Talk:Christopher D. Patton

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I am the creator of the "Christopher D. Patton" page. It's my contention that he fits the notability guidelines for posting on Wikipedia. The following is the relevant guideline that I've copied from the Wikipedia page on notability for writers: "Published authors, editors and photographers who received multiple independent reviews of or awards for their work." Patton has won numerous awards, including the Bernard F. Connors Prize from the prestigious journal The Paris Review (the prize has its own entry on Wikipedia, in which Patton's name currently appears as the 2000 winner) and residencies at highly selective colonies such as Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. His anthologized poems have been reviewed online and by outlets as august as the Times Literary Supplement. He is a young, emerging poet, but he is clearly worthy of notice, according to the typical standards and measures of the literary field.Cdiacono 01:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)Cara Diaconoff

Hi Cara,

I think he's certainly notable enough (winning the prize, at the very least, counts as an assertion of notability and the tag has to be removed in any case, even if others may be added), but I'd like to know where you got the information about the author, since you're not the person in question. Did you get it from his webpage, or a review of him? It'd be nice to verify the information on him with reliable sources. ColourBurst 05:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, ColourBurst and others--

He doesn't have a webpage, but there is information online about him, as well as mentions in omnibus review articles of the anthology *The New Canon.* I tried adding a link to one of these pages under "References."

Once his forthcoming books are actually published, I can add links to the publishers' sites. I hope that'll help.

Thanks for your help.

CaraCdiacono 20:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)