Talk:J. Yellowlees Douglas

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Proposed deletion of J. Yellowlees Douglas

There are no sources and I'm not sure that the author passes WP:ARTIST or WP:PROF. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 06:24, 1 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

This author is much cited in discussions of the early hypertext era, so passes the WP:PROF notability test. There are now substantive references, and many more could be added as this page is expanded and improved (it's still just a longish start-class page).Alafarge (talk) 17:50, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Additions

I would like to change the opening of this bio to emphasize Douglas's role in early hypertext:

J. Yellowlees Douglas is a pioneer author and scholar of hypertext fiction. She began writing about hypermedia in the late 1980s, very early in the development of the medium. Her 1993 fiction "I Have Said Nothing", was one of the first published works of hypertext.

And under writings I would like to edit the last paragraph to the following:

Douglas's hypertext fiction "I Have Said Nothing" is bookended by two car crashes and the resulting deaths. Douglas's goal was to use the fragmentations of hypertext to explore both causality and the enormous gulfs that separate people from one another.[7] Designed in Storyspace, the work offers readers a variety of strategies for navigation: a "cognitive map", links in the text, a default narrative line, and a navigation menu of available paths.[8] Hypertext author Stuart Moulthrop called the work "superb...finely balanced between savagery and sympathy".[7]

8: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/pmaf/hypertext/ihsn/are_we_reading.html

Wluers (talk) 22:59, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Add A Fact: "J. Yellowlees Douglas e-lit artist"

I found a fact that might belong in this article. See the quote below

Author of the hypertext narrative “I Have Said Nothing” (1994) and the critical work The End of Books or Books Without End or Books Without End, J. Yellowlees Douglas is 1 of 2 e-lit artists whose work was published in W. W. Norton & Co.’s Postmodern American Fiction #womenofelit

The fact comes from the following source:

https://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2020/02/29/celebrating-women-in-e-lit/

Here is a wikitext snippet to use as a reference:

 {{Cite web |title=Celebrating Women in E-Lit |url=https://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2020/02/29/celebrating-women-in-e-lit/ |website=Electronic Literature Lab |access-date=2024-10-05 |language=en-US |quote=Author of the hypertext narrative “I Have Said Nothing” (1994) and the critical work The End of Books or Books Without End or Books Without End, J. Yellowlees Douglas is 1 of 2 e-lit artists whose work was published in W. W. Norton & Co.’s Postmodern American Fiction #womenofelit}}

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LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 20:52, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]