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Uncle Tom's cabin
[edit]Looks like you're answering my questions in your actions and edit summaries, but maybe also document these in the index's talk page?
From your edit summaries (and my looking at Uncle_Tom's_Cabin) there is no source for the existing copy we have, which does always make me nervous. And I say that from the experience of finding that the AKJV Psalms text we had, had *not* directly come from the AKJV, but had gone through other hands and other transformations. Which included at the worst missing sentences and phrases!
And you seem to be copying over from the text copy we have had, to initialize the text of each page? Thus the message to the reviewers should be:
- relax (somewhat) most of the work (presumably) is done,
- **but**
- there is no reason to trust the copy matches the source - scrutinize _carefully_!
- relax (somewhat) most of the work (presumably) is done,
I was amazed at the differences I found between so-called 'same' texts. 'same' here? ;-) Shenme (talk) 06:19, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks User:Shenme; I'll make a note on the talk page shortly. Definitely a few subtle differences, it looks like the existing unsourced text was copied in from Gutenberg. I don't intend to bulk import it; just keeping a bit ahead of what I can work through myself. I'll also put a save in between importing it and checking it to show what is changed as well :) Nickw25 (talk) 07:38, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Generally speaking, a page that is lacking significant content, such as an illustration should not be marked as "proofread". "Proofread" means that the page has been fully checked against the original and its content matches. Where illustrations are missing, that is not the case. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:23, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've updated these now. I'll adjust my workflow to add this illustrations in prior to marking the page read, I'd been backfilling them each chapter or two up until now. Nickw25 (talk) 02:15, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi. For the author page listing, we have the above linked template that will produce a standard listing format. If you are going to be numbers of works for this journal, then please let me know and I will produce a template based on "article link" specific for your use, probably would call it "JNH link". Ping me if you want it. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:57, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- That is very useful to know, thanks for the tip billinghurst. I'd like to keep adding articles from this Journal over time. Is there a benefit to using a specific template? The one you have shared looks fairly straight forward to fill in each time? Nickw25 (talk) 11:21, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- The advantages apart from the obvious uniformity is that we can run better checks and feed data into WD using tools like Paleim's Harvest tool. Plus as we improve formatting, we can make it to the base template, and it flows out to many. I will get it done. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:25, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Done => {{JNH link}}. Noting that it is currently only fully configured for volume 7. If get into earlier or later volumes, then we will need to do volume <+> year, and volume <=> editor tweaking for differences. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:49, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- The advantages apart from the obvious uniformity is that we can run better checks and feed data into WD using tools like Paleim's Harvest tool. Plus as we improve formatting, we can make it to the base template, and it flows out to many. I will get it done. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:25, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
