Talk:David Patrick (writer)

The headnote describing the projects Patrick edited has an error in it
The headnote describing the projects Patrick edited has an error in it:

[Original text:]

David Patrick FRSE LLD (1849 – 22 March 1914) was a Scottish writer and editor. He edited Chambers's Encyclopaedia from 1888 to 1892, Chambers's Biographical Dictionary in 1897 and Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature with F. H. Groome from 1901 to 1903.

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F. H. Groome was not involved with the Cyclopaedia of English Literature. He is not mentioned in that work's pages (I am currently writing a dissertation on Chambers's work so I have original editions in front of me as well as digital ones from databases), and the reference our page points to (https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13240/pg13240-images.html) indicates the following:

PATRICK, DAVID, LL.D. (1849). —Ed. of Chambers' Encyclopædia (1888-92), Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature (1901-3), and Chambers's Biographical Dictionary (with F.H. Groome) (1897).

I suggest we alter the text of our article in accordance with this information.

[Suggested replacement text:]

David Patrick FRSE LLD (1849 – 22 March 1914) was a Scottish writer and editor. He edited Chambers's Encyclopaedia from 1888 to 1892, Chambers's Biographical Dictionary (with F. H. Groome) in 1897, and Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature from 1901 to 1903.

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Also worth noting: The Cyclopaedia of English Literature had two more editions, one in 1923 and a final one in 1938. Patrick obviously couldn't participate because he was dead, but he is still credited as the "editor"; and the 1938 edition finally names a posthumous collaborator (J. Liddell Geddie). Is that type of posthumous collaboration relevant? Or merely interesting inside baseball? 174.59.221.8 (talk) 18:54, 13 July 2023 (UTC)