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Unicorns
You are correct the unicorn does refer to Pliny's use in the commented out section of Ancient History. It is rather perplexing and a continuing theme on wiki that reality is subjected to mythology and even when posted as mythology it is censored from public view. I would kindly ask that you consider fixing this trend.
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Yes, I've noticed (as a glance at my recent contributions will show). Thanks. The only problem is that so many articles have been tagged in this run that there may be no way for me to even look at them all, much less geocode a significant number of them.
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Hello Deor. Your creation of "a squabble of editors" is just wonderful. If
An Exaltation of Larks added new items each year the way the OED does that would have to be included in future editions :-) Thanks for the smile and cheers.
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Woops, sorry about that. I'll G6 it. Thank you.
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You need to tell me specifically what you need a reference for. I've been doing these population boxes and will be incorporating them into every locale for Alabama. These figures come directly from each census for Alabama returns from 1820-2010.
DJ Jones74 (
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@
DJ Jones74: Please see
WP:V and
WP:REF. Any information added to a Wikipedia article without citing, within the article, a reliable source is subject to removal by any editor (in this case, this applies both to the data in the table and the comments in your notes to particular table entries—which notes, by the way, should probably be in a separate note list [see
Template:Efn] rather than mixed with the references). In addition, the information you're adding to
Anniston, Alabama belongs in the existing "Demographics" section rather than in a separate section. I'm not going to start an edit war by reverting you again, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if your additions are reverted by other editors who happen to notice them.
Deor (
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I've run this template by another editor, who saw no particular problem with them. When someone reverts an edit without a specific mention of what sort of reference they wish, it is entirely unhelpful to me. Unless you cite exactly what reference will satisfy you as acceptable, I cannot read your mind. Do you wish a specific link on each census year to the Alabama returns ? If that is satisfactory, I can do that, but sometimes it has a habit of overloading the reference section below. The figures come from the exact same location as the basic population history box, for which I'm the one who has been responsible for adding. I'm not an expert at HTML, it took me some time to come up with the template itself. I can also alter the refs to footnotes within the template, so again it doesn't flood the bottom of the page, I was not sure what the code was for footnotes. I can also alter the header of hist. demographics to be a subsection as well of demographics, so no problem there. Again, let me know if linking each year to the census document will be enough to suit the references you want. Regards
DJ Jones74 (
talk) 00:12, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
Are the census figures (and the material in the explanatory notes, about the largest towns in Alabama, etc.) taken from a single book or document, from multiple books or documents, or from an online source? Does the source(s) contain all the data in the chart, including the racial breakdowns? If I knew what kind of material you're working with, I could give you better advice on how to reference it properly.
Deor (
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I just realized I should thank you for catching the problem with the notes vs. references on the template. If you hadn't noticed the problem with the Anniston entry, I'd have kept going on with it and then had to go back and re-do countless templates and entries once someone eventually pointed it out. I haven't done a "notes" entry in so many years that it had slipped my mind that I fell straight into using the <ref> <ref>.
As for the rest, the figures and racial stats come directly from the census reports for each decade (i.e. for the 2010 census, this is the reference used exclusively for Alabama:
http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-1-2.pdf ) At present, I'm entering the places by alphabetical order and then intend to do cumulative pages that shows the rankings of places and counties per state per census. Regards,
DJ Jones74 (
talk) 09:09, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
@
DJ Jones74: OK, I think a good way of referencing the table would be to add a citation of the relevant document after each year number in the first column, including the page numbers on which the data in that row can be found. If necessary, the information in the explanatory notes should have separate refs. Also, can't the information in the "Historical population" table for Anniston (i.e., the "%±" column and the 2018 estimated population) be worked into the big table, so that table could be eliminated?
Deor (
talk) 16:51, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
Yeah, adding the ref link on the census year seems to work. I did that already on one page. You make a good point about trying to merge the hist. pop table with the new template (and adding a column for the "%±"), although since it's a preexisting table with its own formula, I'm not entirely sure how to work it into mine. The sole problem with adding the latest estimated population (2018) is that there's no racial stats to accompany it, so it would be a blank row.
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This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true.
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well D
MarnetteD|
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Hello Doer. While I've thanked you in the Teahouse, please again accept my appreciation. I double-checked the coordinates with an online tool, and the coordinates you provided were precise to Drake's Cove. With such assistance, I am hopeful for an eventual GA designation.
For a Dark Ages person, you cope well with 21st century digital technology.
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