Talk:Roxane Gay

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Recent edits[edit]

Hi StAnselm, I wanted to touch base about two recent edits. I'm wondering first why you deleted "far-right" as a BLP violation; is there a different term you would consider more appropriate? That her decision was specifically related to his politics seems like clearly encyclopedic material, even risks misleading readers if we erase that dimension.

The other, certainly more minor question I have is about the Scrabble bit. It may not meet notability criteria, but content doesn't have to be notable, just the entry's subject, and she dedicated a whole chapter of one of her books to the topic, plus press coverage frequently mentions it (1, 2, 3, 4). For my money, that's enough coverage to rate a mention in the entry, but I welcome your thoughts. Thanks-- Innisfree987 (talk) 04:35, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, thanks. The Milo Yiannopoulos article doesn't even describe him as far-right. We could say he is "alt-right" or something like "whom Gay considers to be far-right" (but that's not in the reference provided). With the Scrabble mention, obviously "notable" in this context means "significant". If it receives significant coverage in third-party sources - fine, it should be in the article. If it's just something she writes about, probably not. But none of the references you provide give anything like significant coverage. She does not appear to have won any major competitions. She is not, by any stretch the imagination, "Roxane Gay, the Scrabble player". St Anselm (talk) 05:09, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Milo Yiannopoulos is anti-gay and very clearly a fascist, its objective. Look specifically at his debate with Vaush. 25eanglin (talk) 15:02, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity in lead[edit]

Just to settle this before it becomes an edit war, while Gay absolutely does write about Haitian issues--half of Untamed State is set there, Ayiti is literally named for the country, not to mention the subject arising periodically in her non-fiction--I suppose I do think her initial wiki-notability comes from writing primarily about other topics in Bad Feminist, and thus the MOS WP:ETHNICITY guideline that Ethnicity, religion, or sexuality should generally not be in the lead unless it is relevant to the subject's notability applies. Although now that I've written out how significantly Haiti figures into her work, I suppose the other books are points of notability as well, and so "relevant". I could go either way. Anyway, let's discuss here rather than go back and forth in the entry. Innisfree987 (talk) 16:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ping SamHolt6, MParineh, but comments welcome from all of course. Innisfree987 (talk) 16:57, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In this case, is it about ethnicity or nationality? It is correct to call Gay just 'American'? Laurier (talk) 06:46, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hunger[edit]

What is this book? To me, a memoir is nonfiction, and a novel is fiction, yet the article calls the book both a novel and a memoir.2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:15F4:353A:514A:AA90 (talk) 19:48, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the official title is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, and on that page, the word 'novel' isn't mentioned at all. I changed 'novel' to 'book'. Thank you for your attention to detail! :-) Laurier (xe or they) (talk) 06:31, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]