Talk:Edmund White

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Contents 1 "The Disappointment Project" 2 Unspecified source for Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg 3 Fair use rationale for Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg 4 Fair use rationale for Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg 5 Incest?

[edit] "The Disappointment Project"

Can anyone verify that this is indeed one of White's works? I have never heard of it; there is no book of that title in the Library of Congress; there are no copies on AddAll.com or Amazon.com; a few White book jackets that I checked do not refer to it; and Google searching brings up only references to the Wikipedia bibliography. Barnabypage 13:15, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I have provisionally removed it by commenting it out. Obviously, if anyone knows for sure that it is really one of White's works, go ahead and reinstate it! Barnabypage 15:18, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I have now received an email from Edmund White confirming that he didn't write a book of this name. Barnabypage 21:07, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Added some of White's anthology appearances, divided work into Fiction/Nonfiction categories, added link to White's home page. Heyfoureyes 01:25, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg

I found Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg and noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. Someone will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If it was obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

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Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 04:52, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg

Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg

Image:A-boys-own-story.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Incest?

"His father was having sex with his sister" - this seems to be an exaggeration if you read My Lives. I'm changing it to "had sex with his sister" --Totorotroll (talk) 11:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)