Talk:Terry Dowling

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Kathrynll 21:55, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Original Terry Dowling pages was very dense text, mostly apparently sourced from his website (making it's use on wikipedia a copyright infringement). Have cleaned up the bio information, but the section on published works is unchanged. It's my opinion that discussion of each story shouldgo on a page for that story rather than on this page. Some statements remain unverified.

[edit] contested statement removed

• He has been genre reviewer for The Weekend Australian newspaper for the past seventeen years.{{Fact|date=December 2006}} <!-- Dates would be better here -->

Please don't replace this information in the article without a citation,--BirgitteSB 15:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

It would be safe to say: "He is currently sf genre reviewer for The Weekend Australian newspaper." Which is hardly contentious. --Perry Middlemiss (talk) 04:17, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

It was tagged as part of this massive edit. But I think it the time frame was all the was contentious they would have just re-worked it as you suggested rather than putting a {{fact}} tag there. After all they re-worked a great deal of the article in that edit. It would be best if you could simply cite a source for this information. I really don't know what is contentious only that a source was requested a year and a half ago.--BirgitteSB 21:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)