Matteo251
Joined 5 August 2012
Latest comment: 2 years ago by TarkusAB in topic Gardner edits
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Gardner edits
editHi, thanks for your recent edits on the Gardner theft. I wrote most of that article, and I'm surprised at how many incorrect page numbers you have found from the Kurkjian book. Are you using the same revision of the book that I did? It was a physical edition. The ISBN I used is on the page. I don't have the book anymore to verify the page numbers. TarkusABtalk/contrib 15:36, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hi TarkusAB (talk · contribs) ! I am currently writing the French article about the theft, which did not exist until a few days ago ^^. You did an amazing job with the english version, so I don't have a lot of work to do haha. I am using the version on the internet archive, which can be found here : https://archive.org/details/masterthievesbos0000kurk_d5x4. It is a scanned version of the paper version, which you can borrow unlimited times. So I assume it should be the same as the version you had, I don't really know about that, but this is what I use ^^. But 95 % of the article uses the correct pages, I don't know why just a few are not the same ^^. – --Matteo251 (talk) 19:35, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
- OK. I'm glad most of the page numbers are correct. Good luck with the translation. TarkusABtalk/contrib 18:44, 9 October 2021 (UTC)