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I'd be much obliged is someone acquainted with Duerrell's works were to answer my question over at Talk:Tambalacoque. -Itai 22:09, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Gerald Iles

I knew an old man years ago in Montreal named Gerald Iles. He had been the director of the BelleVue Zoo in Manchester. I thought he told me that Gerald Durrell was in charge of the aquarium at Manchester Zoo, and I see that is confirmed in the article. Gerald Iles told me that when Gerald Durrell worked at the zoo the two of them shared a house on the grounds of the zoo. As regards racism I don't think it would be fair to judge Durrell by today's standards.

Merge Corfu trilogy article into his biography page

Merge. (non-admin closure) ^Queen of _Hearts 04:00, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Suggestion to merge Corfu trilogy into this page. The article itself is extremely short, and if anything, provides links to the three books individually. I suggest a merge/re-direct of the article to this page. Thanks conman33 (. . .talk) 06:18, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree - works and their author are two district topics. The trilogy article is very short, almost functioning as a disambiguation post, but I think it still serves a purpose for somebody interested in the trilogy rather than the author. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:44, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I support a merge/re-direct of the article. — Sadko (words are wind) 20:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge: The diambiguation role could be served by section in Gerald Durrell#Books; the books have a page, the author has a page, so having a third page is unnecessary duplication. Klbrain (talk) 11:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge. I would not generally suggest the merging of articles on works into articles on authors if there is much material on the works, but this is not the case here, as we have well-developed articles on the individual books. This one only serves as a superfluous extra level that we (and the reader) could do without. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:20, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I've just changed Corfu trilogy into a redirect without making any further changes to this article as it appears to contain all that information anyway. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:55, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Planning to work on this article

I am hoping to work on this article, and possibly take it to GAN and/or FAC, so I'm leaving a note here to let other editors of the article know in case they want to collaborate.

The first thing I'm going to do is regularize the citation format for books -- Botting is currently cited in long form in the footnotes, then in short form. I think it would be cleaner to have Botting listed in the sources and then use short form. I'll go ahead and make that change; if anyone disagrees, I'll revert and we can discuss it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:01, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]