User talk:Photo-historian

Unable to double check one of your citations for Spiratone and Fred Spira articles
Found this edit you did on 17:18, 25 June 2017 for Spiratone and this edit on 17:19, 25 June 2017 for Fred Spira in which you had listed Popular Photography, March 1984, p. 130 as a citation. Did you know that this particular magazine is available on Google Books? Unfortunately, what you have written about Norman Rothschild and Spiratone lenses is not mentioned in this particular issue. Would it be possible for you to locate the correct article? Since many issues of Popular Photography are available via Google Books, it would be nice for others to be able to read the articles that you had cited. -- 68.45.25.137 (talk) 04:27, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for mentioning this. I had the page of the magazine open at the time but I could have typed in the wrong date for the issue. I will have to go through my papers to find it.Photo-historian (talk) 16:12, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Stuff like that happens and it is too easy to insert typos. I have edited your references for your Norman Rothschild article. You might want to look at the technical changes that I have made in which any reader can now follow the inserted external links and read the actual material that you had cited.  You might also want to read up about the Cite template, and its many variants, such as Cite news, Cite book, Cite web, etc. The advantage of usings these templates is that editors can help the "bots" archive websites and also translate the reference material to other formats for export. Please let me know if you have any questions. BTW, I think you have made a good start on your Norman Rothschild article and I hope that you would have the time to expand the article some more since it still has an unfinished feel. With our careful documentation, the history of (pre-digital) photography is going to slowly disappear and be replaced by the "selfie" era. -- 68.45.25.137 (talk) 03:55, 16 August 2017 (UTC)