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- Update docs Done
- Look to manage new, eg. {{DNB HMS-r}}
- Work on 1912, check completeness of 1901
- HWP duplicates and will need disambiguating Author:Hugh Wodehouse Pearse // Author:Herbert Woodfield Paul
— billinghurst sDrewth 12:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
explore making this change. They are not missing if they are not dead, so we should cater for both scenarios without confusing things. Only would be missing of the person is alive 130 years after death. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:43, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
link templates — to build
- Dictionary of Indian Biography
- ... link
- ... lkpl
— billinghurst sDrewth 23:47, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
- The Builders of American Literature
- check whether useful for Oregon: Her history, her great men, her literature
DNB contributor template cleanup
Hi. I've been recently working on cleaning up the DNB contributor templates for ambiguous ones to match in line with existing similar ones. Can you please turn these into disambiguation pages similar to what's in Category:Dictionary of National Biography ambiguous contributor templates and disambiguate these with AWB? They're transcluded in so many pages, so they would require too many tabs to be opened if done manually.
- Template:DNB CM: ambiguous given Template:DNB CM Maclean
- Template:DNB EG: ambiguous given Template:DNB EG Green
- Template:DNB FR: ambiguous given Template:DNB FR Rogers
- Template:DNB GCB: ambiguous given Template:DNB GCB Bourne
- Template:DNB HMS: ambiguous given Template:DNB HMS Spooner
- Template:DNB JAH: ambiguous given Template:DNB JAH Herbert
- Template:DNB JHL: ambiguous given Template:DNB JHL Longford
- Template:DNB AM: redundant to Template:DNB AM Miller. but Template:DNB AM Mackie exists.
- Template:DNB JH: redundant to Template:DNB JH Humphreys, but Template:DNB JH Hooper exists.
- Template:DNB TS: redundant to Template:DNB TS Seccombe, but Template:DNB TS Sinclair exists.
During the cleanup, I also ran into Template:DNB AH Hartshorne, which seems to have been created in error since none of the DNB contributor lists attach Albert Hartshorne to any initial but "A.H-e." Making it a redirect to Template:DNB AH-e would be misleading because "A.H." was never used for his work on the DNB, so I might consider it for deletion. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:03, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Miraclepine: Please leave them for the moment as I am talking about Xover about a better way to deal with these. The current situation is ugly, and it is just getting more complex and unsustainable. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:30, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you. I've subscribed to the conversation on Xover's talk page for further developments in the meanwhile. ミラP@Miraclepine 04:29, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
August 2023 to do
- records checks
- track death for Author:Michael Barrett
- detail for Author:John George Anthony Skerl
- Author:Thomas Helsby
- Author:Charles Everitt
- revisit author:Robert Edward Anderson
- Author:Adam Luke Gowans
Author:Reginald LittleboyAuthor:Griffith Price Williams- Author:Mrs. Ernest Newman
Author:John Pre VanewordsAuthor:Laura Ensorauthor:Armin Tennerauthor:Ponsonby Annesley LyonsAuthor:Patrick Laurence Connellan- Author:John Fraser (fl. 1883) US cleric
- Author:George Hay (Physiologist) Glasgow 1883, though apparently visiting and living western side of Atlantic
Author:William Simons, Charleston, SC, 1880s- Author:Wilfred L. Steel , can see person b. 1890, though that doesn't seem right, living vicinity of Stone, Staffs in 1913, though no clear records for person of that name in 1911
- Author:William Browning Smith, is it really William?
Author:Robert Edward AndersonLondon 1880sAuthor:John Gibson (d. 1887)Scottish scientistAuthor:Herbert RixAuthor:John StephenEB9- Author:Montagu Browne or is it Alexander Montagu Browne
- Author:Algernon Blackwood continue moving works to subpages of parents
- ponder St. Nicholas pages, have edited by through subpages, not just volumes, and the illustrators have been added as related_authors; definitely needs work, apply
{{default layout|Layout 2}}
to the pages, and remove the css code that sets a max-width - {{al}} set this up so it substitutes automatically,
then clean up - {{pol}} set this up so it substitutes automatically,
then clean up - Translations from Camoens; and Other Poets, with Original Poetry needs a AuxToC built, and contributor components rather than authors, maybe also use override_translator rather than translator for cleanliness
- Works to consider
- find the best ocr of https://archive.org/search?query=Peasant+Proprietorship
- Think about "redirects here" for disambig pages (The ..., The ...s, A ..., ...s)
- DNB contributor => 1st supplement separation from 1885-1900, and each their own? also remove {{sc}} from usages
- bring over my /archive/ edit filters from metawiki
- more work to do on Index:Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.djvu/styles.css and template:hussey Churches table header related pages
- EB9 contributor => {{contributed to}}, will need noinit variable, and also formatting internal
- transcribe obit noted at Author talk:William Prideaux Courtney
- transcribe obit noted at Author talk:Israel Davis
DNB contributor
- DNB contributor
- DNB contributor 2ndSupp
- DNB contributor 3rdSupp
- need to ensure that all data is present on author pages
- push "contributor to creative work" / "biographer" / "initials"
- construct the QS components (see if we can do anything with harvest tool first)
Petscan / QS pushes
- Category:Ornithologists as authors needs push in, then tidy up
— billinghurst sDrewth 23:49, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Sep 2023 to do
- Template:ShowTransclude
- Look to convert this template to instead utilise <ref follow=...>
- Fix ToC Page:Horses and roads.djvu/11++ to use css
- double transclusion of same index: The Haughs of Crumdel / Haughs of Crumdel (2) => shuffling, editing and deletions required
— billinghurst sDrewth 22:31, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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