Index talk:The Kea, a New Zealand problem (1909).pdf

Notes on how we’re formatting this book

Straight vs curly quotes

Please use curly quotes (“”) and apostrophes (’).

Tips

• Use the 1909 edition (or imprint) published by Williams and Norgate (Internet Archive) if you have any difficulty with deciphering the text - it is a better scanned version and is clearer.
• I am using the Internet Archive version to copy the text out of, as it is much more accurate than the existing text or using the OCR tool. David Nind (talk) 18:02, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Edition information

There appear to be three editions (excluding numerous modern reprints):

• 1908 published by Marriner Bros. & Co. - NZ National Library catalogue information
• 1908 published by Whitcombe and Tombs - NZ National Library catalogue information
• 1909 published by Williams and Norgate - NZ National Library catalogue information

Wikidata entries

• The Kea: a New Zealand problem (Q51419344)
• The Kea: a New Zealand problem (1908 - Marriner Bros. & Co.) (Q110255148) (published by Marriner Bros. & Co.)
• The Kea: a New Zealand problem (1908 - Whitcombe and Tombs) (Q110256257) (published by Whitcombe and Tombs)
• The Kea: a New Zealand problem (1909 - Williams and Norgate) (Q109512964) (published by Williams and Norgate)

Assuming that the edition published by Marriner Bros. & Co. was the first edition.

Images

Commons categories:

• commons:category:The Kea: a New Zealand problem (1908)
• commons:category:The Kea: a New Zealand problem (1909)

The 1909 edition (or imprint) published by Williams and Norgate has clearer and sharper images, and is exactly the same apart from the cover and publisher information.

I'm uploading the scanned 1909 images to that second Commons category, using the file name schema The Kea, a New Zealand problem (1909) · Marriner · 036.jpg (because we can't use colons in filenames). So each occurrence of an image in the text will have to have the colon replaced by a comma, and the year corrected, and then the Commons image will magically appear. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 03:30, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

OK, I think I have all the images ready to go in the Commons category. If anything's missing, keep the page at Problematic and I'll double check. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 07:03, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Dot leaders

Pages 145–147, the list of correspondents, have dot leaders separating names and addresses. We could model these using a table of contents with {{TOC row 2dot-1}}. However the dots will all disappear when it's exported as an ebook. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 23:57, 15 March 2022 (UTC)