User talk:EJG

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before Mar 2013

Text categories

Hi Edmund, I noticed that you've been adding {{TextPageCat}} to many text categories, thanks a lot for that! I was checking, however, and there are yet a large amount of these categories to be created; I'll see if I can do this via a robot. Please wait for a few more days, I'll inform you if I don't succeed. Best, —Carlos (talk) 06:29, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Rationalising the text pages

I've been attempting over the last couple of months to tidy up the text pages (mainly Latin ones). I've reached the point where input from other administrators would be useful, so have started a discussion on the administrators' forum. Any thoughts valued, whether positive or negative. Jamesgibb (talk) 11:15, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Lyricist template

I suspect I have done this on text pages quite a bit, through ignorance, through weakness, through my own deliberate fault, Edmund. I'll avoid it in future and correct it as I light upon it. Jamesgibb (talk) 07:09, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks James, for this and for your work on the text pages - I'm sorry if my edit summary seemed brusque, I certainly didn't mean it that way. Would it be a good thing to have a template {{TextLyricist|LYRICISTNAME}}, or something similar, to function similarly to Template:Lyricist, but for text pages, so that texts by the same lyricist could be categorised together, with the contents of this category displayed automatically on the lyricist page (similar to the way that Template:LyricistSettingsList displays the contents of the category of settings of texts)? EJG (talk) 19:17, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Editions categories

Hi Edmund, as you've been actively creating the Editions categories, you'll probably like to know that this process became slightly simpler: now we can just watch the category:Editors lacking an editions category and follow the instructions there. Regards, —Carlos (talk) 15:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Merger of Come, let us join

Hi Edmund, thanks for merging the two pages; I just did it again, but this time the other way around, in order to preserve the oldest of the two pages (this should be attempted whenever possible). Regards, —Carlos (talk) 04:24, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Carlos. I hadn't realised the older of the two pages was to be kept for preference, but will bear this in mind in future. Regards, EJG (talk) 07:22, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

In fact it's not a rule written in stone, but public wikis tend to follow it because usually the oldest page has a longer history of contributions. Keeping the page history is required by CC licenses so that each contribution's author may be credited for it. Best, —Carlos (talk) 16:23, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Renaming pages

Hi Edmund, when moving a page to a new title, as you did to Awake my joy, awake I say (Thomas Clark), please check if there are any links pointing to the old title. If you move it without leaving a redirect, these links will become broken (see here, for example). You may either leave a redirect behind, or fix the links to point to the new title. Thanks, —Carlos 12:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder, Carlos. I've updated A Fifth Set of Psalm Tunes (Thomas Clark), which I'd forgotten to do yesterday (the other pages on the WhatLinksHere list were ones generated from categories, so when the link tables were refreshed, these disappeared from the list). Regards, EJG (talk) 20:03, 18 September 2014 (UTC)