User talk:Billinghurst/Archives/2011/October

William Gilson Humphry
I'm posting this message on your talk page because I noticed that you've recently created the new article William Gilson Humphry--However, I think the article seems to contain a few errors: the article currently does not have appropriate sections and headings. It would be great if you could also upload a picture for the related article Samuel Butler. Jipinghe (talk) 02:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * In a perfect world you are correct. I did update the cite reference that I hosed. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 October 2011
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Template question
Hi there. This is about Google books, or at least some hypothetical Google books dual. My current referencing style, when something comes up in that form in a search, is to do both a paper-style reference and then a Google books link straight after it. What exists seems only to be half-way there to a comprehensive way to use GB references, that is. Given the straggly nature of using the browser line, rather than picking out the elements, it would be a lot tidier and more legible if the "dual form" or cite Google Books existed. The talk page about the existing template has some chat, which doesn't seem too helpful, but doesn't apparently give technical reasons not to have a dual form. Which could be separate rather than an upgrade. Thoughts? Charles Matthews (talk) 14:22, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Why wouldn't we just use and just utilise an url that points to Google Books?  A little could be done that works by shortening some of the aspects by prefilling some fields, however, is that much of a useful completion? — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Well, never mind then. Google Books seems to have thousands of the kind of academic books I need, so something more compact came to mind. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It would seem that there is the need for a tool that inhales the metadata from Google books, and formats it into — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:33, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Thomas Allin (Anglican)
Having difficulty raising any hard biographical information on this one. Anglican clergyman in North London around 1900, and he wrote several books. He had a D.D. from somewhere; AFAIK he wasn't an Oxbridge alumnus (Foster, Venn). I was looking around for Crockford's online, but only seeing 1860s versions; I have one of my own but that's in the 1920s and he's not there. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:38, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Found him, and created relevant author page at Wikisource and put data to talk page s:Author talk:Thomas Allin. Cannot explain the D.D., while it may have been honorary from TCD, it is not mentioned in alternate references. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:19, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 October 2011
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Project to encourage cooperation between The National Archives and Wikipedia
Hi there! As someone who I know's spent some time at Your Archives, I thought you might be interested - if you haven't seen it already - in a recently started GLAM project to encourage cooperation between The National Archives and Wikipedia. Ideas & participation welcome! Dsp13 (talk) 20:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 October 2011
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Survey for new page patrollers
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The Signpost: 24 October 2011
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