User talk:Wku2m5rr
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[edit] Retreat of glaciers since 1850
I noticed you may have been having problems with a few of the external links in the article. Is there anything I can do to help?--MONGO 22:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
- No, it's ok, thanks. Not external links, actually, but the internal ones, the footnotes. Since I am translating it for the French Wikipedia, I discovered that two links to "cited references" did not work because their "note_label"s and their respective corresponding "ref_harv"s did not match exactly. If you test the article before my changes, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850&oldid=121810954, you can see that, at end of the section "Western hemisphere", the footnotes links [Skvarca and Naruse] and [Cassasa] did not work. I had to do my fixes twice because my first fix (a renumbering) was not good. The second one (I found that actually there was a problem of uppercase/lowercase) fixed the problem. Thank you for your help. Wku2m5rr 23:16, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you actually. The harv style references in the article are almost unique. They automatically make the references smaller as a superscript without adding the superscript tags to each harvard style reference...I don't think this design is used in any other article on Wikipedia. In a couple months, I will be commencing an update on the information, and trying to make sure all the references still work...and I plan of seeing if there is anymore relevent data that has been published since the article became featured.--MONGO 05:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- Ok. Indeed, that system "harv"+"note_label" is not excellent, since there are risks of bad links or unreferenced references in case of changes in the article. Its advantage is that the links are pretty. But I did not use it in my translation. A system with all advantages (pretty superscripts + list of references by alphabetic order of the superscripts + warranty of consistency between text and list) would be great. Wku2m5rr 07:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you actually. The harv style references in the article are almost unique. They automatically make the references smaller as a superscript without adding the superscript tags to each harvard style reference...I don't think this design is used in any other article on Wikipedia. In a couple months, I will be commencing an update on the information, and trying to make sure all the references still work...and I plan of seeing if there is anymore relevent data that has been published since the article became featured.--MONGO 05:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
