Talk:The Prophet of Yonwood

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.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-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 • (Novels, Novellas, Novelettes & Short stories) Announcements and open tasks (watch • edit • discuss) → Please help with tagging articles! Critique (Featured Article): A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events - "10 achieved" Wikipedia wide peer reviews: no reviews currently Novels WikiProject Peer reviews : Master and Commander Improve: The Body in the Library • Furies of Calderon • Wolf Brother • The Monk • The English Patient • Bones of the Moon • More... Create: Dover Beach • Black Cocktail • Blackthorn Winter • London, 1850 • 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 Our Collaboration Department is continuing with one more title Adam Bede for the current month. Get collaborating on the article and also look at nominating other titles to be considered. The new article Fictional locations now exists - as a companion article to Fictional characters - but it is still a stub and could do with plenty more imput to improve it. Another new article A Taste for Death (P.D. James novel)‎ now exists - but it is also still a stub and could do with plenty more imput to improve it. A new Infobox exists to support the growing number of "Short Story" articles that are tagged as part of the project - take a look at it and comment on it's talk page. I would suggest we use it for "Short Stories and "Novelettes" and leave the main "Book infobox" for "Novels" and "Novellas". New hitlists added to the main worklist. List of literary works with eponymous heroes List of literary works with eponymous heroines Pages that only exist as redirects: Men at Arms changes

[edit] Copyvio

The plot section is taken word-for-word from the dust jacket summary. --Silver2195 18:37, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I have now reverted to a version without a synopsis. --Silver2195 18:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] And copyvio again

It's great that there is an interest in adding to this article. However, please note that copy-pasting a synopsis from Amazon, the book's dust jacket, or any other source is a COPYRIGHT VIOLATION. Taking a synopsis from someplace else and changing it slightly is the same thing, copyvio. It's against Wikipedia policy and will always be removed immediately.

If you would like to add a synopsis, it must be in your own original words. Mademoiselle Sabina 06:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I may be the only one whos read the book here, but why can't you just do the plot of the story instead of the "synopsis"? After all, don't most Wikipedia pages on novels have "plots"? -Elliotespendago 16:32, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

shrug I've seen it several ways: "plot," "story," or "synopsis; "summary" would also work. Either way, the section just tells the audience what happens in the book. I do prefer the word synopsis because it's a little more descriptive than 'plot.'

The point of my earlier comment was not to tell people what they could or couldn't write here, but to warn them to stop with the copyvio. Both of the synopses posted in the article earlier were simply copied and pasted, or copied and paraphrased from other sources. That's against Wiki rules. Mademoiselle Sabina 19:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC)