Talk:Pern

message: I removed the link on "Red Star" because the article it was "supposed" to link to does not exist.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.20 (talk) 01:54, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Red Star

message: It's a small point ... but I'm sure I'd read that "Pern" was first an acronym for "Planet Earthlike Resources Negligible".
But twice I've had to change it from "Paralell Earth Resources Negligible".
Am I wrong?  I can't find the reference, but my DoP series isn't complete these days (too many loans).
Please, if you know better, correct it, and post here with the documentation, it's bugging me.
BigFatDave 21:06, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My copy of Chronicles of Pern: First Fall has this quote on page 17 (in the story "Survey: PERN"): "they were all three quite willing to let Castor initial it P.E.R.N.-parallel Earth, resources negligible." --CAnderson 17:29, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahhhh ... That's one of the one's I lent out and never got back.  Thanks C.A. BigFatDave 23:30, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: PERN

message: I went in and fixed a few typos and such, and added a bit of detail.  Good job on this article, though!  BTW, I assume "telsopce protect" in the final section is a typo for "telescope project", but I've never read 'Skies of Pern' so I wasn't sure enough to change it.
--Swartzer 03:43, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Crafts

message: Dragonettes (with a thumb and only two hook-like fingers) were the original native stock. There are no dragonettes left in the world by well before the time of the 9th Pass. Fire-Lizards were the stock modified by Kitt Ping, giving them pendactyle (five fingered) claws, blunter noses, and a higher brain development. The Fire-Lizard possessed dominant traits and the original Dragonettes simply bred out of existence. 
Someone needs to stop switching the text back, trying to state that dragonettes were modified from Fire-Lizards.
24.239.94.33 23:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At a guess the confusion is caused by the tendancy to refer to immature dragons as dragonettes.  And the fact that the original settlers still referred to the modified fire-lizards as dragonettes in 'Dragonsdawn'.  If I remember right it was Sean Connell who first started calling them fire-lizards and it took a while for the name to catch on. Danikat 23:53, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anne McCaffrey is co-author of The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern (see below). It is one essential source for this article and on this point. --P64 (talk) 21:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dragonettes and Fire-Lizards 

message: While it's true that pern means spindle in Ireland, the origins of the word have nothing to do with the Dragonriders of Pern. I'm removing this assertion right now.
:interjection: Good. I suppose it's more accurate to say this seems to be "original research" about something we can't know this until the McCaffreys tell us.
:(I have reformatted the rest of Xavier's comment to avoid using a footnote.) --P64 (talk) 21:21, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  pern as a reference to the motif of Thread in the Pern novels 

message: Anne McCaffrey is co-author of The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye (1989, extended 1997). Despite "errors" the Guide is one essential source for this article (not a secondary "reliable source" as we say, but part of the canon it seems to me).
Regarding errors, see Various errors found within The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, evidently by fan Cheryl B. Miller. last update 11/28/2005.
By the way, Miller(?) says that "the first edition is included in the second without any changes to it, and with the same page numbers". --P64 (talk) 21:51, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dragonlover's Guide to Pern 

message: The Atlas of Pern is another important guide. Karen Wynn Fonstad worked with Anne McC, primarily by mail it seems clear to me. The book is "authorized" and published by Del Rey Books, not third-party as the template requests. 
Fonstad was also independent in ways Nye and company clearly were not. (For skeptics on one point, The Atlas of Middle-earth demonstrates that she didn't need to work closely with the author in order to produce an Atlas of quality like Pern's.) The Atlas is not academic but it is scholarly in providing pages of endnote references to support chronologies, maps, and drawings. The author had worked professionally at cartography, and taught some university classes.
This is informative, I hope, but not much argument how it should be used as a source here. --P64 (talk) 18:18, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Atlas of Pern

message: Some of the articles providing background information linked to here and in other related articles were the subject of this multiple deletion request, closed as "keep, with no prejudice against merging some of the content." The comments clearly indicated a need for tidying up of many of the articles describing aspects of this fictional world, including possible merges and removal of superfluous content. This section is intended as a central place to record progress in response to the AfD comments. I also suggest this talk page as an appropriate location for any centralised discussion involving these improvements. --Mirokado (talk) 21:52, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging etc