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I assumed there was no page before I looked and wrote in the edit history that I had created this page. Wrong again. However I thought that the summary of "Roscoe" alone of all Kennedy's works on a page which was a stub was out of place. (If any work was to be summarized it should have been his Pulitzer Prize winning novel. So I moved it to a separate page with the link already there. Kennedy is probably of deserving of better than we've done here. I also decided to incorporate Wouter's note about the MacArthur fellowship into the text of the article.Meb5319:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Last July there was a hotly contested article entitled German Organized Crime which described some crime families operating in an area north of Albany. Since some users found it hard to believe that gangsters operated anywhere in New York outside of NYC, the article was promptly, and improperly deleted. William Kennedy, who has written several books about criminal elements in Albany, has described, in brief fashion, some of the families. Although most of his work is fictional, the anecdotes are factual; and Legs, which describes the untimely killing of Legs Diamond in Albany, is a work of non-fiction. Because of this, I think it's imperative to have someone rewrite the German Organized Crime article. Perhaps the title should be changed, and the information cleaned up, but this is factual proof that the article should be rewritten.
