# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-poole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:47:12.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-poole"
name: "Steven Poole"
slug: "steven-poole"
description: "Steven Poole is a British author, journalist, and video game theorist. He particularly concerns himself with the abuse of language and has written two books on the subject: Unspeak (2006) and Who Touched Base in My Thought Shower? (2013)."
tagline: "British writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.28
  momentum:             0.5780346820809249
  historical:           5.953097333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/stevenpoole"
    handle:    "stevenpoole"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6615229/"
    handle:    "nm6615229"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://stevenpoole.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Poole"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "ستيڤين پول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Poole"
    title: "Steven Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "استیون پول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Poole"
    title: "Steven Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BE"
    title: "സ്റ്റീവൻ പൂൾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Poole"
    title: "Steven Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3499265"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump