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Re: Curator for lugnet.trains
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:16:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Scott Arthur writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > What sorts of things do folks want to see on the trains front page?
> > > 
> > > Please mail me with your thoughts, as I've just assumed the curator role.
> > > Probably best not to clutter the discussion with suggestions unless you
> > > think they merit discussion themselves, just send them on in.
> > > 
> > > Mostly I am thinking update the representative/showcase sites (I already
> > > removed mine, it's dated) and add more informational links...
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > 
> > The current page has some missing data.
> 
> Such as what?

"Will Chapman’s LEGO® Site (Link??)"
"Neat images of the (mumble time period)"

mumble?

> There's nothing missing that wasn't missing when I took it on.
> I've a mind to remove Will's link if no one comes forth with a correction
> for it as it's a bit dated. Other than that everything is correct AFAIK.
> Certainly if you or anyone else knows of particular factual errors and have
> corrections, please send them in.
> 
> > Perhaps you should consider tidying up the existing page, and making changes
> > offline/elsewhere until you have a professional looking effort for the group
> > to consider?
> 
> Is that how you do the pages *you* curate? Drop me a note with the URL of
> one of your curated FTX pages and I'll check it out and learn from your
> example. Thanks for the offer of mentorship, it's certainly appreciated.

What is your point? What is wrong with my suggestion?

> 
> Doing the work offline is certainly worthy of consideration but the way I'm
> doing it is to modify the page as I get notes about what to add (and I have
> gotten several already, thank you all very much). Less labor intensive that
> way than keeping an offline copy

Take the lazy path if you wish, I'm sure newcomers will appreciate it. I
thought what I was suggesting was commonsense. It appears not.

> (which, since it isn't HTML, can't just be
> tested in any old browser, it has to be tested here on LUGNET).

Indeed. But why test it on the train page?

Scott A



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(...) Note this request... (...) When I got it, there was no link there. I added the (Link?) so that if people have the link they would send it to me. Like I said, it's going to get waxed if I don't get a link for it soon. (...) This is a bit of an (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Such as what? There's nothing missing that wasn't missing when I took it on. I've a mind to remove Will's link if no one comes forth with a correction for it as it's a bit dated. Other than that everything is correct AFAIK. Certainly if you or (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)

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