Talk:August Derleth

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[edit] Merge from List of works

I'm not sure if there's an official policy about having the list of works by an author in the same page with his bio/related info. IMHO having all the info in just a page would help, but then maybe this article would be too large to handle? I've looked at Lovecraft's article and I am a bit confused now, since there's a list of works in the article and another list of works in an independent article. CharlesDexterWard 11:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

  • They should be merged. Separate "work lists" are used for people with very long articles and very long works lists, like Pink Floyd. I will merge them in a couple of days unless anyone objects. Jdcooper 12:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
That seems like a good idea to me. Nareek 18:05, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge it in. Even if the list was extensive, it belongs with the authour. Dury 20:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sauk City

He lived in Sauk City. Sauk County is to broad. Also, is it in poor taste to upload a picture of his grave? --Al 01:00, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

For me - absolutely not. Grave of H.P. Lovecraft with "I am Providence" sentence is often shown in article about him. But please upload the file to Commons. --User:Derbeth talk 11:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up

  • Just for future reference, the clean-up tag is there basically because the page looks ugly, what with the massive bibliography. I don't know how it could be cleaned-up necessarily, which is why I haven't done it myself, but the tag is to get the attention of other editors, who might have brighter ideas. Jdcooper 03:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Note: i removed discussion of the previous clean-up tag, which was removed then replaced, because it was pretty confusing. Jdcooper 03:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

I have a few images on my Flickr that can be used for this page:

Feel free to use them in this article (I would put them myself but I'm not sure where to stick them). -- Al™ 03:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cites needed tag

I added the tag because, while there are references, there are no citations to the references in the body of the article. Several of the statements probably should be sourced. I would do it myself, but I know next to nothing about Derleth, and the references included in the article are to books that are not available online. Xymmax 23:56, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Dead link?

http://www.derleth.org/ seems to be a dead URL. Is the site of the August Derleth Society just down this morning, or is the site defunct? --Pleasantville (talk) 14:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)