Talk:Peter David

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When listing a comic book writer's works, can't the issues be listed instead of just listing the trade paperbacks? With his run of the Hulk, I believe there are issues that have still not been collected in the trade paperback format. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.109.86.127 (talk) 05:07, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I was looking at the list of books down the bottom, there is a lot, they are in Date order, but can the list be organised better? Maybe in a catagory order also, seperate the Star Trek ones from the other? Govvy 19:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

• Chronological order is pretty standard for a bilography on a bio page. If the article was "Works of Peter David", then it would make more sense to categorize it different. Perhaps you could create a new article focusing on the works, not the author? Koweja 03:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Trivia: While attending the University of Maryland, he participated in that area’s first Star Trek convention, the August Party. He helped write the Sundae Show, a performance of the committee members of a satire of the latest Star Trek/Star Wars or popular film of that year. In some of his earlier writings, he named some of his characters after people who help run the August Party.

[edit] Include external interview, or not?

A few days ago an external link was added to an interview at pipelinernd.com. Then one was added to and interview at aboutheroes.com. The second one was quickly removed but no reason was provided.

What makes the distinction? IMHO, the second one where David is interviewd on the radio is more informative that the first where he seems to reply to questions submitted by email. So why one and not the other? --Sean Martin 19:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I think whoever removed it just didn't want interviews linked there. Darrik2 02:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, both of them are gone now. Which makes more sense than just one. --Sean Martin 05:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] His religion/ethnicity

I see PAD is listed as Jewish. Unless it figures into his work, what relevance is this? I would like to remove this factoid. I will wait for further comments though.Toddsschneider 09:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

He's mentioned it a number of times in his BID columns, which is his work. He's also mentioned it on his blog. (Interestingly, it was mentioned by others debating on the current "Life Imitates Art" blog entry, which became a discussion on religion.) (And FYI, I learned that a "factoid" is something untrue that is presented as true.)Nightscream 04:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, I thought that "factoid" was another word for "trivium" (singular of trivia -- not). My understanding of factoid, was a misconception taken to be true ... a factoid, if you will.Toddsschneider 09:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)