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Joined 27 August 2009
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Early aeronautics and aviation edit

I have a professional interest in aeronautics and aviation before 1916 and there's a lot here on Wikisource to use and to work on. Need to apply these wonderful categories: Category:Aviation, Category:Aeronautics, and add to Author:Octave Chanute and Author:Cleveland Abbe

Notes on The Education of Henry Adams edit

This book difficult to follow, partly because it makes so many oblique references to specifics of the author's time and place. I am reading and taking notes on basic underlying facts of it. The notes are on various discussion pages and clarify the text. Here are key bits:

  • page 21 -- relevant locations in Massachusetts: Boston, Quincy, and Medford
  • page 22 -- the styles of the many historic houses of his family's, and what the author preferred
  • page 32 -- lays out his mother's proximate family tree of notables named Brooks and Adams
  • page 37 -- views on American division about slavery circa 1850, in which the author's father Charles Francis Adams Sr was an important figure

BLS portal category edit

I work at BLS and transcribe some of its historic work now and then:

Wikisource techniques edit

To show a hyphenated word at the end of a page: 

 {{hws|locali|localities}}

and at the beginning of the next page: 

  {{hwe|ties|localities}}

Making an index edit

  • create index with exactly the name of the commons file, prefixed simply by Index:
  • save with minimal info filled in
  • Then, at least for simple modern docs, add 1=1 and save again
  • Then add "Ready to Match"; documents with pagination changes are harder but I don't need to address those cases now
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