Template talk:Jack Du Brul

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I have expanded this navigation box to cover The Oregon Files completely, and clearly regarding Du Brul's limited participation (not originator, nor co-author of the first two volumes). This fits the function of the navbox under any display title, which is to provide an overview of wikipedia coverage and convenient "See also" links from the foot of all Oregon Files articles, as well as Philip Mercer articles and Du Brul's biography. (As far as I know, there are no Philip Mercer-related articles except for each book. Philip Mercer redirects to JDB so I unlinked it.)

The template name (JDB) doesn't need to be changed and I doubt that its display title (Novels by JDB) needs to be changed. While the default is "show", everyone will readily understand the headings and subheadings, I believe, and not be fooled to give Du Brul too much credit.

See Category:American writers templates for hundreds of examples, including many with "Books", "Novels", or "Works" titles that do not literally fit every entry in the template. --P64 (talk) 17:23, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]