Wikipedia talk:Project Gutenberg author list

message: I have copied part of the header to each of the pages.  Rich Farmbrough 11:26, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Header

message: Just encountered a situation where someone is listed as an editor of a book, not the author. Should we have a link to the PG work? Does this require a new template? The case is: Ernest Rhys, . - snoyes 08:47, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Similarly for translators: Johann Paul Friedrich Richter . - snoyes 09:06, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

text: In the long run, as more and more illustrators and editors are noted, I think they will make up much more than 10% of the total. While editing is not usually a notable job, I think illustrators and translators is as notable as authors.--Prosfilaes 07:04, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Editors

message: The link at James Richardson (explorer of the Sahara) leads to a PG disambiguation link. Is this somehow avoidable? (The other James Richardson can be directly linked.) - snoyes 09:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup -- just link the whole name and date like this: id=James+Richardson+(1806-1851). That'll give you this:(choose your own witty nickname for him... ;-) Womble 21:15, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguous link

message: I wrote an article on a Gutenberg author.  How can I make sure they put in a link to the Wikipedia ariticle? — Dunc|☺ 12:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  forward linking 

message: the Authors "Jenny Wren" and "Punch" are not real names. How should we deal with these? -Arch dude 01:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pseudonyms on Gutenberg 

message: I think we need a Wikipedia category for "Project Gutenberg authors." I am a somewhat reluctant to do this without discussion, as it will be a big deal.  The idea is to add the categorization into the gutenberg authors template. I think that this will cause all pages with the template to be added to the category. I have never made a change with such a far-reaching effect before.
any thoughts? - Arch dude 18:13, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: PG authors category. 

message: This worthy project seems to have died about 7 years ago. At the moment there are 9632 20,859 authors in the Gutenberg database, compared to the 6,000 when this project started in 2005. -- GreenC 18:13, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project 

message: I've mapped the 20,000+ Gutenberg authors, illustrators etc.. (as of the April 2014 Gutenberg catalog) to the equivalent Wikipedia article. The stats:
*Total unique names in the Gutenberg database: 20,859
*Gutenberg names with a verified Wikipedia article: 9,104
*Wikipedia pages with a  template: 4,194
*Wikipedia pages needing a  template: 4,910
I'm currently in process of adding  templates to the 4,910 using AWB and external scripts to add LibriVox and Internet Archive at the same time.
-- GreenC 17:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Gutenberg mapped to Wikipedia 

message: There is a new project to replace what this project originally set out to accomplish. Information at "Works By" Project. -- GreenC 15:15, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This projected is complete. There are now 9,187 articles with the  template. If there are more than a few hundred missing I would be surprised. Of course new missing will accrue over time as articles are added to Wikipedia, and new authors to Gutenberg, but the software can be re-run again at a future date.  -- GreenC 00:13, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Project to update Project Gutenberg templates