Talk:Laura Amy Schlitz

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Sources[edit]

1. Library of Congress Catalog Records for all six books (2006 to 2012). I used these records as sources today but provided a formal reference only for one of them.

A Drowned Maiden's Hair
The Hero Schliemann
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
The Bearskinner
The Night Fairy
Splendors and Glooms

2. Catalog records for A Gypsy at Almack's (1993) by Chloe Cheshire

LCCat[1]
WorldCat[2]

To identify Chloe Cheshire as Schlitz we need a reference. I think we should have that simply to mention the 1993 book in this article.

3. Information about A Clamor of Children (2005), evidently a version of Good Masters!. (Note also that LCCat notes "original title" Villeins and Vermin, Simpleton and Saints for Good Masters![3].)

WorldCat[4]
Google books[5]
Horn Book Laura Amy Schlitz The Successful Writer by Mary Lee Donovan The Middle-Aged Children’s Book Editor
Answers according to "Collecting Children's Books"[6]

4. 2008 Newbery Medal acceptance speech (p148ff excluding p151)

--P64 (talk) 04:11, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:BOLD[edit]

Re: this change of mine, boldface in the infobox's awards section is unnecessary and contravenes MOS:BOLD as it tends to emphasize and draw undue attention to the awards and away from the other content in the box. Template:Infobox writer doesn't instruct the use of boldface when using {{awd}} templates. Either get consensus at the template to change the instructions, or a local consensus should be achieved here, with some argument other than "I like it better". Myriad Pro has argued that boldface makes it easier to understand, but we're talking about two lines of data for each award. And the "Notable awards" section is bolded. Also, the |pseudonym= parameter, per template instructions is to be propagated with a name, not with titles associated with those names. Note Stephen King. The specifics should be detailed in the article prose, not in the infobox. Infoboxes are too commonly misused as repositories for excessive data. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:42, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that "Infoboxes are too commonly misused as repositories for excessive data." So why is a pen name that she used once in a book written in the '90s that can be bought for 1 cent on Amazon needed in the infobox? I think just having it in the body is fine.

Do you think we can compromise on the bold issue by using bullet points instead?

Myriad Pro (talk) 21:41, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to remove the pen name from the infobox, I won't object. As for the bullets, I still don't think they're needed. When we list actors in television infoboxes, we don't use bullets, we just list the names. The awards are listed in a bolded section and I don't see that it's difficult to comprehend that there are three awards listed. If the template instructions called for either bolding or bullets, you might have a point. If we add wikilinks to the awards, that might help while keeping us in conformity with the template instructions. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:58, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think of what I just did, no bullets, no bold, just a tiny space in between each award, and putting the year on the same line as the award. I believe it still complies with template instructions. Myriad Pro (talk) 14:35, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If we're going to use a template, we should use it properly, as properly formatted data in these templates are often parsed by other mechanical means. For instance, when you search Google for "When was Tom Cruise born" or "How old is Tom Cruise?" Google might parse the data from the {{Birth date and age}} template at his Wikipedia article. Monkeying with template formatting just to make it more subjectively attractive, doesn't make much sense to me. I'd rather yield on the bullets and call it a day. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:40, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think inserting a blank line in between the templates will mess up Google or anything.... Myriad Pro (talk) 11:27, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't talking about a blank line between templates I was talking about this edit where you moved the date out of the date parameter and into the title parameter. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:46, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so can we agree it's good now? Myriad Pro (talk) 01:03, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's tolerable. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:06, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]