Talk:The Man Who Would Be King

message: The Kipling story is "The Man Who Would be King," and was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories. It was NOT retitled for the movie.
IF Kipling's title was originally ... A King then it would logically follow that the article should give some specific attention to when and why the change in title was made. If not, this entry needs to be revised.
As the Kipling Society makes no mention of there ever being a variant title, I strongly suspect that this is an error perpetuated across Wikipedia articles.
:Support. Just do it, and fix the refering articles as well. (500 google hits with 'a', 84,000 without, not that that means dick all - The Man Who Would Be King is the correct title. See the Kipling Society) Icundell 00:05, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong title

message: This article seems very well written and complete except for one small annoyance:  the summary is told in the past tense while the synopsis uses the present tense.  This grates on my ear and I think one should be changed, but which one?  Is there a convention?  I'm a newbie and reluctant to mess with stuff I don't understand. LA RoeDoe 23:09, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks ok to me. The past tense is used when Peachey tells his story. Clarityfiend 06:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  present vs past tense 

message: I've noticed that Peachey Carnehan has a separate article that's small, even for a stub.
I'm recommending that unless the Peachey Carnehan article is substantially expanded, it should be merged with this one.
--Superluser 17:05, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The two of us have come to a consensus at Talk:Peachey Carnehan.  I'm leaving these merge tags in place for a bit (until June 27, one month from the start of this discussion) in case someone else wants to comment.--superlusertc 13:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why a separate article for Peachey Carnehan? 

message: In the short story infobox, I listed the country as both "United Kingdom" and "India," and I'd like to add this story to the "Indian short stories" category; however, Kipling is not actually Indian so I'm not sure if that would be appropriate.  I'd think that Kipling would have wanted it listed in Indian fiction... thoughts?  Should the nation be listed as "British India" instead?  -Elizabennet | talk 16:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  India connection 

message: I got logged out by delay while editing.
--24.148.0.125 (talk) 07:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just signing the changes. 

message: There seems to be some confusion about the title of the 1888 collection in which Kipling's story originally appeared. According to the Kipling Society's online Readers' Guide (http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_wouldbeking1.htm), "The Man Who Would Be King" was first published in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales together with "The Phantom 'Rickshaw," "My Own True Ghost Story," and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes." Elsewhere, however (http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_phantom1.htm), the RG refers (erroneously?) to this volume as The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales. Project Gutenberg's version of The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/phric11.txt) contains a fifth story, "'The Finest Story in the World,'" which the RG says was first published in 1891 (http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_finest1.htm). It appears then that the correct title of the original collection is The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales.
:I have since consulted an online version of E. W. Martindell's Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 1891-1923 (London: John Lane, 1923). On p. 26 Martindell gives the title as The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales. However, the cover illustration (designed by Kipling's father), which appears facing p. 27, clearly reads "The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales." Martindell does not mention the discrepancy, but his bibliography seems pretty authoritative, and titles appearing on the cover or spine of a book don't always match those appearing on the title page. Having no access to an original copy of the book (which must be rare), I am inclined to defer to Martindell rather than the Kipling Society's online Readers' Guide, which is an ongoing project containing numerous inconsistencies and minor errors. Assuming Martindell to be correct, and following standard scholarly practice, I would keep the title as it is on the title page: The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales. (The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories is obviously a later edition.) --Mailedfist (talk) 17:00, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested changes 

message: I note that we have an other article on this... see: The Man Who Would Be A King (which is the accurate title of Kipling's short story).  The two articles should be merged. Blueboar (talk) 14:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger Proposal 

message: Adolph Schlagintweit is the spelling used in this article.  There is a Wiki entry under the spelling Adolf Schlagintweit, and I would suggest conforming the spelling and/or creating a link.  I would have done it, but I did not find an "edit" option for the first paragraph.
Junckerg (talk) 00:29, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks: done. Only way to edit the 1st para is to click the edit link for the whole page. 86.139.254.72 (talk) 19:42, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adolf Schlagintweit 

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