User talk:RenniePet
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[edit] Modesty Blaise
Please do keep contributing. Your edits to Pieces of Modesty were fine, just that one line that wasn't allowed, and on Willie Garvin it was just a grammatical point ("unknown afterlife" was a bit of a redundnacy and sounded a bit conversational as opposed to the formal tone articles are supposed to have). t takes a bit to become familiar with the Wikipedia rules and style. I recommend reading WP:STYLE as a good starting point as well as WP:V and WP:CITE which set out the rules regarding adding information that requires citation. 23skidoo 12:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- You don't need to ask permission to replace something like a plot summary (re: I, Lucifer). If you can improve what's there, please do. The one thing to watch for is that Wikipedia policy frowns on extremely detailed plot summaries. The length you have for the first two books is fine. In terms of writing style, remember this is supposed to be an encyclopedia, so the writing style needs to be somewhat formal. What you have is OK, but it reads a bit informally. Just picking a couple of my own summaries as examples, see Knight Templar (The Saint) and The Saint in New York. Not that I consider my summaries to be the be all and end all -- I'm just giving them as examples of what I mean by formalized tone. What you've done so far is fine -- and I certainly encourage you to continue adding plot summaries. 23skidoo 03:58, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- The Novels WikiProject does prefer the use of first edition images whereever possible, so if you have any, please feel free to change the images. Right now the only first edition illustrated is the Pieces of Modesty Pan paperback (as it was never released in Hardcover). I'd like to try and keep the image for the first Modesty Blaise as the American edition pictured because that cover has become iconic over the years, in no small part through its use in Pulp Fiction. 23skidoo 23:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
