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Contents 1 prod state of affairs 2 DNB 3 Link to your user page from article Wikipedia 4 Horae Apocalypticae 5 Help 6 Barnstar

[edit] prod state of affairs

[edit] DNB

Sections of ten are working for me. As we know, the pages are huge which is a pain at edit time, but without further breaking down each volume, we're stuck with what we have. FWIW, I tend to do my work in edit mode so the reference text is in line with the person name ... not sure I buy into having the first sentence as a ref rather than inline with the name, but I can live with it. Clearly this is going to take us a few years, and my contributions will be sporadic.

I have had vague thoughts about another column - perhaps working from your table structure idea - to indicate whether there's more content in a DNB article which could be lifted into our article.

Thanks for getting the ball further rolling on this. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:09, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, the size is an issue, but these pages are only 25% the length of the ones Magnus had. For that reason I prefer a list of names that is easier to scroll as a priority - I'm forever looking up and down the lists. The table business is for the future, and I'm open to discussing how to set it out. My first draft of the table and system was probably too elaborate, so I got started with something that would get done. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:14, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Link to your user page from article Wikipedia

Howdy. I've been looking at cross-namespace links lately, particlarly those into user-space. Your own user page is linked from the article Wikipedia, with reference to your book. Links from the main encyclopedia to user pages are generally a bad idea; they will not work on sites that mirror Wikipedia and even on the main web-site can confuse naive users by exposing them to the behind-the-scenes 'plumbing' that we editors use. More generally, it's normally only appropriate to link to subjects that are encyclopaedic - that is, that have (or deserve) their own article in the main namespace.

I'd normally just be bold and remove the link, but as it's an important article and you're a long-standing and experienced editor I'm posting here first. If I don't hear from you in a week or two I'll go ahead an delink. Cheers. - TB (talk) 12:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't mind - I didn't create the link, obviously. And the book talks about linking across namespaces ... Charles Matthews (talk) 12:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Horae Apocalypticae

Thanks for getting Horae Apocalypticae off to a better start. Now why couldn't I see that? Coxparra (talk) 08:45, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. By the way, the project on the Dictionary of National Biography I work on would naturally lead, in time, to conversion of DNB articles on Muggletonians into start-level articles. I mention it because the DNB is really quite full on seventeenth-century figures. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:19, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

My guess would be that most were crafted by Alexander Gordon (probably the only person who could have done so) and that's an excellent recommendation. Coxparra (talk) 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

You can track those articles at s:Author:Alexander Gordon, as they are created. I tend to make the text over there (Wikisource) for my own purposes; but others just convert the text from the scans (which can be truly dreadful, or delightful). Officially you can request articles at s:Wikisource:WikiProject DNB/Most wanted articles. As you may have noticed, there are now listings from the Concise Dictionary of National Biography over here, making it relatively easy to know whether a given person has an article in the (Victorian) DNB. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:46, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Hi, I'm posting this on your (and other members of the Maths Wikiproject) talk as we need editors who are knowledgeable about Mathematics to evaluate the following discussion and check out the editors and articles affected. Please follow the link below and comment if you can help.

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Thankyou. Exxolon (talk) 18:15, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For wonderful work expanding coverage of the Westminster Divines. Adam_sk (talk) 05:25, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Not halfway there yet. But I expect to add more biographies over time. Just today I'm wondering who took part in the Savoy Conference. Charles Matthews (talk) 18:59, 4 July 2009 (UTC)