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Welcome to Wikipedia
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. Cheers! --maveric149

Wikify Text from Encyclopedia Britannica
Whoa! Slow down there partner! You should at least wikify 1911 text before importing it and place a simple disclaimer at the bottom of these articles. Please see Backwardation for an example. Thanx! --maveric149

Gotcha. I'm sure you are right. I'll do that. --Ellmist


Ellmist, whilst Heinlein was undoubtedly a fine writer, is his work so significant that every book he wrote deserves mention on the individual year pages? Where brevity and selectivity is important (as it is in the year in review pages), we have to be very careful what we add. --Robert Merkel

Yeah, I agree with Robert Merkel. I could do the same thing with a few of my favourite writers and this could snowball completely out of control. My suggestion is that you only annotate the significant ones "that everybody knows" e.g Stranger in A Strange Land. sjc

All right. Makes sense to me. Only fairly popular books should be listed on the date pages. -- Ellmist

What criteria determines a popular book? Estimated number of readers, links on the 'pedia, awards, results on Google? -- Ellmist

Good question, and something I don't think we have a good answer to right now. I've just sent a mail to the wikipedia-l mailing list asking a more general question of how we decide what's significant enough to list on "year in review" pages. Hopefully we'll get some debate (everyone should contribute if they have an opinion on the matter) and maybe some kind of consensus will be put together. Hopefully somebody will come up with some guidelines, which might get posted at meta.wikipedia.com until they get solidified enough to be transferred to the main site as "official" Wikipedia policy (or as official as anything ever gets around here). --Robert Merkel
Well, I don't think there is any question that books that have won an award like a hugo, or was on the best seller list in the same year it was published or was the basis for a movie that grossed over a 100 million bucks shouldn't be on such year in review lists. It is the cult classics that have a small, yet fiercly loyal following and some other books that venture into the gray area. --maveric149
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