User talk:Kenllama
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James Kendall [talk] 21:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] I spy a llama!
Hope you're well :) Feel free to leave me a note if you have any questions. Whether I'll be able to answer them or not is another story! hugs, -- phoebe 05:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] comics
there's a comic book author who writes about the history of science who is also a librarian?!? why didn't I know about this earlier? --phoebe 06:38, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jim Ottaviani
Ken, This article is superb. Really. It's wonderfully written, well referenced, in proper style (!) and about a compelling subject. You should get a first-article award or something :) The only things I did was link some more of the terms (how much to link is sort of a personal preference; not going overboard is good but linking proper nouns is also good); and I took out the awards information from the bibliography and put it in its own section so the bibliography would be a little cleaner; again, this is kind of a personal-preference call and one could go either way. I also changed the 'other links' header to be 'external links', which is standard terminology. The only thing I'd suggest is if you have specific sections you can footnote from some of your other sources, go ahead and do so, since that is really the kind of thing you have to have the original sources in hand to do. And, of course, if the other books have isbns include those; but I figure you know that already & would if they did. All in all though, this is excellent work. Congratulations. Now you, too, have the ultimate time-wasting hobby! (just keep telling yourself you're making the world a better place) :) --phoebe 07:07, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Patrick Stewart reference
In Patrick Stewart (soldier), the version you mention ([1]) has the inline link, but for some reason I couldn't get it to appear correctly in the "References" section. I wanted just the title to show, not the URL in brackets. That wouldn't work, and I didn't know why, and I lost patience, so I just put the link (appearing correctly) in the "References" section, with no inline link. It's the article by Sean Whaley. The title should make it clear which passage it supports. An inline link would be better, though, if it can be formatted properly.
By the way, I'm pretty sure the symbol does NOT appear on Stewart's tombstone. I think there's a "memorial wall" that has a plaque for each veteran buried in the cemetery. Stewart's space was blank until the recent installation of the plaque with the Wiccan symbol. JamesMLane t c 17:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dan Stroeh
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[edit] Hey back
Hey there! Thanks for the sweet note. I had a lovely weekend: I was in Montreal going to RecentChangesCamp. :) cheers, -- phoebe/(talk) 19:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ibid.
Hey, Kenllama, I saw on Phoebe's page that you're wondering how to do ibid. on Wikipedia. Short answer: you don't. Wikipedia:Footnotes#Citing_a_reference_more_than_once has more info. I'll bet there's a technological solution waiting to be implemented here, though. It's definitely a nuisance repeating the same book info just for a changed page number. --Ben Kovitz 20:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ibids & sigs
Did I reply to your question already? I don't think I did. There's not a good way to do "ibids" that I know of, unfortunately. References with the ref tag are auto-numbered, so if one gets moved it's not a big deal. This is good for wikitext, but does mean that they aren't tied to each other in a way that would permit ibids. I usually cite out the full reference the first time I use it with the <ref> tag, then in subsequent refs will just use academic style -- <ref> Taylor, p. 3.</ref>
It looks like you already know about <ref name="taylor"> Taylor, big book of wikis</ref> and <ref name="taylor"> formatting, but this is good if you don't care about citing specific pages.
Bah! Something to spec out and/or code for future versions. -- phoebe/(talk) 22:13, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hallo from triadruid
I didn't get a chance to read your email before leaving for work this morning, but C. said you'd sent me something about Wikipedia. Feel free to ask me anything here, or just wait for the inevitable email... -- nae'blis 16:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Kaisariyah
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