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Latest comment: 15 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
In the couple of months since User: Cameron Scott put these tags on the article, nobody else has made any comment. I've left it a while to see whether anyone would respond, but given the unstated implication of the tags (that I'm running the page as a vanity project, essentially), I'd like to see the issue cleared up.
Today I've gone through the article providing references for those elements which appeared to need them (I'm assuming that the list of books and the weblinks stand as their own citations). The "Conflict of Interest" tag is clearly more problematic, as it's clearly true that the page has been largely updated and maintained by me. (It's obvious, incidentally, that this goes on a great deal on Wikipedia -- see Special:Contributions/Afaras and Mary Ann Sieghart for a random example -- but perhaps I'm unusual in being open about it.) The crux here seems to be the words "It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page."
Now, while I'm obviously not the best judge, I've certainly done my best when updating this page to stick to objective fact rather than, for instance, puffing my books. Certainly so far nobody's popped up on the talk page and mentioned anything which specifically requires cleanup or violates NPOV. The main arguable point would perhaps be whether the quantity of the resulting material is disproportionate to my notability, but comparison with the articles for some approximate peers (see, for instance, Dale Smith (writer), Mags L Halliday and Nick Wallace, all of whom have contributed to the same fiction ranges as me and none of whom has done anything massively more notable) would suggest that it's about average.
Given all this... unless somebody points out further material that requires citations, identifies something that violates NPOV or otherwise objects, I'm proposing to remove both these tags in three weeks' time. I'll mention to the original tagger, User: Cameron Scott, that I'm doing this so that he has the opportunity to object.
