[WikiEN-l] LOTR intro's
Richard Grevers
dramatic at xtra.co.nz
Mon Mar 17 09:03:17 UTC 2003
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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Richard Grevers
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