Talk:Killing Ché

To the or persons responsible for arbitrating articles on Wikipedia:

First, that you for your time and effort. Having worked before in positions that were both thankless an anonymous, you have my gratitude. My name is K- C--, I a am the author of both the “offending reviews” (Warrior Soul and Killing Che)  and I wish only to make a brief statement urging that they be kept on the web site. Naturally, I will abide by your final decision, and make no attempts to re-post them, should the editors decide to remove them.

I’ve written many book reviews on the net, at Amazon, Powells and B&N. I am a personal friend of the books' author, Chuck Pfarrer. (Who also asked me not do get involved with this). The reviews have been tagged as advertisements by a user name Nobunga. I’m not sure that it is accurate to claim that I've engaged in advertising; I’d have to have been paid for that. I am, however flattered that the reviews “read like book jackets”, as book jackets are concise summaries of plot and content. Though I like Chuck and his books, I do not have the time to play goalie on these postings. I assume that the tag that Mr Nobunga put on them will make sure that they are expunged. I think that's unfortunate, because people can stop here and get an idea what the books are like.

In my opinion, every book ever published should have a wikipedia entry. The better ones, works of literature, should have articles. Lesser ones, like Chuck’s, simply summaries, and yes, if they are good enough, recommendations from readers. The free exchange of ideas appears to me to be what wikipedia is all about. I think it is also unfortunate that one person can, based on subjective judgment, delete a book review. The Nazis used to burn books they didn’t like.

This is only a guess, but I think there must be about 10-20,000 entries on Wikipedia summarizing or recommending fiction and non fiction books. A person could stay pretty busy tagging them all as advertisements. It is slightly puzzling to me why a certain person would go out of their way to have Chuck’s books stricken from the website. I do not know if Mr Nobunga personally dislikes the author, or was angry because he thought Chuck had written his own reviews. (Looking at Mr Nobunga’s user page, it seems odd that he would object to self-promotion.)

I additionally take issue with the claim of advertising, as any of the thousands of pages devoted to movies have obviously been placed there by studios, who have hired writers to maintain a wikipedia presence. These entriies are, genuinely, advertisements and not crtical writing. My reviews, though enthusiastic, are not advertisements.

When I write reviews in the future, I will do my best to write them well, but I will not conceal my enthusiasm for books that I like. You may delete my review, but I’m glad that you cannot stifle my opinion.

Possible copyright violation
Hi, neutral-3rd-party-friend-of-Chuck-not-promoting-a-book-in-any-way-shape-or-form-First-Amendment-defender-who-has-only-edited-Chuck-related-stuff. Please see Talk:Warrior Soul, The Memoir of a Navy SEAL for my brilliant rebuttal to the exact same rant as posted here. But a more important issue is this: this article is an exact copy of this. While that is a discussion forum, I do believe that amazon.com makes it pretty clear that reviews, etc, posted on their site become their intellectual property. Therefore this might be a copyright violation. Not to mention it still reads like an ad.--Nobunaga24 01:07, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, wait, I see you are his friend AND publicist . Perhaps, tis but a coincidence that this article, the amazon dicussion board, and the free-press-release.com all read the same. Maybe you are telling the truth, and you are so enthusiastic that you had to post everywhere you could to let the world know about this wonderful book that hasn't been published yet.--Nobunaga24 01:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)