User talk:Miraclepine/Archives/2018-2020

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 22:09, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Categorisation of honours

Hi. The categorisation for honours had previously been undertaken for the actual awarding for the main namespace, rather than as a categorisation for the author namespace. It has been seen that the categorisation is suitably captured elsewhere (enWP, commons, WD) without yet another incomplete build here. — billinghurst sDrewth 07:40, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Works for me. ミラP 13:18, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

I do think that we should be looking to have WD generated queries that do this for our authors. I just have never got to that thinking-doing space. never even worked out where we would have those queries generated and developed, would guess that Portal: namespace for those Listeria types reports. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:30, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I was thinking the same idea too. The WD-queries should only have humans who were awarded with the same honour. Still need to figure out where to put them though. ミラP 13:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Constructing non-work pages

Hi. If you are creating page that is not of the original work, like the constructed ToC, then we should identify it so. That can be through a comment in the Notes section, or the use of {{auxiliary Table of Contents}}. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:42, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: If you're talking about the navigation I made of One of a Thousand, I modeled it on the navigation for Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 because there were a lot of entries. I've decided to replace it with the auxillary TOC and I would like the A-Z TOC subpages deleted. ミラP 17:24, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 3.djvu/438

Thanks for weighing in with the proof-reading.

I did a couple of edits, and the diffs show things to look out for. There are particular digits that are problematic for the OCR, and "2" is the worst. And volume 3 is the most troublesome for that.

Punctuation is a serious issue, and the scan is often hard to read on the difference between "," and ".": so one should go with the logic of the sentence parsing. I decided, on the "." terminating abbreviations, to put it in consistently even if the compositor didn't in error. The text is very dense in abbreviations, and it is confusing for the reader (especially those who are not English native speakers) if that "." is omitted.

Charles Matthews (talk) 04:20, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

@Charles Matthews: My mistake, sorry. But at least we're both making some great progress on the whole work. ミラP 04:21, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Don't worry - the material is not easy. If you have been wondering about my workflow, I use {{AO2block}} in preview. Charles Matthews (talk) 04:26, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Protestant Exiles from France

If you are able to take on more bot Wikidata item creation here, the sections of this complete, two-volume work look useful. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:12, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club

Don't forget that all the links on the journal's primary page use the old linking syntax. If this page isn't adjusted in accordance with your moves, future created pages will use the old syntax. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:11, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: Fixed them. I'm gonna do some work on the entire journal tomorrow. ミラP 03:19, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Death dates at WD

Hi. Can I recommend that if you don't know a death date for an author that it is probably to not mark it as unknown, and it is better left empty. That you don't know it, doesn't make it unknown. Marking as unknown is better left for those that are truly unknown. Marking it unknown changes how it shows at various places, it definitely doesn't show as missing which is often what we want to check and rectify. [Noting that I am pretty good at finding people and fixing missing dates for 19th and 20th century people.] — billinghurst sDrewth 03:05, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Hi. I believe you're referring to Author:Yarborough Anderson. His VIAF has no death date so I added the unknown date of death to the Wikidata entry in hopes of removing it from Category:Living authors. I'll try to keep your advice in mind. Also, I just discovered that adding floruit to a Wikidata entry puts it in Category:Authors with missing death dates and removes it from the Living authors category, and I did a few fixes. ミラP 03:59, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

(-: You are aware that I have an interest in authors, and getting their basic data updated. I will usually start on newly created authors (and Anderson has been updated). So never be afraid to tap me on the shoulder if we are short of info, or needed something chased down. I am always happy to dump research on the author talk page and let others migrate it to WD, in fact I get to the backlogs as I can. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:01, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Template:MatB

To standardise the transclusion and some of the automation of the transclusion of entries in Men-at-the-Bar I have created this template and I am currently migrating the existing works to utilise the template. Note that it automatically links through main subject (P921) if that field is used and an article exists at enWP. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:40, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Thank you. I've looked at the template and it indeed works. ミラP 14:24, 20 November 2020 (UTC)