Talk:Beggars in Spain

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More NPOV,

esp at the beginning and end, would improve this already good article. Thx, "alyosha" 07:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I removed this passage from the end of the article:

Beggars in Spain combines compelling character work with a similarly compelling view of a world altered by genetic modification (and, to a lesser extent, cold fusion, though this does not receive as much fanfare; it probably could have been left out). It addresses the age-old question of how humans react when a minority holds power. At heart, though, it asks a simple moral question: what do we owe the Beggars in Spain? And, if we suddenly find that we are those beggars, what might we demand?

This passage was just too much. Without referenced sources to back this assertion up, it appears to be in violation of WP:NPOV and possibly WP:OR. I've also thrown in a "citation needed" tag for a possibly POV assertion at the top of this article. -- Antepenultimate

Translations

There is also one that appeared in Hebrew, called קבצנים בספרד, kabtzenim be'seferad, beggars in Spain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.125.57.145 (talk) 02:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speculation

If any source has made this link, it needs sourcing, otherwise it is OR:

"The introduction to this page states that Beggars in Spain "is often hailed for its predictions of emerging technologies and society." Such an emerging technology was reported in the New York Times on August 14, 2009, Page A11. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/health/research/14sleep.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Mutation%20Tied%20to%20Need%20for%20Less%20Sleep&st=cse) This article, by Tara Parker-Pope, a regular contributor to the NY Times on medical issues, discusses the recent discovery of two people with a mutated gene that apparently allows them to function naturally with 6 hours of sleep, rather than the 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep the average person needs. This finding would be enough to create a link to the books by itself, but it is the last paragraph in the article that provides the strongest link. Ms. Parker-Pope quotes Dr. Fu, a neurology professor and a co-author of the study being reported: "Dr. Fu said her 'fantasy' was that the finding might eventually lead to a safe treatment for people who wanted or needed more awake hours and were looking for a way to get by on less sleep without harming their health." One wonders if Dr. Fu has read "Beggars in Spain" and how she would compare her fantasy of a sleepless gene with the richly realized fantasy of such a gene in the book by Ms. Kress."

Removed year of sequel from template "[f]ollowed by" section of template

I'm not sure if that was the right thing to do or not. Could anyone please let me know if it was?--Thylacine24 (talk) 11:34, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]