Talk:New Naturalist

Expansion

This entry could benefit with being expanded. The New Naturalist is one of the most collected series of books in the UK.

Clean up

{{cleanup}} done. Dunc|☺ 22:52, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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• I have edited Image:Ford's Butterflies.jpg to add the relevant information. It would be a shame if this image was deleted! Snalwibma 10:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Editions

I've added edition dates for Ford's Butterflies and some of the Blooomsbury facsimiles. Please add more. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:14, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

De-clutter Main Series Table?

In order to de clutter main series table I recommend moving the hardback and paperback ISBN information to their own columns, thus (example):

Number	Title	Author	Editions	Bloomsbury Edition	ISBN (HB)	ISBN (PB)
119	Scotland	Peter Friend	05/01/2012		978-0-00-730956-6	978-0-00-730906-6
120	Grasshoppers and Crickets	Ted Benton	05/06/2012		978-0-00-727723-0	978-0-00-727724-7
121	Partridges: Countryside Barometer	G. R. Potts	27/09/2012		978-0-00-741870-1	978-0-00-741871-8

User:Simuliid 18 Oct 2012

Hi Simuliid, sorry you think this a major change. I think in a way the table you've put above says it all - the ISBNs add very little for the reader, and as they are edition-specific, they go out of date very readily (all it seems to take is a simple reprint nowadays). Further, only the most recent books (with a couple of exceptions) had them, so frankly it wasn't helping a lot, and yes, it was cluttering the place up. With the additional columns it won't be a lot better, surely. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:40, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

And on dates, it is very unusual to have dd/mm/yyyy for books in Wikipedia. We nearly always make do with yyyy. Can't see why we need them here, either.

And while we're on critique mode, the 'Bloomsbury' column is nearly all empty. Perhaps we could just have a small "B" symbol (superscript, perhaps) against the books which have one of these? Would save a wide strip of 'real estate'. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I see that this has not been resolved a year on. I propose to make the following small changes to declutter the table, unless there are genuine reasons why the current inconsistent and 'recentist' (sales-oriented?) arrangement is necessary:

1) trim book dates down to year - all but the most recent are like that already

2) remove the ISBNs from the more recent books - readers can find them instantly on Amazon, and they mess up the whole table. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:51, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Author link

I have added links to the author's biographies for all authors. I should add that the authors are now listed as they are on the cover of the books. Barney the barney barney (talk) 19:32, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

I have removed, and I will remove, links to disambiguation pages that are unsolvable. Red links are fine but link to disambiguation pages not. Sorry. The Banner talk 22:33, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

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None of the external links to internal pages of the official website actually work anymore - the pages no longer exist. I've removed all of the broken links Harasseddad (talk) 23:17, 12 June 2020 (UTC)