User talk:Hallie Swift

References

Howdy Hallie,

Thanks for helping out around the place.

Could you spend a few minutes review: Help:Footnotes & Wikipedia:Citing sources

Please use the "name=" command and also use the "{{citation }}" template.

Also, please put a space after punctuation! (this,is wrong - this, is right)

Thanks again. Best O Fortuna (talk) 03:36, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Titles

Me again.

Please also review: MOS:TITLE

The titles of films, books, operas, plays, television programs, magazines, newspapers, ships, etc., are italicized.

Titles of chapters, songs, episodes, articles, etc., are put in "quotation marks".

Thanks. Best O Fortuna (talk) 03:46, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Hello O Fortuna,

Thank you for the comments. I have studied the references and footnoting section but every time I try to apply it (so that it is less repetitive and there is a shortcut for the footnote), it hasn't worked. I realize there is something I am not understanding. I will try again.

Regarding the titles, I thought I was following the rules regarding the names of albums as outlined in the section about classical music. However, I will revisit this as well. In the 1950s, many of the recordings only bore the name of the pieces and composer on the cover; there were frequently no other title on the album jacket. I was following the Wikipedia rules which I believe indicate the composer's name should be in regular print and the name of the piece should be italized. Perhaps it is more accurate to also put the composers' names in italics, as those appear on the album jacket covers, and hence are in effect the names of the albums. Is this your primary concern or is there something I am missing?

I will check the punctuation as well.

Any guidance you can provide as to my footnoting repeats issue would be appreciated. I am not sure why it hasn't worked in the past.

Thank you Hallie Swift (talk) 22:08, 10 November 2011 (UTC)Hallie Swift[reply]

Thank you again

Hello again Best O Fortuna,

I have reviewed the page and see that you made the footnote corrections and I am very grateful. Now I will study how you did this for my future revisions.

And I see that you advise that the discography be in a table format. I was actually following the listing format I have seen for other artists/producers. I thought that a list was acceptable to Wikipedia. I will study the link you recommended.

Thank you for your assistance and guidance.

Hallie Swift (talk) 22:26, 10 November 2011 (UTC)Hallie Swift[reply]

Hallie,

About duplicate reference; check the edit history to see what I did. If you still have trouble let me know.

About discography; it depends on the the size (number of recordings), but also in the amount of detail per-recording. If you just have say year and album title, a list is probably fine, but if start including label, catalog number, composer, producer, notes, etc., a list format starts to look out of control. The key is: For a new user coming to the page, how long does it take them to digest and understand the data? Remember you have children coming here, senior citizens, people from other countries where English in not their primary language, people with learning disabilities, like vision problems (I am visually impaired). It has been shown that tables are easier for people to decipher and digest information that become unruly in lists. If you look at text books you will notice that lists are used for single or double data, but once you get to four columns, you'll see them start using tables.

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