Talk:Manuscript culture

message: In addition to being an article for wikipedia; I have made this for a history class as well. Its part of a project where we research all this information and post it to wikipedia in the wiki format, fully referenced. The goal is that the given topic be one of the best places on the web to start researching the particular topic. So help in formatting and clarification within the article to improve the quality would be appreciated, and whatever information you might know which can be cited is welcome. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LSpinks (talk • contribs).
:It's looking pretty good, but it needs a great deal more wikilinks. --Eyrian 23:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I really have no idea what the following sentence is trying to convey: "Many scholars of print culture, as well as classicists, have argued that inconsistencies among manuscripts due to the blind copying of texts and a static manuscript culture that (specifically medieval manuscript culture) existed during the rise of the printing press."
If somebody knows what the information that is intended to be expressed is, please explain here on the talk page or rephrase in the article. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. 18:45, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone cure this sentence? 

message: Well, I've been spending some time with this article, trying to bring it closer to GA standards.  This is an interesting topic, and the article is filled with good references and information.  Unfortunately, it read too much like the history paper that it started as, and did not read like an encyclopedia article.  I've edited much of the intro and the first few sections, adjusted formating issues, and fixed punctuation, trying to bring it up to GA standards - but there's still a long way to go.  I'm going to have to move on from my rescue effort, and hope that someone else will pick up where I left off.  Again, the most important things - the information and the references - are in place, but the writing style needs substantial upgrading. Good luck! NorCalHistory (talk) 17:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trying to bring this article up to GA standards 

message: The following external link:
::The Manuscript Studies and Palaeography Collection at Senate House Library, University of London
Was deleted as "spam"!--Wetman (talk) 07:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it because it set off my spam radar. User:Palaeography Room, the user adding the link was a new user whose only contribs were adding this link to several articles with no edit summary, always listing them at the top of the list, and originally calling this site "the best." This made it look a lot like advertising. If you feel this link is appropriate, by all means add it, but the way User:Palaeography Room did it made it look like spam. Thanks. Apparition11 (talk) 11:50, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparition11 apparently remained unconvinced of the value of The Manuscript Studies and Palaeography Collection at Senate House Library, University of London, because it set off his "spam radar". At any rate he made no effort to correct what some might take for a blunder. The link remains at History of the book— not then, I imagine, a subject on his "radar". Just as well... --Wetman (talk) 04:25, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not exactly sure what you are suggesting, but when the spam account inserted it to History of the book, I removed it there as well . When a good faith account re-inserted it, I left it be. When a link is added to many different articles, especially when it claims to be "the best", it looks like WP:LINKSPAM. The "spam radar" is as mentioned on WP:SPAMMER, #5, which 3 of the 4 points were done during the initial insertion of the link. I stand by actions (even if they were 8 months ago), and I fail to understand how I "made no effort to correct what some might take for a blunder". Do you think I should have reinserted the link into every page that it was originally inserted? I responded to all of your comments about it on all of the talk pages that you posted it on. I did not revert and run, I stayed to explain my actions. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed as "spam"

message: "Orality"? There's a word you don't hear every day.
Joke aside, what about something a little more familiar such as "spoken word" or "oral tradition"? Piano non troppo (talk) 08:43, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Diagram wording

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message: I have just copyedited a couple of image captions, including that at right, which previously identified the figure at the desk as Paul Pierce. It is, in fact, neither Paul Pierce, American basketball player, nor Paul Pierce, American football player and coach, but St Matthew. The image and caption were added in this edit of May 2007 by LSpinks, the student editor who first created this article for a class assignment, but who hasn't contributed to Wikipedia since. I assume it was a private joke, which no-one seems to have noticed for nearly 14 years. GrindtXX (talk) 20:58, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, though god knows why we are still using this poor image, when we have so many better! Johnbod (talk) 21:13, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Pierce 

message: The article completely ignores manuscript culture outside of Europe.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.182.52.66 (talk) 18:08, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and before 1000 AD or whatever. It should probably renamed appropriately. Johnbod (talk) 18:57, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Really this should be Manuscript culture in Late Medieval Europe, and with luck someone will write a general Manuscript culture article eventually. Johnbod (talk) 17:19, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-European manuscript culture