Talk:List of Ace double titles

message: Seems like the page is going to get enormous.  It's also true that the primary users will be genre collectors.  I suggest two sets of sub pages.
First, a series-oriented set.
*D-series
*S-series
*(etc.)
Each of these would have the genre tag retained on the title line as in the current list.
Second, a genre-oriented list.
*SF Ace doubles
*Mystery Ace doubles
*Western Ace doubles
*Minor genre Ace doubles
These would have no genre tag on each line, and would have the same subsections as the main page.
The best way to get there would be to get the lists complete on this page first, despite its length, and then separate them.
Mike Christie 21:13, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting the page 

message: There were a number of 'non-SF' Ace Doubles -  Westerns, Mysteries, Nurse stories, maybe Romances, too -  perhaps at least a mention of the non-SF genres is in order?     - Bob Oldendorf  2/12/06
:I have a full list of SF doubles from a bibliographic source, complete to 1968, and I own a practically complete set as well for verification.  I'll try to get them updated gradually.  Re the non-SF doubles, I think this article should include them and show a genre tag on each line.  Ultimately non-doubles should be listed too (though obviously not on this page) as the Ace singles are often collected too, though they're not as popular as the doubles.  Coldchrist 11:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Ace Double Novels 

message: I'm new to this so I thought I should check: shouldn't the titles be italics, rather than quoted?  E.g.
D-036 Robert E. Howard Conan the Conqueror / Leigh Brackett The Sword of Rhiannon (1953)
If someone more expert on Wiki formatting could let me know, I'd appreciate it.  If italics is correct I'll make the change as I go through completing this list.
:Italics is correct when recording the titles of collections and novel length titles. Quotes should be used for novellas and shorter works. The only catch here is that most novels published in Ace Doubles were VERY short by contemporary standards, but I suppose italics would be safer. Ahasuerus 18:20, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format 

message: Here are the edits I see as necessary; I'll work on these as I have time, but these notes are for reference and in case I don't get to it.
# Complete the sf lists.  Primary sources I'm using are http://www.oldsfbooks.com/pbace.html and http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/ACE.html, plus Tuck's Encyclopedia of SF.  There are other sources, such as Grant Thiessen's SF Collector 1, and Double Your Pleasure; I may have to use these for the post-1968 books as Tuck only goes up to 1968.
#* Now done for everything on the web sources. Coldchrist 03:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, in some visions of what WP may eventually become, every "major" book ever published ("major" is usually defined as more than 5,000 copies printed) will have an entry, in which case a list of every major publisher's books will be useful. But that's still very much up in the air. Ahasuerus 23:34, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to be done 

message: Why not remove the redicect from Ace Double, move the basic info about the Ace Doubles books to that page, and then have a link to the list(s) from that page? Entheta 03:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion re. split

message: FWIW, in the late 20th Century, Tor followed Ace's example, and started a series of "Tor double".  Geo Swan (talk) 03:38, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment 

message: There being two articles with almost the same content isn't great. I propose they are either merged into this one, or the article is split by genre (also proposed above), with the sub articles each containing just a plain list, and this article containing the prose, history etc. and links to the sub articles renamed as Ace doubles or Ace double novels. --xensyriaT 18:28, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Or not; I've retracted the merge after spotting the other genre articles, though why it needs so many (24 articles including the singles and Ace Books as the hub) is beyond me. --xensyriaT 18:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal