Talk:Tina Anderson

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[edit] References, and WP:BIO

References are not the same thing as external links. This section needs to be cleaned up, but I'm not sure what the intent was for the links given: references to verify information in the article, or external links to more information that is not in the article. Also, if possible, a clear citation of the writer's having been published would be nice as it asserts notability per WP:BIO. As it stands, I don't see any claim to notability; I know several people in my university classes who maintain websites (i.e. domain and all) and could be construed to be writers. BigNate37_(T) 20:45, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I guess I respond here??

My assistant [Jen works in my office] updated, and of course we have the same box with the same IP. Forgive if it seems like I was trying to post in stealth, I was not since I quite clearly posted the original article myself. ^^

Trying to answer here, how in fact would I show my works in print without mailing you a book? I've linked quite clearly to my publishers sites to show you where the books are and where it states clearly I'm in these books, and no, they are not my sites or publishers owned by me.

In fact that these books are in print and for sale. 0_o. Must I send Wikipedia the copies of my books. I've been assured by other authors that they never had to do this so I wonder why I'm being asked to? Would it be more feasible to ask my publishers to add to my wiki definition, which seems rather laborious to me, or what? How do I go about proving I'm not just phantom reccing my own work?

-Tina

You do not need to send in books. They are not required as part of a citation. You should, however, include a bibliography of your published works, preferably with their ISBNs and year published. I looked for the proper format guide for this, but I couldn't find it. If you simply add books in the following way, it won't look too sloppy and another editor will eventually come along and clean it up:

== Bibliography ==

*''[[Book Name]]'' (1998) ISBN:8-888-88888-8
*''[[Second Book's Name]]'' (2001) ISBN:8-888-88888-8

And so on. Don't worry if all the titles appear as red links to nonexistent articles; if that is a problem, another editor will clear it up for you. I borrowed this format (minus the ISBNs, but they are quite helpful) from the C. S. Lewis article, being the first author that came to mind. Also, please use four tildes to sign your comments. it is nice to know that I speak with the subject of the article, but as a general practice four tildes are preferred on all talk pages. BigNate37_(T) 01:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think that information is already hiding in there. They're hidden with the wrong markup, let me see if I can fix it. BigNate37_(T) 01:44, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, there was tons of this type of information hidden within <ref> tags. It was not appearing in the article; I reformatted it, and just put a lot of work in general into this article. By the way, it is a stub, considering there is only one paragraph describing the subject. Someone said it isn't, but I marked it as a stub. BigNate37_(T) 02:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)