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Revised 2012-06-04
updated after few minutes
I have revised in five ways:
simple display title --this box should navigate all things Jack Vance, see below
simple group names -- the word "series" is redundant. What has been the criterion for italics?
add cat
Dying Earth as "(directory)" under its group name --see below
add "The House of Iszm" to the end of its list in established format --how are these stories ordered? why use italics?
hide code for {{authority control}} --That template is deprecated here, no matter where it is placed, so it is appropriate now to hide the code in a comment
About 3 (and 1). Certainly cat
Dying Earth should be included here in effect. Somewhere else I have added "Category: X" to a Related list. With very few pages distinct from the four books, maybe each should be added directly, as a Dying Earth subgroup:
list extended twice, beyond contents of cat
Dying Earth
About 4 (and 2). Do all stories in the list lie outside the fiction series that are groups here? If so then group name "Short fiction outside those series" will be clear and correct. --
P64 (
talk)
19:34, 4 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Good work. Is there any rule about the use of italics in templates (4)? Maybe we should use an alphabetic order? Or do we use the year of publication and do we add a year to each story?--
Narayan (
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19:10, 12 June 2012 (UTC)reply
For me those questions are open but a little more reading about navboxen may close them, as there may be guidelines worth following. Certainly there is no reason to replicate the order of listing in his biography/bibliography.
"The House of Iszm" --it is now listed twice, wasn't previously overlooked but classified differently. We should follow ISFDB regarding what is a novel unless we know that it is in error by word count. --
P64 (
talk)
21:53, 12 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Is there any reason not to replace The Excellent Prismatic Spray by a redirect to
Dying Earth#Legacy, where I have downgraded it from an elaborate See also?
I'd say to keep "Gaean Reach" and "Baron Bodissey" together as they keep on returning through the different (unrelated) stories. I'm not sure about adding "Navarth" here as well.