Index talk:Sir Nigel (IA sirnigel00doylrich).pdf

Author(s)

Why does this say "Author Arthur Conan Doyle, William Randolph Hearst" - what connection did Hearst have with it ? Beardo (talk) 17:40, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

I removed him as an author. User:Languageseeker added this information; maybe he has evidence of Hearst's involvement that I don't, so LS, feel free to revert if I'm wrong. It is listed as a double authorship in some (more unreliable) sources, such as an Internet Archive scan and an Amazon listing, but a quick Google search doesn't give me any hard evidence of Hearst's involvement. Checking an OCR of the scan, our current non-scan-backed work at Wikisource, and the Gutenberg transcription, the book itself never mentions Hearst anywhere. The Sir Nigel Wikipedia article also never mentions Hearst. Perhaps he is erroneously ascribed in some sources, or maybe he was involved with an introduction or preface in one particular version, but not the original. PseudoSkull (talk) 17:52, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

@PseudoSkull @Beardo William Randolph Hearst was listed as an author in the original metadata. It's probably a case of bad metadata which happens far too often. Thanks for noticing this. Languageseeker (talk) 19:38, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

@PseudoSkull @Languageseeker - that certainly seems to have started from https://archive.org/details/sirnigel00doylrich - perhaps the copy used came from Hearst's library ? -- Beardo (talk) 22:17, 12 June 2022 (UTC)