User talk:Booktraveler

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Booktraveler! I am Fences and windows and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Fences &amp;  Windows  12:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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The Doctor In War
Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for starting this article. However... please avoid the temptation of repeating much of the content of the book in the article. We can have a brief summary (up to 700 words), but any more and you'd be better off going to Wikisource, which is the sister site of Wikipedia and explicitly allows the upload of free content - as this book was published in 1918 it will now be public domain in the US.

Manual of Style (writing about fiction) WikiProject Books/Non-fiction article offers some advice on how to proceed (I know it's not a fiction book, but some of the advice still applies!). What you really need to do is find descriptions and reviews of the book in reliable sources. This is going to be tricky as it is so old, but reviews do certainly exist for this book, even if they are gathering dust on library shelves or hiding behind pay walls, e.g. "The value and interest of Dr. Hutchinson's book is in no way lessened because the fighting has stopped." from the American Review of Reviews in 1919. See this search for more. We do not write articles about books based entirely on the book itself. You can ask for assistance at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Books. Fences &amp;  Windows  12:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Here ya go, a review in JAMA from 1919:. Here's one from the BMJ, again from 1919: Fences  &amp;  Windows  13:06, 16 June 2010 (UTC)