User talk:Mvhetzel

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Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature

I'm holding your submission to add a new edition of this title. I believe it's the same as this record which shows the book was published as by "Howard Phillips Lovecraft". Can you confirm that your copy is the same as this record? You can respond here on your user talk page. Click on the [edit] link to the right of this message, write your response in the dialogue that opens, end your message with four tildes (~~~~) which will sign and date it, and then click "Save page". Thanks. Mhhutchins 22:53, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Correct -- I did not see an entry for the Dover edition under the title (only the 1945 ed), thus tried to enter it as a new publication. Thank you for tying the two together so as to be available uniformly. I have verified the newly added Dover addition. Mvhetzel 10:47, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Keith Laumer's story The Secret

A question: Laumer's story [1] is shown as present in two titles (correctly). What is not indicated is that they are vastly different VERSIONS of the story. Neither is specifically mentioned or dated in the "previously published" section facing the TP, but the version in Retief: Diplomat at Arms is nearly incomprehensible -- to me, characteristic of later Laumer, whereas the version in The Return of Retief is MUCH more intelligible -- more nearly earlier Laumer (though neither version is his best work). Whole paragraphs and pages are changed, deleted, or added between versions -- nearly every other page is different. Both titles are Baen publications, and Diplomat at Arms is LATER, which I would think would indicate the revision -- but to make it much worse??? The question: should this major variation be indicated somehow? I don't know how to figure out respective dates for the versions, or indicate such in editing. Mvhetzel 11:08, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments! I'll bring this topic to the attention of two of the primary verifiers, who happen to have both the two editions. They'll probably shed some light into this. You can always post questions like this on the page for

verification requests. Stonecreek 13:07, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

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