User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2015/Apr

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Hi, I've just come across a few places you've broken images with your corrections, please be careful when correcting not to do so in file names. Such as this, this, this, this and this (and their are still a lot of red-links in Category:Articles with missing files I haven't got to yet). Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 21:03, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. That's a very useful category I wasn't aware of. All fixed now. Colonies Chris (talk) 22:28, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

• Hi again, just caught 5 more on Archibald Berdmore Buchanan, Frederick Holberton, William Frederick Taylor, James Taylor (Australian politician) and Suffragette KylieTastic (talk) 17:13, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

OK I can see you are doing a great job - but - be aware that changing Perth,WA to Perth might feel good, it is very close to being a problem waiting to happen. The contentious nature of the having an article due to the top hits on some mindless logarithm designed search engine as 'Perth', not 'Perth, Western Australia' - can be something that removing a qualifier in reference space will be a nightmare untold, if... ever came the day when the single 'Perth' is made redundant. Perth, Australia is intriscally wrong due to Perth, Tasmania exists... but I may be mis-reading your edits...in which case please ignore me and apologies for wasting the space. It is such that I should make a note here about such changes in ref space. The worm may eventually turn on the solitary unqualified place names, and if and when it does (ok crytsal ball...) it will be an effing nightmare. satusuro 09:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I see what you mean but I never would have looked had you not notified me. I am useless with the technical side of things. I have no idea how to create or fix templates. Sorry. I made a cursory check and other years from that same decade are similarly affected, as are the 1910s but not the 1930s. I would take it to the admin noticeboard help desk where techies can take note. I would do it but you understand it and can explain it better than I can. I am really a Luddite technologically speaking . Yours,Quis separabit? 01:48, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Just curious, what did you decide to do regarding this matter? Yours, Quis separabit? 18:24, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Initially, I've asked for help from a frequent contributor to the talk page of the template. If that isn't fruitful, I'll try the help desk. Colonies Chris (talk) 18:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

The helpdesk have pointed out that the documentation only promises the template works for 1930 onwards. The original creator of the template acknowledged that limitation and planned to fix it, but he hasn't touched it for more than a year, so I don't see any prospect of it getting fixed. It should probably be removed from any year articles before 1930. Colonies Chris (talk) 17:57, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

OK. Quis separabit? 18:27, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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	thanks for all your work! Dutchy85 (talk) 13:14, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I refer to your edit here: [1] Is there any particular reason you unwikilinked all the book publishers, such as Rodopi (publisher)? I'm curious as to why you did it as I believe it was much, much more useful to the reader to have them linked. I was going to just revert your edit but I thought i'd ask first instead. Please reply. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 10:28, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Freikorp: I unlinked the publishers because the links are no use to anyone. The publisher name in a citation or bibliography is there to help a reader find the reference, and confirm that it's the right one (for example, differentiating between editions of a book with different publishers). A wikilink to the publisher won't help them at all. That's why the guidelines for the {{cite}} template say "Publisher: may be wikilinked if relevant" - because normally there's no particular relevance, so no point in linking it. Colonies Chris (talk) 11:46, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Hmm ok fair enough. I've always wikilinked publishers in the past and nobody has said anything about it, but now that you mention it I suppose it isn't really necessary. Anyway thanks for letting me know. Freikorp (talk) 11:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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