User talk:Chrisguise/Archives/2018

Using page headers but not page quality

Please note [1]. We don't insert page quality information directly into the page; the system handles that for us automatically. Also, page headers (including the chapter title and page numbers) should be placed in the header window when editing, not in the page itself. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:50, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Footnotes

Footnotes are formatted in this way: [2] --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:17, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

ligatures and hyphens

Templates like {{oe}} exist so that people can enter them quickly from a keyboard. Usages of that template get replaced later with the actual symbol "œ". We don't want the template in the text.

Templates like {{hws}} and {{hwe}} exist to join hyphenated words across page breaks, not within the body of a page. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:52, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Typos: The Laureate's name is "Cibber", not "Gibber". [3] --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:57, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Also, when you need the actual text " ' in a page, don't type it directly. Use the template {{" '}}, or it's cognate {{' "}}. They add a w:thin space between the punctuation marks, so that they don't run together. (actually, it cheats and uses CSS, now that I look at it) Technically, in proper typography, there should be thinspaces or hairspaces many more places.... like "left — right", not "left—right", but people either don't know or don't bother. This is also why you should use {{...}}, or the ellipsis character …, instead of ". . ." or "...". Simlarly, people use hyphens instead of endashes constantly, but that mistake is almost impossible to notice in most fonts. Typewriter quotes are also wrong, but nobody cares. They look like crap, though. Jarnsax (talk) 02:34, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

And don't do this... {{block center|{{smaller block|<poem> "That sublimer inspiration given,<br>Which glows in Shakespeare's or in Milton's page,<br>The pomp and prodigality of Heaven."</poem>}}}}<nowiki>. Using smaller block inside of block center results in a centered block in which inter-line spacing is broken, and the whole purpose of <nowiki><poem> is to render text exactly as typed, including line breaks... it makes < br> redundant. Instead use one of the other methods described at Help:Poem. Jarnsax (talk) 03:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce

You are aware that, for all the pages you've created, none are included in the volume you're assembling, and all the links in the header are defective? --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:48, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Where are you getting the date of 1891? The scan's title page says it was published in 1909. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:55, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Visual Editor

Hi. There is most likely an issue with Visual Editor (see Wikisource:Scriptorium/Help#Wuthering_Heights discussion). Please stop using it as pages will need rework. Thanks.— Mpaa (talk) 15:32, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Quote marks

Just a friendly reminder that per the Style guide we would rather use straight quotes like "this" rather than curly ones like “this”. (The difference is more obvious when you're looking at the source editor.) This is specifically in reference to this edit, but just something you should keep in mind in general.

Best, Mukkakukaku (talk) 06:10, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

You're making a bit of a mess

I am not sure what you are doing and why. However, the works are transcluded, then you change the configuration, then retransclude pages, and away from the style that has been used for the whole journal. Have a look at special:prefixindex/Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 12 and now you are adding something starting with "Article". You had already transcribed them as chapters, which I had moved and commented in situ, and you should be able see informative aspects through Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Volume 12.djvu — billinghurst sDrewth 22:47, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Prev/Next in The Yellow Book/Volume 7

Hi. These need fixing. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:46, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I know - but I need to do the 2nd contents page first and then work out the order of entries because the prose and the art are interleaved.

Page titles not matching their transclusions

• The Yellow Book/Volume 7/An Old Campaigner
• The Yellow Book/Volume 7/On the Loing

Can you please look again at these pages. Also is it "Loing"? — billinghurst sDrewth 03:35, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata connections for authors

We connect author pages over at Wikidata, as I have done at https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q763176&diff=prev&oldid=768822289. this will enable data there to be imported, be it years of life, image, etc. (follow the Search link) Just need to create the page here with the basics, then connect over there. Refresh the page here and VOILA! — billinghurst sDrewth 21:28, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

{{gap}}

Just a note to let you know that a standard {{gap}} is 2em in length. There is no need to write it out as gap|2em. Londonjackbooks (talk) 04:58, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

div and span

Hi. Please stop doing this, it generates a lint error: {{larger|{{rh|74|The Inner Ear | }}}}. Do this instead, if you want to keep the size: {{rh|{{larger|74}}|{{larger|The Inner Ear}}| }}. BTW, there is no much point in formatting headers/footer, they are not transcluded anyhow. Thanks— Mpaa (talk) 23:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)