Talk:Catwings

Untitled 2015 comment

The first section is imported from Talk:The Catwings Collection, which renders the other two talk pages redundant now. --P64 (talk) 13:42, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposed merge with The Catwings Collection

There are four books in the Catwings series, each has its own tiny article. I think they should be merged and put under the series title "Catwings Collection." Thank you. Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors (talk) 23:14, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

@Risssa: Oops. Now only the first two have articles:

1. Catwings
2. Catwings Return
3. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
4. Jane on her Own

--Thnidu (talk) 22:46, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

I think the book 1 title Catwings is a better destination pagename, with incoming redirects from the three sequel titles and any boxed set or omnibus edition titles (and illustrator S. D. Schindler, but that's an independent matter).

redirect S. D. Schindler created; section Catwings#Illustrator initiated --P64 (talk) 23:46, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

The series name is Catwings at ISFDB, which catalogs only as short fiction [SF] the four picture books and as collections [C] the two omnibus editions Tales of the Catwings and More Tales of the Catwings [1].

By the way, see Cat Dreams at UrsulaKLeGuin.com, and via Internet Archive coverage of that book by School Library Journa in a December 2009 review column [2].

See also Talk:Catwings and Talk:Catwings Return. --P64 (talk) 22:40, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done 16 hours ago with destination Catwings (which can be changed, of course), except talk pages done momentarily --P64 (talk) 13:18, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Merge

I think we should merge the series page The Catwings Collection, this book 1 page Catwings, and the book 2 page Catwings Return. And we should redirect the titles of books 3 and 4 to the one article, in order to preempt their creation.

Probably the book 1 title Catwings is the best destination pagename, rather than the series or omnibus or boxed set title The Catwings Collection. --P64 (talk) 22:25, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done 16 hours ago with destination this page Catwings (which can be changed, of course), except talk pages done momentarily --P64 (talk) 13:25, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

First four installments

Perhaps Le Guin hoped or planned to continue the series. Or some bookseller, publisher, or reviewer thought so. One "Summary" described/s the 2003 boxed set as comprising the "first four installments of her series" (at Powell's Bookstore). Presumably that is Powell's quotation of someone else, but there is no attribution to a publisher (or anyone else) and there is another Summary with no such suggestion. --P64 (talk) 18:00, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Illustrator

S. D. Schindler does redirect here as I suggested a couple days ago, to section 4 Illustrator. Today I crammed much into that section, and knowing what I have not touched I doubt my earlier presumption that he is not WP:NOTABLE for a biography page, [3]. It's ok for now; we/I have not yet assembled what warrants a biography.

I removed template {{under construction}} from section Illustrator, but it remains appropriate for the entire article. (External link Kirkus provides 4 reviews to help cover the greatest needs.) Anyway, the article is a Start, no longer a Stub, with or without incorporating our coverage of Schindler.

Many of Schindler's books are non-fiction and some others are information books. WorldCat reports that Catwings is held by 3000+ participating libraries. That is a good score and it ranks fourth among his books behind two non-fiction and one information fiction (never to be represented by any articles here, I feel certain). He is identified by national authorities--usually national libraries--of France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, and Netherlands, as far as VIAF knows. That is another good score.

--P64 (talk) 18:24, 15 August 2015 (UTC)