Talk:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

Fictitious entries
b:User:Vuara/Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography has a list of a few of the fictitious entries. This website has all the entries, but it looks like they can be altered by contributors. John Vandenberg 12:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Other Appleton's works
NYPL has images from
 * Appleton's Journal
 * Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events
 * Appleton's cyclopedia of applied mechanics : a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts

Title and date
In all the sources I have looked at, the title is "Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography," that is the apostrophe comes after the "s" rather than before it, and "æ" is used instead of "e". archive.org also says "Appleton's", but when I checked the source said "Appletons'". There also seem to be a motley bunch of dates out there. I have a Volume I facsimile with date 1891, and my Volume VI is dated 1889. archive.org says its Volume I (link above) has a stated date of 1898 although it also gives the date 1900 on the same page. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 14:27, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Djvu
Please notice the entries for volume V are now using djvu technology, courtesy of Wknight94. Now we can use H:Side and track progress using Index:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1900, volume 5).djvu. For example: Ernst Plassman. I myself have not totally grasped the implications of this, but it looks very favorable. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 18:22, 20 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Having gotten some experience with the transclusion approach, I would say it is definitely something to aim for, but the extra work in transcribing I think dictates that initial transcriptions may be done without taking advantage of transclusion. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Article names - personal name in natural order
Is there an appropriate template that can be used to enable the finding of articles when using Google with quotation marks (phrase search)? For instance if I search for "William Haven Daniels" Google will not find the relevant article. Neither will Google find it without the quotation marks. I only found the article because I Googled "william haven" "daniels" "chicago" ! Strangely a Google search for "william haven" "daniels" does not find the Appleton's article, which indicates that Google no longer gives you all the results it knows about, even if you click the option at the bottom where Google says "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 57 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."  Nor does Google find http://famousamericans.net/williamhavendaniels/ which is extracted from Appleton's and is found by DuckDuckGo, which does not find the Wikisource article. Strangely if you add "Appleton's" or "Appletons" to your search, DuckDuckGo finds neither page. PeterR2 (talk) 00:55, 25 February 2023 (UTC)