Talk:Villains by Necessity

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I do not understand why I am being warned against advertising when I am not advertising anything. I am explaining the contents of a book that has been out of print for several years. I have seen similar explainations throughout this web page. The Gnoll 03:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "nonnotable book"? How is that a reason to delete the article?

I do not understand the reasoning. First, this article was dubbed as "advertising" when it clearly wasn't and threatened for deletion and now that it has been proven otherwise it is threatened for deletion again because someone simply judges it as a "non notable book"? I have seen many books that have little to no importance to our society on this web site. Everything from out of date comic books to videogames, movies, and old books that I've never heard of are on this site...so how is the simple random judgment of what is "Non notable" in any way valid here? The author is mentioned on her own page in the encyclopedia, but why is she there if none of her works are notable anyway? There has been no logic sense to these excuses to delete this article and no one has even bothered to try and explain them. The Gnoll 15:01, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Only three pages link to the author's article, which is very short. The only link to this book is one of those of the author, and it it only because the book refers to a black knight. I agree that this book isn't notable at all. I would suggest allowing this page to be deleted, and include a summary on the author's page. Thanks, Reywas92^Talk 21:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The summary looks like what was on the inside dustjacket leaf...

But alas, I cannot check it to the book because it's been removed from my local library. Anyway, I don't think it's an 'original essay', but I could be wrong. To me, this article seems stub-ish. It is a pity the book is out of print; I thought it a rather original take on the fantasy genre. 63.239.240.1 17:47, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

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For what it's worth, I enjoyed this book--it may not have been a best-seller, but then again, how many books are? I seriously doubt that the author of this piece was trying to "advertise;" they merely were trying to inform the public about the contents of a book should anyone be interested in knowing what the book is about. While this is just my opinion obviously, I vote to keep the article and clean it up a bit. --168.18.163.159 15:07, 17 August 2007 (UTC)