Talk:Vertigo (Sebald novel)

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Review and quotations collated, rewritten and edited from available public information (as per references and external links).--Daubmir (talk) 16:28, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Copy Vio?
I'm not sure how much "rewritten" this has to be to not be a copyright violation. I picked up a random paragraph and searched and got a single hit on google. That's unusual. (John User:Jwy talk) 17:29, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm deleting the offending part and re-writing

 * Well, I liked the Di Piero review very much, because it caught the subliminal themes of Sebald's book: so, I took the core of his article and paraphrased it, rewriting some of the passages (and making the appropriate references & acknowledgements). Evidently, this is not sufficient to satisfy Wikipedia's copyright policies...
 * So, I'm deleting that part (it's only the first section of the page) and replacing it with some short notes I took from the equivalent it.Wikipedia -- which I wrote myself anyway. The rest stays, as it's only a synthesised commentary of excerpts. OK? --Daubmir (talk) 19:46, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Very much not okay. Whole paragraphs are copied from external sources. For more details, see the edit summary of the article as it is now and your talk, where I have explained how to proceed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Article issues
I have just added a few article issues tags to this article, I could have added a lot more. First, the tone is more like that of a term paper or essay than an encyclopedic article: Sebald's melancholy doppelgänger wanders..., ...prisoner of the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself, etc. It is littered with peacock terms: Beautifully written..., Sebald is a profound, original writer.... The lead section is way too long as is the Excerpts & Commentary section. I suggest that interested editors seek assistance from the Books Project. – ukexpat (talk) 16:07, 4 December 2008 (UTC)