23C7:ED18:A301:E4D6:43FF:A785:F982 (talk) 15:00, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 15:03, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

please add to audiobooks https://www.audible.com/pd/Anansi-Boys-Audiobook/B002V8LI0U — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.17.105 (talk) 18:52, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Good Omens is one of his biggest projects, both the book and the series, and does not fit into any of the currently existing categories. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:F3C0:F170:8CB0:40CE:D40E:3987 (talk) 16:31, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Writers don’t include writers, instead writers ARE writers.

Please fix it! 86.31.178.164 (talk) 00:38, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Huh? ~~ Jessintime (talk) 00:48, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Anonymous poster was likely commenting on grammatical errors connected to the use of "influence" in the "Journalism, early writings, and literary influences" section. Edits have been made to correct the phrasing where needed. GimmeChoco44 (talk) 05:14, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks GimmeChoco44 for fixing one instance! It's a logical problem more than a grammatical problem. The article still says "Artists include Sam Kieth" and "Featured stars include James McAvoy". Kieth isn't included in other artists, he IS an artist. Same with McAvoy. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 21:50, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Gaiman's teenage band

Just so I can close the browser window: here is a 1978 article on the band that Gaiman was part of, which performed punk under the name Chaos and later power pop as the Ex Execs. I am not asserting that this requires addition, and I will not be adding it myself as I have a conflict of interest in relation to Gaiman. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 00:00, 2 August 2024 (UTC)