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Probate dates
That's a great piece of work you're doing, finding and adding death dates from the probate calendar. Could I ask you, please, to make the same changes to Wikidata, each time you update Wikipedia? Alternatively, if ether are a good many, it might be possible to automate that task, if you keep a spreadsheet or text file with the Wikipedia article title or URL, and the date. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:23, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Cheers, Andy. My original intention was to go through category:date_of_birth_missing (yes, birth, not death!) and look for obituaries that confirmed birth dates, but of course I'm now filling in either date from obituaries or probate calendar. I'm happy to update Wikidata too; I've just never looked at it before, so thanks for the hint. There is no big spreadsheet, just processing a few at lunchtimes! Vt100 (talk) 12:38, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Brenda Wootton
Hi there. The source you give for the dates etc., at Brenda Wootton, [http://infotrac.galegroup.com/galenet/bright?cause=http%3A%2F%2Ffind.galegroup.com%2Fttda%2Finfomark.do%3Faction%3Dinterpret%26source%3Dgale%26tabID%3DT003%26prodId%3DTTDA%26userGroupName%3Dbright%26docPage%3Darticle%26searchType%3D%26docId%3DIF500657047%26type%3Dmultipage%26contentSet%3DLTO%26version%3D1.0%26finalAuth%3Dtrue&cont=&sev=temp&type=session&sserv=no The Times (London, England). 18 March 1994. p. 19. Retrieved 2014-08-06 – via The Times Digital Archive. (subscription required (help)] gives me a link to "Brighton and Hove Libraries: Please enter your library card number here:". This appears to be an additonal hurdle to having a subscription to The Times Digital Archive. Is that correct? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:02, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * (groan!) I was hoping it would lead to a generic login, like BNA. I'll try to find one, otherwise I'll have to stop including URLs, and that'd be a shame. Vt100 (talk) 16:13, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's a pain. But hopefully a way round it. Even if there isn't, it's still a very valuable exercise to add the data. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:39, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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Emma Louisa Turner
Hi, I’m trying to upgrade this article, and Andy Mabbett told me that you added the ‘’Probate register’’ ref in. Do you have a url for the reference? I know it’s a paid-for site, but I need a url to reformat the ref, and I don’t have access myself. Thanks in advance, Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:54, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Phil Stephensen-Payne
Hi -- I noticed you making edits to put stable URLs on philsp.com citations -- can you tell me how to do that? That would be enormously helpful in a great many articles. I also noticed you mentioned that he doesn't want his name on those citations, which surprised me. Is there a web-page where he says something like that? I'm not sure whether there's a policy that would affect that -- for example we wouldn't remove an author's name from a citation to a paper in a journal just because they asked us to. For a web page, I think it's probably OK but would like to see what he says. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:54, 7 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Mike,
 * Not all of the persistent link mechanisms are currently documented, but two of them are, here:
 * http://www.philsp.com/docs/fm_user.html#faqs
 * They are handy because, as you may have noticed, the entire site is re-generated every couple of months, and any links to numbered pages rapidly rot.
 * There are some new mechanisms to persistently link to listings of individual issues of magazines too, which may come in handy, but I'd have to check them and encourage Phil to write them up on the FAQs page.
 * When I first told Phil about adding better citations, three years ago, I wanted to cite him as editor but his reply was:
 * "My view has always been that the site is really the work of hundreds of people so I prefer not to put myself front and center :-)"
 * The work of gathering listings was started by the late Bill Contento, and Phil is rather modest.
 * I'd like to do more of these, but I'm not sure how to find all the bare and rotted links that there might be. Any hints would be appreciated. Vt100 (talk) 12:39, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks; that's very useful. For the links I've added recently, I also have added archives of those links -- e.g. see Dime Mystery Magazine.  That works and I think should continue to be done, but it would be best if the primary link also worked, using this mechanism.  Re Phil's modesty -- well, yes, but it's his website and he's the one that ties it all together.  Whenever I've emailed the site it's always Phil that replies.  I think he deserves the credit.  Re other articles that have these links: I wrote most of the pulp magazine/sf magazine articles on Wikipedia, which is probably where a big chunk of citations to Galactic Central are, so you might find this page useful as an index. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 12:51, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

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