Talk:1632 series

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  1. Timely updates needed on: List_of_science_fiction_novels#1632verse titles

[edit] Assiti Shards Multiverse Articles

  1. Assiti Shards series
  2. Assiti shards Multiverses

[edit] Miscellaneous Articles and tasks

  1. Many Worlds hypothesis
  2. [[Category: Books available as ebooks]] -- Nds research, and article hopping to apply cat to articles, and check versus other missing categories.

[edit] 1632-verse articles

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  1. 1632 (novel)                  -- fabartus,
  2. 1632 series                  -- fabartus,
  3. 1633 (novel)                  -- fabartus,
    1. Ring of Fire (anthology)
  4. The Grantville Gazettes          -- fabartus,
    1. Grantville Gazette I Note: May want to make the title Grantville Gazette primarily cover the serialized eMagazine and the title Grantville Gazette I refer to the eBook and printed release. 4/27/06
    2. Grantville Gazette II - new 5/15/06
    3. Grantville Gazette III - new 5/15/06
    4. Grantville Gazette IV - new 4/27/06
    5. Grantville Gazette V - new 4/27/06
    6. Grantville Gazette VI - new 4/27/06
    7. Grantville Gazette VII - new 4/27/06
    8. Possible seperate articles in subpage format by volume# of GG scope. Or a section on 'quasi-factual' tech development (neoTech)
    9. Grantville Gazette VIII - empty - but work in production 4/27/06
  5. 1634: The Galileo Affair   -- Sequel is 1635: The Cannon Law
  6. 1634: The Ram Rebellion -- fabartus,
  7. 1635: The Cannon Law ---> Completed around (after) 26 Apr 2006[1] Forthcoming October 2006, direct sequel to 1634: The Galileo Affair. Former working title: 1634: The Pope Must Die
  8. 1632-verse multiverse      -- fabartus, STUB started 13 May 2006 offline
  9. 1632 universe background history -- fabartus, STUB started 14 May 2006 adapted from the novel.
  10. 1632-verse character list    -- fabartus,
  11. Development history of the 1632 series -- currently redirect, much content is in Assiti Shards series FrankB 17:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
  12. Grantville, WV — Maps and information, sourced from 1632.org collected on the fictional town with it's fictional neohistory.
  13. Badenburg — The fictional walled town, the second state of the USE (fiction).
  14. USE (fiction) — USE and United States of Europe articles already directed with disambig notes to the series.
  15. 1632verse Probably just a redirect to the stubbed 1632-verse multiverse article, alternative is to use it as article laying out the divergent timeline of 1632 neohistory, as is favored by fabartus.
  16. 1632 Editorial Board — The first of these already beyond basic stub form
  17. 1632 Research Committee — A short article describing the people and key developments that lead to 1633 and ROF sequels and the following foment of collaborative writting, also an online community.
  18. 1632 Tech — A short article describing the forge of 1632verse, an online community. The larger community including the above, but also the emerging writers of the Grantville Gazettes.
  19. 1632 slushpile — A brief article describing the submission and peer review process
  20. 1635 ... Placeholder of announced work in progress, Need full title and author, etc.... not to mention other works planned in the year 1635.
"Temporary Files Where everyone can find them"

    

[edit] TO-DO LIST by Article Number

   

***** TO-DO Notes for the above by numbers: *****
1) Flag Ship article of starship Troopers caliber, extensive synopsis, decent historical setting, events, characters sub major and sub minor, neohistorical divergence, lots of references and cites

  

2) Highlights of everything, and the kitchen sink - ties all book article together and links to all others by way of refence to more detailed treatment, Talk is temporary Projects Page.

  

3) Will be recap, neohistorical setting at opening (CPE), synopsis, timeline segment, new characters sub major and sub minor

  

4) Needs much expanded with sections by GG vol., each will have story timeline, synopsis, author, discussion of how story elements impact main line thread, etc.

  

6) Stub article with forward from book which needs excerpted, despite permission of author.
7) CURRENT IMPLIMENTED AS A REDIRECT to Parallel_universe_(fiction) Our Article to be written so explains Assoc. w/Assiti shards, recaps beginning, holds chronological account of 1632-verse 'neohistory' which is presented in briefer form in ref (2) and introduces parrallel univcerses.

  

8) Currently holds syopsis effort on line, to hold the detailed historical background now in 1632 (novel)

  

9) Need discussion on how to format this, whether it be comprehensive Master List or be done at all.
10) Content and presentation of expanded and revised Assiti Shards series should be moved to this title and used as a See Main Article link in the history of the series sections across the whole project.

[edit] Project Categories List (1)

There is a note below exlaining this post (1). These are names we're using. These are here so you can cut them and paste them between windows eliminating typing.

DO NOT USE: [[Category: Novel sequences]] per Category talk:Novel sequences ca. 4 May 2006 this is for serialized Novels. DO NOT USE. FrankB 16:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[[Category:1632 series]] — FYI: This is new main category being applied by AWB edits at the end of April 2006 by the category 'partrol' folks. FrankB 16:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC) [[Category: Eric Flint books]]

[[Category: Alternate history timelines]]

[[Category: Assiti Shards multiverse ]]

[[Category: Books available as ebooks]]

[[Category: Fictional universes ]]

[[Category: Series of books]]

[[Category: Science fiction series ]]

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[[Category: Virtual communities]] [[Category: Science fiction websites]]

Most of the above names / links are fine. Two redlinks (Eric Flint Books) and the new generic category which was moved to a different name. See below and Piotr's talk. FrankB 01:25, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category Issue Revisited-Standards Applied

FYI: This bears on the above minor spate on categorization. This Category:1632-163x alternative-history series is now DEAD, DEAD, Dead— replaced by the title Category:1632 series.

