Talk:The Vampire Diaries (novel series)

message: Under the Global free whatsit, is it possible to take photos of the covers of the books mentioned here, at low resolution, and attach them to the article? Cheers Wadhamite (talk) 14:48, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: This information should in fact be under the TV section.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauralubelle (talk • contribs) 11:07, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes 

message: :It seems the material being referred to has excised from the article, I think for sourcing and other reasons. If this hadn't happened, the material should be removed anyway since the above discussion appears to confirm there is a WP:Copyvio involved. (The only possible exception  I can think of would be if the person who contributed them to wikipedia is the sole author of them on the external wiki or the timeline given above is wrong.) Let this also be a warning in case anyone wants to restore material from the history that they need to use great care to ensure they don't reintroduce the copyvio material. 
:Firstly the licence for the MediaWiki engine is irrelevant here. MediaWiki is under a copyleft licence, which means anyone who releases software derived from MediaWiki will need to comply the licence which includes releasing the source for their version and allowing people to use it under the licence. (However as it's not a Affero General Public License or other similar licence which attempts to close the ASP licence, it's likely that if they only run it on their server, they don't have do distribute anything.) But this doesn't affect content on any wiki running on MediaWiki, anymore than someone using Linux or OpenOffice. In other words, they are free to use whatever licence they want for content hosted on their wiki. 
:Which is where we hit the snag. The statement above that the licence allows any sort of 'allows any kind of sharing, copying and distribution as long as the original site is credited' is incorrect. In fact, the licence linked above is CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 which specifically precludes commercial use. It also disallows derivatives. Both of these are incompatible with the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence wikipedia requires for content copied from elsewhere. Although we're not a commercial project, we require that work be under a sufficiently free licence and a non commercial licence is not sufficiently free. Furthermore, the no derivatives clause is incompatible with the idea of a wiki point blank, particularly when it comes to text. (Either those in charge of the Vampire Diaries wiki don't know what they're doing or they have terms elsewhere that allow derivatives on their wiki. Either way it's not out concern.) 
:While the wiki appears to be down, a check at archive.org  seems to confirm that where a licence statement existed, it was the licence linked above. 
:See Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright and Wikipedia:Copyrights if there is any further confusion. 
:Nil Einne (talk) 12:03, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio warning

message: So news has just hit that L. J. Smith has been removed as the author from "her" own book series.  Apparently this can be done because publisher HarperCollins commissioned the series, hiring Smith to write it, retaining full copyright and whatever else over the series.  While Smith created the characters and the events and what not, HarperCollins created the premise.  With that, and the fact that Smith won't be writing any more of the series, I would suggest that instead of referring to the the series as "written by L. J. Smith", it would be better served to refer to it as "commissioned by HarperCollins" (or alternatively, published).  I don't really know how to go about Wikipedia voting and what not to create large change, so I'm just posting this here, in the discussion page, and hopefully someone else can go about making decisions.  Now if you don't mind, I think I'll have to go kill myself for actually having anything to do with a Vampire Diaries article, ick.  --99.225.1.14 (talk) 23:58, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  L. J. Smith's Status as Author 

message: While Tyler and his family are Lockwood in the TV series, they are Smallwood in the book series.  Since this article is about the novels, the surname should remain Smallwood. 76.20.213.207 (talk) 13:31, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No it should not because Tyler Lockwood sounds much better than Tyler Smallwood 104.171.64.48 (talk) 22:52, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smallwood vs Lockwood 

message: As requested on the topic page, I have substantially edited and condensed the subject matter to address quality issues. Twice now, within a couple of days of my efforts, the same user has erased all of my extensive edits and returned the material to the original form, which includes grammar errors, numerous redundant statements, and opinions. What should I do about this (if anything)? So far I have gone through and replaced my work, but I don't want to do this every time this other person puts back the original rambling, poorly written material. It's kind of annoying and discouraging to have my hard work deleted. For whatever reason, it is not possible to revert this other person's edits. Am I doing something wrong, and should I just give up? Forego5 (talk) 06:51, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving this topic 

message: Amazon is used as a references in many a featured article. The Wire is a good example.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.25.140 (talk) 20:55, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's WP:OTHERSTUFF, and therefore irrelevant here.  An Amazon commercial link is WP:SPAM.  Qworty (talk) 21:39, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That is your standard excuse. Deal with The Wire or I will delete the amazon entries and quote you as my guide so  I cannot be accused of vandalism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.25.140 (talk) 06:32, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It has nothing at all to do with me.  It's policy.  If you don't like the policy, then lobby to change it. Qworty (talk) 07:16, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amazon.com 

message: I'm trying to help my daughter navigate her way through the books, and I think it's confusing that neither this article nor the TV Series main article, has any mention of Stefan's Diaries. In the end I had to go to L.J. Smith's own homepage to find out that they're ghostwritten. I can understand that one might not want to pollute this page with too much discussion of ghostwritten spin-offs, but a mention would be helpful. 130.225.26.33 (talk) 09:04, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Stefan's Diaries

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