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My Enemy, My Ally, by Diane Duane A very well-written Star Trek novel that in spite of my own efforts, has been without a Wikipedia article since at least July. No fewer than two editors have shot the article down rather than label the Plot Summary as a Plot Summary (mea culpa, already; what do you people want from me?) I didn't realize Wikipedia had a blacklist of Forbidden Books, but that's the only reason I can come up with; no other explanation has been forthcoming. TravellerDMT-07 17:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
My Enemy, My Ally
Unfortunately, a book article that is merely a plot summary does end up getting deleted, however notable it may or may not be. (See here). To find out what a good article on a book should look like, have a look at this page. I have copied the deleted page to a subpage of your user area - it's here User:TravellerDMT-07/Temp. You can edit this version, then, when you think the article is good enough, drop me a note on my talk page and I'll have a look. Thanks, ELIMINATORJR 19:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. Potential Wikimprovement: cut-n-pastable templates? Without one, I'll have to go to an approved article, copy the whole thing to a new page, insert the old summary and edit everything else to fit, right? Grr. I'd trust myself more to insert what's known than inadvertently leave in something wrong or irrelevant. TravellerDMT-07 05:27, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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