Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Encyclopaedia Britannica

message: It's a moving target. It occurred to me to add the raw use of  to the search (that template is invoked by  etc), and came up with 58 new "1911" pages and 555 new "1910". Many of the latter are of the "Timeline of..." type you previously identified, with a long list of citations. I  the first on the 1911 list as an example; it's one of several where the editor actually changed a  without explaining why, just ending up with a slightly different ordering and punctuation. But I'll keep this list in my pocket for now. Putting this under a sub-head because it's a side-issue from the ongoing conversation. David Brooks (talk) 16:48, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've refreshed the 1910 and 1911 lists adding  references. I left the "Timeline of..." and "History of..." entries in place, but if you'd rather I suppress them for now I can do that. No obligation to get to them, of course. I didn't update the archive list because I see you annotated most of the extant entries and I didn't yet add them to the whitelist. David Brooks (talk) 19:46, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sadly, I just realize I made a nasty copy-paste error in my queries. User:DavidBrooks/EBCites/1911-archive should be valid now. I realize I'm dumping a lot of work here, and again it's fairly low priority compared with other tasks, but if you have a mind, go for it. David Brooks (talk) 16:47, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear David. OK, I can see the three lists. Three thoughts occur to me: (1) I shall mix and match doing these lists with other things I do on Wiki so that it remains a bit of interesting fun rather than becoming a task to slave over - so the pace of progress will vary. (2) Apart from one or two oddities first, I 'm minded to deal with the articles in linked reverse alpha order, meaning I'll do "Z" in each list, then "X", then "Y" (not literally) this may deal with the point mentioned above which I've noticed already of some articles appearing in two lists; I'll also ignore the [Timeline of..] items. (3) I expect some changes needed will exceed my technical abilities and/or understanding; I will mark items as before, but from time to time you might look at the lists for items I've marked (?) to see if you can deal with them instead. Best wishes, ArbieP (talk) 17:30, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of raw Citation template

message: I started fixing non-canonical references in some of the above lists. In addition I found 28 cases of templates that have both a  and , presumably left in place accidentally, and removed most of the redundant parameters.
But in addition a little spelunking uncovered 117  to nonexistent Wikisource articles, if I got the logic right. I believe most of them are simple mis-typing, but at least one (Throw (grappling)) refers to an article (Wrestling) that doesn't exist yet. I'm not sure how to prioritize fixing these. David Brooks (talk) 16:13, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonexistent wstitles 

message: Please note new template . Your feedback, suggestions, bugs, proposals, complaints, to: ⟶ Template talk:Cite EB15. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 10:22, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Cite EB15 

message: For some reason, this project had no WikiProject template, so I created one (here). Currently, it doesn't have any of the standard tracking categories or assessment subpages and so on, so those are all commented out. But at least you can tag Talk pages now, in the standard way, as I did at the top of this page. If you unhide the HTML comments in the template and preview the page, you'll see what categories and subpages need to be created because they will all display in the banner as red links. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 10:28, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject banner 

message: Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a  parameter to , which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to , and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass  a new  parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:46, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project-independent quality assessments