It looks like you've been getting a lot of work done tonight. Let me know when you're done with the periodical pages.
Also, I already had a section for copyright law in the PRC on my page. What we still need is the ROC (Taiwan).
Finally, I have recently been reminded that "top-posting" is discouraged on most lists (H-Buddhism, etc.). Perhaps we should start bottom-posting again here on our discussion pages just to keep us in the good habit. What do you think?
--Erik hammerstrom 10:22, 17 June 2009 (CST)
The developer of the Firefox plugin responded to my thread. He can't duplicate the problem with initial vowels, but he did remind me that when writing in pinyin on Chinese keyboards one uses "V" instead of "Ü". It seems to work fine that way. He will also be looking at ways to deal with the issue of deleted digits. Hopefully new versions of the tool will see these improvements.
--Erik hammerstrom 19:46, 16 June 2009 (CST)
Two notes: 1) I am going through the institution articles (about half done) and I have removed the * Associated Person(s): line from the blank institution page. It simply gets too complicated to figure out which people are "associated" and how many of them to include.
2) In your examination of the periodicals' title pages, you7 may want to keep an eye for to see if they have English titles. I have included them in cases where I had written them down. It doesn't happen often, but we should follow any English titles they give.
--Erik hammerstrom 23:01, 18 June 2009 (CST)
I have now finished going through all of the institution articles. Take your time going through them, and when you are done we can move on to biographical pieces. I will be away from editing for about the next week, so there's no rush.
--Erik hammerstrom 01:04, 20 June 2009 (CST)
Editing sounds good. If there are any major formatting issues you see, take a note of them as I have done my best to unify the format accross all institution articles, thus we would need to do multiple changes if something is out of whack.
That's a great idea about the pictures. We have the HCY reprint here, as well, so I can look for some pictures when I get back.
As for making redirect pages for alternate names, I think we should only do that for commonly used alternate names. For example, I put one up for "Wang Jitong," as Wang Xiaoxu is equally known by both names. Other than a few instances like that, I think we should let the search engine take care of things. I guess I think it's OK, but that we shouldn't make it a requirement at this stage.
--Erik hammerstrom 23:12, 20 June 2009 (CST)
The template idea is a good one. I am guessing that this means that if we decide to change some aspect of the reference down the line, all one would need to do would be change the template screen and the update would happen automatically to all entries. That indeed is very powerful.
I'd like to see templates for Shì Dōngchū's History and Yú Língbō's 現代佛教人物辭典. I use those two quite a bit, and it is my hope to add references to both, where applicable, to ALL biographical entries. If you could show me how to make a template (or point me in the direction of directions), I could do it myself. Though of course if you have a handle on, it would be that much more expedient.
--Erik hammerstrom 10:10, 24 June 2009 (CST)