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I think the article as it is comes across as a bit like a promotion. There are some serious edits and expansions needed to accurately represent the series.Dubk (talk) 22:13, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
"In 2012 Howey began shopping around the international rights to the series, with rights to the series being sold in Brazil".
What meaning is intended by use of the phrase, "shopping around"?
Normal English usage would suggest visiting a number of suppliers in order to find the best price at which to purchase an item, however that is clearly not the meaning intended here as Howey is not trying to buy Wool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.176.214.202 (talk) 00:44, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I've removed the interviews at "isaachooke.com" and "successilism.com", as neither are places that Wikipedia would consider a reliable source. Bluntly put, if something isn't seen as a reliable enough source to use as something to show notability, it shouldn't be added to an article. Some articles do include links to interviews in the EL section, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily should be included. Many times those only exist on Wikipedia because they haven't been caught and removed yet. Only time something should be included is if it's by a reliable source. An interview with the New York Times? Add it. An interview with Publishers Weekly or SF CrowsNest? Add it. But an interview with two blog-type sites that aren't really considered to be reliable sources? No. Not something that should be added. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
I've removed the Fanfiction section. It was extremely poorly sourced and was written from a very non-neutral voice. Do not readd the section without thoroughly discussing. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 03:21, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
"Book 9+ ... Now available for preorder on Amazon.com, it will be released as a single volume on August 17, 2013.[11]" Should the bit about pre-ordering it be removed? Opinions? SybilleY (talk) 14:30, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! I wasn't sure about it ;-) SybilleY (talk) 11:49, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Would also be nice if this article mentioned what those "big secrets" behind the Silos and the setting actually were. :) 174.3.224.60 (talk) 05:29, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
The introduction states that Silo is "also available as a single novel", but I do not see any evidence of that online, nor does the citation say so. The first two books in the trilogy were originally published as novellas before being compiled into omnibus collections. The third book was originally published as a novel. I propose changing the introduction to:
"Silo is a series of science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey. The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name. Along with Wool, the series consists of Shift, Dust, three short stories and Wool: The Graphic Novel."
At some point, we should also add a note about Wool's success with an ebook model and a description of the series. Dsethlewis (talk) 22:31, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
The plot synopses are way too short and need to be expanded. For example it mentions how the sheriff is investigating the death of his wife. This neglects to mention he was there when it happened, she wanted out of the silo (which essentially is a death sentence) and that he, in effect, had to serve as her executioner. Then over three years he commiserating her death until he cannot stand it and ants to join her. It also neglects to mention thus going outside has the euphemism "cleaning," because the condemned are sent out in a pressure suit to clean the silo's external sensors, and how Holston does so, then falls down next to his wife's rotting corpse, betrayed by a fake visual display whuch shows the outside as green grass and blue sky, causing him to open his suit, where the barren wasteland, full of toxins, destroys him.
And so on. Something like this is how the synopsis should be written. Since probably nobody wants to do it it looks like I'll have to as I get time. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 15:11, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
A complete summary of part 2 is finished. Some minor errors were corrected and the summary goes all the way to the end. Since parts 1 and 2 have complete summaries, I'm removing the top of page warning that it needs more details.. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 04:49, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Even if this is the PRIMARYTOPIC for now, series is far more common for TV shows than books and the show will presumably have a larger audience soon if it doesn't already. At minimum, it'd be more helpful if this were at Silo (book series). — LlywelynII 23:49, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
That's not how abbreviations have worked since the 18th century. If that L is a random use of the Roman numeral L for 50, it's still a number and not a punctuated abbreviation (W.O.O.L) in any dialect where people don't regularly write that their 8th. grade classroom was 1./2. 13.-year-olds and half 14.-year-old students. If the author did it anyway, his mistake/oddity doesn't change how we present it any more than we need to talk about TESLA, BURGER KING, and VISA in all caps because that's what their marketing departments make their copyeditors use as a house style.
Since we're already using "CAD-FAC" instead of "C.A.D.-F.A.C.", the easier thing is to write the next abbreviation the same way: "WOOL". If paranoid dystopian survivalist fiction is so closely associated with American culture that the article needs to use American English throughout, we don't really need to use those periods in American English either but we would need to be consistent throughout (C.A.D.-F.A.C. and the rest).
We should also probably have a note in parentheses or using ((efn)) and ((noteslist)) to explain where that L came from just for clarity as well. — LlywelynII 02:19, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
This article should really mention the omnibus. Is it a collection of all stories? Only the first arc? 162.218.227.198 (talk) 02:43, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
I understand that the Silo series may have been how fans often referred to the trilogy, but the omnibus edition is published on Kindle under the name The Wool Trilogy. As the Apple TV adaptation brings more new readers to these works, I think it's inevitable that the published name will win out over any established fan name for the series, and I think the article should be renamed to The Wool Trilogy Roybadami (talk) 23:58, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
I seem to remember an earlier series or film of a Silo-like world. Could an established editor add something on that earlier possibly related adaptation? 2600:1008:A123:2AA:18F7:1326:A08B:F8C8 (talk) 23:33, 13 January 2024 (UTC)