Talk:Cambridge Companions

Editors needed

I created the List of Cambridge Companions to Music article couple of years ago but shied away from creating the articles on the rest two sub-series of this series. DGG and Charles Matthews are you aware of editors who will be willing to help create/maintain these article(s) and incorporate the information in the few hundred volumes into Wikipedia? Solomon7968 20:43, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

by sub-series, I think you mean Cambridge Companion to Literature and Classics, and Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture . I am a little unsure about including the names of all the contributors; on the one hand, these can be found easily in the worldcat record; on the other, the notable ones with WP articles might be justified, and it is possible that in time most of the contributors would in fact justify articles by WP:PROF.

I have learned not to promise to do things here: I may start them, but unfortunately I must admit that it's unwise to count on me. DGG ( talk ) 04:40, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

OK rather than relying on you two I went ahead creating the two articles; just the shell for now as it was enough for me. I still need help putting the whole series together and, above all, incorporating the information in them to our content Wikipedia articles. For this let's ping major contributors to WP:PROF: @Xxanthippe, Kevin Murray, Mscuthbert, Mangojuice, Tryptofish, EEng, David Eppstein, Guillaume2303, Psychonaut, SMcCandlish, Nsk92, WhatamIdoing, Radiant!, Lawrencekhoo, BenAveling, Quarl, NJ Wine, Bdj, Thecheesykid, and JorisvS:. Solomon7968 13:46, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the ping. This is somewhat far afield from the subject areas where I am comfortable editing, so you'll probably get better input from other editors. --Tryptofish (talk) 15:28, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Looking at their web site, these three "collections" seem to be composed of series, eg. CC to Philosophy, and CC to Religion. But I also see CC to Law, without any other more comprehensive collection. I have not ruled out that some may be in multiple sections. At the least we'll need a (sub)series indication for the vols. in the 3 main collections, plus separate ones fro Law and possibly other topic areas . DGG ( talk ) 18:31, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

• Wait a second. Isn't this just going to be a small set of tables? What is there for us to do? Can't you just fetch the publication info out of some publisher's database? EEng 05:23, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Instead of pinging PROF contributors I should have pinged our numerous FA contributors instead. The final goal is (unrelated to this article) is to make every biography/topic who/which gets a volume devoted to a FA. I can't do this alone as I am yet to make a substantial contribution to even a single FA and this would mean contributing to 500+ FA articles. Solomon7968 09:29, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

The thing you have to learn, in having a goal, is not to set an impossible goal, something too high you can never reach. You gotta have a series of smaller goals, that you can accomplish, and slowly work your way up ... My goal: right now, I want to be the all-being master of time, space and dimension.

-- Steve Martin

My advice to you is to follow Mr. Martin's lead: first become the all-being master of time, space, and dimension, then tackle the 500 FAs.

Seriously, now: are you saying, for example, that since there's a CC to Sherlock Holmes (see List of Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics) you want to bring Sherlock Holmes to FA -- then do that again for every topic for which there's a CC? EEng 15:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)