Talk:Note (typography)

message: Does anyone know how to add short Explanatory Notes as numbered footnotes in Wikipedia? If so, please leave a link or directions on my talk page. Thank you.Shannon bohle (talk) 05:06, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanatory Notes

message: I only see two pages devoted to Footnotes and Reference Marks in the U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (pdf). The rest of that section deals with Indexes and Tables of Contents, and Outlines. The sixth page is blank. --152.105.129.9 18:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Footnotes and Reference Marks

message: The name for the text at bottom of the page is called the "footnote." The name of the character that refers to that footnote is called the what? How about "headmark" or "notemark" or something like that? There really should be a name for this thing.
:I've been using "notemark" for the better part of the last decade.
::Oxford University Press used "reference markers" (see 37th ed of Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers (1967) - the latest in libraries to which I currently have access.)  I live in the UK, and have been accustomed in 40 years of dealing with print as a teacher to call them 'footnote markers'.  This seems unambiguous to me, particularly if we distinguish between 'text footnote markers'  and 'footnote markers at the foot'.MacAuslan 07:42, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't it a "superscript"?  And does this article actually cite Al Franken as a source?!  Schnaz 20:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

text: The current version of the article uses the term "cue" for the in-line marker for a footnote or endnote. Finding that terminology is actually the reason I looked up the article. Steve98052 (talk) 03:06, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need a name for the subscript character used in footnotes. 

message: The "Academic usage" section of the article has been lifted verbatim from the NASA History Style Guide referenced earlier in the article. I'm a bit new to Wikipedia; as far as I understand verbatim copying is not permitted, right? -SoulSkorpion 07:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've re-wrote this section to fix the errors as well as the plagiarism. It should be correct and original now. Rutherford B. Hayes 17:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy and Paste 

message: Could the Franken-Coulter sentence be a NPOV swipe at Coulter?  I believe that this could be better written. TuckerResearch 05:17, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ann Coulter swipe 

message: I'm sure I could find it somewhere but I think it would take quite a while to find it does the footnote go before or after the punctuation mark.  For example should it go like: [1]. or .[1].  Thanks SirGrant 01:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I much prefer the superscript or notemark -- whatever we call it -- to go after the ending punctuation. (Although, I must admit, it seems a bit trivial.)  -- Schnaz 21:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had an amiable disagreement with a Lecturer in History once who agreed with you, Schnaz.  He said that he had never seen otherwise in History books.  Since then, I have observed that this is so, and I have to admit that he was right - but I still feel that in logic it should go before.  Consistency is much to be desired; and if there is a high consistency among other users, one should probably go with the flow.  Alas!  MacAuslan 07:42, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Before or after

message: In Murder at The ABA Asimov used footnotes. Please add this information to the fiction section of this article. Thank you.
Jane Foxx 22:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asimov used footnote in novel 

message: How about adding the instance in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?  There's a pretty long footnote there about Ford's real name. Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 23:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  HG2G 

message: Sidenotes or marhin notes are an attractive and easy-to-read method for inserting additional information. I have seen them used often in the academic humanities, for example this journal (http://www.field-journal.org/).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.224.68.168 (talk) 16:37, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidenotes/Margin Notes 

message: The sections
* Explanatory Notes
* Footnotes and Reference Marks 
*  We need a name for the subscript character used in footnotes. 
*  Copy and Paste 
*  Ann Coulter swipe 
* Before or after
were duplicated en bloc, from 
Revision as of 12:24, 25 February 2008 
to 
Revision as of 12:25, 25 February 2008. 
I've removed the second set. --Thnidu (talk) 02:24, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate sections 

message: Isn't '※' the logo of the Bank of Scotland? Is this just a random coincidence? 88.104.254.106 (talk) 19:59, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, since the Bank of Scotland logo is intended to represent a Saltire between four coins. The design comes from their formal coat of arms (in this instance carved above the entrance to a branch in Glasgow). Zacwill16 (talk) 20:29, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bank of Scotland logo 

message: Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Note_(typography)&oldid=692773278
Millions of books have footnotes.  Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands include snarky or whimsical footnotes, very frequently with running gags.  Are we supposed to list them all here?  Or, maybe, all those books that everybody has already heard of?  Maybe there should be a Books with Snarky Footnotes page for those.  (Disgusted, leaving.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.196.122.73 (talk) 07:15, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literary Device 

message: Endnotes banished to the back of a text break up the text and force you to think. Who is the text written for? Are they the notes for the sake of the editor or the reader, really. Bring back the footnote --121.222.121.19 (talk) 17:58, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnotes are awesome 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Komejirushi which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 18:03, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: The Irish Convention, 1917-18 pp.90–93 (Routledge & K. Paul, 1970; ) includes the following consecutive footnote numbers: 101, 101A, 102, 103, 103A, 104, 105, 106, 107, 107A and 108.  jnestorius(talk) 13:49, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intercalated footnotes 

message: Would it be appropriate to link the Wikipedia style guide as a usage example?
Against
* Wikipedia articles typically don't write about Wikipedia itself.
* There may not be reliable secondary sources on the topic.
For
* People interested in editing Wikipedia for the first time might find this article when trying to understand how to add references, if their search terms don't lead to the style guide.
* The style guide is an entity separate from the encyclopedia part of Wikipedia, and is the authoritative source for Wikipedia references. (As such, however, although reliable, is a primary source.)
* The current "HTML" section refers to Mediawiki already.
"See also"
* The rules for "See also" sections seem more relaxed than regular article text.
On grounds of  Be bold, I'm going to link the style guide in "See also". But it's worth discussion.
: — Steve98052 (talk) 03:44, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia style guide?