Talk:Vertigo (Sebald novel)

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Review and quotations collated, rewritten and edited from available public information (as per references and external links).--Daubmir (talk) 16:28, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Copy Vio?

I'm not sure how much "rewritten" this has to be to not be a copyright violation. I picked up a random paragraph and searched and got a single hit on google. That's unusual. (John User:Jwy talk) 17:29, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm deleting the offending part and re-writing

Well, I liked the Di Piero review very much, because it caught the subliminal themes of Sebald's book: so, I took the core of his article and paraphrased it, rewriting some of the passages (and making the appropriate references & acknowledgements). Evidently, this is not sufficient to satisfy Wikipedia's copyright policies...

So, I'm deleting that part (it's only the first section of the page) and replacing it with some short notes I took from the equivalent it.Wikipedia (in Italian) -- which I wrote myself anyway. The rest stays, as it's only a synthesised commentary of excerpts. OK? --Daubmir (talk) 19:46, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Very much not okay. Whole paragraphs are copied from external sources. For more details, see the edit summary of the article as it is now and your talk, where I have explained how to proceed. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Article issues

I have just added a few article issues tags to this article, I could have added a lot more. First, the tone is more like that of a term paper or essay than an encyclopedic article: Sebald's melancholy doppelgänger wanders..., ...prisoner of the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself, etc. It is littered with peacock terms: Beautifully written..., Sebald is a profound, original writer.... The lead section is way too long as is the Excerpts & Commentary section. I suggest that interested editors seek assistance from the Books Project. – ukexpat (talk) 16:07, 4 December 2008 (UTC)