User talk:EricCable/Archive 1

Period before or after a cite?
Hi. Maybe this is a silly question. If in an article, I wish to add a citation to the end of a sentence for that sentence, should the citation come before or after the period? Eric Cable |  Talk  20:30, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * That is not at all a silly question; it's something people frequently get wrong.


 * The reference should come immediately after the punctuation. For example, Chzz is 103.&lt;ref>"The book of Chzz", Foo Books, Baatown, ISBN 123 456 7890 &lt;/ref>


 * See Citing sources.  Chzz  ► 20:37, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Library Link?
HI, if I'm citing an old, long out of print book should I or should I not include a url in the cite to the book's listing at a library like so...

Or maybe I shoudl link to the listing at the library of Congress Instead?


 * Why not link to an online version, such as ?
 * Or, better link:
 * First link is to PDF, take some time to load, second is to online version (of course, convert to proper cite format, but use the link to the online book rather than just a link to a Library)-- SPhilbrick  T  20:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * WOW! What a great site! I wish I knew about it before spending $10 at the library copying! Thanks Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:25, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There are quite a few old books there, which you will enjoy if you are working on history.-- SPhilbrick  T  20:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It's still fun to go to the library and pull a 100-year-old book that was limited to 750 copies from the shelf. Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Citation help
'''In an article I’m working on I will want reference several books several times each. Which citation method is preferred?'''

William Powell moved the office of Supervisor of Internal Revenue of North Carolina in Raleigh in 1799. Powell was chosen to be the Captain of the “City Corps” in Raleigh in 1813.

Harvard-style references
Considered the best kind of referencing, this system has both shortened 'References' and full details in a 'Bibliography' section. It works best when there are several references to the same book, using different page numbers.

The first time that you reference a certain page or pages from a book, you put something like this after the fact;

You have a 'normal' references section, after the body text, and this entry appears there;

William Polk
Dear Mr. Cable,

I think you have done a splendid job on the William Polk bio, providing a good bit of useful information that was omitted from my less than definitive attempt at enlarging the Wikipedia stub. You will not think me spiteful, I hope, if I observe that your bio contains a few errors. For example, Polk was not the last surviving North Carolina officer of the Continental Line. He was the last surviving field officer, i.e., major and above. I have spotted other errors as well, including typos that no doubt you also have noticed. May I suggest that we enter into a friendly collaboration, whereby your excellent biography replaces mine and I will assist in combing through it for errors? I also have a color photograph of the W.B. Cooper portrait of a younger Polk in the uniform of a lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Regiment South Carolina Horse, Sumter's Brigade

Very best wishes,

Misterbeal (talk) 20:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC) William Polk Cheshire

Polk bio
May I recommend that we use email to communicate? I'm unfamiliar with the Wikipedia talk page and, for example, have no idea how to sign my posts "by typing four tildes." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Misterbeal (talk • contribs) 20:10, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Here's a start.

To begin with, William H. Polk's "Polk Family and Kinsmen" is notoriously unreliable, which may account for some of the errors I found. Others are just slips of pen, so to speak. "Predatory" schools in the second paragraph probably should be "preparatory," and Col. William Thomson's name is spelled without a "p". Polk's wound at the Cane Brake wasn't the first Continental blood spilled after the Battle of Lexington. Polk wasn't then a Continental; the 3rd South Carolina Regiment later was incorporated into the Continental Line, but in 1775 it was part of the South Carolina militia.

Polk didn't march the Ninth Regiment from Halifax to Charleston, S.C. He marched it to Georgetown, then in Maryland and now part of the District of Columbia. From there he marched it north, joining Washington's army in New Jersey. See Polk's autobiography written for Archibald D. Murphey and his 1833 pension application filed with the Wake County Superior Court spring term.

My wife is calling, but I'll get back to this in the next day or two, unless you're tired of my meddling. I still like the email idea, because it would allow me to work on a split screen.

Best wishes,

WPC — Preceding unsigned comment added by Misterbeal (talk • contribs) 21:46, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Polk bio
I've done a little research since our last exchange. I wouldn't think of trying to out-edit you on Wikipedia. The field is all yours.

WPC Misterbeal (talk) 14:12, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Table code into a ingle line?
Hi! With many wiki templates you can put all the code on one line such as Template:Cite book.

I've been trying to do the same thing to table code, but I can't seem to get it right.

For example, the code...

Produces this:

Just fine.

I would prefer to put all that code into one line. Is there a way to do that? Thanks a bunch!

