Talk:David Rorvik
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[edit]I removed the following material which I could not verify:
- Rorvik and five scientists received a provisional patent in 2006 for the use of phycocyanobilins in a number of disease processes and formed a company for the development of these substances.
Book title
[edit]I changed the capitalized word "His" to uncapitalized "his" in the title of Rorvik's book "In his Image: the Cloning of a Man"
The word "his" is intentionally left uncapitalized by the author at least on the cover. I assume Rorvik did this to underscore the play-on-words concerning a man cloning himself (thereby creating a being in "his" image), as opposed to the more familiar meaning of the phrase (a supreme being creating a life in "His" image, usually a direct reference to God) in which case the word "His" in the phrase "In His Image", would of course be capitalized regardless of whether it appeared in a title or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.81.64.108 (talk) 03:13, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
- Here is a link to an image of the book cover confirming the word "his" left uncapped in the title.--Racerx11 (talk) 04:46, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- I have now also cited the book itself. --Racerx11 (talk) 04:20, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Searching for "Rorvik"
[edit]When one searches for "rorvik", the suggestions that drop down do not distinguish between an "o" and an "ø", the Norwegian "slashed o". So what happens is you get, I assume, the most popular pages for "rørvik" as well as for "rorvik". Thats fine, but all the suggestions contain the slashed "ø" and when one then tries to get to the disambiguation page for "rorvik" you can only get to this page, which is the disambiguation page for only "rørvik", with the slashed ø. This disambiguation page does distinguish between the two o's so you dont get anything without the slashed ø. If you simply hit enter with "rorvik" in the search box it takes you to the city in Norway.
What this all amounts to is, if one tries to search for the author David Rorvik, incredibly you cannot get to his article by searching his last name! Racerx11 (talk) 01:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Done (nine years ago) when one User:Racerx11 extended the Rørvik disambiguation. --P64 (talk) 15:31, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Selected works
[edit]Should there be a "Selected works" section heading and list here?
Note the 1983 science fiction novel Sabra by David Rorvik was published in 1982 as The Sharing by M. M. Faraday, the only known book by the latter. Library of Congress and WorldCat do not recognize Faraday=Rorvik and Sharing=Sabra.
- Sabra (1983, UK) publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database -- and parent novel for reference
- Faraday at the Library of Congress, with 1 library catalog record
- Works by or about Faraday in libraries (WorldCat catalog)