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)
 * Oops. Now only the first two have articles:
 * Catwings
 * Catwings Return
 * Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
 * 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 created; section Catwings 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.
 * 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.


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


 * ✅ 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)
 * ✅ 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
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,. 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)