User talk:DuncanHill

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My misidentification of Jokanaan at "Oscar Wilde"

Thank you for correcting my misidentification of the figures in the Beardsley drawing for Wilde's Salomé at the article on Oscar Wilde.

When I first saw the effect of your act of reversion, I was taken aback. I'd thought I'd known with certainty. Then I looked more closely at all the evidence, both internal (the details of the clothing of the figure on the lefthand side of the illustration: were they signifiers of the garb of a pampered princess, or that of a harrowed harbinger?) and external (how had others identified those figures depicted by Beardsley so long ago? what of the appearance of these characters in the series's other stations?).

You were certainly correct to have reversed my edit. I appreciate the role you have played in the development of my skills of comprehension and research. And thank you for having improved Wikipedia with your great range and great depth of contributions to the online encyclopedia.

Knowledge and the truth

Ebb the evil tide

Knowledge of the truth

Shall wend the wrong aright

The blank state of your Talk page shows me that the words I now write will not inform posterity. But placid lies my mind. The anxiety that I'd felt—felt when I'd considered the possibility of my having unintentionally polluted this pristine place—is mitigated by my faith in the impending erasure of this written record of my thoughts. May your fortune be the best and may our world someday swim in that rich love which flows forth in floods from the fount found in your heart. —catsmoke ^talk 20:10, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

@Catsmoke: Thank you - what a thoughtful and kind message. Even though I do blank this page from time to time your words will always be in its history. I can see you are putting a lot of effort and care into your work on Oscar Wilde, and that is greatly appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 20:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

@DuncanHill: You are most welcome. And I have neglected to share news of a great event. Your correction of my error led to my discovery of a work of art that within the space of a few hours has already ensconced itself as a cornerstone in the structure of my personal cultural milieu. Its text shall delight me and enrich my life for all my days remaining. An online edition may be found at the Internet Archive website: An English translation of the Salomé of Oscar Wilde. —catsmoke ^talk 21:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

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The Year of Hough

Hi DuncanHill, thanks for the date change for the Hough book at HMS Endeavour. Just in passing though, my edition of Hough is this one which is 1994. It's not the most important issue in the world, but do you mind if I change it back?

As random trivia I notice we've both been here forever but the only page we seem to intersect on is Endeavour :)-- Euryalus (talk) 01:48, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@Euryalus: Hi, I changed it to 1995 because on going back through the article history that is the date you used when you added the source on 18 July 2009. I see now there seems to have been some confusion including this change, and some others which I do not have time to find for you. This kind of confusion is common when people use shortened references, they leave even the editor who added them in the first place confused, let alone anyone who tries to look them up later. As you have a copy of Gough then what you need to do is check every reference to Gough in the article to make sure the page numbers are correct, and correct those where necessary and also correct the source in the citation template to make sure it matches. Sorry I have to rush now, probably won't be back on for a day or so. DuncanHill (talk) 07:27, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Trina Robbins

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trina_Robbins&oldid=prev&diff=1222866130 you undid the whole of my edit including the addition of Internet Archive links and the publisher correction - based on the source and appearing in the LC ad OCLC entries - and wrote "Cause several Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors" in the edit summary. What does the summary mean? Why did you revert? Why didn't you at least leave the links and correction? Mcljlm (talk) 14:29, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mcljlm: I undid your edit because it caused several Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you click on that link you will see "This category holds articles that use any of the short-cite templates ({{harv}} and {{sfn}} template families, and {{harvc}}) where one or more of those short-cite templates do not properly link to a full citation, the target. See guidance at Category:Harv and Sfn template errors to resolve". I undid the whole edit because I do not have the time to pick through your edit to find the wheat amongst the chaff. If you want to add an external link to a citation template, you do it by adding the parameter |url= within the template. If you are changing the edition of a cited work, then you need to check if the page numbers are the same across editions. You can get help at WP:HELPDESK. DuncanHill (talk) 15:04, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Why are the Sources treated as if they are text-supporting citations rather than in External links format? Mcljlm (talk) 15:36, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mcljlm: Because they are! If you click on the highlighted part of reference 10) Krensky 2007 or 11) Kaplan 2006 in the article then it automatically takes you to the entry in the Sources section. Your changes broke that link. DuncanHill (talk) 15:40, 8 May 2024 (UTC)