Talk:Bryan Talbot

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[edit] Copyright and rewrite?

I've cut the detailed bio added by 85.189.8.47 because it's a verbatim copy-and-paste from a fan website. Good information but someone will have to rewrite it, unless the author of the site gave permission (and even in that case, it would need rewriting since the constant references to "Bryan" are a bit unencyclopedic). ←Hob 07:58, 2005 May 21 (UTC)

This guy came to my town in Brazil in the late '90s for a local convention and I managed to talk to him for a long time. He showed himself as a very nice, accessible and educated person; he would draw an A4 sketch to every fan who asked him. There weren't many at the place, and guys like Serpieri, Vuillemin and, I believe, David Mazzuchelli were around to divide the attention. I was kindly given a silver-signed copy of "Orpheus", a sketch of Luther Arkwright (I think, but I have to check), maybe a sketch of a smiling Joker too (as he was drawing a lot of those to the younger folks) and something more personal I like to keep: his business card. Years later, "Luther Arkwright" was published here and I made myself a promise to get a copy of it, but it's still very, very expensive, as it usually happens to graphic albums here. [Rod, from Brazil, 18-June-2005].

I am the copyright owner of this info and I added it to Wikipedia myself; quite obviously I have given full permission for this content to be reused here; as I run the Official fanpage I saw no reason to rewrite what Bryan himself had given to me as his definitive biography. James Robertson; webmaster of the official Bryan Talbot fanpage at www.bryan-talbot.com

I am a friend of Bryan Talbot's and can vouch for what James Robertson says in the previous paragraph: I have met him (once) at Bryan Talbot's house. I think the content from the biography page on his website should be reinstated, albeit with the several references to "Bryan" made more formal or "encyclopedic". --R Cornwell 19:30, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

My concern is that by just lifting one person's bio you get sort of "locked in" to that version (no matter how good it is) and after all that excellent bio is already online to read. The entry needs a tidy up anyway so what I'll do is remove the copyright violation and we create our own biography as well as expanding the entry. We could, for example, do with a picture. (Emperor 16:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC))

OK I have rewritten the entry and removed that awfully copyright violation notice (is it possible to make a bigger one??). I've trid to keep things tight and luckily it does break down neatly into sections. I have tried to avoid too much detail in the biography and so have expanded the bibliography to take some of the strain off it. Its no way near finished but I have thrown in more links to different biographies and it should be possible to use the rewrite as a base for a better entry. Hope that doesn't interfere with other people's plans but it seemed the best way to move things forward. (Emperor 18:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC))