Talk:Ghostwriter
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Make Wikipedia better by backing up the information in this article with sources. I am especially curious to see some sort of verification that certain major authors have used ghostwriters, as mentioned in the article. --DeanoNightRider 06:48, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Last edit by 68.169.242.117
I revert an valuable yet controversial contribution (see difference) made by the user 68.169.242.117 (signed Claudia Suzanne) becouse:
- It is not written in encyclopedic style
- It removes mindlessly a big part of work of previous contributors (not in Wikipedia spirit)
- It is done from IP guilty of vandalism
- It is signed in a way that looks like a publicity of her ghostwriter services
Still I suggest editors of the article to look at her contribution, becouse of maybe some valuable ideas -- DariuszT 04:26, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
This article is very unencyclopedic, and looks unprofessional. The large edit made by "Claudia Suzanne" didn't look much better (From what little I read), but should probably be merged in without the advertising.
[edit] Cecil Adams
Obviously some decision needs to be made on whether Cecil Adams should be included in the list of ghostwriting teams. I say he should be left out, precisely because there is disagreement on the subject: there are enough uncontroversial examples without struggling over the inclusion of a controversial one. --Paul A 02:12, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Novilization" of Star Wars books
Unless my memory is faulty, I seem to remember a different author for every Star Wars movie-turned-book, seeing as Terry Brooks wrote the novel Star Wars: Episode I, based on the movie, and another author wrote Episode II. I can't seem to find these books anywhere, though, to confirm my memory... I'll check amazon.com or some place later. [unsigned]
Ghostwriter status in the Star Wars series only applies to Star Wars Episode 4. If I recall correctly, this book, like the movie was originally tiled "Star Wars". The other movie novilizations along with all of the expanded universe ones were directly corrected to their authors. Joncnunn 18:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ghostwriting in music
Why does the article make no reference to ghostwriting in music - specifically rap music? Is there a similar page for that?Illuminattile 21:46, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Ghostwriting in music should be mentioned somwhere. Especially in rap, it's kind of the hip hop industry's dirty little secret that a lot of big time rappers employ ghostwriters for their rhymes (and remember, it's not like most of these rap guys play instruments or produce their own tracks, so if they are not writing their rhymens what exactly are they contributing?) Royce Da 5'9 publicly stated that he wrote tracks for Dr. Dre's album Chronic 2001, after which Dr. Dre and Eminem dissolved their relationship w/ Royce (presumably because he let the cat out of the bag that Dre doesn't write his own rhymes). The Onion AV Club just ran a blog post about this issue : http://www.avclub.com/content/node/54276
[edit] Pen Names
The section on pen names doesn't really look like it belongs to this article. Wouldn't it be more logical to put this in the Pen name article and link to it from here? Anguis 03:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
