Talk:Red Army (novel)

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Part I

Not only Tom Clancy, but nearly every technothriller novel concerning war includes scenes from the opfor perspective. Nevertheless, Red Army is the only one that was concerned exclusively from that perspective--in fact, there was no 'blue force' cut scenes in the entire book, if I recall correctly. Also, the bit about Tom Clancy was a bit ungrammatical. For both of these reasons, I removed the text. 24.3.142.198 15:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

God I hate Tom Clancy.

-G

Image of book cover / WWIII Genre Project

I've made it a personal project to polish and expand the articles of the books in the WWIII genre, and have ran into trouble with the images due to the archaic copyright laws and wikipedias insane image policy. I've written to the publishers and authors (where applicable) of the WWIII books listed on the SEE ALSO part of this article, in order to confirm what peoples common sense should already have told them: NO AUTHOR CARES IF THE COVER IF THEIR BOOK IS ON AN ENCYCLOPEDIA PAGE.

Those disclaimers inside book jackets where they reserve all rights in every form were meant for the era in which these books were published, the 1980s, which is a totally diffrent universe to the one were in now.

When I get their permission I will be putting my own images back up.

I would urge the knee-jerk administrators on here to actually read the upload information this time before hysterically pulling the images.

Try going with the spirit of the law not it's letter, putting the book jacket on wikipedia is promotion of the book not copyright theft, the wikipedia policy in this area is even more insane and dated than the actual laws. At the very least they should wait until they have a complaint before pulling images, but what author in their right mind would have a problem with it? None.

Jericho.Trinity.Omega 1st November 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jericho.Trinity.Omega (talk • contribs) 14:00, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 Updates

I'm currently reading this book and as part of my general improvement of WWIII genre wiki pages will be polishing it up to bring it up to the level and standard of its counterpart Team Yankee. I will gradually be adding part 1, 2, 3 etc to the plot summary as I go.

Feel free to polish up my work in any way you see fit, I would especially urge anyone with a greater understanding of wikipedias image policies to find a book jacket image that they will not hysterically pull without even getting a complaint. Pending that I have contacted the copyright holder, the difficulty in doing so shows how stupid this whole process is, but I am attempting to get them to add one or allow me permission to add one.

— Preceding comment added by Jericho.Trinity.Omega (talk • contribs) 16:30 GMT 25th January 2014

You've misunderstood Wikipedia's copyright model. When you upload something to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons you're irrevocably releasing that image to the public domain, with Creative Commons caveats. If you don't hold the copyright to an image you can't release it to the public domain. Only the copyright holder can do that. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate history?

Removed attestations of this book being a work of alternate history. The cover clearly states "Tomorrow's War" which implies a near future or contemporary setting, and after having read the book myself, there was nothing in it that stood out to me as suggesting an alternate history setting. Only alternate history retroactively and unintentionally since the fall of the URSS. Also "World War III" is kinda suspect too since there is no mention in the book of it either. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 06:41, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]