Talk:Royal Naval Biography

Is there a way of finding out which entries are in which volume of this publication? The title line says "Volume 1, parts 1 and 2 (1823); Volume 2, parts 1 and 2 (1824 & 1825); Supplements, parts 1 and 2 (1827 & 1828); Volume 3, parts 1 and 2 (1831 & 1832); Volume 4, parts 1 and 2 (1833 & 1835)", but there is no indication of where the transcribed entries lie in the oreginal. I am trying to find one in the scanned versions in archive.org and having trouble locating the entry I'm looking for. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 06:01, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Let me second the above. Right now the text is fine, but useless because one cannot cite the source.Acad Ronin (talk) 01:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

I am citing an entry here about John Lihou in an article in the English Wikipedia, citing the URL https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Lihou,_John]]. Why not?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 01:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

One can link to the sub-page/biography just as one can link to the sub-page of many imported works. But what is missing is the volume details in the header. Take for example

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Eden, Henry the header tells me it is in "volume 16".
• Royal Naval Biography/Eden, Henry there is nothing in the header to tell me the volume.

The volume information is important as the page number is meaningless without it for anyone who wishes to verify the fact with a hard copy, without the volume it is not possible to know the date of publication. This is important information for full citations on Wikipedia, particularly if the Wikipedia page is printed out as a hard copy.

On Wikipedia there is a template called {{cite DNB}} which fills in the correct date for a given volume. This information is available for the Royal Naval Biography by clicking on the page link in a biography and then clicking a the top of the page for the volume where it appears in the list of volumes in bold black (for the Eden, Henry article it is 1831 Vol. 3, part 1), so I think a bot should be run to insert the volume number into the header of each page. -- PBS (talk) 17:32, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Copyright long gone?

I assume that this work from 1824 is way into the public domain.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 01:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia templates

I have created the usual 3 templates to access this work from a Wikipedia article:

• W:Template:Cite RNB1823 — like a standard citation template, but adds some fields and provides a wstitle parameter to link to this work.
• W:Template:RNB1823 — like Cite RNB1823 but adds a prescript attribution if text is copied into a Wikipedia article.
• W:Template:RNB1823 poster— places the name of the article in a box for use in an external links section

In addition I have created W:Template:RNB1823 djvu — to hep find the Wikisource article name if only volume part and page is available in a citation to a paper source on Wikipedia. -- PBS (talk) 11:59, 2 April 2021 (UTC)