Talk:Thornton W. Burgess

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Character List

Maybe we need a list of characters that appear iin his books. Dora Nichov 03:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Commercial links

If anyone puts the commercial links back in, please explain why they're necessary when we have links to the versions at Gutenberg (with illustrations). —JerryFriedman 20:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The commercial links provide an easy and delightful way to introduce young children to Burgess's works. A lot more user friendly than Gutenberg.

So your idea is that a parent or precocious child could read this article and then enjoy the commercial site? I agree that it's more child-friendly. "Delightful" is a matter of opinion; I like the original illustrations better. Also, some of the linked stories don't have relevant illustrations (yet?). Anyway, I'm not sure that's a good-enough justification, so I'm going to ask for other opinions. In any case, there should be only one link, not one to each story. —JerryFriedman 01:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that there's too many links. One or two is enough, not one per story. See WP:EL for more guidelines.TheRingess (talk) 01:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As per both mine and TheRingess's comments. This is one link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.146.53 (talk) 12:22, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

copyvio

I'm not going to do anything about it right now, but there's a good deal of copyvio from the Burgess Society site that needs to be rewritten.

I feel sure most of his books were collections of his newspaper columns, but I guess we need a source. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 22:50, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

@JerryFriedman, I don't know why your comment is in the "copyvio" (copyright violation) section, but the best source for the fact that most of his children's story books were drawn from his newspaper column and stories first published in magazines is "Thornton W. Burgess: A Descriptive Book Bibliography" by Wayne W. Wright. Books that were first serialized in newspapers are documented in the Appendix pages 143-146. It's a reference of what day's newspaper episode became what chapter in what book. However it's far from complete. Also, Burgess edited the stories for book publication, for example eliminating the daily recap of the previous day's newspaper entry. Books with chapters that were first published in magazines are documented throughout, at each book's entry.

Regarding any potential copyright violation, all of Burgess' newspaper stories are public domain. None were renewed during their 28th year as required at the time, so all entered the public domain on January 1st of their 29th year. The last of these were newspaper stories published in 1960; these entered the public domain in 1989.Greg Lovern (talk) 06:08, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]