User:Dude RB
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User Dude RB: Registered Oct 30, 2020 (and a viewer for many years prior.)
Contents
Projects
I am currently working on pages related to Miniatures, Miniature History, Products, Foreign Products, and Product History.
- User:Dude RB/Images of Miniatures (Progress)
- Task List (list now largely out of date)
QuickLinks
- Miniatures
- BattleTech boxed set
- List of BattleTech products
- Product Type Classification Tree
- Help:WebArchive Notes
- Categories
- Templates
- Resources
- Tips
- To "Comment out" rather than delete empty sections, use the following:
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- External Resources
- Wiki Table Converter
- The Web Archive
- BookFinder.com (has some good search options for books)
- ISBNSearch.com (simple, includes small image sometimes, useful for quick double checks, but finicky about hyphens)
- Article on Currency Formatting
- Imperial College Style Guide on Currency
- Spanish items
- Spanish Independent Bookstores (search for Spanish books, see Spanish formatting of title)
- Database of books published in Spain (search for Spanish books)
- Hungarian sites
- Bookline.hu A major online book seller in Hungary
- Beholder Webstore of Beholder, a Hungrian book/game publisher. webstore includes products for other publishers
- Italian sites
- ibs.it Online Bookseller in Italy
- libraccio.it/ Online Bookseller in Italy
- lafeltrinelli.it/ Online Bookseller in Italy
- amazon.it
- Portugese sites
- Catalog from Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (catalog from the National Library of Portugal)
- Wook A major online bookseller in Portual
- German sites
- Catalog from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (catalog from the German National Library)
- www.booklooker.de Booklooker, an online book sales forum for buyers and sellers, often good for finding photos of books (as opposed to the standard cover images of online booksellers), helpful to establish/confirm covers that actually appeared in print.
- French sites
- Bibliothèque nationale de France Catalogue Général (General catalog from the National Library of France)
- Czech sites
- National Library of the Czech Republic
- ALTAR Publishing
- ObalkyKnih.cz (a central web database compiled from and used by various libraries and booksellers in the Czech Republic)
- Russian sites
- Лаборатория Фантастики trans. Science Fiction Lab, BattleTech 1995-1998 (has list of Russian translations by Armada)
- Лаборатория Фантастики trans. Science Fiction Lab, BattleTech 2001-2003 (has list of Russian translations by Alpha Book)
- National Library of Russia (Gives various bibliographic, ISBN, and print run information)
- Ruslania.com (online bookstore in Russia)
- Japanese sites
- Interesting Points of Information
- Hungarian names are written using Eastern name order (family name followed by given name) in Hungarian contexts. But in foreign language contexts (presumably those using Western name order) Western name order is then used for Hungarian names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names
Some Outstanding Issues with Categories
Background: On Sat April 30, I recategorized pages with the “Pilot Cards” tag as “Characters with Pilot Cards”. To track which pages I converted, I activated the category page “Characters with Pilot Cards”, with the plans to later replace such with the description from “Pilot Cards”. I learned afterwards that one can’t move pages to overwrite another. I then moved “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” to “Category:Characters with Pilot Cards(temp-delete)” in the hopes to move “Category: Pilot Cards” to “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards”, but that did not solve the issue either. I did manage to move the talk page for “Category talk: Pilot Cards”. But “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” has been locked for six days now. Plus I am uncertain if move would allow me to overwrite a redirect page that corresponds to a different page. [FYI: I have now learned it is best to move the category page first before changing category tags.]
Dmon has noted that there have been some unsusual things happening with categories moves over the past month or so and that the issues will need further investigation. I am documenting the issues here so that the matter can remain on the radar until an appropriate time in the future.
What needs to be done
Move “Category: Pilot Cards” to “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” replacing the latter (but leaving the talk pages untouched).(Resolved)
Testing Section
Just a test for search capabilities.
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