Talk:The Gay Place

A fact from The Gay Place appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 July 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the book that Willie Morris called the "best novel about American politics in our time" was never a commercial success?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Gay Place.

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DYK Nomination[edit]

I guess the fact nothing is showing up here anymore is that the nomination was accepted, and moved from the nomination page to the backlog queue.--ubiquity (talk) 16:40, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Image caption[edit]

"Governor Arthur Fenstemaker (Jackie Gleason) and legislator Roy Sherwood (Paul Newman) share a drink in an imaginary scene from the unmade film of The Gay Place." Uh, if it's imaginary and unmade, how do we have a photo of it? PumpkinSky talk 02:38, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fake image from a fake movie. Needs to be deleted.PumpkinSky talk 02:40, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"One of the best American political novels ever written"[edit]

I restored the sentence in the introduction on critical response to the book, removed by Zaldax (talk | contribs) . This opinion is widely held, well-cited, establishes notability on what might be an obscure topic to some, and summarizes more detailed content found later in the article. According to WP:POV, "it is appropriate to note how an artist or a work has been received by prominent experts and the general public." --ubiquity (talk) 09:17, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very strong statement, though, and seeing as how this book isn't a household name I think this statement really needs more than one source. I deleted it as POV because it's easy to find a single source praising something; that's really the sort of thing that needs more than one source to back it up. If this is done, than I've no problem with it. Cheers, Zaldax (talk) 13:09, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, looking at the source, I noticed it comes from University of Texas Press, aka the publisher. Yeah, that's definitely gonna need another source.... Zaldax (talk) 13:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have lots of other sources, please give me a few days to find them. --ubiquity (talk) 07:55, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It didn't take me as long as I thought it would. I added seven sources, each asserting that it is one of the best political novels ever written; please let me know if you think it needs more. --ubiquity (talk) 08:30, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]