Publication talk:NGHTGNTS121947

From ISFDB

I believe the second item in the contents list (Night's Black Agents) is incorrect and needs removal. It appears to be an entry for the entire collection itself. I've added page numbers from my copy of the book and found no story titled "Night's Black Agents".

p.s. not sure if it's more appropriate to note these things in the article or the discussion. --Rtrace 01:29, 6 Jan 2007 (CST)

In the ISFDB there are titles (the things that show up in the author's bibliography) and there are publications (physical things that can be bought). A title can map to mulitple publications - for instance the collection "Night's Black Agents" currently maps onto 5 publications. When we print out the contents of a publication, we suppress printing the title record if it has the same type as the publication. So for a publication that is a COLLECTION, we don't print the title that is also a COLLECTION.

In the case of this particular publication, it is mistakenly listed as a NOVEL. So the printing of the title cannot be suppressed. Simply correcting the publication type to COLLECTION will make the collection entry disappear. Alvonruff 06:10, 6 Jan 2007 (CST)