Talk:Watt Key

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Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Footer template {{Persondata}} includes the hidden data

| DATE OF BIRTH     = October 28, 1970
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Does someone here have a source? --P64 (talk) 00:37, 13 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Edit request: source the Personal life section

Latest comment: 1 day ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The user below has a request that an edit be made to Watt Key. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest.
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I am Watt Key, the subject of this article, so I'm requesting this change here rather than editing the article myself.

The Personal life section has carried {{BLP unreferenced section}} since October 2021. I propose replacing the whole section with the text below. Every statement now has an independent or WP:ABOUTSELF source, and the claims I couldn't find published sources for (high school, MBA, age at first sale, number of children) have been dropped. Please remove the maintenance tag once the section is replaced.

==Personal life==
Key grew up in [[Point Clear, Alabama]], on the eastern shore of [[Mobile Bay]].<ref name="APR2026">{{cite web |last=Duggins |first=Pat |title=APR Notebook: Mobile author Watt Key on how writing runs in his family |url=https://www.apr.org/news/2026-07-01/apr-notebook-mobile-author-watt-key-on-how-writing-runs-in-his-family |publisher=[[Alabama Public Radio]] |date=1 July 2026 |access-date=5 October 2026}}</ref> He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from [[Birmingham–Southern College]].<ref name="SATA">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Key, Watt 1970– |encyclopedia=Something About the Author |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/scholarly-magazines/key-watt-1970 |via=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=5 October 2026}}</ref><ref name="APR2026" /> In his twenties he worked as a computer programmer,<ref name="wattkey">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://wattkey.com/about.html |website=Watt Key |access-date=5 October 2026}}</ref> and he was running a computer consulting business in Mobile when [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] published ''Alabama Moon'', the ninth novel he had written.<ref name="Noble2006">{{cite web |last=Noble |first=Don |title=Alabama Moon |url=https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2006-11-27/alabama-moon |publisher=[[Alabama Public Radio]] |date=27 November 2006 |access-date=5 October 2026}}</ref>

Key is married to Katie Key<ref name="SATA" /> and lives in [[Mobile, Alabama]].<ref name="wattkey" />

Sources used:

Duggins, Pat. "APR Notebook: Mobile author Watt Key on how writing runs in his family." Alabama Public Radio, 1 July 2026.
"Key, Watt 1970–." Something About the Author, Gale, via Encyclopedia.com.
Noble, Don. "Alabama Moon." Alabama Public Radio, 27 November 2006.
wattkey.com, About page (used only for uncontroversial self-description).

Thank you. Awatkinskey (talk) 17:50, 5 October 2026 (UTC)Reply