Talk:California Historical Society Quarterly/Volume 22

was working on this

Hi User:ShakespeareFan00, did I happen to upload a work you've been aching to transcribe? :) I was actively working on this, only a few minutes into it...but I'm improving the text offline as I go, so I assume my work is now obsolete. I'll back off and let you do what you're going to do before I try again -- but could you let me know when you come to a stopping point, so I don't waste my time again? -Pete (talk) 23:09, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Well, I took a chance and pulled out the John Work article, which is the one I'm most interested in. But, I really think it would be easier if we could talk about intentions before taking over for each other's work, while we're actively working on it. For the time being, I'll work only on the John Work article, and leave the rest to you...and if I'm going to take on another chunk, I'll try to let you know here first. I'd appreciate if you could also share something about how much/what you are intending to do. I'm especially curious about the r## annotations you added...what does this do? Is this something I should learn about? -Pete (talk) 02:17, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

I was checking for lint errors, and was in the process attempting to 'match' page starts. I can pause if you are actually working on the article.

The <rxx> annotations are a shorthand for footnotes (so I can at later point after a match split convert them to {tl|authority reference}} style footnotes.

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:32, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Got it, thanks for all the lint-related work you do (even if I only half understand it). Was surprised to find you working on something moments after I uploaded it, but that makes sense. I mainly wanted to work on this one: California Historical Society Quarterly/Volume 22/John Work of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Match & Split queue seems to have sorted itself out since yesterday, so I'm satisfied. I'm very interested to know how you approach "authority reference" style footnotes though, I struggled with a similar format in History of Oregon Newspapers and if there's a better approach, I'd love to learn it. -Pete (talk) 17:33, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

See {{Authority reference}} which explains it. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:39, 20 October 2022 (UTC)