Talk:Soul of the Fire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to narrative novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the General Project Discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the importance scale.
Article Grading: The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Tasks you can do: Novels WikiProject Announcements and open tasks (watch • edit • discuss) → Please help with tagging articles! This WikiProject now includes "Novels", "Novellas", "Novelettes" and "Short Stories" of narrative form! Critique (Featured Article): None current - "7 achieved / 2 removed" Review: Erast Fandorin Improve: Nineteen Eighty-Five • Vathek • Enderby Outside • The Runes of the Earth • The Giver • Crown of Shadows • More... Create: Black Cocktail • Blackthorn Winter • London, 1850 • The Fatal Eggs • More... Novel without Infobox (auto list): many novel articles do not have an infobox - and need one (auto generated list) - may need expansion of article too A new policy proposal has been started and this is to be seen at Wikipedia:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles, please take a look at these and comment. This is a vital subject and all editors should consider the implications. These are NOT active yet, but could have wide reaching consequences. Please contribute your views. Our Collaboration Department is continuing with one more title Waverley (novel) for the current month. Get collaborating on the article and also look at nominating other titles to be considered. Pages that only exist as redirects: Men at Arms changes

This article is within the scope of the Sword of Truth WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

[edit] Edited

I decied to edit the story because it was only like 5 lines long. If anyone wants it changed, I won't be offended.

[edit] Tone and content

The problems of tone and content are in this article as the other individual SoT pages. Please see the Talk:Stone of Tears page for more info. NeoFreak 14:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Can you give us an example of any problems and how to fix it? King Zeal 16:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

If you follow the above link the the Stone of Tears talk page you will find an explanation of the problems. To sum it up the page doesn't read like an encyclopdic entry, it reads like a publishing blurb and a essay or story. If you would like I can dig up some articles that display a more appropriate tone in example. NeoFreak 17:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

That would be appreciated, since I don't really see the issue. King Zeal 19:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Read the plot summary of Brideshead Revisited. Notice its concise and factual tone. It lays out the major point and doesn't do so in a "story telling" format as if just recounting the book. Diamonds Are Forever (novel) is another example. Notice how it doesn't use a narrative tone and there is no first person or "we's" and "I's" and "you's". It just summarizes the plot. Are you starting to understand a little better when I say the tone and format is wrong?

Some other refrences: Wikipedia:Notability (books), WP:WAF, and the wikiproject: Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

NeoFreak 19:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advertisement?

What about the article, exactly, sounds like an advertisement? King Zeal 13:50, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't quite get the second tag (story). The section is NPOV, provides a good outline of the book, and barring any general grammatic/spelling errors I don't see anything wrong with it. Why the tag? Omnilord 04:14, 19 September 2006 (UTC)