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This moment is worth recording for posterity; as citations are added or removed it may change: purely by chance, citation number 23 supports the text about the 23 enigma. --kingboyk (talk) 14:50, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

State of the article and the help needed to finish it

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This article is in the domain of both WikiProject The KLF and WikiProject Novels. As the currently sole active member of the former, I've done what I can on the KLF side of things, but the article could do with some help on the book side of things - which is really rather important as the article is supposed to be about a novel :) Unfortunately I am needed elsewhere (rescuing a Featured Article before it is proposed for deletion, amongst other things) and haven't actually read the book yet.

What I have taken care of:

  • Infobox
  • A background section on who the authors are, where their pseudonym came from (important, as it's Illuminatus!-inspired); what they have written previously (The Manual); and what they got up to 23 years before announcing this book (and how they got the money to do that)
  • A paragraph (previously a section) on the rumours of a return early in 2017
  • Basic details about the book launch and surrounding events (covered in more detail in Welcome to the Dark Ages) [I'm not too happy at this section being so short, but I think the launch is covered in adequate length and I don't know where else to put the content; a copyedit can sort that out later if the article is developed]
  • A very short explanation about the significance of the number 23, as related to the launch of a book called 2023 - 23 years after the aforementioned significant event in the authors' career - at 23 seconds past midnight on the 23rd (Illuminatus! related again)
  • A section about the cover (guess what, it's Illuminatus! related)

These sections need writing:

  • Plot, including the titles of each of the 3 parts of the trilogy
  • Critical reception. The original author left a quote from a review but it's not the quote I'd have used.

After that it would need a copyedit and maybe it would be GA worthy, who knows?

Sources

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  • Google. I'm not meaning to be facetious; I have not searched for book reviews.
  • Ellis-Petersen, Hannah ref name="Ellis-Petersen"
  • Book extract in the Guardian
  • Jake Arnott's review, already referenced but not properly exploited
  • There is a list of sources about "Welcome to the Dark Ages" at https://www.seanclark.me.uk/welcome-to-the-dark-ages or at archive.org if link is dead; I would not be surprised if some of them cover the book

--kingboyk (talk) 02:11, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note to future self or anyone else who will summarise the plot: Some advice about writing a plot section was left at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels#2023:_A_Trilogy. --kingboyk (talk) 01:58, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]