Quoth-22
Welcome
edit(Cross posted from Template talk:Author) I am sorry I meant to point you to the larger disscussion here, but I must have forgot. Most anything besides minor changes gets proposed at the Scriptorium as the project is still so small. --BirgitteSB 14:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
'Unneeded redirects' CSD
editHello Quoth. Please note that the criteria for speedy deletion related to unneeded redirects was recently expanded to define 'unneeded' and limit the deletion of possibly-used redirects. According to the new criteria, redirects from titles that existed over a week (such as "The Happiest Day") are not speedy-deletable unless they are soft redirected for two months. To do so, simply replace the redirect with {{subst:dated soft redirect|"[[new page title]]"}}
, and it will be soft redirected and placed in the relevant dated category. Thanks. :) // [admin] Pathoschild (talk/map) 22:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks for alerting me to the change :) – Quoth 03:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
The Happiest Day
editThe collection of Poe's poetry I have in my room uses the title "The Happiest Day" (with quotation marks). Many other online sources also have the title in quotations marks. I can't say, though, that I've ever seen it with brackets, although I didn't know that it was an unnamed work.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 02:19, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- I see what you are saying. I don't care really how it's named, so long as we have essential redirects pointing to the title we're using and explain the somewhat nonstandard titling convention in the header on the article page. So, please, change it to what you want.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 19:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
sandbox idea
editBiography at Wikipedia Media at Wikicommons Quotes at Wikiquote |
I found this styling in your sandbox from what links, I like the neat approach and was aiming for something similar at {{Plain sister}}. There is an ongoing discussion on a talk page if you are interested. Cygnis insignis (talk) 07:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
style versus effort
editHave a wade through this discussion, and perhaps the glean the pros and cons from w:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotations which [currently] recommends using straight for simplicity. I think curly quotes looks better for finer print publications, but digital documents and the web carry all sorts of legacy issues. If someone wants a photo-facsimile of something like the first authorised printing of "The Raven", they would need to tweak dozens of things, they would be better off printing the image. I created the text for what was printed, not the subtleties in the analogue coding of the print medium. ATEOTD, is it worth devoting time to this, rather than getting the millions of texts transcribed. Cygnis insignis (talk) 11:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC) P.S. ta, another way is to wrap the RH in a smaller or {{larger block}}. 13:12, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed
editHello,
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Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
23:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Renamed
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06:48, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Request merge into Quoth-22
editUmm, need a different template schema
editHi. We should not be creating redirects to the Page: namespace from a template. That is contrary to the base operating approach of no cross namespace redirects. If you wish to template, then please do it in the Template: ns, then call it into the page namespace. Thanks. I have tidied to how it would be preferred to do it. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:04, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi billinghurst, my apologies for causing you work. The original idea was to simply transclude the page contents directly from one page to another to save on having to keep formatting changes on identical pages synchronized, which I did once or twice before realising it wasn't as maintainable or as clear as it could be. So I created the template namespace redirects to give these prototypical pages more familiar names while they're being transcluded, and to allow for easily updating the page references if the pages should ever be moved.
- I was aware of the general convention of only transcluding templates from the template namespace, but I thought that in the case of whole page templates where very little (or nothing) changes, more benefit would be had by keeping the prototypical page the template is based on in its original location. There it could be as easily compared, proofread, and validated as any other page.
- Do you know of a more conventional way to accomplish that (perhaps a Page namespace redirect?), or am I entirely misguided in my approach? — Quoth (talk) 22:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
EB1911
editHi, thanks for your recent edits and fixes to pages in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. It's great to see someone else making some improvements. In case you haven't read about it before, I've made some converted Gutenberg text available for use in Wikisource, see {Wikisource talk:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. You can use the already-proofed text from Gutenberg to use a s a basis for proofing pages here. I saw you made a change on Page:EB1911 - Volume 06.djvu/921 removing line-breaks - the line-breaks do make it a lot easier to proof-read the page. Also the change from {{EB1911 fine print/s}} to {{EB1911 fine print| prevents the smaller line height in the template from taking effect, which is one of the reasons the template was created. I've been editing pages using {{EB1911 fine print/s}}. Keep up the good work of making fixes to the EB1911. DivermanAU (talk) 07:05, 10 November 2017 (UTC)