Talk:Alfred de Grazia
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This page was previously nominated for deletion.
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Recommended for deletion, on grounds of being a vanity article.
[edit] T.V. Smith
The reference is to a different T V Smith to the one linked to ! -- Beardo 06:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure why it would be recommended that this page be deleted. De Grazia is an influential and significant 20th century intellectual. On what grounds is it construed that this article is a "vanity article"?--BenJonson 22:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
One reason to classify this bio entry a "vanity article" is the fact that it was almost certainly written by the subject and uploaded initially by his wife, Ami de Grazia. -- Phaedrus7 03:31, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Anne Marie vs. Ami?
It seems like the article is giving two names for de Grazia's present wife. Which one should stay in the article? We should have one name throughout the article. Ami appears to be a nickname, so I'd like to suggest Anne Marie.--Sethacus 17:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
- de Grazia seems to use both Anne Marie and Ami on his Web site. There is one comment on his web site where he refers to "my wife, Ami de Grazia, the French novelist (formerly Anne-Marie Hueber)"[1] --Tsyko 10:10, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] de Grazia's areas of notability
While it appears that de Grazia is notable for his early works, his 'scientific' work seems rather dubious. Does it really merit more than a brief mention here?--Michig 09:51, 30 September 2007 (UTC) And is there any notability whatsoever to his plays?--Michig 09:54, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
- If it's dubious, and we have verification, then we say so. But since he published over a dozen "quantavolution" books on the subject, it was a significant part his life. His work seems to be well-cited in much catastrophist literature such as Kronos,[2] and SIS Review.[3] If we were discussing his scientific contributions elsewhere, then I would agree. --Tsyko 10:05, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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- To answer the second question, from de Grazia's own site: "These plays are published here for the first time. One of them represents an unpublished drama of fifty years ago, but fourteen were conceived and written during the past two years. The only people who have read them all are my author-wife, Anne-Marie, and my grandson and film-maker, Nick Vanderpool. Others have read one or several of them. If all goes well, they will constitute most of the repertoire for the 2002 season of a theatrical troupe touring America and Europe." So, no. There is an assertion that two were made into films in Italy, but the one site I found for one of them is "in costruzione" (under construction).--Sethacus 21:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
The site for the film in question (The Gene of Hope) is available through the link provided in the article User:AmidegAmideg (talk) 18:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
