Index talk:Pounamu, notes on New Zealand greenstone (IA pounamunotesonne00robl).djvu

Notes on how we’re formatting this book

Figure 52.

One thing to note is that Robley italicises most of his Māori terms and we should follow suit. Only use SIC to show a correction if it seems to be a typo or genuine mistake on his part, rather than a different historical spelling. See the Wikisource Cheat Sheet for formatting templates.

Headers

We'll use the left/right running head template: {{rvh|56|Chapter Title|Book Title}}. See page 21 for an example.

Straight vs curly quotes

Use curly quotes (“”) and apostrophes (’) —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 03:38, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Images

Flag {{missing image}} pages as problematic (blue). Images are in Category:Pounamu : notes on New Zealand greenstone

The images seem a bit crude, but I'll clean them up as best I can and upload them to Commons. I used a "File:Old Westland (1939) · Lord · 150.jpg" file naming convention with other books, so will try to keep that going. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 03:38, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Images are now all uploaded. The filename schema is "File:Pounamu-Robley-p081-fig52.jpg" with the filename containing the page number (of the scan, not the book) and the figure number. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 08:03, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Inset/floating images

Figure 2. I've tried using the syntax

{{float left|[[File:Pounamu-Robley-p024-fig02.jpg|frameless|left|upright=0.75|alt=Carving drill consisting of upright shaft, disc, and crosspiece.]]<br />{{c|{{smaller|Figure 2.}}}}}}

which makes an image sit on the left with the text wrapping around it and a centred small figure label underneath. There may be a more elegant way to do this. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 08:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

There is, thanks to User:Beeswaxcandle:

{{img float|file=Pounamu-Robley-p024-fig02.jpg|align=left|width=150px|alt=Carving drill consisting of upright shaft, disc, and crosspiece.|cap=Figure 2.|style=font-size: 83%}}

Wikidata items

Wikidata items:

• Pounamu : notes on New Zealand greenstone (1915) (Q109501900)
• Pounamu : notes on New Zealand greenstone (Q109501869)
• Horatio Gordon Robley (Q5902695)

Robley

Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley is, as they say, a divisive figure. On the one hand, he collected mokomokai, preserved tattooed Māori heads, and hung them on his wall as decorative curios. On the other hand, he used those heads to illustrate a book on Māori tattoo which is credited by contemporary Māori moko practitioners with saving traditional designs from being lost forever. I think this pounamu book is likely to be a mixed bag too. However it's also an important historical work, and worth making more available even if Robley himself was a ratbag. Listen to the episodes of the podcast Black Sheep about Robley if you want to know more. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 03:56, 10 November 2021 (UTC)