Talk:Crazy Therapies (book)/Archive 1

message: :As for this article, on second thoughts, I am thinking to place it on WP:AFD for lack of notability. See Wikipedia:Notability (books). ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 03:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please remove this article from AFD.  Clearly this is a notable work, with multiple positive editorial reviews.  Try doing a search and read up on it.  The AFD is frivolous and will not succeed.  Yours, Smeelgova 03:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * While I agree this book is borderline, I'm unclear if it needs deleting. The Author Margaret Singer may be notable in the USA, from the Google searches I've done. I personally hadn't heard of her until I got here. I'm also clear that the creator of this artical is using a standard format and is clearly using it as a "template" (see user contributions log Special:Contributions/Smeelgova) However if you look at the articals that the creator has created, there are quite a number of books that Margaret Singer has created. The author easily meets the criteria of numerous publishings at a peer reviewed/university level. If you merge all the authors publications into one file it might work, but IMHO thats a bit wierd. Mark1800 03:32, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We may need to merge some useful text into the author's article. But that will depend on the outcome of the AfD. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 03:33, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: AFD

message: I hope this doesn't offend, but as it stands, this article is not suitable for Wikipedia.  Tables of contents, promotional blurbs from the book flaps, and block-quotes from reviews are not consistent with the rest of Wikipedia, and could amount to copyvio .  As a suggestion, I recommend looking at featured articles for better ways to structure your article, though in this case it might be wisest to start over from a complete blank.  FrozenPurpleCube 05:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the advice.  I am still unsure exactly what Jimbo Wales wants out of a book article, but perhaps we can work on it together.  I'm curious, why are reviews and table of contents unacceptable?  I have actually seen these in other book articles on Wikipedia.  Surely we don't have to start over from scratch, it would be a simple matter of deleting the sections in question and replacing them with more appropriate ones.  Thanks for the help so far.  Yours, Smeelgova 05:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Better yet, is there a specific "book template" or something to follow, that is preferred, when beginning to set up a page/article on a book?  For example, is there a "non-fiction book template?  Thanks for the help/advice.  Smeelgova 05:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * You might find this, Recovery_from_Cults_%28book%29, is a good guideline.  It's a similar style of book and has a similar bent, and clearly got saved from being deleted Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Recovery_from_Cults Also read why it got saved.Mark1800 06:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Thank you User:Mark1800, for the kind advice.  I will look into it.  Yours, Smeelgova 07:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: First, I am not Jimbo Wales, so if you want to know what he wants out of a book article, you'll have to ask him.  Anyway, if there is a template or style guide for a book article that I knew about, I would have mentioned it to you, but since I don't know of any, all I can suggest is looking at articles other Wikipedians have decided are good and well-written.  The reason why reviews and a table of contents as you have used them are problems though, is as I said, on the one hand, they are not consistent with the rest of Wikipedia, and on the other, they are copyrighted material that belongs to someone else.  Even if it fits inside the boundaries of fair use, and I'm not saying it does or does not, I can't think of a single other good article, or featured article that relies so much on material that was created outside of Wikipedia(well, aside from the rare article that comes from an older public-domain source, which isn't an issue here).  Instead of having the table of contents, you would be better off describing the contents in your own, original language.  Instead of so many quotations from reviews, you'd be better off summarizing the reviews, and having the quotations shorter, and in-line with the text.  FrozenPurpleCube 14:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

text: * OK, after reading elsewhere it appears other editors like the table of contents. Why I'll never know! Mark1800 13:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

text: @FrozenPurpleCube, I think the table of conents is fair use and informative. I see no problem with it. Andries 11:56, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you show me any other pages that use it?  It might be informative (hard to imagine a table of contents that wasn't), but it just doesn't seem to me to be the right way to present things.  A textual description is much to be preferred.  FrozenPurpleCube 15:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How to improve this article