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...
I put a * in my previous post and then forgot the footnote. My current Wikikarma technique is to hit random page until I see something that needs fixing (usually a typo or a bad phrasing, occasionally a fact.)
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...