User talk:Chrisguise/Archives/2018

Using page headers but not page quality
Please note. We don't insert page quality information directly into the page; the system handles that for us automatically. Also, page headers (including the chapter title and page numbers) should be placed in the header window when editing, not in the page itself. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:50, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

ligatures and hyphens
Templates like oe exist so that people can enter them quickly from a keyboard. Usages of that template get replaced later with the actual symbol "œ". We don't want the template in the text.

Templates like hws and hwe exist to join hyphenated words across page breaks, not within the body of a page. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:52, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Typos: The Laureate's name is "Cibber", not "Gibber". --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:57, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Also, when you need the actual text " ' in a page, don't type it directly. Use the template, or it's cognate  . They add a thin space between the punctuation marks, so that they don't run together. (actually, it cheats and uses CSS, now that I look at it) Technically, in proper typography, there should be thinspaces or hairspaces many more places.... like "left&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;right", not "left&mdash;right", but people either don't know or don't bother. This is also why you should use  , or the ellipsis character …, instead of ". . ." or "...". Simlarly, people use hyphens instead of endashes constantly, but that mistake is almost impossible to notice in most fonts. Typewriter quotes are also wrong, but nobody cares. They look like crap, though. Jarnsax (talk) 02:34, 25 June 2018 (UTC)


 * And don't do this... . Using smaller block inside of block center results in a centered block in which inter-line spacing is broken, and the whole purpose of is to render text exactly as typed, including line breaks... it makes   redundant. Instead use one of the other methods described at Help:Poem. Jarnsax (talk) 03:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
You are aware that, for all the pages you've created, none are included in the volume you're assembling, and all the links in the header are defective? --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:48, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Where are you getting the date of 1891? The scan's title page says it was published in 1909. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:55, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Visual Editor
Hi. There is most likely an issue with Visual Editor (see Scriptorium/Help discussion). Please stop using it as pages will need rework. Thanks.— Mpaa (talk) 15:32, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Quote marks
Just a friendly reminder that per the Style guide we would rather use straight quotes like "this" rather than curly ones like “this”. (The difference is more obvious when you're looking at the source editor.) This is specifically in reference to this edit, but just something you should keep in mind in general.

Best, Mukkakukaku (talk) 06:10, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

You're making a bit of a mess
I am not sure what you are doing and why. However, the works are transcluded, then you change the configuration, then retransclude pages, and away from the style that has been used for the whole journal. Have a look at special:prefixindex/Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 12 and now you are adding something starting with "Article". You had already transcribed them as chapters, which I had moved and commented in situ, and you should be able see informative aspects through Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Volume 12.djvu — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:47, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Prev/Next in The Yellow Book/Volume 7
Hi. These need fixing. — billinghurst  sDrewth  21:46, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I know - but I need to do the 2nd contents page first and then work out the order of entries because the prose and the art are interleaved.

Page titles not matching their transclusions
Can you please look again at these pages. Also is it "Loing"? — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:35, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The Yellow Book/Volume 7/An Old Campaigner
 * The Yellow Book/Volume 7/On the Loing

Wikidata connections for authors
We connect author pages over at Wikidata, as I have done at https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q763176&diff=prev&oldid=768822289. this will enable data there to be imported, be it years of life, image, etc. (follow the Search link) Just need to create the page here with the basics, then connect over there. Refresh the page here and VOILA! — billinghurst  sDrewth  21:28, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

gap
Just a note to let you know that a standard is 2em in length. There is no need to write it out as gap|2em. Londonjackbooks (talk) 04:58, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

div and span
Hi. Please stop doing this, it generates a lint error: 74. Do this instead, if you want to keep the size: 74. BTW, there is no much point in formatting headers/footer, they are not transcluded anyhow. Thanks— Mpaa (talk) 23:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)