User talk:David J Wilson/archive

... Ahi! Quanto a dir qual' era è cosa dura, esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte.

for ever
Not usually a typo. Victorian English hyphenated and spaced words differently than modern standards. You can find the word forever spelled as for ever consistently in many texts. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:21, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder. In this case it possibly is, because it's spelt "forever" in the repeat of the opening verse at the end. But as its status is doubtful, I've taken that as a justification for removing the  template.


 * David Wilson (talk) 00:36, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

pagenum
It's usually not worth the effort to try to code the location of page numbers in the header. Even for longer works, the usually creates more trouble than its worth. Most regular editors generate the pagenum on both side of the page header, and then delete the one that isn't needed before saving. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:47, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. As I'm rapidly finding out.


 * David Wilson (talk) 05:00, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

PD templates
We don't subst: licensing templates. Most are designed to be dynamic. With a little research I tracked down Clarke's dates of birth and death. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:20, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I had already given his years of birth and death on the Authors-C index page. I have no idea why those dates didn't automatically appear on his author page (or why they do so now) just like they seem to have done on other author pages I have created in the past.
 * The template code I substituted for the one that was already on Clarke's talk page was also dynamic. In 2024, when the copyright on his works published in the UK will have expired there, the interim statement which I created to sit on the page until then would have been replaced by the standard  template with the year of author's death set to 1953.  In my opinion, the wording of the standard templates is very poorly chosen for authors whose works include many that are still subject to copyright in the countries where they were first published.  I have no interest, however, in pursuing the matter further.


 * David Wilson (talk) 09:28, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * The Authors index doesn't do anything for the Author pages. To get the dates to appear on the Author page, they need to be added at Wikidata. The dates are now on the Author page because I created a data item for this Author at Wikidata.


 * You shouldn't substitute the license templates. Sometimes the syntax for a template has to be updated. I you subst the template, then any updates or corrections will not be applied to the page. If you disagree with community policy on this, or think an improvement is needed, then the WS:Scriptorium is the place to pursue it. An the ub-subst'ed template would change dynamically, as it's designed to do. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:38, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Style guide
As per our WS:Style Guide: "Use typewriter quotation marks (straight, not curly)."