Talk:The Prince (anthology)

Reviewing vs Abstracting

I've just read Prince of Sparta, and I'm fairly convinced that the 98% of the relevant section was accurate, but could be improved.

1. Excise the bit about Grace Jones - there's some evidence to contradict that. Grace Jones has no speech impediment. Skilly Thibodeau reads like a caricature of someone from Haiti or Barbados. If the authors intended such a comparison, I'd think it very poorly done.

2. The idea of Pournelle as Whitlock seems speculative. Refs, please, or it never happened.

3. Is the purpose of writing an entry for Wikipedia best served by an abstraction or a review? I'd suggest that a dry abstract without any commentary on the writing style and the philosophies behind it is less useful, than an entry with those additions. Without commentary, it seems flawed, as the books premises seem to need discussion.

4. Imperator, straight from the book, is Emperor. They crowned Lysander Emperor by crying out Ave Lysander Imperator

5. You need to say something about Libertarianism, or reference it, as much as you would reference Heinlein. Heinlein's ideals might be somewhat different to this, so refs needed again.

Cheers and good hunting, Justin Semmel 114.198.115.145 (talk) 19:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)