Well, apparently, Phillip Roth is not considered a "credible source" according to the Wikipedia administrators....I would consider this response if Roth was attempting to edit the Wikipedia page for Lightsabers but the dude sent a correction in referencing his book The Human Stain. Apparently a nice chunk of literary gossip had been added to the Wiki entry about The Human Stain (since been amended):
In the 2,655-word letter, Roth explains instead that the character of Coleman Silk was instead based on the experience of a friend of his, whose own ill-chosen remark, made while teaching at Princeton in 1985, was also seen as a racial epithet.
In the letter, Roth describes this as "the initiating incident" of The Human Stain: "There is no novel without it. There is no Coleman Silk without it."
By contrast, Roth says of Anatole Broyard: "He and I barely knew each other. Over more than three decades, I ran into him, casually and inadvertently, maybe three or four times before a protracted battle with prostate cancer ended his life, in 1990."
Apparently the wikipedia adminstrators (gods) not only declared Phillip Roth...author of The Human Stain "not a credible source" they also demanded second source and refused to amend the error in the Wiki page. If you ask me that is some extreme stupidity and arrogance on their part. Telling an author that he/she is not a credible source that is just way bad and kinda of sad.
Read more here (BBC News)
In the 2,655-word letter, Roth explains instead that the character of Coleman Silk was instead based on the experience of a friend of his, whose own ill-chosen remark, made while teaching at Princeton in 1985, was also seen as a racial epithet.
In the letter, Roth describes this as "the initiating incident" of The Human Stain: "There is no novel without it. There is no Coleman Silk without it."
By contrast, Roth says of Anatole Broyard: "He and I barely knew each other. Over more than three decades, I ran into him, casually and inadvertently, maybe three or four times before a protracted battle with prostate cancer ended his life, in 1990."
Apparently the wikipedia adminstrators (gods) not only declared Phillip Roth...author of The Human Stain "not a credible source" they also demanded second source and refused to amend the error in the Wiki page. If you ask me that is some extreme stupidity and arrogance on their part. Telling an author that he/she is not a credible source that is just way bad and kinda of sad.
Read more here (BBC News)
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