Talk:Abridgement
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This article is SEVERELY biased. Definitely needs cleanup. I'll take a shot at it.
[edit] Complete Revision
This article was, in my opinion, very poor. It was mostly cribbed from an 1700s encyclopedia and was very high-concept and referred only to the.. concept of abridging a work of writing, and contained no reference to audiobooks (which is the primary outlet for abridgement these days).
So, I completely rewrote the essay to focus on abridging for audio and for print. It's rough, so feel free to edit it (as with the rest of wikipedia) and if you feel that some of the original material belongs back in, go ahead and add it in, but I still say the article should discuss audiobook and the practice of abridging books and not so much about how to reduce a paragraph into half a paragraph.
-Asriel 20:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Yu-Gi-Oh?
I like the series as much as anyone, but that doesn't belong here at all. It's a parody series, the only real connection is has to abridgement is the title and the fact that it is shorter. The article explains that the point of abridgement is to maintain as much of the plot as possible while cutting everything that isn't necessary while those series are comedies that ignore basically the entire plot.
I think it needs to be removed, but I won't do it without discussing it here first.
Jay42 19:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
- I am removing the section on "abridgement for anime" it is either unremarkable and would follow other standard understandings of abridgement and therefore would not require its own section, or it is an unrelated parody (as is stated in the soon to be deleted section, and therefore does not belong here. I take the latter view and I'm taking the initiative to delete.
Antwerp42 19:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
It's not written clearly and it's mainly discussing anime that has been abridged by users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.72.82.183 (talk) 20:35, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
