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[edit] Where should The Book of Bond go?
Although it isn't a novel, The Book of Bond by Bill Tanner (aka Kingsley Amis) is still a work set within the 007 universe. Should it be listed here? And if so, where? Perhaps under unofficial (though it was published by Jonathan Cape so that category's technically wrong, even though it isn't canonical). Alternately, it could be listed under Kingsley Amis with some header adjustments. Thoughts? 23skidoo 03:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Seeing no reply, I have added it under a "Related works" header. I considered putting it under Amis' name, however in doing so it might have been misinterpreted as a novel. Just so things are clear, The Book of Bond is an officially licenced tie-in work placed within the Bond universe, as opposed to being a book about the franchise (as is the case with The James Bond Dossier or James Bond: The Man and His World or the hundreds of others. So that's why I feel it's justified to list in on this template (if the Marscott book can be listed here, so can Book of Bond). 23skidoo 15:02, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] change
Anyone wonder why User:CapitalR decided to change it to the other template. SpecialWindler talk 21:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Structure
Hi, I'm not part of any of the projects that this template belongs to, so I don't want to fully redo the template but:
I think this template should somehow be re-structed or re-layouted. While reading it and trying to find the link/novel I was searching for I could not distinguish between the different sections of this template.
I'd suggest, e.g., some tabular-like layout with a column for the "headings" (i.e., authors) and a wider column for the novels. Or, you could at least align the text to the left. (I'd do some kind of restructuring if I get some kind of OK. :-) — Tauriel-1 (☎) 12:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
- I made an example: User:Tauriel-1/Template:Bond books. Use it (i.e., copy it), if you want to. :-) — Tauriel-1 (☎) 13:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Short stories belong here
An editor removed some (but not all) of the short stories from the template. They belong here just like the others. However as I can see the potential for nitpicking, I've added the words "short stories" to the title line of the template. 23skidoo (talk) 15:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Weird spacing
Can anyone remove the extra space in the Higson and Weinberg columns? 23skidoo (talk) 22:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
- Hope it works better now. Sardanaphalus (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
