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Witch Wraith
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Speedy deletion nomination of Witch Wraith


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Proposed deletion of Witch Wraith


The article Witch Wraith has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable book. Fails WP:NOTBOOK.

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Nomination of Witch Wraith for deletion
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Book summaries!
Hiya! I just wanted to give you a head's up on book summaries: we can't use the actual book blurb from the jacket. It's really frustrating, but it's a copyvio issue. In order to use it we'd have to get permission from a bunch of different people and so on, which isn't always guaranteed to cover us. In any case it's usually easier to write out your own summary or synopsis and use that. I think I've sourced the other two books well enough to where they could be kept, although I can't guarantee it. Trade reviews are always sort of iffy when it comes to deletion discussions. Anywho, I was wondering- have you read the previous two books in the trilogy and if so, would you be interested in writing out a full synopsis for them? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:43, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. It seemed to me when writing it, that publishers would want that stuff copied far & wide. It's free advertising for them. After I edited my summary, I did a little looking up. Random House (who owns Delrey Books) specifically states copy almost anything found on our site (others probably have similar policies, but I haven't looked yet). I do see that you have to include the copyright info, which I had failed to do. There's probably a setting in wiki that lets me state the copyright license type as well. I understand wiki wanting to be careful, but in the time it took me to reply why it shouldn't be deleted, it was already deleted. Very frustrating.
 * I hope this is where I reply.

I'll remember this next time, but it could be a while. I think this was probably the first page I created in about 6 years. Usually I just do minor edits to existing pages. In this case I was updating the release dates and that tag to nowhere was bugging me, so I spent some time on it.

I'm only just starting book 1 actually. And I'm not very good at writing summaries or synopses. Even my reviews on Goodreads are usually just 1 sentence. But if I get really motivated after I read them, I may (if someone hasn't beaten me to it). It looks like you used a template. If so, is there a place I can see all templates? Thanks for your help. Tomcollins88 (talk) 06:42, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree- it's really frustrating. I have to say that writing the synopsis is often my least favorite part of writing an article because many times I haven't read the book and have to cobble things together from reviews and other secondary sources. As far as book type templates go, I got this one from WP:BOOK (also located at Template:Infobox book). A big gigantic template repository for the Wikipedia stuff is at "Category:Wikipedia templates". (Just type that into the search bar and it'll take you there.) Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:26, 3 June 2013 (UTC)