User talk:Scivl/Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold

Scivl (talk) 10:12, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Template issues
When I said you could add to German text, I didn't mean the text that you put in citation templates. To those you could just add  right before the   (the closing braces). But seeing as I caused this mess by writing unclear instructions, I've fixed it myself. Lang=de doesn't really solve the accessibility problem that template:lang is meant to solve. But it seems to be the preferred way to say something is in German, and I don't want to go against a majority on this issue. I also added to the start of the page. That should get removed by whoever moves the page to mainspace.

I also made the sources section use a bulletted list. You seem to know how to make them, but you didn't make one for this section even though it was one of the changes I'd suggested. So I guessed you'd just missed it, and I did it myself. In the source editor, I just removed the blank lines and added asterisks before the other lines.

And now, for the stuff I haven't done so far: But I think the article is good enough that it should be ready for mainspace. So you could add {{subst:submit}} now. – Pretended leer { talk } 20:44, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The sources section could use citation templates. You might also want to do that in German. I could try to do this in English, but the issue with reference six makes me think I might have misunderstood the cite book template.
 * I checked sentence-by-sentence whether the text appeared to say the same in English as in German. And then some sentences seemed a bit long. But I'm not sure anything needs to be done about that. The text is still pretty readable.
 * @Pretended leer. Well, many thanks for your comments and changes. I myself was not sure whether the lang template should be used in the references - thanks for clearing that up.
 * The problem with the link to reference 6 was probably due to the (incorrect) ISBN number. This should be ok now.
 * Bulleted list: I thought I had done that.
 * Citation template: I had entered the citations using the menu in the visual editor, trying to place the ref-data in the appropriate fields.
 * Language: Actually I am a native English speaker, acquiring German as an adult. Nonetheless, sometimes it seems that my "German mind" overrides the "English mind" when translating.
 * I will add subst:submit.
 * Scivl (talk) 09:51, 12 November 2018 (UTC)