Talk:Joy Williams (American writer)

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Hang on

I did not create the page, but Joy Williams is a real published, well respected, and award-winning author of short stories. I don't have time right this minute to expand the article, but I or the article's creator will provide supporting information very soon. Please do not delete. --ShelfSkewed talk 22:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added the speedy tag. It only had one line of text and no assertion, but I probably should have given the author a minute. All fixed, tags removed. --Tractor kings fan 22:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion

Nice job expanding this article out, ShelfSkewed. I may do some more research on Williams to add some more detail, but it reads pretty well now. Larry Dunn 22:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I just added the usual basic bio info & the Wikipedia bells & whistles. Some deeper treatment of her work is certainly needed. --ShelfSkewed talk 03:45, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Added a source

I added a source from a book on American literature in the 80s, so had to rejigger the references section a bit. I took a crack at making the refs work, but please feel free to wikify further.Larry Dunn 22:11, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section:

Cite templates will be used where possible.
Tables may be used to organise short stories, poems and/or book reviews.
I prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, rather than "title case".
Links (either direct or indirect) to potentially unreliable or incomplete digitised copies and to booksellers may be removed.

This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 11:40, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]