User talk:Smurgatroyd
Timing of PFiPP[edit]
Thanks for your clarifications on the length of Private Fears in Public Places. I propose to wait and see if anyone else adds any further comments for about a day, and then clarify the text to incorporate this. I'm a bit stuck on how to cite this information - the best proposal I can think of is to call the reference "Correspondence with Simon Murgatroyd" with a link to the relevant bit of the talk page. I hope this is okay - let me know if you have any objections or better ideas.
Whilst you're browsing Wikipedia, I've been meaning to ask you about the programme images. Would you mind if the programme images were used in the infoboxes for the play articles? (AFAIK, the images would be uploaded under Fair Use as defined here[1], so the images wouldn't need to be free copyright license. It is, I believe, legal to do this without the copyroght holder's permission, but I thought it would be polite to ask.)
Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 10:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC) (No official standing within Wikipedia, just a random user randomly contributing)
Academic texts analysing Alan Ayckbourn[edit]
Hello,
In case you haven't seen already, I'm currently giving the "Private Life" sub-section on the Ayckbourn article some attention. However, the person who originally wrote this appears to no longer contribute to Wikipedia, and it appears that the only other person who made any other significant contribution was you, if it was only a few clarifications and tweaks.
Anyway, one of the problems with this section is that it says that academic texts try to compare Alan Ayckbourn's life to his plays, but as it doesn't cite any sources I don't know which academic texts are trying to do this, or even if this assertion can be verified at all. (The two sentences at the end are a bit iffy too - they are coming close to expressing personal opinion, which is not allowed.)
Can you throw any light on this matter?
Oh, and I have now added If I Were You and Improbable Fiction articles. I hope you approve.
Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:05, 8 September 2008 (UTC)