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Hello, adept. About your edit of Anthologies. We sort of decided that the titles should remain in the text of the article, so that it is immediately clear whether this is a story, a novella, a novel, or something else. It is important to see at first glance what type of story it is.--[[User:Darkelf77|Darkelf77]] ([[User talk:Darkelf77|talk]]) 07:18, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
:Hi Darkelf77. The goal of my edits was to match how most English style guides dictate how to format titles, which is that short works like poems and short stories should be in quotations, and longer works like novels and novellas should be in italics. So this gives some idea of the format of the story, though obviously just saying (Short Story) or (Novel) next to the title is clearer. That said, for some anthologies like ''[[Eye of Terra (Anthology)|Eye of Terra]]'', using the article title actually makes some things less clear, since many of the articles have (Audio Drama) or (Audio Book) in them.
:How about this: for anthologies with a mix of novels, novellas, and short stories like ''[[Tallarn (Anthology)|Tallarn]]'', we format it something like
:*"[[Tallarn: Witness (Short Story)|Tallarn: Witness]]" (short story)
:*''[[Tallarn: Executioner (Novella)|Tallarn: Executioner]]'' (novella)
:*"[[Tallarn: Siren (Short Story)|Tallarn: Siren]]" (short story)
:*''[[Tallarn: Ironclad (Novel)|Tallarn: Ironclad]]'' (novel)
:This way we preserve proper formatting of titles while making it clear what each story is. For anthologies consisting entirely of short stories, I believe that quotation marks around the titles should be clear enough, especially since the first line in the article should say something like "Page Title is an anthology of short stories". What do you think? --[[User:Mikaka|Mikaka]] ([[User talk:Mikaka|talk]]) 03:48, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
