
One of the problems is that, until recently, the whitewashers removed the informations on the origin of the book, like date of the edition, publisher, etc; and the change in policy has not been sufficiently advertised, so some people (even at DP) remove the information to conform to the perceived PG policy. We should at least change the official policy to recommend including the full information on the sources (as well as information on e.g. page numbers when it is useful, e.g. when there is an index or cross-references by pages, or when the origin is a standard reference). I believe that PG has space for everything: combined editions, abridged editions (provided they are stated to be abridged editions...) scholarly editions. What is what should however be stated, and acessible through the catalogue. Cataloguing work may be distributed. I am sure that at DP a cataloguing step done by specialized volunteers might be added, and probably extended to non-DP submissions. The same team might be willing to update the existing items, starting from past DP contributions but extending to the other PG items. But please let us start to have sound cataloguing procedures for the future. For example, PG should have a separate whitewashing step for the catalogue (that might be done by a separate team, the competences required being different). Carlo