Talk:Gerald Durrell
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Merge Corfu trilogy article into his biography page
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Suggestion to merge Corfu trilogy into this page. The article itself is extremely short, and if anything, provides links to the three books individually. I suggest a merge/re-direct of the article to this page. Thanks conman33 (. . .talk) 06:18, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- I disagree - works and their author are two district topics. The trilogy article is very short, almost functioning as a disambiguation post, but I think it still serves a purpose for somebody interested in the trilogy rather than the author. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:44, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- I support a merge/re-direct of the article. — Sadko (words are wind) 20:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support merge: The diambiguation role could be served by section in Gerald Durrell#Books; the books have a page, the author has a page, so having a third page is unnecessary duplication. Klbrain (talk) 11:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- I support a merge/re-direct of the article. — Sadko (words are wind) 20:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support merge. I would not generally suggest the merging of articles on works into articles on authors if there is much material on the works, but this is not the case here, as we have well-developed articles on the individual books. This one only serves as a superfluous extra level that we (and the reader) could do without. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:20, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- I've just changed Corfu trilogy into a redirect without making any further changes to this article as it appears to contain all that information anyway. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:55, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
Planning to work on this article
editI am hoping to work on this article, and possibly take it to GAN and/or FAC, so I'm leaving a note here to let other editors of the article know in case they want to collaborate.
The first thing I'm going to do is regularize the citation format for books -- Botting is currently cited in long form in the footnotes, then in short form. I think it would be cleaner to have Botting listed in the sources and then use short form. I'll go ahead and make that change; if anyone disagrees, I'll revert and we can discuss it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:01, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
Split out list of works
editI propose to split the list of works out to a separate article; it's far too long to fit comfortably in this one. A selection can remain. If there are no objections I'll make the change some time in the next few days. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:18, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- No objections, so done. I have not left any part of the list in; as it turns out the article itself is going to cover the main books in sufficient detail that I don't think it's necessary. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:48, 4 November 2024 (UTC)