Talk:Cory Doctorow

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This article is really bitty. One of us needs to take a long hard look at the content and shape it into something more readable. Even if the guy is a polymath, he deserves a more structured profile. Onanoff (talk) 00:19, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I’m starting the process. The recent tagging was not helpful. Viriditas (talk) 23:26, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

I recently went through the edit history and the article, looking at the maintenance tags and the many citation needed and third party source needed tags. What's weird, is that not a single tag was found to be valid, so I removed every last one of them. In the one instance that I did find a problem, that problem remains in the article and was never tagged. It concerns the quote by Doctorow sourced to Answers.com about his relationship with E.L. While I think there's a high likelihood this quote is real and that the subject even added it, I've been unable to confirm or verify it. I did, however, place a supporting ref in a new sentence just after it, giving it weight. We're not supposed to link or reference answers.com so I think this should be removed. Viriditas (talk) 23:14, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]