User:Sanbeg/Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2017-11

A little help with my project
Hi, I did a lot of work setting the project up and then started to mess around with this page. I don't know if I did well though. Will you see if it can be fixed? Thanks so much. I truly appreciate it. Thanks.

A Statistical Account of Bengal/Vol 1/Preface.

Samiur Rahman 2017 (talk) 03:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Some initial thoughts. You will want to create A Statistical Account of Bengal/Volume 1, which will include the front matter of the volume & Table of Contents &c. For your Preface page, it is preferable to write out the word "Volume" in the title. You can perform a move to make that change. However, I personally would wait to transclude text until more Index pages have been proofread. Londonjackbooks (talk) 02:53, 30 November 2017 (UTC)


 * and need to clean-up table of contents. i started one page here, (or you could use template:TOC) ; then you can make you table of contents page, and chapter pages for each volume. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 18:03, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambig with multi-author
Does naming a page something like Song (Lyricist/Composer) cause anything to break due to the slash in the title? Is Song (Lyricist and Composer) preferable? Is Song (Lyricist) sufficient, since most versions here will be lyrics only anyway? Just wondering what others think. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 20:23, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I think it would help commenters to understand better if we could see the content to be placed on this hypothetical page. I'm totally lost. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:30, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * We should avoid forwards slashes as that makes them subpages. We did address similar previously — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:31, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ... and we should only disambiguate if necessary. — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:49, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm attempting to build author-list using Wikidata, and would love some more test works to experiment with. What work are you dealing with here? Sam Wilson 02:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Some examples that I have created or renamed, generally with just the lyricist in the disambig, but not with any real consistency:
 * The Englishman (Gilbert)
 * Good-Bye (Whyte-Melville)
 * The Sunshine of Your Smile (Cooke and Ray)
 * A Soldier's Song (Kearney/Heeney)
 * Babes in the Wood (Kern & Greene)
 * Not Yet (Kern and Wodehouse)
 * You Never Can Tell (Kern)
 * Why? (Kern)
 * etc. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 00:04, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Thanks. I'll try to incorporate the 'lyrics by' P676 and 'composer' P86 properties as authors too. Are there any like this that aren't using 'override_author'? Sam Wilson 06:16, 6 December 2017 (UTC)