User blog comment:ToastUltimatum/Wiki Independence/@comment-1718103-20120522182158

The letter as requested

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you on behalf of Robot Wars Wiki, part of the Wikia project whose articles you publish in your print-on-demand books. As a community, we politely request that you cease the advertisement of these books on Amazon, as we believe that our articles are not well suited to publication in the format that you are publishing them in, and we are also unhappy that the sum of four years of effort on our parts has gone with only minimal crediting to the true authors of these books. As I previously mentioned, the books that you are offering contain information that my fellow contributors and I consider inappropriate for publication. For example, one of your books, priced at £22.64, contains the information of the articles from the following categories: •	Episodes containing a Pinball Run •	Episodes featuring Soccer •	Episodes featuring Sumo •	Episodes in which two robots fought twice •	Episodes to contain an OotA •	Episodes to have a short battle •	Heats won by a Newcomer •	Robot Wars Awards As someone who has watched every episode of Robot Wars many times over, I can assure you that these categories show no real relation to each other in the way a true non-fiction book should, and thus to compose a book containing all of this information is completely inappropriate. The very same story can be detailed for almost every one of the sixteen other books containing information from our wiki. I’m sure that you can see that the publication of our particular subject matter requires a better understanding of the topic on the part of the compiler than simply an anthology of only loosely connected articles. As a collective, we feel that simply appending a link to the article source at the end of each article is not an appropriate or satisfactory method of suiting the requirement for you to credit the authors under the Creative Commons agreement under which Wikia information is bound. To conclude, I would like to point out that if you were to agree to our request, that are not likely to lose any money at all in potential sales. Please consider that you are dealing with a collection of information on a TV show which ended almost a decade ago, and retains only a very small fanbase, so sales of any of the seventeen books you are offering are likely to be minimal, if existent at all. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Matthew Gutteridge on behalf of Robot Wars Wiki