Talk:Cambridge Companions

Editors needed

I created the List of Cambridge Companions to Music article couple of years ago but shied away from creating the articles on the rest two sub-series of this series. DGG and Charles Matthews are you aware of editors who will be willing to help create/maintain these article(s) and incorporate the information in the few hundred volumes into Wikipedia? Solomon7968 20:43, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

by sub-series, I think you mean Cambridge Companion to Literature and Classics, and Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture . I am a little unsure about including the names of all the contributors; on the one hand, these can be found easily in the worldcat record; on the other, the notable ones with WP articles might be justified, and it is possible that in time most of the contributors would in fact justify articles by WP:PROF.

I have learned not to promise to do things here: I may start them, but unfortunately I must admit that it's unwise to count on me. DGG ( talk ) 04:40, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

OK rather than relying on you two I went ahead creating the two articles; just the shell for now as it was enough for me. I still need help putting the whole series together and, above all, incorporating the information in them to our content Wikipedia articles. For this let's ping major contributors to WP:PROF: @Xxanthippe, Kevin Murray, Mscuthbert, Mangojuice, Tryptofish, EEng, David Eppstein, Guillaume2303, Psychonaut, SMcCandlish, Nsk92, WhatamIdoing, Radiant!, Lawrencekhoo, BenAveling, Quarl, NJ Wine, Bdj, Thecheesykid, and JorisvS:. Solomon7968 13:46, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the ping. This is somewhat far afield from the subject areas where I am comfortable editing, so you'll probably get better input from other editors. --Tryptofish (talk) 15:28, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Looking at their web site, these three "collections" seem to be composed of series, eg. CC to Philosophy, and CC to Religion. But I also see CC to Law, without any other more comprehensive collection. I have not ruled out that some may be in multiple sections. At the least we'll need a (sub)series indication for the vols. in the 3 main collections, plus separate ones fro Law and possibly other topic areas . DGG ( talk ) 18:31, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

• Wait a second. Isn't this just going to be a small set of tables? What is there for us to do? Can't you just fetch the publication info out of some publisher's database? EEng 05:23, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Instead of pinging PROF contributors I should have pinged our numerous FA contributors instead. The final goal is (unrelated to this article) is to make every biography/topic who/which gets a volume devoted to a FA. I can't do this alone as I am yet to make a substantial contribution to even a single FA and this would mean contributing to 500+ FA articles. Solomon7968 09:29, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

The thing you have to learn, in having a goal, is not to set an impossible goal, something too high you can never reach. You gotta have a series of smaller goals, that you can accomplish, and slowly work your way up ... My goal: right now, I want to be the all-being master of time, space and dimension.

-- Steve Martin

My advice to you is to follow Mr. Martin's lead: first become the all-being master of time, space, and dimension, then tackle the 500 FAs.

Seriously, now: are you saying, for example, that since there's a CC to Sherlock Holmes (see List of Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics) you want to bring Sherlock Holmes to FA -- then do that again for every topic for which there's a CC? EEng 15:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

As I said previously it is definitely not an impossible goal because I am not alone in this endeavor and 500 is a countable natural number. The first step of the 500 or so possible but hard steps seems to be developing this three sub-series articles including this one and notifying the most ambitious/learned wiki contributor of the 500 articles who would read the CC and incorporate its content into the corresponding wiki article and maintain it all the way upto FA.

For now I am keen on completing the first step of developing this three subseries article. Ping some editors who would help me do this and maintain it by watchlisting it in the future. Ping:

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Solomon7968 05:40, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

♫ But he's got high hopes! He's got high hopes! ♫ EEng 05:49, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

• Ignore the trolling, but are you certain there are sufficient sources (of WP's WP:RS sort) to create articles on these books? Let alone bring them to FA? Perhaps these individual books or series do get a lot of in-depth tertiary coverage, but I'd be surprised if that were the case. I mean, I did a Google Scholar search for "The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture" and got a grand total of one hit that wasn't for the book itself. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:21, 6 September 2018 (UTC)