Talk:Robert Peters (writer)

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Since, I'm the one that initiated this article, I feel it's my obligation to start an initial discussion on ROBERT PETERS and ask for the advices from other editors how to improve this article. Pjt48 18:33, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Victorian scholar

I noticed the red link for Victorian scholar in the info box. I take it from the rest of the article that Peters is a scholar of Victorian literature and so have piped the link to that article. I think this makes sense. If you search for an article on classical scholar you get redirected to classics. Yaris678 (talk) 14:16, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I have just taken the word scholar out of the link. Probably better that way. Yaris678 (talk) 07:38, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

PhD

What did Peters do his PhD in? The sentence "He holds a Ph.D." is a bit short and doesn't tell you much, given that he is a professor. It might sound better if it said something like "He studied Victorian literature for his Ph.D." Yaris678 (talk) 07:48, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Actor

Has Robert Peters done any notable acting? I notice that this isn't mentioned anywhere, except in the very first sentence. If it is just a hobby of his then it’s probably best not to mention it so early in the article. Yaris678 (talk) 22:31, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello Yaris

His acting career ran parallel with his poetry performances and readings. It would be hard for me to say how illustrious is acting career was but he did countless one man performances replete with memorized scripts, costumes, lights, sets & sound tracks and many venues such as at Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles, at the Carpet Company Theatre (now defunct) in Los Angeles, at the Fine Art Theatre at UCI, St Matthews Church near Broadway NY and many more places. These performances are all well documented in RP's journals & scrapbooks replete with reviews etc which are all housed & catalogue at UCSD Mandeville Collection. I didn't want to monopolize this article and I'm hoping other folks would flesh out RP article as time goes by even though I'm an expert on RP's long productive career. Your point is well-taken. I would be delighted if you are willing to extrapolate from the small amount info I've given here to give notability to Robert Peters acting. Pjt48 (talk) 02:20, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Pjt, Based on what you have said, I think the best thing would be to remove the word "actor" from the lead and add a section to the article called "Performance", where you can talk about the things you have just mentioned. Yaris678 (talk) 16:33, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 2 April 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 23:49, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

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• Robert Peters → Robert Peters (playwright)
• Robert Peters (disambiguation) → Robert Peters

– There doesn't seem to be a clear primary topic for the name "Robert Peters". At the least, per page views and third party search results, the subject at Robert Peters (politician) seems to be a stronger candidate for primary topic than the subject currently at Robert Peters, and it doesn't seem as though any other topics listed at Robert Peters (disambiguation) quality to be the primary topic for this title either. But, at the same time, it doesn't seem as though the subject at Robert Peters (politician) is the primary topic either. So, I propose to move the disambiguation page to the ambiguous title to allow readers to determine which "Robert Peters" they are intending to locate. Steel1943 (talk) 20:29, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

• Support in concept, but playwright seems the least of his accomplishments. I suggest Robert Louis Peters [1] per WP:NATURAL, or otherwise "(academic)", "(poet)" or "(critic)" as better descriptors. Station1 (talk) 00:28, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
  • I have no opposition to this counter-proposal. Honestly, as long as the disambiguation page is moved to the base name, I'm fine with any reasonable retitling of the article currently at Robert Peters. Steel1943 (talk) 06:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nomination (no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC) and would also support other forms such as Robert Peters (scholar), Robert Peters (poet), Robert Peters (critic). Robert Peters (author) or Robert Peters (writer) if consensus were to skew toward those forms. I would oppose the full form, Robert Louis Peters, since it does not appear that any of his prolific output bears the pen name "Robert Louis Peters". —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:00, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Suppport per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 04:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
• Support Robert Peters (writer), which encompasses the various strings to his bow. Oppose Robert Louis Peters as not being his common name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:31, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

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Robert Peters (Poet and Literary Critic)

"Robert Peters (Playwright)" I honestly think his title after his name should be (Poet and Literary Critic) because he is notably known for this description as a writer whereas his notability as a playwright is less notable. I tried to amend this but I found it to be very difficult to make this change. I understand the (disambiguate) distinction but the means to get to right course of action to revised his title way too convoluted for me and I hope you set this revision right. thank you for all your illustrious effort with wikipedia Pjt48 (talk) 15:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

I have no objections (or any real input). Suggest using Talk:Robert Peters (playwright) with a new section. -- JHunterJ (talk) 17:25, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Since there do not appear any objections in the above RM to using "writer" as the qualifier, I've gone ahead and boldly moved it. Station1 (talk) 20:59, 18 May 2020 (UTC)