Talk:Edge-notched card

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mentioned use in public libraries (eg 1970's) --WonderWheeler 20:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Valuable references
This short article has such valuable references.

It is the sort of brief entry which can make wikipedia an occasional treasure - even though incomplete.

I have not yet checked if a mis-spelt "MacBee" will redirect here as did "McBee".

My sincere thanks to the author. G. Robert Shiplett 16:21, 28 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I added a redirect from MacBee to McBee, which, in turn, points here. What else would you like covered in this article?--agr (talk) 18:36, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

merge
I suggest merging needle card into edge-notched card. As far as I can tell, a needle card is either exactly the same thing as an edge-notched card, or else close enough that a single article can describe both of them and any distinction between them. --DavidCary (talk) 06:02, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorting?
A cursory google search for "edge notched card sorting" or "edge notched card sorting algorithm" doesn't reveal anything that doesn't immediately link back to this article. Might lead to citogenesis unless we can get a proper source on it.

Although it might be that we should say "filtering" instead of "sorting"... I'm not really sure what it would mean to sort a set of edge-notched cards. I'm gonna add a citation needed template. Tarilaran (talk) 23:27, 17 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The "References" section contains many sources about sorting with edge-notched cards; many of the of the sources even mention sorting! Google searching is not always the best way to answer some questions; sometimes good old-fashioned perusal of the sources is quicker, especially when a list of sources is so easily available as it is in this article. I added one example as an inline citation, but there are many others. Biogeographist (talk) 16:55, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Article's former reference list
Another editor suggested removing uncited references from the reference list, calling it "an indiscriminate collection of miscellaneous passages". I don't consider the reference list to be "indiscriminate" since I selected many of the references myself as interesting chronologically ordered of how edge-notched cards were used. However, if I found something like this in an article that I hadn't worked on, I might agree with the suggestion. So, with a heavy heart, I executed the suggestion to "take a machete" to the reference list, and I am pasting the former reference list below. It's a much less interesting article without the reference list, I'm afraid. Biogeographist (talk) 01:22, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * A lot of that interest could be built back by taking genuinely informative information from some of these sources and integrating them into the article in a way that helps readers understand notched cards and their application -- but not a laundry list of random references to 100 places someone happened to use them. EEng 04:19, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * You are exaggerating: a reading list (especially an annotated one) is not uninformative (it enables readers to do more research on a topic), this reading list is not "random", and there are not 100 references in it. It would be great if someone would integrate information from these sources into the article. Biogeographist (talk) 15:25, 21 February 2023 (UTC)