Talk:Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969
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Translating this book from print to digital will be our primary objective for the spring 2019. Here are some things we have to decide:
Project Organization
Should each letter have its own page? I’m leaning toward yes here.
Letter Pages
How should each page be named so each is unique? I think subpages would be the way to go here, like Structured Vision, but then what do we call each page? “To: So and So”, like: Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969/To: Eiichi Yaminishi? What do we do when we have more than one letter to Eiichi Yaminishi? Should we add the date? Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969/To: Eiichi Yaminishi (November 25, 1963) It’s beginning to get unwieldy. Suggestions?
- I decided against using subpages, so each letter will have its own page, linked both off of AAD:Letters and Norman Mailer’s Letters. —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:
1963:
October 15- Andre Deutsch, Alan Earney, Reed Whittemore
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. --Dillbug (talk) 17:10, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Dillbug: How about the way I began doing it with a table on the main page? This is close to Gilbert’s suggestion. —Grlucas (talk) 21:31, 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. --Dillbug (talk) 17:10, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Letter Format
How should they be formatted? I.e., how should they appear on the screen? I think we should create a navbar to link them. Other ideas? Check out WD entries for ideas.
- Each will use two templates: {{NMletter}} as a header and {{aade-sm}} somewhere on the page to identify it as part of this project. —Grlucas (talk) 12:06, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Categories
What will be our category schema?
- Each of the above templates will include appropriate categories. —Grlucas (talk) 12:06, 25 March 2019 (UTC)