User talk:Uncle G/Describe this universe

It is worthwhile noting that this latter form of article serves the fans better. Fans can, after all, find out the fictional universe account of events by the simple expedient of reading the books and watching the films and television programmes.

It's also a bit harder of an article to source though, isn't it? The first stuff, the worthless stuff, everyone knows. This stuff requires some knowledge that may be hard to find. But who said writing articles was supposed to be *easy*... ++Lar: t/c 04:29, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate take

Hey, Uncle G. I had been intending to write an essay much like yours for a while. I've finally got a first draft up, located at User:Amcaja/Writing about fiction. I've shamelessly borrowed parts of your essay; I hope you don't mind. You'll see that I've attacked the problem from a slightly different angle, trying to avoid any value judgments and presenting out-of-universe writing as the simple and logical choice. I'd appreciate any feedback, and perhaps we can develop a unified essay and present it as once piece to the Think Tank. I also plan to link my essay to Wikipedia talk:What is a featured article?, as there's currently a discussion going on there about fictional articles and how they are scraping through FAC against the better judgment of many FAC regulars. — Amcaja 17:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to be on extended wikibreak, but I thought I'd let you know that the essay is now located at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) and that it has been proposed as a guideline at the village pump. — Amcaja 15:37, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]