Talk:Alex Delaware

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As one of the people working on adding information on this page, I am filling out information as I read these books so it is slow in coming and I encourage any and everybody to edit and add to what I have written. Also, my formatting is less than stellar, so if somebody wanted to put together a timeline, I would be more than willing to help. 74.133.192.177 04:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)dr

Copy Edit

This article is on the backlog list of articles to be copy-edited. I'm slowly rewriting the article so it reflects "real world" as per policies in "writing about fiction." Please see WP:WAF. Also, as per WP:WAF the fictional character Delaware shouldn't be referred to as Alex to avoid familiarity. I've posted references at the bottom of the article that will help. Will post the copy-edit banner when I'm working on the article. Don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 19:59, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

As per WP:PLOT the summaries should be short, concise, given a real world context and include critical analyses.Truthkeeper88 (talk) 14:13, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I've just done some copy-editing: changed the name to Delaware and shortened most summaries. I didn't touch the copy-and-paste summaries, though.--Kojozone (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for helping! I'd decided against changing Alex to Delaware until the article is finished, and then performing a mass search/change, but like you I find myself changing as I go along. What do you think of these summaries. Keep or rewrite? Truthkeeper88 (talk) 14:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I think there are copyright problems concerning those summaries, so better re-write them.--Kojozone (talk) 14:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I agree the copied summaries should be rewritten, but I'm tempted to rewrite the entire article without 23 summaries. What do you think? I don't mind doing an entire rewrite, am familiar with the author and have read all the books, but need another opinion. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 14:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Wow, if you want to spend that time - why not?^^ But what instead of the summaries? I haven't read a single Delaware book so I really have no idea. You could focus on the post-modern detectiv, although I have no clue what that would involve. If you want to do that, keep the summaries and expand the post-modern section. Or you could reduce the summaries by connecting several books with the same continuing story-line (the girlfriends, the friend, his personal history). As a result you would have less summaries, but had them more meaningful. However, if you don't want to change anything I'd find that acceptable too because the summaries are short and that's probably what you would go for if you want information on the topic. The cross-linking is a good thought, though. --Kojozone (talk) 15:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I was thinking about changing the article so it looks like this, keeping the summaries for the meantime to work from, and then collapsing them altogether. I like the idea of expanding on the post-modern detective from an interesting paper I found, and then adding examples from specific books as supporting evidence. Certainly the article is in better shape than a few days ago when I started, but I can't find references for each of the 23 summaries, one reason I began to consider eliminating them altogether. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 15:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

The other detective page is great, if you want to change it like that it would be terrific. Good luck ;)--Kojozone (talk) 20:10, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm almost done copy editing, and then I'll take it off the 2007 list. Once done, I'll consider reworking into a different page which will solve the problem of the uncited summaries and make the article a better article. Thanks for the input. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 20:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Any more on this? It needs some work...I look forward to reading what you've done. Sabiona (talk) 22:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me here! The lead needs a rewrite; some of the long quotations should be paraphrased; the infobox isn't complete; and the formatting still needs some tweaking. Am very busy at the moment, but will get to this as soon as I can. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 03:11, 8 December 2009 (UTC)