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[edit] John Carter Series

I believe the correct name for this series is "Barsoom", not "John Carter of Mars Series", just as the other series are titled after Pellucidar and Caspak.

[edit] Dates

The books need dates of publication. I started, but didn't have time to finish. It'd also be nice to have a more extensive biography and a photo, but I guess I should do the work on this instead of just asking for it. :-S —Frecklefoot 14:07, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Reason for link removal

Why was the link: A brief biography and works of Burroughs removed? I thought it was pretty good. —Frecklefoot 16:58, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Tarzana

I reverted the edit of anon user 207.225.233.198 who stated that Tarzana was named after Burroughs character and not the other way around. I did research on it and even included a link to the debunking of the theory; Tarzana was around longer than "Tarzan" was. If there's credible evidence that Tarzana was named after Tarzan or Burroughs ranch, I'd back down. But for now, it only looks like an urban legend (which Snopes.com refutes). Granted not all the debunkings on Snopes are accurate, but if there is any evidence rather than rumor that Tarzana is named after Tarzan, I'd like to see it.

I'd be more inclined to believe the change had it been made by a logged-in user rather than an anon. :-S — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:34, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)

You need to read a bit more carefully, I think: Snopes' "debunking" of the claim that Tarzana was named after Tarzan is in the hoax section, which also "debunks" such wild claims as that Mister Ed was a horse and that mobile homes are so called because they can be moved around. The hoax section's explanation page confirms that Tarzana was indeed named after Tarzan.
You could also have tried reading Wikipedia's own entry on Tarzana, California, which was written entirely by a logged-in user.
--Paul A 06:14, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You are 100% correct. I was duped by a false entry. I promise to read Snopes stuff more carefully next time. :-S — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:11, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)


According to the Tarzana Chamber of Commerce, the city was named after Tarzan. www.tarzanachamber.com/

[edit] Dates on the Books.

In the article, there are a couple of books with dates occurring after Burroughs died (1950). Were these published from his original manuscripts, or were they partially complete works that were then completed by a ghost writer and subsequently published? Anyone know? -Tony

A fair number of Burroughs' books were first issued posthumously, beginning with the revival of interest in his works in the early 1960s. I believe the only one of these that was collaborative was Tarzan: the Lost Adventure, which was completed by Joe R. Lansdale. -BPK2, 12/16/05.

Warlord of Mars is listed as being written in 1914 on this page, but on the Barsoom page it says 1919. Anyone know the correct date? megaversal

Like many of Burroughs' works, this title was published as a magazine serial before being issued in book form. The 1914 date is that for the original serial; the 1919 date is that of book publication. -BPK2, 12/16/05.

[edit] Books

Did a minor edit on the Caspak series. There are only 3 books (actually, 3 parts of one long novel). Somehow Project Guttenberg has mis-labeled the 2nd work. --Emb021 15:44, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Do we really need a link for every Venus book? Or for every Tarzan book, for that matter. I would think only a few of the most important books need a separate article. Rick Norwood 15:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Good suggestion. I changed the Carson of Venus stub to a Venus series stub and created redirects from the other titles in the series. --Rewster 05:59, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geography and History of Barsoom?

Burroughs' fictional geography and history is fairly detailed, much like Middle-Earth in its complexity, though never set in maps as we find in Tolkien; I believe the same is true of Pellucidar and Venus. Would this make a worthy section/article? Martian chess, Martian marital law, all that stuff, too.Skookum1 06:23, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Most if not all of Burroughs' worlds and lost lands were in fact mapped, both by him and others, and a good portion of these maps are available on the web. There are Wikipedia articles on Barsoom, Jetan (Martian chess), and Pellucidar (which includes Burrough's earliest map of a portion of that venue). -BPK2, 12/16/05.

[edit] pagebypagebooks.com

I removed this from the external links because it is just one of dozens of sites which reproduce books online. In particular the link doesn't go to books by ERB, but is a general list of all the books at the site. It looks like site promotion (spam), click on it expecting info but ERB but instead get "100s of free e-books!" with banner adds. If you can say why this site is different and not redundant with more complete, specific and neutral collections, such as Gutenberg, and can find a way to link to just the books by ERB, it may be more acceptable. -- Stbalbach 14:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] help

does anyone know how tall edgar rice burroughs was?

[edit] proposed new external link

I'd like to add a link like:

to the External Links section. This links to a list of ERB works that you can download to read on a cell phone. I have read quite a few from this site and got a lot of value out being able to read the PD texts away from the PC.

The texts are Public Domain in the US, just like Project Gutenberg, they are packaged with the reader and available under a creative commons licence (share if (attribution, non-commercial, no derivative) ). The site is non-commercial without registration, subscription, or advertising. The texts as packaged together with the reader as a java program that runs on cell phones, this is a way for people to access the authors work that adds to the range in the existing external links (hopefully translating to more reading going on).

I checked WP:EL and the link seems appropriate:

  • What should be linked: '...should link to a site hosting a copy of the work if none of the "Links normally to be avoided" criteria apply.'
  • Links normally to be avoided: it seems only #8 might apply; 'Direct links to documents that require external applications (such as Flash or Java) to view the relevant content...'. The site lets you download java programs that only run on a J2ME environment, this means most/all current cell phones. So although they are limited to being read on a phone they do add an access method to all the others in the existing External Links, in the same way that LibriVox adds a format but requires an mp3 player.

Filomath 04:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)