Talk:Edgardo Vega Yunqué

Tags on Article

The tags in this article were placed without any discussion or explanation, and they do not address the specific merits of this article.

One of the tags alleges "a close connection to the subject" by a major contributor. However, any edits or improvements made to this article after the author died (August 26, 2008) could not stem from a "close connection with the subject," since the subject is dead.

Another tag questions the article's neutrality. At present, the article contains in-line references and direct quotes from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The New York Post, Newsday, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Unless the editor who placed these tags is a literary critic, and wishes to refute these sources in the pages of the above-mentioned publications, this tag is not warranted.

MBernal615 (talk) 19:30, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

• I'm coming into this late, but for your information, you are pretty much incorrect on every point. Death does not cancel connection. You have self-identified as someone who knew "Ed" for some time, and have expressed concern that "Ed" was not here to "defend himself". A bizarre choice of words, since the tags were not attacks. Neutrality is violated if all the quoted reliable sources are cherry-picked to tell one side of the story. Moreover, WP:NPOV requires language to be as close to the raw facts as possible, with as little embellishment as possible.

• In addition, the quote-farming should be eliminated, and I'm introducing that tag first. Choor monster (talk) 11:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Clean up needed

I agree the article needs clean up. The article has read like a puff piece for too long. The Critical acclaim section can be trimmed, now that two book articles are in existence. (Note that I created the Bill Bailey article with Cause, not Cauze, and it needs an admin to rename the page.) The links to the book should be left red, of course, and they will automatically become blue. Choor monster (talk) 23:00, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Change the article title

The article title should be "Edgardo Vega Yunqué", not "Ed Vega". His novels were all published under his full name, the reviews all used his full name (and some of them called him "Yunqué"), his obituaries used his full name. "Ed Vega" is/was mostly used by friends and family. At least, that's what I found using Google and some newspaper searches.

• Correction: his first novel, The Comeback, was published under the name "Ed Vega". Choor monster (talk) 16:33, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

The level of puffery is such that I am assuming this article was created by a friend of Vega Yunqué. Meanwhile I believe this move is non-controversial, and will carry this out in a day or two if no one else does. However, I am waiting to hear of any objections. Choor monster (talk) 23:08, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Done. Article moved. Mercy11 (talk) 19:39, 26 February 2014 (UTC)