Talk:Edward H. Phillips

Works: Books: subsections by principal topic
I re-inserted (and revised) the Book subsection headings -- with appropriate wikilinks -- by manufacturer -- for clarity, and for ready identification and analysis of Phillips work.

It is efficient and informative to break out a lengthy bibilography by the distinct (and sometimes-repeated) main topics that distinguish one group of titles from another.

While it can be reasonably argued that many of Phillips' books spill over into the other topic areas (e.g.: other aircraft manufacturers -- as with his Travel Air: Wings Over the Prairie, which dabbles in coverage of other aircraft-manufacturing companies involving Travel Air's leaders: Laird/Swallow, Cessna Aircraft Co. and Stearman Aircraft) -- there is no question that his books, as their titles clearly imply, are overwhelmingly focused on coverage of one company (or certain aircraft of one company).

This clarification makes it easier for a person to assess what areas of emphasis that author specialized in, and offered works in, and reduce ambiguity inherent in an unsorted lengthy glob of titles that would result without this neat separation of themes.

This method makes Wikipedia a far more useful and efficient reference work, and is therefore consistent with the fundamental concept of Wikipedia as a quick-reference encyclopedia, not an academic library or journal.


 * ~ Zxtxtxz (talk) 08:17, 8 September 2016 (UTC)