Template talk:New texts/item

What if the item is a subpage of a larger anthology of work, such as Letters of Daniel Webster/Speech against conscription? --Spangineer^wp (háblame) 23:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I've just added a display= parameter, so that {{new texts/item|Letters of Daniel Webster/Speech against conscription|display=Speech against conscription|Daniel Webster|1814}} will produce:

Speech against conscription (1814)

by Daniel Webster

--虍 (talk) 00:06, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks! --Spangineer^wp (háblame) 00:49, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Author link override?

I would like to add Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus, which is jointly authored by Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr.; should this template have something akin to {{header}}'s override_author?

Edition?

@EncycloPetey: Why do we have an edition parameter? I didn't see that it was discussed anywhere, and would have thought that it should have been for the presentation place. Is it really pertinent or needed? It is not like the transcribed work can be a collectors' item. How does it add value? — billinghurst sDrewth 04:48, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

We sometimes have several editions of a work, and editions will vary. Knowing the revision or edition of a work clarifies which text it is out of several possibilities. Example: we already had a copy of Walden, but not the original text. I have seen firsthand in working on our Thoreau texts that the editions vary in spelling, hyphenation of words, punctuation, and other replicatible details.

It can also be used to identify American or British editions, which often differ in a number of particulars, and although the parameter is called "edition", it can support other information, so that I have once used it to indicate the publication date of the original text of a translation.

It is not needed often, and should certainly be used only sparingly, but I have had to use it a few times before. Last November, for instance, to distinguish the (revised) second edition of Morshead from the first edition. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:45, 24 April 2017 (UTC)