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Entsuropi: (24/may/05) Modified SE's original template, added overview of Elantris.

I think it would be best to keep things in the article to publicly available facts.

Peter Ahlstrom

Peter, I edited some of your changes. They were all in the Elantris summary section. Your editing made the passage incorrect :) -Entsuropi

It was still technically correct, but then someone else changed punctuation and deleted a couple words in a "fmt" edit, making it incorrect... —Peter

[edit] No synopses for the books? Why not?

Please explain exactly why the books should not each have a synopsis here, Painbearer. They add to the usefulness of the article, which is a stub without those synopses. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:13, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

See further discussion on this topic over here. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Regarding External Links

People keep adding and removing links to fantasyliterature.net's page on Brandon Sanderson. The same is being done on other author's pages on wikipedia including Robert Jordan. This needs to be discussed here on the talk page instead of just a back and forth add, remove, add, remove, ad nauseum.

Why should that page be linked? Why shouldn't it? I'm personally of the opinion that once you include one link to a page with reviews (which is the only thing of substance not found on the wikipedia page) opens the floodgates to all other sites which may have reviews. I have not nor will I add or remove the link in question, but some consensus should be reached here.Caidh (talk) 18:51, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

If you're going to keep removing perfectly legitimate links, JzG and WLU, how about providing something as an alternative? The reviews on that page are perfectly good reviews, and there are THREE of them.
As for the "floodgates" argument, I don't see any merit to it. Each site should be judged on its own, not allowed just because another site was added. If a better one comes along, replace the link. Until then, linking to SOMETHING is better than linking to NOTHING. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


So, can we replace it? I'd like to mention that we have book synopses, also. Kahooper (talk) 23:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)kahooper

If you have book synoses, you could use them to expand the brief summary of the books' contents, but citing them wouldn't be appropriate as the actual book is its own source.
I have looked at the site and I still see no merit in adding it, though we could take this further to a RFC if desired. To me, the page is still the opinions of individuals not noted for their insight or professional qualifications in reviewing fantasy literature. Who says they are good reviews, legitemate reviews or that we need reviews at all? We don't link to amazon pages of reviews, despite there being potentially thousands. Further, a lack of external links reviewing the books is not a reason to add more. WLU (talk) 18:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm trying to consolidate this discussion (which seems to be in several places and is making me dizzy), so let's continue here.

Kahooper (talk) 21:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)kahooper

[edit] Suggesting Link to FantasyLiterature.net

At my website we have synopses, book cover art, and reviews of Brandon Sanderson's work. I'm suggesting a link: http://www.fantasyliterature.net/sandersonbrandon.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kahooper (talk • contribs) 20:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] red links removal

I removed the red links from the Elantris section. since this is a stand-alone novel I don't think these characters will (or should) get a page of their own —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snafu25 (talk • contribs) 07:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DOB

Any source for the day he was born in Dec 1975? That way we can use the template that automatically calculates age instead of updating it manually . - Merzbow (talk) 17:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Nope. I could call and ask him (I know him decently well), but we can't use me as a source. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)