Talk:Neil Gaiman

MirrorMask cleanup
Just finishing off the last bit of the Post-2004 cleanup. Andrew said on Current events: "Neil Gaiman should be safe though because we also have a mention in one of his stories, and though his page fails to mention it, his 1997 Neverwhere was optioned, so his page can be improved to be more interesting (and he's a celebrity unlike the other writers, and as such there's still lots of interviews and speeches and writings which could be culled for relevant stuff)."

I'm not sure that those things add up to being relevant, though. Here's how I see it:


 * Yes, he mentions Miss Piggy in a story, but all the other pages in the Book Mentions category are about the books, not about the writer. Judged on its own terms, "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories" isn't one of Gaiman's major works. It's also just using the name as a punchline rather than actually talking about the Muppets in a substantial way. (Compare this to the paragraph-long critique of The Muppet Movie in The Areas of My Expertise.) This is a good note on an existing page, but I don't think it's notable enough for its own page.


 * Ditto on Neverwhere being optioned -- we don't make pages for Optioned Properties authors. For example -- we don't have pages for Daniel Pinkwater or Beatrix Potter, who are just as much "celebrities" as Gaiman is.

So we have several things to say about Gaiman -- optioned Neverwhere, mentioned Piggy in a story, wrote MirrorMask. On their own, none of those are enough for a page, and I don't think that you can add them up and make someone notable that way. What do you guys think? -- Danny (talk ) 20:44, March 16, 2010 (UTC)