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Written by Anonymous

Currently, we have a large number of books that are apparently written by someone called Anonymous.

To me, it makes more sense that these "authors" are removed, which would cause all affected books to display nothing for their authors. With the removal of /author subpages, this is pretty easy to do with a bot - or even by going through one at a time. Since this is changing content rather than simply re-organising it, it's necessary to consult the community first. So, community, what dost thou think? –rpeh •T•C•E• 22:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Makes sense to me; however, I think we should probably keep it for the few that actually say "Anonymous", like Ahzirr Traajijazeri. --GK^talk2me 05:12, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Good point. Assuming this goes ahead, I'll have the bot exclude those cases. –rpeh •T•C•E• 14:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Yup, agreed (both with the proposal and GK's suggestion)! Still waiting for community to say something though. ;) --Timenn-<talk> 11:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Just to make it clear to me, the books rpeh linked to are books which have no author in the game itself and are therefore books we labeled as written by anonymous? And the book GK linked to is a book which has as author "anonymous" in the game? If that's the case I agree with the proposal and GK's suggestion. ^Talk Wolok gro-Barok _{Contributions} 18:22, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Wolok: yep. --GK^talk2me 18:43, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Okay, it's been a week so I ran it. If a book says "Anonymous" as an author now, I'm 99% sure it's because it says that in the game. In case you're interested, the only one in my original list that is supposed to say Anonymous is Trap. rpeh •T•C•E• 18:44, 16 January 2010 (UTC)