[edit] Archived Old Talk


     Heading 'Old Business' to 'Category Issue Revisited removed to Talk:1632/Archive1 this date. Most of the text was the category name debates. I kept the later section as it recaps the outcome of the category names matter. // FrankB 09:04, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cutting of Blocked quotes

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User talk:Renata3, as a courtesy on length grounds.

Thanks for the courtesy of a heads up but I hesitate to look at what your legalistic turn of mind has 'done'. Those articles were rough enough as it was, and I'd checked with competent legal authority, BD2412 on whether it was doable for a while.

I did and do have plans to excerpt eventually into shorter passages, but there is far too much work 'serious' work on the 'series' as a whole for an (effectively) sole editor, much less one with responsibilities to four other wikiprojects (This is one sub-project, albeit unofficial, which is itself part of WPP:series which I'm trying to find time to 'revive;, hoping it will draw some help for these!)

The quoted text was Quote 'outside the work proper and not really protected by copyright' Unquote... which means GFDL and all other licensing is really moot. And that from the guy that advises the foundation and Jimbo all the time. It is of course even more 'legal' on the en.wp hosted here in the USA (Fair Use), and I somehow doubt these are going to see much high priority in the way of being adapted to ja.wp, or even fr.wp, et. al. The series could catch on abroad the way Tolkein built over the years until thirty-years later it was a hit abroad, but somehow I doubt rednecks and hillbilly American stereo types cast as protagonists will travel very far in Africa or Arabic. Not going to happen in India either. Maybe Japan, but I digress.

Nonetheless, I attributed and got permission and boxed it, save for fixing one such a copy editing as a favor for me messed with that. If you think on it, those bits are to the author and the late publishers benifit, regardless. I can see more merit in a general 'unecyclopediac' interpretation (or charge), but that's subject to counter-interpretation and editorial difference of opinion.

Frankly, all this pop-stuff is unencyclopediac, but it's in and unless very unnotable, stays in despite numerous Afd's. I still haven't had time to catch up to even begin to stub in something for the 1634: The Galileo Affair, and the next novel is out now in ebook and will see hardcover in late September or October at the latest.

I shudder... to say, you missed half of them. If you thought the initial 1632 novel prologe, which was the evolution path I was just beginning to go down as a way around explaining things the author does so much better was unsuitable, then we really do have a disagreement.

How pray tell is an attributed quote unencyclopedic? We're reporting (really just recording) 'what is therein', no interpretation needed. It's the authors own words, not our encyclopia that seems 'unencylopedic', and the readers are smart enough to draw the distinction, we were merely passing those along... much like listing the periodic table of elements or the various interpretations of nine-ten or eleven planets (or planetoids) in our solar system.

I have to think on this more, but quite a few experienced editors have been through those pages answering one question or another for me, and no one has been quite so blatantly bold so as to change it without asking about it. The legal dialog was satisfactory for them in those instances. If you want to take over or just share the burden, then well and good. I'd much rather be doing science and history, than literature, and I'm far too busy with the commons interwiki categorization project formulation at this point to really know what more to say. // FrankB 09:04, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that's a lengthy response :)
Just a simple question: how many other articles you have seen quoting lengthy passages from primary sources? Laws, prologues, interviews, books, whatever? How many real encyclopedias (Encarta, the beloved Britannica) have done that? Not too many. We even developed a separate project, the WikiSource, not to let it happen in WP. And we even have a nice page saying don't do it.
Another thingie. Quote is a couple of sentences and not as whole pages of stuff. Even yourself put all kinds of (c) in that yellow box to indicated it's copyrighted. So I don't buy "copyrights are fine" argument.
Yes, I know too well that the articles are in a horrible state, but yellow boxes with copyrighted, unencyclopedic material does not help a tiny bit. I really appreciate your devotion and efforts (to 1632 and other projects) and I hate to do it (believe it or not). I am reading the Galileo affair, so I might find some time to help out.
In short, I feel very strongly about it. Renata 15:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Exchange_2

Sorry about the length. I get that way when tired.
The help would be truly good and very welcome. My point is/was the quotes were informative to someone trying to find something out about the books... and concurrently respectful of my limited time to volunteer to diverse wikiProjects... I'm now hip deep in several such sub-cultures. I'm afraid overall, that guidelines are good when a stub is matured, but these were just stubs.
I really haven't had nor do I have today time to take a deep look at what you did. I really just got back into this after letting it sit nearly six weeks over other commitments on the commons, etc. The break gave me some fresh insights as to how to organize, and p/o that is revitalizing WPP:series, another 'responsibility' that is a Right thing that I don't need at the moment... but there you have it. Someone needs to do something to kick start it! SO do drop in and help.
I just did what seemed best as a temporary measure for something that is growing incredibly fast now that the kinks are out of the milieu design, as it were... GG#8 is out in e-version and I haven't gotten into VI and VII yet, save for skimming for this need. Time presses. I'm not really upset. Was late and very tired when it 'Hit me', I'd figured this would happen eventually. But this is a case of Finagle's law—a worst possible moment for me. See: user:fabartus/tmp2 for distraction insights. Best regards // FrankB 19:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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