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The list was promoted by Hahc21 10:01, 9 March 2014 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Bibliography of Sax Rohmer[edit]

Featured list candidates/Bibliography of Sax Rohmer/archive1

Nominator(s): SchroCat (talk) 22:03, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sax Rohmer was a prodigious writer between his first book in 1910 and his death in 1959. He started his career writing songs and sketches for music hall stars George Robey and Little Tich, and ghost wrote Tich's autobiography. He is probably best remembered for his creation of the villainous Fu Manchu, who appeared in 15 of Rohmer's books, before finding a further life in the cinema. – SchroCat (talk) 22:03, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support – I am familiar with this subject thanks largely to my work on the Tich FA and my FAC intended work on Robey. As such, this is a very accurate account of the information given on them. I have made the couple of small fixes myself as they were really small and more effort would have been needed for me to post them here rather than to just get on with it; I see no further issues whatsoever. Great stuff! Cassianto ^Talk 10:41, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments typically good stuff, some minor technical points.

Blank publisher for "Aboo Tabah", probably worth a note.
"Other works of Sax Rohmer" shouldn't that really be "Non-fction works..."?
"by M. Retford." vs "and T. W. Thurban" in Notes. The consistency of the use of full stops is the issue here.

Sorry, being blind here, but I thought I'd got the full stops in place: where am I missing them? - SchroCat (talk) 11:50, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"The books of Rohmer" previous captions have used his full name. And this appears to be more specific than "books", "novels and story collections"...
New York or NY? Unless one means the city, the other the state I suppose...?

Yep: I've gone for the city in full and the state in the shortened form. - SchroCat (talk) 11:50, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just a curiousity for me, the book is called The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu but the character is referred to here as Fu Manchu (i.e. without the hyphen). What's the deal?
Not sure you need Category:Bibliographies by writer as Category:Bibliographies of British writers is more refined.

The Rambling Man (talk) 09:53, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All done, bar the one where I'm being dense! As always, many thanks for taking the time to go through this! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 11:50, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support (having stumbled here from my FLC discussion page). Only one minor suggestion: You might want to move the page to Sax Rohmer bibliography, per prior precedent of the WP:FL at George Orwell bibliography. Otherwise, nicely done! — Cirt (talk) 02:26, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Cirt: much appreciated! There are a couple of different formats for bibliographies and I've plumped for this, largely because I find the format of "Sax Rohmer bibliography" gramatically lumpy! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're most welcome, — Cirt (talk) 05:48, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support - with a few comments

"was a British song and sketch writer, and author" - that comma just seems awkward, maybe "was a British author and song and sketch writer"

That's not quite right either, but I agree the previous version was awkward and tweaked to something more appropriate. - SchroCat (talk) 00:06, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Notes shouldn't be sortable in the Non-fiction table

Yep, done. - SchroCat (talk) 00:06, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Given that the first table's heading is "Songs and musical monologues written by Rohmer", the others should be in the same style (i.e. Plays written by Rohmer, not "The plays of Rohmer")

Ive standardised to "xxxxx by Rohmer", which should be ok. - SchroCat (talk) 00:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

--Pres N 19:29, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks PresN, much appreciated! Cheers. - SchroCat (talk) 00:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

No image of the man?

Nothing free that I could see, unfortunately: I'll have another search around, as I've got access to a source i didn't have when I wrote this. - SchroCat (talk) 07:21, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Born" twice in two sentences

Swapped out one for "pseudonym". - SchroCat (talk) 07:31, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

His formal education finished in 1901 with the death of his alcoholic mother - probably not intended, but could be interpreted as his education led to her death, or that she was teaching him

Now tweaked. - SchroCat (talk) 07:21, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ghost written - I think this should either be one word or hyphenated

Hyphenated in BrEng: now tweaked. - SchroCat (talk) 07:21, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why no films based on Fu Manchu? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:51, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are a few, but Rohmer didn't have a hand in any of them, as far as I can tell. - SchroCat (talk) 07:27, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! - SchroCat (talk) 07:31, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for your quick replies. I will be promoting this nom now. There may be a delay in the bot processing it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:19, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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