Talk:Philip Wylie

Gladiator link

Here is "Gladiator" at Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/Gladiator_261 69.224.122.251 (talk) 11:04, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

incorrect citation

Wylie's book Sons and Daughters of Mom is a nonfiction work not a novel. It is his last follow-up to Vipers. Other web sites incorrectly list it as a novel. Additionally, the article "The" is not in the title. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.196.109.230 (talk) 07:30, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Unclear

I edited the sentence "Writing as he did when less potent technology was available, he applied engineering principles and the scientific method quite broadly in his work." It was unclear what the first half of the sentence meant. Technology less potent than what? And what does the availability of only "less potent" technology have to do with his tendency to "apply engineering principles and the scientific method quite broadly in his work"? It now reads as, "He applied engineering principles and the scientific method quite broadly in his work." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.115.61.131 (talk) 12:05, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Good edit! I've been meaning to fix that sentence for years. "Less potent" indeed; Wylie was an advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission. GroveGuy (talk) 16:33, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

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Meaning of sentence

What does this mean: "The Disappearance shows s thinking on the subject is very complex."? It is in the "Early life and career" section. 96.235.173.81 (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2020 (UTC)DaMicheal Bullock

I have corrected the sentence to read, "The Disappearance shows his thinking on the subject is very complex." My understanding of the sentence is that it is pointing out that the plot of The Disappearance shows that Wylie's views on women were more complicated than calling him a misogynist would indicate. - Donald Albury 03:26, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section:

• Cite templates will be used where possible.
• Tables may be used to organise short stories, poems and/or book reviews.
• I prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, rather than "title case".
• Links (either direct or indirect) to potentially unreliable or incomplete digitised copies and to booksellers may be removed.

This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 12:11, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Re capitalization: I'm not familiar with how this is treated under the cataloguing rules mentioned, so don't know what following them would mean in practice – but the Manual of Style does specify title case as the widely accepted standard to follow for capital letters in English-language works in English Wikipedia. — Protalina (talk) 19:54, 13 July 2024 (UTC)