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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Committed Men by M. John Harrison (July 26)

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Theroadislong (talk) 19:40, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Committed Men (July 27)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by AngusWOOF was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 01:55, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Welcome!

ANDROMITUS, welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your great edit on Homesick for Another World and the creation of Labrador and wanted to let you know that your work is appreciated and that I hope you stick around. Please never hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. — Mainly 20:28, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I saw your response — hope you didn't remove it because I was slow to get back to you. Without repeating myself too much, really can't express how great it is to have another editor focused on 20th/21st-century literature, as it's a subject that simply doesn't get enough coverage on Wikipedia. In addition to answering questions, I'm also around to work on articles together if you want, or assist with research — I have access to (most) JStor content and I have subscriptions to a number of major newspapers, including a few like Financial Times that do review books but which are behind paywalls. — Mainly 19:42, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

I removed my response because I am still getting acquainted with how the Talk pages work and thought maybe I was supposed to respond on your page. So thank you for still responding, haha. And I’m glad to hear that you are interested in 20/21st century literature. Creating and adding to book pages is going to be the majority of my contributions on here, I’d say. Wikipedia has been my favorite resource outside of professional reviews for discovering new authors to get into and it has always bugged me how many great authors don’t have individual pages for their work and how many pages don’t include referenced critical reviews. I have subscriptions to The New York Times and Washington Post, and constantly sleuth The Guardian, NPR, andThe Atlantic which don’t have paywalls yet. Paris Review and New York Review of Books have solid Daily sections. And I would definitely be interested in possibly collaborating on articles. Do you have any page projects you’re working on? As of now I’m just steadily adding book pages for authors I love and Critical Reception sections for all the book pages that neglect them. It’s been a solid way for me to get acquainted with editing. ANDROMITUS (talk) 20:28, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

I’m going to address your question on my talk page and your response from above here.

As for the issue with Hell the strikethroughs are due to the copyright vio that Diannaa pointed out. I don’t know exactly why that’s the way admins have chosen to resolve vios, but the strikethroughs eliminate the previous versions of the page, so purging the vio from all the instances of the page on which it appeared. I don’t know what the upper limit on copy and pasting is for summaries, or if the policy is one of zero tolerance, but either way I’d try to avoid it altogether going forward and remedy any instances other than the now-resolved Hell if any exist. Otherwise, it will likely lead to blocking/sanctions eventually. I don’t mean to come across as didactic or patronizing—hope it doesn’t seem that way.

Hell doesn’t appear on your list of “Articles created” because another editor (In ictu oculi) made the page into a redirect for the 1908 Barbusse novel. What happened is that In ictu technically “created” the article, albeit as a redirect. It won’t appear on the “official” page of your “Articles created” for this reason, but any editor who spends more than a few seconds looking into the matter will know you created the bulk (or all) of the content, and if you intend to create some sort of showcase/list of pages created for your User page (or elsewhere) you should absolutely feel comfortable including Hell.

As for my current projects, the recent work by you and others has made me more interested in revisiting the article for My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I loved the book and with some more sources and expansion I think it could be a Good Article candidate. I’m also interested in expanding The Nickel Boys further, although the shoddy quality of the article for Dozier School for Boys caused me to get bogged down in research about the school rather than the book itself.

Hope that the answers about Hell helped! — Mainly 20:06, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the response, it was very informative. My one follow-up question is: are raking the concise summaries from publisher pages against the rules? I understand that taking the sort of back cover summaries that include descriptors like “powerful” and “spellbinding” are not good. But can summaries featured on publisher pages that concisely sum up the plot without editorializing be used? For my Samedi the Deafness page, I took the summary from Random House’s page, but included quotes and a source. When it comes to Wikipedia plot descriptions, I’ve always preferred synopses to detailed plot summaries, but of course I don’t want to run into copyright issues.

Your projects in progress sound fascinating. I’d love to help you get My Year of Rest and Relaxation to be a Good Article, Moshfegh is one of my favorite new(er) writers, I’ve read all of her work. What exactly is needed to an article to reach Good status? ANDROMITUS (talk) 20:25, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

I wish I had a better answer for you, but I'm not sure if the non-editorialized versions are acceptable even if they are neutrally worded. Even if they're not copyrighted, so to speak, "freely using" them might still not be allowed. I've never interacted with Diannaa, but if you ask them this specific question, or direct them to this exchange, they almost certainly have a better-developed answer than what I can provide. There's also this page: Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright. It might help but I'm not sure.

As for what constitutes a “Good Article”: the standards vary from WikiProject to WikiProject. The criteria for WikiProject Novels is here: WikiProject Novels Assessment scale. It describes what goes into making an article GA. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have example articles from within the project’s scope to illustrate what each tier looks like, but for GA I think the article about Eugenides’ Middlesex (mostly by editor Cunard) is a good example. — Mainly 14:53, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:46, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

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August 2019

Plot descriptiopns you included in The Memory Police (novel) and multiple other articles have been removed in whole or in part, as it appears you added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Plot descriptions cannot be copied from other sources, including official sources, unless these can be verified to be public domain or licensed compatibly with Wikipedia. They must be written in original language to comply with Wikipedia's copyright policy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:02, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Apologies. I misunderstood the original reason my previous summary was taken down, which I could explain but it isn’t necessary. I understand now, and it won’t happen again. Best, ANDROMITUS (talk) 16:10, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

September 2019

Thank you for starting new articles about books. I noticed in several of them that when you mentioned newspapers and magazines, the titles were in plain text. Wikipedia style is to italicise these; you can find the details at MOS:TITLE. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 07:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

The Unnameable

I have reverted your move of The Unnameable (novel). The move had not been discussed on the talk page and unnecessarily complicates the disambiguation. In use. If you want to start a discussion about why it should be moved, I’d be happy to contribute on the talk page. Fob.schools (talk) 09:18, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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