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Multiple sources

I've added multiple sources to find scanned copies:

St. Nicholas, via University of Florida's Digital Collection (complete issues and volumes, 1873-1897)
St. Nicholas, via Internet Archive (scanned books original editions illustrated - many digital formats high quality scans)
St. Nicholas, via Google Books (scanned books original editions illustrated - PDF only medium quality scans).

All three buttholes are needed since none are fully complete and the scans are of various quality and formats. Green Cardamom (talk) 19:40, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A Quote

"... the best juvenile magazine ever published..." -- Rebecca West, 1900, chap. I 166.137.11.185 (talk) 19:47, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expanding Article

I am beginning to research St. Nicholas Magazine so I can expand the article and include references. I want to put in a section about The St. Nicholas League, and mention the popular option of sending away 6 issues to be bound into a hard-back volume. I also want to list all of the editors.

One problem is that I've come across numerous dates cited as when the magazine ceased publication.--Karenthewriter (talk) 01:13, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead, did the research, and posted a new article. Hopefully someone who knows how to do so will add some pictures. Karenthewriter (talk) 18:25, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

I was checking the external links and went to the University of Florida website. The current St. Nicholas Magazine article has been lifted word for word from their site, with two new sentences added. Last year I learned a painful lesson when I tried to "fix" a plagiarized article by changing some words--all of my work was deleted by another person. In a day or two I'll write a new summary and delete the entire article now on Wikipedia. In time I'll come back and expand the new sub. --Karenthewriter (talk) 13:29, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and deleted the plagiarized article, and put in a quickly written "starter" article. I'll need to expand this when I have time. --Karenthewriter (talk) 14:19, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

by the same editor later that week. See the preceding section. --P64 (talk) 18:36, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pagename, magazine title

Why St. Nicholas Magazine ? In what sense was that the official title of the magazine, a matter that should be covered in the article. Our one front cover image displays ST. NICHOLAS. (two dots).

If the title of the magazine was St. Nicholas then the page name, or article title, should be St. Nicholas (magazine) or perhaps St. Nicholas magazine. Eh?

Google Books now shows at least three apparent titles

St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls
St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks

--P64 (talk) 18:23, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HathiTrust Digital Library has a collection with full view that is complete or nearly so for 1873 to 1922 (after which the content is under copyright). Consider Volume 25, 1897–98:

Volume 25 at U Pennsylvania, evidently as bound, begins with full-title page that states St. Nicholas: an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks: [...] at HDL; followed by half-title page, as I understand it, that states St. Nicholas: Volume XXV. Part I. Six Months--November, 1897, to April, 1898. at HDL; followed by the index to Part I as pp. V-VIII; followed by pages 3-528 including unnumbered front covers. Then full-title and half-title pages as above except Part II thru October 1980, followed by the index to Part II again as pp. V-VIII, followed by pp. 531-1056 including unnumbered front covers.

Volume 25 Part I at Harvard U, evidently as bound, begins with the half-title page thats states, as above, that states St. Nicholas: Volume XXV. Part I. Six Months--November, 1897, to April, 1898.; and ends with p. 528 at HDL (from front cover).

--P64 (talk) 23:23, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Let's discount the second dot in "St. Nicholas." as a mere typographical curiosity -- a century ago, it would have been normal; now, it only serves to bemuse or confuse. And let's call the magazine St. Nicholas. I'm about to move the article to "St. Nicholas (magazine)". P64, you only had to wait six years for a response. Thank you for your patience. -- Hoary (talk) 22:58, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]