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Yann (talk) 20:32, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Another DNBer?

Gday. Please do stop past and read our information about the Wikisource:WikiProject DNB. An active little project. billinghurst sDrewth 15:48, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello there. I saw you tick-cross William George Browne, over on the DNB Epitome list on another well-known wiki. I looked over here to see whether the DNB article existed, and guess what, you beat me to it. Delighted to see you doing that. I do generally take requests, but of course participation goes one better. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

By the way, the answer to the question you posed over there is that it is Walpole, Robert (1781-1856) (DNB00): not quite obvious from the article, but clear with the help of Google Books. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:56, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Will 1790 do?

• Travels to discover the source of the Nile: in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773
  • Index:Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile - In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 volume 1.djvu
  • Index:Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile - In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 volume 2.djvu
  • Index:Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile - In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 volume 3.djvu
  • Index:Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile - In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 volume 4.djvu

No volume 5 available :-( billinghurst sDrewth 05:19, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I have pdfs of Murray's 1805 edition (thanks to Google), which is why I picked that one. If you can point me to material from the 1790 edition I'll be quite interested. (Actually, I'd like to compare the two: Murray added & removed an awful lot of material.) -- Llywrch (talk) 06:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

All are here, pages ready for any proofreading that you would like to achieve, as from the index pages, you can see every page that is in the book, the image, and can get to the text. Also, from the index pages, there is a [djvu] link which takes you to the files hosted at Commons. billinghurst sDrewth 06:46, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Er, yes. I just discovered that. (I need to poke around these pages a little more before asking questions, I guess.) -- Llywrch (talk) 06:50, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

ref scheme

Excuse me peeking at what you are doing, but this might save you some trouble. The SOP is to insert a footnote into the text using <ref>[the footnote]</ref>, this will appear on the page being transcribed and collected at the bottom of the whole chapter. I made some changes to Page:A voyage to Abyssinia (Salt).djvu/60, the trick to controlling what appears in that chapter is done using the header and footer; you can inspect and change these by clicking the button [+] above the edit box. Seems like an interesting work, hope you are enjoying improving it. Cygnis insignis (talk) 07:14, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, there is solution to an overflowing footnote; it is better demonstrated than explained. When you get to that stage you can ask whoever to apply the solution I copied to the bottom of User:Cygnis insignis/formatting. The irregular footnoting you mention is something I would need to see, I think I've seen it before and will recall solution when I see it again. What you are doing is the most important part. While I didn't want to swamp you with technical details, I did want to indicate that others know solutions to the problems I noticed you encountered. Hope this clears the way for you to continue with the work you wanted to focus on. Regards, Cygnis insignis (talk) 04:13, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Partial fix, sorry for misreading your note. Replied at my page. Cygnis insignis (talk) 12:37, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Catholic Encyclopedia

I thought I'd mention that our Catholic Enyclopedia is incomplete - the original bot posting missed out around 3%, with a great chunk of the E's not there as well as individual skipped articles. Meaning that Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Ethiopia is absent, as well as Encyclopedia, Egypt and other examples. individual articles are not that hard to create, in fact. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:58, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Hashes and DNB transclusion

They are there for a reason! Charles Matthews (talk) 06:52, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Em dashes

I just started going over your project on finding the source of the Nile, and I noticed there seem to be two standards with regards to em dashes: one is to leave them without spaces as the convention at the time dictated, and the other is to add spacing for them. My own current project, a travel account, puts me in the same dilemma (I have been leaving them in their original form). Which is do you prefer (I will probably adopt that for my own projects)? Inatan (talk) 19:09, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Er, I really don't have a preference on this issue. Do as you'd like? -- Llywrch (talk) 19:20, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Inatan (talk) 19:25, 4 October 2017 (UTC)