Eric Cable |  Talk  13:54, 28 April 2011 (UTC)


 * As far as I know, no. Tables also use the "{" syntax but they are not templates, so the same rules do not apply to them. With a template you just specify variables for the actual code to use (which is defined at Template:cite book for example). On the other hand, a table in WikiMarkup is just a shortcut for the various HTML tags (   etc. ) used to create the actual table in the browser and the linebreaks are included to mark the point where a new tag begins. That's also because a second "|" in the same line allows one to modify the style (e.g. | align="center" | Text... ) and because one should be able to use "|" as a symbol afterwards. As such, there is no technical way to do what you request with the WikiMarkup as it's currently scripted to work. You could use native HTML (e.g.    etc. ) instead which can be used in the same line but I fail to see why you should. Another point of having WikiTables is that they are easier to edit in the article's source and if you start using one-line-HTML-tables instead, you make it harder for others to edit the article afterwards (and of course they will most likely be extremely annoyed by this). Regards  So  Why  14:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * thanks! Eric Cable  |  Talk  15:16, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Infobox curling club
Hi there! I was looking through the different parameters for Infobox curling club, and I'm not sure what some of them are used for. Can you please include (in the documentation) the uses for each parameter? (e.g. name – name of curling club) That'd be most helpful. Thank you! Prayerfortheworld (talk) 04:58, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Tudor dynasty#Move?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Tudor dynasty. OCNative (talk) 09:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Draw Sheet
Drop me an e-mail address and I'll send you one. How many sheets are available for your use? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GormtheDBA (talk • contribs) 15:06, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Lodges of NC
You probably should have started this on a user work page... because there are several issues that could lead to this article being challenged for lack of notability. First and foremost, you need to establish that the topic of "Masonic Lodges of North Carolina" is notable enough for a stand alone list article. To do this, you need to work on the lede and establish (through reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject) that NC Masonic lodges (as a group) are notable. Are their independent secondary sources that discuss North Carolina Masonic Lodges as a distinct group?

I think you would have a much better chance of demonstrating topic notability if you reworked this into being an article about the Grand Lodge of North Carolina... it would certainly be appropriate to include a "list of lodges under the jurisdiction of GLNC" as a section of that article. In context of an article about the GL, you would not face the same level of restrictions and requirements. Blueboar (talk) 17:20, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I concur with Blueboar on the notability issues, and furthermore, this is way too easy to consider "a list of indiscriminate information", because it is almost entirely drawn from a primary source. Because said source was also user-corrected, it can be considered OR. MSJapan (talk) 18:11, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the responses. First of all, if it gets deleted for being "non-notable" I will quit creating new content for Wikipedia forever. The whole notability thing is the A-#1 worst thing about the Wikipedia community in my opinion. Just because Rebecca Black is in current, popular, online sources and the GLNC is not she is notable and the GLNC is not? Really? As for it being considered OR because I fixed it, I don't think discovering that the town and county for a particular lodge were inverted and correcting it is OR if it is, then the definition of OR would be in question.  If I found a source that said a person was born the city of Clark, in the county of Las Vegas, in the State of Nevada and corrected that obvious error would that be OP? Really? As for creating a GLNC article, I'm working on that, slow but sure, my big problem there is getting my hands on old, rare, out-of-print books. But I'm not going to spend money on such things only for some pimple-faced, unemployed, English major to say with the wave of a hand "not notable! delete! ha! ha! ha! ha!" Thanks again.  Eric Cable  |  Talk  19:05, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Tom Smith (filker) has learned to have a sense of humor about the whole deletion thang -- http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/2007/08/049-wikipirates.html. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:36, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Eric, if you did leave I for one would be sorry to see you go... never the less, Wikipeida is not a Directory... if you want to keep this list, you need to establish why the NC lodges (as a group) are notable under WP:ORG. Is there something that makes them different from the lodges elsewhere, or from the local chapters of other organizations?
 * As it is, if the current list came up at AfD, I would definitely !vote to merge it into an article about the GLNC ... if such an article existed. I strongly suggest that you create at least a stub article on the GLNC, so there is a viable target for the list of lodges to be merged into. Blueboar (talk) 19:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm... I can put together a start for GLNC article over the weekend. Thanks for the comments. Eric Cable  |  Talk  02:27, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Charlotte Meetup
I'm interested in hearing more about this library event. Maybe I can go. Jesuisunefemme (talk) 01:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I am going to cancel the event due to a personal conflict and, other than you, an apparent lack of interest. Eric Cable  |  Talk  14:36, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Re:
That maybe true but it's still inappropriate as it's language. Taylor is an idol for young adults and children and I personally feel posting something like that is a big NO because I don't think we should expose that. Now I know there's nothing we can do about lyrics and stuff that do that but I really don't think that was a necessary add to the page. It's nothing to do with anything other then just keeping things appropriate. JamesAlan1986 *talk 05:43, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * If you do think it should be posted though I'd suggest bringing it up on the discussion page and let a consensus be reached on it. JamesAlan1986 *talk 00:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

I just got your message sorry I didn't reply right away there's been trouble on my talk page and I've been offline for awhile as far as what you said about "didn't they recently add a language filter option to Wikipedia where users could filter such stuff if they don't want to see it?" I really don't know I'd ask someone who's been on here longer then me about that. JamesAlan1986 *talk 12:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)