Talk:Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon additions

I am the subject of the biography, and I have added some links and corrected minor information. I am willing to remove this material in order to get rid of the "conflict of interest" tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaon (talk • contribs) 07:55, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

SmokeLong links

Links to stories and interviews that appear in SmokeLong were removed, apparently because I was the person who added them, and I am the editor of SmokeLong. That said, I've added other links for authors to other interviews and stories in other literary magazines that have a similar relevance to SmokeLong, and those have not been removed. Should SmokeLong not be considered for relevant links just because one of its editors happens to be a Wikipedia editor as well? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveClapper (talk • contribs) 19:50, 20 November 2007 (UTC) It's been a week, and I've seen no objections, so links have been re-added.DaveClapper (talk) 20:41, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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Why delete both sources for Omaha birthplace?

User:Kuru, why did you delete both sources for Chaon's Omaha birthplace?

Background - In drafting this I found 2 sources saying he was born in Sidney - a Lincoln, Nebraska library bio and his own website - and 2 sources saying he was born in Omaha - a Cleveland, Ohio library bio and a Prabook.com profile. In drafting, I thought the best approach was to put out all possible sources for this conflict, though some (the two library bios) are better than others.

You deleted both sources for Omaha as "user editable content with explicit disclaimers of accuracy" and replaced them with the "citation needed" tag. I get that for the Prabook.com profile, but how is the Ohio library less reliable than the Nebraska one? If anything else among these four sources is non-RS, it would be his personal website - though I tend to think that's OK for something as factual and basic as birthplace. Please explain here or undo your deletion of the ref to the Ohio library source. (Or I can undo your edit.)

Thanks. Sullidav (talk) 13:20, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

The Ohio link was removed in error as I was removing the prabook links; slip of the highlighting tool. My apologies. Kuru (talk) 13:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Some open questions

I did a bunch of reading to expand this page and, as regularly happens, sources did not completely agree on basic facts. Any help in unraveling any of these discrepancies, including from user:Chaon himself, is welcome.

• Where in Nebraska was DC born, Sidney or Omaha? (opposite ends of the state!) As noted above, sources differ on this.
• How old were DC and SS when they met at Northwestern? I cited the PD article saying he was 19, she was 30, but as I noted in her talk page, it seems like she was at least 31, apparently her age when she started teaching at Northwestern (unless, for example, she bailed on year 2 of her 2-year Stanford fellowship).
• When were DC and SS married, 1988 or 1989? The Cleveland library site (an RS but not one that feels great in dependability) says 1988, but the non-RS Prabook.com says the very specific 6/4/89. Maybe just drop the date?
• When did DC and SS move to Cleveland for SS to begin work at Cleveland State, 1990 or 1991? Sources differ. I just went with the 1990 ones here. (And sometimes facts are more mooshy than numbers.)
• Did DC teach at Ohio University before Oberlin, and when? The Nebraska Authors site says he also worked as "Assistant Professor of English, Ohio State University, Athens, OH". If there is any accuracy behind this incorrect conflation of OSU in Columbus and OU in Athens, it probably means OU, because SS taught there before Cleveland State, and because adding "State" seems like a more understandable mistake than moving OSU to Athens. Most likely timing would seem to be after his Syracuse MA, before his move to Cleveland, so maybe he taught at OU during 1900-91 if Cleveland move was 1991. Not enough documentation and too much ambiguity to add anything to article now.
• Was his "Illustrated History ..." story published in both the 2000 and 2002 Pushcart annual volumes? That's what both his website ("Another work, “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom” was featured in anthologies twice - first in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2000) and then in The Pushcart Prize 26 (2002).") and the Lincoln library site say, but that does not make sense, and it looks (from WorldCat) like the 2002 Pushcart volume instead included his "Seven Types of Ambiguity". Can be confirmed from the actual Pushcart books.

Sullidav (talk) 14:29, 23 August 2021 (UTC)