Talk:Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969: Difference between revisions

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: I decided against using subpages, so each letter will have its own page, linked both off of [[AAD:Letters]] and [[Norman Mailer’s Letters]]. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 12:06, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
: I decided against using subpages, so each letter will have its own page, linked both off of [[AAD:Letters]] and [[Norman Mailer’s Letters]]. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 12:06, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
:: I spoke with my librarian, Gilbert Deas about the issue of posting Mailer's letters and Gilbert suggested we do use subsections by year and author. For example, in 1963 Mailer wrote three letters on the same date. The subsections would look something like this:
:: I spoke with my librarian, Gilbert Deas about the issue of posting Mailer's letters and Gilbert suggested we do use subsections by year and author. For example, in 1963 Mailer wrote three letters on the same date. The subsections would look something like this:
'''1963:
              1963:
October 15- Andre Deutsch, Alan Earney, Reed Whittemore
              October 15- Andre Deutsch, Alan Earney, Reed Whittemore
October 16- Eiichi Yaminishi'''
              October 16- Eiichi Yaminishi
 
:: or another suggestion would be to: Putting each person's name such "Letters to So and So" then list the date of each letter to that person under their name with date linking to the letter on another page. --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:10, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
or another suggestion would be to: Putting each person's name such "Letters to So and So" then list the date of each letter to that person under their name with date linking to the letter on another page. --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:10, 26 March 2019 (UTC)


How should they be formatted? I.e., how should they appear on the screen? I think we should create a [[Wikipedia:Template:Navbar|navbar]] to link them. Other ideas? Check out ''[[Norman Mailer: Works and Days|WD]]'' entries for ideas.
How should they be formatted? I.e., how should they appear on the screen? I think we should create a [[Wikipedia:Template:Navbar|navbar]] to link them. Other ideas? Check out ''[[Norman Mailer: Works and Days|WD]]'' entries for ideas.
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