Talk:Simon Clark (novelist)

A fact from Simon Clark (novelist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 December 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that British horror novelist Simon Clark wrote a sequel to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids?

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This page has been looked at by 2 editors - one of whom assessed it with the reviews included. Another editor adjusted the reviews to make them more balanced. But now a third editor has come along and deleted them altogether!! I've put them back - I don't see why they should go until all 3 agree.S.tollyfield (talk) 18:02, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

S.tollyfield, your nomination of the article at DYK will not be approved with the Critical reactions section as it is now. Since you've restored it by reverting my edit (and in doing so removed a number of other edits that were fixing a severe overlinking problem as well as properly italicizing book titles), I have tagged it with the appropriate template. Sections on critical reception/reaction are not supposed to be a series of quotes; the text is supposed to summarize the general reaction in your own words, with perhaps a short phrase quoted from the various reviews in question. Printing chunks of reviews is not only unencyclopedic, it can violate fair use rules if too much of the original is used. In this case, WP:Blockquote would also come into play. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:34, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is this better then?S.tollyfield (talk) 15:03, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is better, yes, without the large quotes. However, only the first of them, on Darker, does the job properly, where your words describe what the reviewer said with only a bit from the actual reviewer. The rest just give very short quotes from the reviews of each book without any summarizing of review content by you. It's probably fine for DYK now in its current form, but if you want to take the article further, you'll need to do more work. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:15, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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