User talk:Lucy Ingram

Hello! Lucy Ingram (talk) 08:00, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hi. We usually put citations at the main (lemma) form, i.e. maraschino cherry rather than maraschino cherries, even if the citation contains an inflected form. Also: here is some default greeting stuff which you quite possibly already know by now.

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Message received and understood :-) Thank you for the welcome. Lucy Ingram (talk) 20:14, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Paulistano

Hey there, I appreciate you adding quotes from Black authors. I'm also an N.K. Jemisin fan, looking forward to the rest of the series :) I see you added a quote to paulistano, but in a Portuguese section. Granted, there wasn't an English entry by that name, so I created the page Paulistano. I also added the template {{quote-book}} to your quote, and I encourage you to use it because it categorizes pages into Category:English terms with quotations. And if you haven't already, I suggest reading Wiktionary:Quotations. Let me know if you have any questions! Ultimateria (talk) 05:41, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Creating RQ quote templates

Hi, thank you for your contributions! I noticed that you often quote the same book repeatedly in many entries, and I just wanted to let you know that you might be able to simplify your process by creating RQ templates (example), which would let you write something like {{RQ:Smith Swing Time|10|something something}} and all the relevant info would be added automatically. The advantages of this are that there is less wikitext per page, and that it's easy to modify every quote at once (for example, adding a link to the page on the Internet Archive). Ping me if you'd like me to make one! Ioaxxere (talk) 05:18, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I would like to make one. Please can you show me how? Lucy Ingram (talk) 14:18, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

The main thing to understand is that templates are basically text replacers: a simple example is the {{welcome}} template, which displays a welcome message to new users. Templates can have parameters to control their behaviour:

• If I call {{Example|param1=abc|param2=def}}, the parameters param1 and param2 are assigned to abc and def, respectively.
• If you don't name a parameter, it automatically gets assigned to a number. If I call {{Example|abc|def|param=ghi}}, we have three parameters 1, 2, and param, which are assigned abc, def, and ghi respectively.

In the template code, you can use a parameter by writing {{{param}}}, which simply represents the text of the parameter. When you do this for the first time, you should give it a default value by writing {{{param|default value}}}. The default value can be another parameter.

• For example, {{{passage|{{{text|{{{2|}}}}}}}}} means "whatever was assigned to passage. If passage doesn't exist, assign it to whatever text is. If text doesn't exist, assign it to 2 (and then move back up to passage). If 2 doesn't exist, assign it to , an empty string (and then move back up to text)".
• The point is that someone using the template can write either passage=something, text=something, or just something (in the second position) and see the same thing.
• You only have to do this once. If you wanted to use passage again for some reason, you can write {{{passage}}} and be confident that it's assigned to something.

As an example, I've created {{RQ:Smith Swing Time}} for you to try out. The easiest way to create a new RQ template is to copy an already existing one and change whatever you need. Happy template-ing! Ioaxxere (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

It all looks a bit too much for me right now, but I'll try to come back to it when I have the time and energy. Thank you :-) Lucy Ingram (talk) 17:23, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

I've created {{RQ:Smith White Teeth}} and {{RQ:Smith NW}}, and converted the citations you added to use the new templates. While doing this, I noticed a few misquoted instances: please always quote either the full text, or indicate deliberate omissions with {{...}}. If you don't want to use RQ templates that's not a problem, as long as you format them consistently (which you're doing already), they can be converted automatically later. Jberkel 12:07, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the templates. I'm afraid creating them is beyond my level of expertise, but I will continue to format my quotations consistently so they can be converted. I've been using the correct way to indicate deliberate omissions since Equinox told me about it on March 30th 2023. Lucy Ingram (talk) 15:12, 26 June 2023 (UTC)