Talk:The Girl on the Boat

Requested move
If the serial was published as "Three Men and a Maid" in 1921 and the book was first published as Three Men and a Maid in April of 1922 and only *then* published as The Girl on the Boat in June of 1922, this article should be at Three Men and a Maid. Rhindle The Red (talk) 13:51, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * These are always tricky with Wodehouse, as he tended to change names from serial to book versions, recycle plots under different names etc etc making everything complicated and confusing. While generally original titles seems the best policy, I'd say it also depends on what name is current - in most cases where UK/US names have differed in the past, the publishers have eventually settled on one or the other, and it seems sensible to keep the page entitled the same as the currently published versions as these have become the de facto, accepted titles over the years. I know the GotB title is used in the recently-published Everyman's editions in the UK - if anyone has seen TMaaM still in print in the US I guess that leaves things just as difficult. From a quick look on Amazon everything still using the TMaaM title seems to be print-on-demand type stuff ripping the text from Project Gutenberg, but that may not be all of them. JohnnyZen (talk) 12:51, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Article titles are dependent not upon what came first, but upon the name that is most commonly used for the given topic. You might want to bring this up again if you can present evidence that one title is used more commonly than the other. Please see WP:UCN for more information. I'm removing the move template for now, as this is an old discussion that did not attract many comments. Dekimasu よ! 09:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)