Talk:Darkover series

message: There is a potential copyright issue in that the Darkover_series#The_Ages_of_Chaos section is a literal word-for-word copy of the The Ages of Chaos section of A Reader's Guide to Darkover that's found at the front of Darkover novels such as Traitor's Sun (1999). I am not familiar enough with Darkover to write my own description of this era. For now I don't think it needs to be tagged  as it may well qualify as "fair use" though the text should at least be attributed to the source. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 05:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I re-wrote that one - but all (or most) of the others also are copyvio and need to be cleaned up. See: http://members.fortunecity.com/arwen_e/ko/marionb.html#biblio - Davodd 17:40, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright

message: I have a copy of The Alton Gift but am wondering about the existing series structure.
* Marion_Zimmer_Bradley#Series lists this as part of the The Children of Kings trilogy (which only has two books).
* Darkover_series#After_the_Comyn_.28Against_the_Terrans:_The_Second_Age.29 lists this as part of After the Comyn (Against the Terrans: The Second Age)
* The book itself states
** A Novel of Darkover
** The long-awaited sequel to Traitor's Sun.
** Just before the title page is a "Marion Zimmer Bradley From DAW Books" page that has a section called Novels of Darkover which lists Exile's Song, The Shadow Matrix, and Traitor's Sun.
** There is no mention of The Children of Kings trilogy nor After the Comyn (Against the Terrans: The Second Age).  
* Deborah J. Ross' web site  mentions The Children of Kings but also "there will be three new books set in 'modern' Darkover, each one a 'stand-alone'" implying The Children of Kings is not an official series name.  Actually, she has it in a section titled Modern Darkover set in the same type/size as The Clingfire Trilogy meaning that may be a more appropriate name. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 00:40, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''The Alton Gift'' 

message: *Reflecting on that some books state they are in one era, and then there is evidence with story lines lining up to support where it goes while the chronology in the books state there are a different era, the books are in order as their story falls into place. (Not the chronology in the beginning of some of the books.)
This sentence is a mess and doesn't belong in Wikipedia.  Ignoring the terrible grammar for now (ugh)...  So, instead of being ordered by the chronology as stated by the author, the books are ordered by ... what, exactly?  Is there some evidence to support the claim that the books state that they are in one era but actually are in another?  Because, the ACTUAL chronology seems fine to me.  This made-up one here in Wikipedia has no basis. - 207.118.127.145 (talk) 04:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the footnote myself into something more appropriate. Wastrel Way (talk) 16:40, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for the new chronology? 

message: Hello I wantet to add the german page in the inter-wiki-links, but I did not find the right way. This would be https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkover or DE:Darkover, or something like this. Greets StephanMS  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.43.103.129 (talk) 13:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The German article de:Darkover is already linked to Darkover and should not be linked to a second article on enwiki. It is the same with gl:Darkover, nl:Darkover and pt:Darkover. If you want to add inter Wiki links to an article, then use wikidata (click on "Edit links" be below the "Languages" section on the column on the left), e.g. . --Jaellee (talk) 17:06, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inter-Wiki-Links 

message: I just read a 1952 short story by MZB ("Adventure in Charin") where the protagonist lawman is attempting to apprehend a criminal in order to bring him back to Darkover. I've seen other mentions of Darkover in other 1950s short stories too. 1958 is not the year in which MZB first writes of Darkover by any means. DanQuigley 04:06, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1958?