Talk:Ayelet Waldman

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Contents 1 Chabon's "Pages" interview 2 Bio 3 Grow up. 4 Shut up, Ayelet 5 "Pages"

[edit] Chabon's "Pages" interview

Seems to me that Chabon's criticism of bloggers' reactions to the "Motherlove" essay is more pertinent than discussion of his "torrid" sex life. I left in the direct quote that Professorkemp added, but question the deletion of his opinions of the "slagosphere."129.186.159.110 22:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bio

The bio says "Her work unites a powerful sense of outrage and social injustice with a playful and self-deprecating sense of humor." Oh, please - no one but Ayelet Waldman herself would have written this.

The IP address of the person who wrote that sentence in the original article (63.13.224.50) originates in Novato, CA, which is less than 30 miles from Berkeley. (cf. geobytes.com)

[edit] Grow up.

How many hundreds of thousands of people are there living in and around Novato. Doubtless at least a few of them are friends of Ms. Waldman. Her editor or agent might have rewritten it. Why cast the implied aspersion on Waldman's integrity, except from personal animus.

With all the media attention that Wikipedia is getting, it's not surprising that people are inclined to "fix" their own articles - there's not necessarily anything sinister about it. But if Waldman has edited this article, then we need to add the "notable wikipedian" tag to this discussion page. Saranary 19:56, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shut up, Ayelet

It goes against Wikipedia rules to use it for your self-promotion. P

[edit] "Pages"

"Newsworthy"? But agree. Fixed characterisation of his remarks.