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I write to note some significant changes I've made to this page. The most obvious, but I imagine least contentious, is separating the information into Biography and Writing career sections.
I also found that because all references were clustered at the end, it was very hard to parse the relationship, if any, between an assertion in the article and a reference. I did my best to preserve any text for which I understood there to be a corresponding citation with the following exceptions (diff, for easier comparison):
Perhaps this was included to, say, support biographical information, but because all citations were clustered and no page parameter was entered, I removed it. The use of the cite book template (without ref tags) is optional in a bibliography, so perhaps that's where it could eventually live.
Both Locus Magazine and John Langan are notable, but the review does not appear to contain any information cited in the article. I considered adding this to External links, but it would likely be more appropriate to include in an article specific to Apart in the Dark, were one to exist.
This reads essentially like a press release about the book, and contains just 101 words outside of the excerpt; I couldn't discern a relationships between the source and the article here, either, and removed it.
I could see this being a citation for some mention in the article of where her books have been written up, but it didn't appear that such a mention existed, so I removed it for now.
This is another source that I could see belonging in something like a "reception" section, if such a thing is pro forma for biographies as well as books, or as part of a sentence that simply describes notable publications in which her work has been reviewed generally. I'm happy to add that once I've done more research into that practice!
Outside of citations, I made one meaningful change and one more omission:
As I understand it, Seed was indeed optioned by Amazon Studios, but I can find no record of the adaptation actually having been made. I see an IMDB entry about Ahlborn for which "Seed" and "The Seed" are links under "Known for" but the former states basically that the project is in development and locks the rest of the information behind a subscription, while the latter appears to be referring only to a couple of trailers.
I removed "making the Bram Stoker Award Recommendations list from the Horror Writers Association" because, per the BSA submissions page, this is just the preliminary step to novels becoming nominees for the award. I can't find guidance on the threshold for inclusion, but my intuition based on what I'm accustomed to reading on other writers' biographies is that notability is based work either earning awards or being among finalist nominees for awards. In case another editor disagrees, I tracked down a source.
My thanks to everyone who's worked on this article (and anyone who's made it through this post)! – spida-tarbell ❀ (talk) (contribs) 00:17, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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