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Keeping Article Relevant[edit]

I just want to expand upon the (mostly) revert that I performed earlier before someone reverts the revert. I noticed that all of the external links were deleted along with other informative text on the article.

The Quikscript community is rather small and those links (especially the "Quikscript Outpost" and the groups.io one) are really important for those who want to easily seek out and expand their knowledge of the Quikscript alphabet. I have no idea when Wikipedia decided that all .xyz websites were considered bad but I've visited FriedOrange's site before and it was legit back when I visited it. I've cut that website out of the revert simply because I wasn't allowed to put it back in. However, I tried finding the version of this article that was most informative and gives first-time viewers a comprehensive synopsis of the alphabet. Thanks. 24.177.245.104 (talk) 00:49, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Article title[edit]

I must ask why this article is entitled "Quickscript" when the alphabet's name is clearly displayed in the original pamphlet to be spelt "Quikscript"? Perhaps this article should be re-spelt correctly, with a redirect from "Quickscript"? --84.12.152.78 14:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. The Jade Knight 07:56, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've cleaned this up. I'll need to change the title with a redirect as well but. martianlostinspace 15:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC) Name change, cleanup done, double redirects checked for!martianlostinspace 15:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think this should be the other way round because Wikipedia is supposed to be written in traditional orthography. The pamphlet-manual mentioned above actually spells it "Quickscript" with "ck" all the time. It's only that ornamental logotype on the title page that dropped the "c". But nowadays this spelling seems to be more common in secondary sources, which is not surprising given that it appeals to reformists. It also has the advantage of being less ambiguous as there are few other things called Quickscript. Nevertheless, both spellings are in use, sometimes even mixed in free variation like on the Omniglot page. I believe the current name is acceptable by virtue of being WP:ESTABLISHED so I'm not proposing to move it back, but I wanted to point out that the original argument for the move was based on a mistaken premise. – MwGamera (talk) 16:13, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

move to wikibooks?[edit]

There is 1-2 official publications (ie. books) of this. The official manual, I think, is about 28 pgs, which was Kingsley's own manual for it. It has been referred to here as an external link, but anyone think it would be worth copying the whole lot to Wikibooks?? (A word of warning though: the PDF document has all the text as graphics-- ie.. you cannot actually search for words, so if it's going to be moved, you'll need either very good OCR, or lots of time!!) If it's been published 40 years ago, now free online, hardly anyone's going to object to copywright, or anything I think. martianlostinspace 10:35, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd love to see this at Wikibooks, and I think it would be a great addition. OCR wouldn't be that difficult, but I don't see any reason not just to upload the individual pages as images. freshofftheufo ΓΛĿЌ 06:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An effort to type out the entire manual is currently underway at the Read Alphabet E-mail group. It stays true to the original with a few minor changes (such as using quickscript letters inline instead of referring to their names/numbers). I'm not sure about the status of this project. Look in the archive for a post made on 7 July 2006. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Read_Alphabet/ --145.116.0.51 20:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Restored[edit]

If you dispute this, go ahead, but I can't see anything wrong with it.martianlostinspace 14:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links[edit]

Quikscriptmanual.pdf is unavailable due to 404. Please check other links as well.--89.218.21.13 (talk) 06:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've fixed it to use the {{wayback}} template. The other links all work. -- Quiddity (talk) 17:35, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dates[edit]

Some dates would be useful. Jackiespeel (talk) 21:59, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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