Template talk:Biblecontents

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Well, the esoteric template said to check the talk page, but that was a redlink... Jude (talk,contribs,email) 06:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Improvements[edit]

Some improvements that could be made to this template:

See w:Template:Books of the Bible. I'd be willing to try to make these changes myself. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 17:23, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do not call it Apocripha... Give respect to the Catholics and Orthodox ... Make it ecumenical... Jumark27 (talk) 06:40, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed I actually just came here in order to edit this according to w:Template:Books of the Bible, which I created. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:09, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm currently working on it (slowly) at User:Beleg Tâl/Sandbox/biblecontents; there is a discussion currently in place at Wikisource:Scriptorium#Bible. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 14:02, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Also missing is Syrach, which is in the KJV. --Jfhutson (talk) 21:00, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Man o man o manassheh (who?)[edit]

{{Editprotected|Please update the link herein replacing erroneous page title "Manassheh" with "Manasseh", in both link and text|[[Category:Template protected edit requests]]}}


This template was initialized using the wrong spelling for an apochryphal bible book in the name and the link. That page was later moved:

03:28, 12 May 2007 Yahnatan~enwikisource talk contribs 51 bytes +51 Bible (King James)/Prayer of Manassheh moved to Bible (King James)/Prayer of Manasseh: Corrected spelling of Manasseh

Since then every project creating a page for this bible book has used "Manasseh", and has redirects from "Manassheh" to that name.

This template is used for all books of AKJV and several other bibles. The links mistakenly generated from this template are apparently the the only usages of this erroneous page name.

Extended investigation

Searching for "Manassheh" within main and template spaces gets 93 hits

Every one of these direct or templated links is then redirected, or is red linked as a non-existent (not yet done) page



e.g. Bible (King James)/John
which gives
Bible (King James)/Prayer of Manasseh (Redirected from Bible (King James)/Prayer of Manassheh)


which gives
Prayer of Manasses (Bible) (Redirected from Bible/Prayer of Manassheh)


which gives
Bible_(Tyndale)/Prayer_of_Manassheh&action=edit&redlink=1


which gives
Bible_(Douay-Rheims)/Prayer_of_Manassheh&action=edit&redlink=1



Please note the same problem obtains with {{biblecontents2}}. On page Template:Biblecontents2/sandbox there is section King James showing parallel uses of {{biblecontents}} and {{biblecontents2}}.

|{{ts|w50}}|{{biblecontents|version=King James}}||{{biblecontents2|version=King James}}

with *both* displaying links of "Prayer of Manassheh" -> Bible_(King_James)/Prayer_of_Manassheh .

So that template needs fixing also. Though it is not protected now, perhaps it should be? Shenme (talk) 22:50, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Shenme: Done at both templates. A quick check seems to indicate that this is working, but if you could check it over, that would be great. I also changed the nomanassheh parameter to match, which appears totally unused. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:46, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Inductiveload: Thank you, and all looks good. I peeked at your user page, and so emboldened to ask: where is the center of bot-dom at WS? I'm working on code to convert and maintain the marginal note cross-references for Bible (King James), which sample can be seen here. That is, convert them to actual wikilinks, such that the plain text note:
Mark 2. 13, 14.
becomes the more useful (as originally intended)
Mark 2. 13, 14.
After doing ~80 pages I can say adding the refs is a gradual process (a month for 80 pp. 206-289) and undoubtedly has errors detectable programmatically, and so the bot would need to be run every so often to catch/convert additions, errors, and fixes.
So where is best place to start for proposing a very specific, limited impact, bot? I could post the text proposal I have so far under my user page? Shenme (talk) 02:45, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Shenme: if you want someone else to run a bot for you, you can request that at Wikisource:Bot requests with a detailed explanation of what you want. If you want to run your own bot, there are instructions on how to request bot permissions for yourself is at Wikisource:Bots. If you want to use a program to assist, rather than replace, manual editing, you might not need a bot flag, as long as you're verifying the edits before they are made. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 09:08, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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