Talk:Stephen Richards (author)

Personal Attack style of article

This article reads like a personal attack on the subject, especially towards the end.

E.g. quote: The crime books often contain what appears to be long incoherent rants, often lasting for one or two paragraphs. Indeed, with reference to Richards' proclivity for veering off into unconnected tangents every other sentence, the reading of one early crime book was likened to listening to a 'drunk vagrant'. His prose, punctuation and continuity are regularly of primary school standard, betraying Richards' minimal education. And factually, the crime books were questionable to say the least. Much was written about a Tyneside villain's assault on a fellow doorman. But it wasn't until Richards' third book on the subject, that he seemed to discover who was actually at the scene. Richards' publications have regularly been considered to be some of the worst books ever written. Richards announced that he was in the casting stage for a film based on one of the characters from his crime books, but not for the first time, this turned out to be mostly fantasy. Richards has claimed within his writing to be from Manchester, where he claimed to have a property empire, but it is common knowledge that he is from the North East of England. Although this could be due to cosmic ordering, (his new pet subject, following accusations that he'd simply 'lived off the back' of deceased 'North East' hardmen for a decade.) Amongst his hobbies is editing Wikipedia, being chiefly responsible for his own spurious inclusion on the website.

This is an extremely lazy and outrageously biased style of articulation that lacks objectivity has no place in an enyclopedia. So I deleted it.

The information is without any shadow of a doubt, correct. I challenge you to list JUST ONE piece of information from the above piece that is incorrect. The books are risible, incoherent rants and have been widely criticized. You should actually attempt to read one of these abominations. Read the interviews that didn't take place! Read the UNBELIEVABLE, unconnected rant about The Metrocentre not being in Newcastle, and therefore the Newcastle inhabitants couldn't "claim it".... As if that has EVER HAPPENED! As if anyone in that area cares! Read the differing accounts of the same events from book to book. "Extremely lazy"? An irrelevant phrase included simply as a negative, which is "outrageous" given the ostensible objections listed here. "Biased"? It is fact without error. I'd wager it took you 48 hours just to write that sentence. I'd also wager, given that your ONLY edits are on the page of a little known, obscure, talentless writer of North East England crime, that your identity, if exposed, would indeed verify the final sentence of the criticized paragraph. Utterly laughable! I could easily reinstate this with references if I could afford to waste any more of my life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.95.186 (talk) 21:47, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Newcastle ram raiders

Hi you wrote a book in the 1990s about the newcastle ram raiders you mentioned in your book that a pregnant 16yr old brought the gang down i am the kid that was in the 16yr old belly I am wanting to find out the story about what happened to me if that makes sense 2A00:23C8:583:B701:D0BC:531F:E58F:6B33 (talk) 02:12, 21 November 2021 (UTC)