Talk:Famous American artists

Joachin; Rudolf Nureyev was a dancer, not Rudolph Valentino. And Pet. Clarke is a Brit. And when the link to Stephen Schwartz is activated we get the writer. AlanE 22:17, 19 November 2008 (EST)

OK, working on it. Thank you! --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 06:42, 20 November 2008 (EST)

Standards for Inclusion?

While I'm thankful for your efforts to class this place up with your articles on art and artists, I'm rather perplexed as to how you're choosing the folks you feature here. While "famous" and "artist" are inherently subjective terms, by almost any standard many of your choices are--frankly--bizarre. Take the Musicians category, for example--Steve Lawrence and Ethelbert Nevin? I can't imagine any discussion in which they'd be more famous or more artistic or more influential than a plethora of people not on the list (from Louis Armstrong to Frank Zappa). Or the Writers category--you list Bayard Taylor and Stephen King and Chuck Palahniuk, but leave off Steinbeck and Melville and Hawthorne and Emerson and Dickinson and Frost and any number of others? The other categories have similar issues to some degree or other. I think you need to focus your efforts, decide on a standard of some sort, and ask for help/opinions. I am reluctant to make wholesale changes here, as this is largely your baby, but I am more than happy to assist. --RossC 22:38, 21 November 2008 (EST)

May be you could help also with some red links. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 07:25, 22 November 2008 (EST)

With all due respect, mate, if Steve Lawrence doesn't disappear from the list within a day, I am going to do it myself, which will ruin the looks of that lovely line of "Joaquín Martínez (Talk | contribs)etc" on the history page and slow down by one your rush towards the 25,000contribs total (which I sometimes think you will reach by Christmas. :)) I really do wish you hadn't included him because I have not been able to stop humming "Go away, Little Girl" since I saw him there three days ago and the family is starting to talk about leaving home! So please, Joaquín....! AlanE 14:29, 23 November 2008 (EST)