Talk:Barry Hughart

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Email

Should we really include his email in the article? It seems a bit problematic to me. --Kristjan Wager 11:55, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Me too. I've sent an email to that address asking (1) if it is his address and (2) whether he really wants it displayed here. No reply yet. Cheers, CWC(talk) 03:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a reply. Mr Hughart expressed no objection to retaining that address. (He also mentioned that there is a faint possibility of an animated version of Bridge of Birds — here's hoping!)

I'd be happier with that address removed, personally. What do other editors think?

Cheers, CWC(talk) 09:04, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it. This is an encyclopedic article, not a bulletin board. Odedee (talk) 21:34, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly I kind of wish it were still posted just so I could find some way to plead with him to continue the series. These novels were so wonderful that I ended up finding this page because I was a bit depressed about just finishing them and was desperate to see if he'd written anything else. Bridge of Birds especially was one of the best stories I've found in years. But I can see how authors would like a little privacy from readers who are maybe a bit too fanatical, so I'll settle for hoping he sees this plea somehow or receives some heavenly mandate and stroke of genius to finish out the series with better publishers... --L0ugar0us (talk) 02:28, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While expanding our quote from the foreword BH wrote for Subterranean Press, I noticed that he recently added his email address (yrrab@spearnet.net) back into the article, so I'm now happy to include it. (I know that user:Yrrab is Mr. Hughart from the email exchange mentioned above.) I've put it at the end of the Background section.
BTW, those of us who would love to read more Ox-and-Master-Li books are probably doomed to disappointment. The SF/F publishers tend to have problems with writers who ignore the well-beaten paths of their genre(s) — even WFA winners! See also P. C. Hodgell. (OTOH, Dr Hodgell is now being published by Baen Books (of all people!), so maybe we can hope for a similar miracle.) CWC 11:10, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't the e-mail address original research or, at best, a primary source? Also, there are reasons other than privacy to exclude phone numbers: Wikipedia is not the White Pages (#3) sums it up nicely: "Contact information such as phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses are not encyclopedic." Almost every person in the literary or performance business has either a phone, fax, and e-mail address that (s)he wants published, or that of his/her agent. Does this person have a (more?) official website that could be linked to and that gives his e-mail address? --Closeapple (talk) 00:15, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does BH have an official website? No. There's http://www.barryhughart.org/ but (1) it's run by a fan, not BH, (2) it has lots of broken links, missing images etc and (3) it does not have that email address.

Is contact information encyclopedic? No.

Is that email address of benefit to our readers? Yes, but only a few of them: those who want to email BH and BH himself, who wants people to be able to email him. (See also WP:IAR.)

Therefore I'm narrowly inclined to keep the email address, but I won't be all that upset if someone removes it. Cheers, CWC 10:52, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Death reported

http://www.barryhughart.org/ is reporting this author's death -- "It has been confirmed as of 1-Aug-2019 that Mr. Hughart has passed on." -- but I read this as the date of confirmation of death rather than necessarily the date of death. How this leads to the article's current death date of 1 September 2019 is a mystery. DeafMan (talk) 11:07, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]