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04:39, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Just realised I thought I should post this here as you might not have seen it on Cirt's talk page. :) - A good model to follow is Spock Must Die!, as it is currently the only Star Trek novel to reach Good Article status. I've worked on a few on an ad-hoc basis (often because they've been included in the Google Books snapshot of the Voyages of Imagination book). A couple of other better articles are Uhura's Song or The Tears of the Singers - in fact the thing that lets those two down is that I haven't read either and so can't really summarise the plot better than what was already there! Miyagawa ( talk) 21:06, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- No worries, it's an issue with everything from the 70s and 80s as the reviews at the time are hard to come by. Certainly the more notable books are easier to find references by simply because they're more likely to have been reviewed by modern-day reviewers. What you might be lucky with is that some of the fanzines from the 70s and 80s have been scanned by a few different websites (only just came across these the other day) and the individual authors make those reviews reliable. For example, I found an article by D.C. Fontana the other day that was published in a fanzine and I know I've used a review in one of the book articles before because that person won a Hugo Award for something several years later. So it's always worth checking out the author of period reviews in fanzines even if it doesn't seem like the fanzine itself would be reliable. Miyagawa ( talk) 13:57, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Yoe Dude, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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- Introduction to Wikipedia
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- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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Cirt (
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04:39, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Just realised I thought I should post this here as you might not have seen it on Cirt's talk page. :) - A good model to follow is Spock Must Die!, as it is currently the only Star Trek novel to reach Good Article status. I've worked on a few on an ad-hoc basis (often because they've been included in the Google Books snapshot of the Voyages of Imagination book). A couple of other better articles are Uhura's Song or The Tears of the Singers - in fact the thing that lets those two down is that I haven't read either and so can't really summarise the plot better than what was already there! Miyagawa ( talk) 21:06, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- No worries, it's an issue with everything from the 70s and 80s as the reviews at the time are hard to come by. Certainly the more notable books are easier to find references by simply because they're more likely to have been reviewed by modern-day reviewers. What you might be lucky with is that some of the fanzines from the 70s and 80s have been scanned by a few different websites (only just came across these the other day) and the individual authors make those reviews reliable. For example, I found an article by D.C. Fontana the other day that was published in a fanzine and I know I've used a review in one of the book articles before because that person won a Hugo Award for something several years later. So it's always worth checking out the author of period reviews in fanzines even if it doesn't seem like the fanzine itself would be reliable. Miyagawa ( talk) 13:57, 27 December 2013 (UTC)