User talk:Lady Aleena/Books

Xanth

Please place all of your Xanth questions and comments here...

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Your qustion: A long long time ago in a comment on the talk page of the Xanth series, you placed two links to pages that are redirects now. I was wondering if you would be offended if I removed the links (and left plain text). This is part of my effort to clean up stray links to redirect pages regarding the Xanth series. Please let me know on my talk page. Lady Aleena 21:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC) PS. I forgot to specify, the links were to Crunch and Dor. They are both handled elsewhere.

Doesn't bother me. RJFJR 13:14, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

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Any chance seeing you seem to be very much envolved in completing some of these articles about the books of Piers Anthony. Most are just skeletons. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:23, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

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Hi, I have followed the life of these articles with interest and added what I can, when I can. However I must reguster my protest and the move of the character section into a template. The Novels standard article pattern has been developed to give a general style and guidelines for this type of article and it includes a perfectly good apporach for including a character section. This allows to list to vary and describe the characters relative to the novel in question. In addition I find the particular template format not helpful, and a little cumbersome.

Please let me suggest two things. Can the character template be for major characters and use a similar style to the novel series template. And then return the standard 'Character is "Novel title"' section for the more detailed listing. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 10:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

thanks for your response, Ok let's run with the template idea for now and see where it gets us. I'm still not totally convinced but there we go. The yellow is not a problem, it is ok with me, being a nice-ish clean, primary colour. The new layout you gave is slightly better in my view too. However the "boxy" nature is still a problem, not made nicer by it's placing on the right. Perhaps we could flush it left and place it in the article where a "traditional" 'Characters in "Novel title"' section would normally go, even using that heading as an anchor for the template. If you can't visualise what I mean let me know and I will mock it up on one of the articles. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 11:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

That is a lot, lot better. Still not sure about the total concept or whether we can do without the heading. Let's leave it for now and go with as is. What is needed now is more editorial content, templates are all very well but what most are after coming to these articles is textual information, reading matter on the content, significance and other aspects of the novels. I would encourage more of this type of content if you can manage it. Things like "==Major themes==" "==Allusions/references to other works==" "==Literary significance & criticism==" "==Awards and nominations==" are obvious headings that could and probably should be added and developed. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 12:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Only problem with that is there appears to be no one stepping up for the task, If you have read them, you appear to be the best qualified. At least put a short introduction, or summary to each one. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 13:14, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Xanth PseudoWikiProject

Hey there. Just wanted to give you a "hello" and say that if you're interested, I'm trying to get together a group to work on Xanth pages (potentially aiming towards a WikiProject). Drop by the talk page and let me know if you're interested! --Avery W. Krouse 06:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

You are doing a fantastic work on the Xanth pages. Once I get ahold of my books, I can start adding more myself. My Visual Guide to Xanth is calling, hehe. --Avery W. Krouse 18:52, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Xanth and article headings

Thanks for your complement about the "headings" in the Xanth articles - however I can't truely take credit for them - they are just part of the standard Novel article headings for use on all Novel articles. Perhaps you would like to make use of the full set or at least an appropiate cutdown of them. You will find our article pattern here - Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate. How you find that useful - it might actually prompt a few lines of thought for things to include in the article themselves. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)} 17:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

My Xanth Articles

I was wondering why my articles are inappropriate. Harry potter and Avatar the last airbender characters have no importance outside of their respective series, so why can't xanth characters have thier own pages. Futhermore Iris has blonde hair, check the cover of Geis of the Gargoyle if you don't beleive me. The pictures that I use are temporary, being used until I can properly constuct pictures from the book covers. User talk:Nesukier —Preceding comment was added at 21:05, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Riftwar

Hiya, you left a message on my talk page about helping with the Riftwar saga. I'll be delighted to help - I've not really done much editing on Wikipedia for a while, and its been a few months since I finished the saga (I haven't read any of the other books to do with Midkemia), but anything that I can do to help, I will. Hope you are well, El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 22:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd be interested in helping with this project too, if you're still working on it. Now I've read this here and the comment you left on El Pollo Diablos page, I think I may have to help anyway, I love that series and there's a fascinating mythology behind the books. Ilphin 02:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Raymond E. Feist

(Re: User_talk:Mike_Peel#Feist_books)

Hello. Thanks for your comments on my edits at Raymond E. Feist - they spurred me on to do a little more than I was originally intending to do. I don't have any plans for the page beyond the tables, although I'll probably tidy up the rest of the text before moving on to another page (so many wikipedia pages to edit, so little time...) My commiserations on your The King's Buccaneer printing version discovery - although it's a lot older than my 4th-reprint second-paperback-printing copy. :) --Mike Peel 13:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Air Apparent

An article that you created, Air Apparent, was proposed for deletion, probably yesterday. Please review the policy on proposed deletion and feel free to comment on the article's talk page. If no contest is made, the article will be deleted in four days from today.--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 20:16, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Raymond E. Feist

Hi Lady Aleena – judging from your past contributions you have been fairly interested in the works of Raymond E. Feist (The riftwar and such) – I plan to start a new wiki-project (or a task force on an existing project) and are seeking out pople who may be interested to join if the plan does go through – if you are interested, could you kindly sign at WP:COUNCIL/P or leave a message on my talk page. Thanks! Fattyjwoods ^{(Push my button)} 07:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)