Index talk:1965 FBI monograph on Nation of Islam.djvu

Style notes

• The {{redact2}} template should be used to mark passages that have been censored out of this declassified text:

 {{redact2|##|color=white|bordercolor=black}}

• Use sidenotes (directions are at Template:Sidenote) to include the notes in the margins where material has been censored. (Note: There is an unresolved issue with how to handle sidenotes on paragraphs that go across page boundaries.)

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Discussion

Redactions

There are many parts of the monograph where text and other material has been redacted for declassification. It occurs frequently enough that I wonder if there ought to be a template to standardize the formatting of those parts. The length of the redacted passages should be accounted for, too, I imagine.

There are also a few pages where the word "CONFIDENTIAL" has been either crossed out or obliterated. I don't know whether to consider those as redactions or just to ignore them. I'm leaning toward the latter.

Also, I'm not sure whether "redacted" would be a good name for the template, since the word has a somewhat different meaning in a literary context.

--LarryGilbert (talk) 18:07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

It turns out there is already a {{redact}} template. It takes a single, numeric parameter to specify a size in ems (default is 8). So {{redact|15}} gives: -

There are almost always notes nearby a redaction indicating why it was done. I'm not sure this template gives any way to include those. I think they are important to retain in any document like this.

--LarryGilbert (talk) 16:58, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

I have been including them using sidenotes. The only ones I have found so far are "b6" and "b7C", which are probably references to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6) and (b)(7)(C). --LarryGilbert (talk) 06:52, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Templates

I created two templates for use on the TOC pages:

{{FBI1965 NOI dotTOC helper}} for formatting entries in the TOC

{{FBI1965 NOI pagemap}} returns corresponding DJVU page for a given page number

The latter also accepts Roman numerals and symbolic names for unnumbered pages, and may be useful for a navigation template. Paradoctor (talk) 00:17, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Non-printables in OCR output

While ironing out the TOC, I discovered that the text contained DEL characters.[1] It may be harmless for most purposes, but it cost me a couple of hours of debugging. I finally understood what was going on when I had this in the edit box:

{{FBI1965 NOI dotTOC helper|1|2|Changing NOI Tactics|?5}}
{{FBI1965 NOI dotTOC helper|1|2|Changing NOI Tactics|5}}

Looks identical, so you'd expect identical results, right? That's how it renders:

B.Changing NOI Tactics

[[Page:1965 FBI monograph on Nation of Islam.djvu/Holey smokin' Joan, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?|?5]]

B.Changing NOI Tactics

[[Page:1965 FBI monograph on Nation of Islam.djvu/17|5]]

Notice that one link is red, then check the wikicode. ;) Paradoctor (talk) 00:45, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Submitted as Bugzilla: 21767. Paradoctor (talk) 01:18, 6 December 2009 (UTC)