Talk:Giants (series)

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copyright violations[edit]

The book synopses were copyright violations (see for example [1]), so I removed them. Deli nk 20:49, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At some point someone restored the publisher's book blurbs for at least the first two books. Blurbs are works in their own right and covered under copyright. Also see Wikipedia_talk:Fair_use/Archive 1#Book blurb. Ideally the text gets tagged with {{copyvio}} but that creates a large hat notice. In the mean time I tagged them using ref notes. --Marc Kupper|talk 23:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I read over {{copyvio}} and related pages. WP's intent is that all copyright material be scrubbed out of Wikipedia and so I've added this to the copyvio queue. --Marc Kupper|talk 00:34, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Synopsis rewrites[edit]

The person who created the initial article and synopsis text seems to edit sporadically on WP and it's unlikely he'll be back before the copyvio discussion is resolved. I'm predicting "delete" unless there's a special case that publisher's book blurbs do not get copyright protection. With "delete" in mind I can do the synopsis rewrite for The Gentle Giants of Ganymede as I just read it. I won't get a chance to do this for a week or more. I have copies of Inherit the Stars and Giants' Star though they are queued up behind a rather slow moving book I'm trying to finish. If you have copies of Entoverse and/or Mission to Minerva it'd be great if you could take a stab at a synopsis. --Marc Kupper|talk 00:52, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for noting this concern. For the record, the one not tagged seems to infringe upon this, although it was truncated. It has also been removed. You'll note I've placed a tag above that will possibly help prevent this in the future. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:23, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... Spoiler Alert?[edit]

The three sentences in the current synopsis collectively manage to destroy all the joy one might get from reading through the first book in the series. Anyone here know enough about the series to write a better, spoiler-freee, summary? Something indicating that it is a landmark hard SF series which explores the themes of scientific discovery, long-term history, human/alien relations, and in later books, artificial universes and artificial life. JanRu (talk) 18:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... no, what kind of idiot reads an encyclopedia article about a book and is surprised to read spoilers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.75.34.139 (talk) 12:04, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]