User talk:Scogdill

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Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:21, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

G&S
Welcome also to the G&S project. I'm looking forward to working with you on G&S-related articles. Note that when something is linked in an article, the link doesn't need to be repeated, except in certain cases. See WP:REPEATLINK for more details. So, your link to The Emerald Isle was a good idea, but it had just been linked in the previous paragraph, so I took it out. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is a very good idea to edit a few articles before starting a new one. By the way, for a fair example of a biography article about a person like Collins, you might want to look at Chris Moran.  But I would leave out the infobox.  At the G&S Project, at least, our policy is not to use infoboxes, which we find redundant and awkward.  For some bios about people associated in some way with G&S, see: Category:People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan. -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:21, 19 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your messages. It takes a little while to learn some of the little details about Wikipedia, but everyone is happy to help.  It looks like you're getting the hang of it.  Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions as you go.  Also, I find the links at the top of the page to be especially helpful.  All the best!  -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:54, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Arthur Collins
Yes, I think courtier would be good. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:03, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

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Blog
Thanks for your kind words that are quoted in the blog. I'm away from home this week and can't seem to send e-mail from my gmail account, but I can access Wikipeida. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:52, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you re: Cather
Thanks for your edit to Willa Cather. I had not yet finished Homestead's book, so your edit surprised me (having never heard of Cather having breast cancer), and also inspired me to read some more... The final weeks of Cather's life are much different than I previously understood them to be. DYK?: Homestead's book officially releases on the first; there is an event for it, if interested. Take care. Urve (talk) 20:29, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Take a look at what I did in my edit to sort out the re-use of references. I think the issue is that you never defined what the ref Homestead refers to, but I placed the definition of that in the reflist. Hopefully it is understandable and helpful for the future. Urve  (talk) 20:47, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I think we might have been doing the same thing. I added it to the Reflist as well. So that tells me I was on the right track. :) I see the one I added, but I don't see the one you did. It's in reflist, right?

Do you think I should merge it with the contents of ref168 so the book's not repeated? I'd have to change the ref in the text, too.

Thank you for your help.Scogdill (talk) 20:58, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I get it, I think. You changed the ref that had been 168 to refer to the book listed now in reflist. Ok, thanks. I've been using the visual editor in wikiversity, so I haven't had much practice writing these things out. Thanks again.Scogdill (talk) 21:08, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, glad to hear you got it. I can't be of much help about the visual editor - only use the source one, which I find easier for reference management. The Cather article reuses quite a lot of references so it saves me headache. Urve  (talk) 21:21, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, to do citations I have to go back and forth between visual and source editor, especially for page numbers in reused sources.

This article on Willa Cather is very good, congratulations on the Good Article categorization! You don't have to go out of your way, but this link should be on my User page, since it's my main project these days: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Social_Victorians. best,Scogdill (talk) 21:55, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Neumanns
Hello there. I have just come across Social Victorians/People/Neumann. I'm currently editing Sigismund Neumann here, having begun by creating an article on his daughter Rosie Newman. The article about the father started off as a translation, and suffers as translations tend to from a shortage of acceptable footnotes.

So we have some interests here in common. I just wanted to drop by and make contact. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:46, 10 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Well, this is a welcome addition to Wikipedia! I've cited the Sigismund Neumann page twice and reorganized mine a little bit because of what you have brought to light.
 * Do you think I'm right? I.e., that L. Neumann in this social network at this time just has to be Ludwig Neumann? If you think it might be somebody else, I'd really really appreciate knowing, would never take that as criticism or disagreement. I'm going by what the newspapers of the day said. I don't have any other sources for most of this.
 * The info about Rothschild row is awesome. I'll use that and cite you as well on that. I've got a little stuff about neighborhoods where these people congregated, and this will improve that.
 * Thanks very much for writing me! What a nice thing to find when I logged in. :)
 * sharon Scogdill (talk) 22:22, 12 November 2022 (UTC)