[WikiEN-l] LOTR intro's

tarquin tarquin at planetunreal.com
Mon Mar 17 09:22:23 UTC 2003


or:

'''Foo''' is a [[fiction]]al bar in  [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The 
Silmarillion]]''  ...

Richard Grevers wrote:

> I've just noticed* that back in December, Magnus Manske edited a bunch 
> of newly added articles about characters and geopgraphical features 
> from Tolkien's works by prefacing them with the explanatory note:
>
> ''The following information belongs to [[the Lord of the Rings]] 
> [[fantasy]] [[novel]]''
>
> Which is of course much better than having no indication that the 
> article refers to a work of fiction. However, many of the articles are 
> actually about people and places from [[The Silmarillion]].
> So I was wondering if there is a preferred format for introducing 
> articles about literary ephemera.
>
> My first attempt is along the lines of In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' by 
> [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] the '''foo''' is a...
>





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