User:Lord Farin/Sandbox

This page exists for me to be able to test features I am developing. Also, incomplete proofs may appear here.

Feel free to comment.

Over time, stuff may move to User:Lord_Farin/Sandbox/Archive.

Subpages of this one may exist; they are listed at this PW special page.

title of book as of current paradigm
First published XXXX, *Publisher*, ISBN

Subject Matter
This doesn't (shouldn't?) change in the course of editions.

Editions
If available, the contents of an edition can be viewed by following the link.

This book appears in the following editions:


 * Some Edition, XXXX, Publisher, ISBN(s)

''"Some Edition" may be a link to the page of a particular edition. This includes the First Edition.

Each of the editions pages is set up precisely as a book page is under current paradigm. For compatibility with the BookReference template I think it's good to have these as actual subpages, placing appropriate redirects if the first author should change (which I can see occurring only, and even then sparsely, with historical works).''

Discussion of this approach
We have come to the conclusion that it is good to have the possibility of referring to multiple editions of the same book. This is mainly instigated by books where newer editions have undergone major changes with respect to old ones, rendering e.g. section and entry numbering shaky at best.

Of course, for most books there will be only one subpage, and it is therefore not intended to swarm out and enforce this new construct on all "old" book pages - such would likely take weeks of slogging and is not worth the minor gain in clarity. It will instead be processed gradually, whenever someone feels like taking on a particular book.

Lastly, the Template:Book needs to be changed to reflect this new approach. To ensure backwards compatibility, this may necessitate a global renaming of  to   and a move to make way for the new approach. Luckily, we actually have a global replace functionality.

Thoughts on this are appreciated. --Lord_Farin (talk) 11:27, 15 February 2013 (UTC)