Talk:Jedi Apprentice

This page says that there are 18 books in this series, with a separate page for each book. I believe that every single one of those pages has severe copyright violations. Nearly every page has "Plot Summary", "Back Cover Summary", and "An Excerpt from Scholastic.com" sections. The Dangerous Rescue is the only article without an excerpt. The Plot Summary is taken verbatim from an Amazon.com review (helpfully linked at the bottom of each article!), the Excerpts are from the the publisher's website, Scholastic.com (also helpfully linked!) and presumably taken from the original book, and the back cover summary seems to come from Scholastic.com as well. Those sources are called "Source 1" and "Source 2" at the bottom of each article. The directly copied Amazon.com reviews and the page-long book excerpts need to go.

Short referenced excerpts are allowed under copyright law (and only if they are sourced), but copying entire reviews and pages of books probably aren't.

Removing all the copied information from each article doesn't leave a whole lot. I think that the necessary information (publisher, ISBN, original plot summary) can probably be placed into this page and the individual pages for each book could then be removed. ArglebargleIV 19:03, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, coming back to this -- first, I made a spelling correction and fixed a broken link to above.

I now see that there is another article involved, Star Wars Jedi Apprentice, which is 95% similar to Jedi Apprentice. I would propose that the first step be to merge the two articles, probably with the destination being Star Wars Jedi Apprentice (?), and then work on combining the individual book articles into that one, with copyvio stuff removed. Not doing anything yet, though, I want to hunt down some appropriate people and see what they think. ArglebargleIV 23:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)