User talk:Nishidani/Birkat haMinim draft

Neil, apropos your brekkie, I gulped it down and with my rapid, perhaps over-rapid digestive processes, quickly expelled the lot with no alarming traces of red in/on the editorial stool. Perhaps I've missed something. There were two problems:

I cited two essays from the one book separately, rather than just cite the book, which created a dissonance because in each case, I gave the page range for only one essay. So I've added the page range for the other, so we have, if I recall your lesson, CohenYavne2010 and CohenVirgin2010.
I can't see the problem with the red-linking of Cohen2017, an essay with the requisite page range given, all of which instances showing the cites are within than scope?
But then, I am resiliently dumb when it comes to things like this. I hope the wee lass has her dad's legs, and can keep running through this with Atlanta's tirelessness

Now, one breakfast gave me no time for the other, so I'll make myself my daily plate of porridge for lunch. Thanks for everything. Nishidani (talk) 10:50, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Re Cohen 2017, in the diff you gave, there was indeed no "Cohen 2017" present, as you can see if you look at the biblio at the bottom of the diff page. Instead, there were two "Cohen 2010"s (one of which you later changed to 2017). My wee lassie correctly changed these to "2010a" and "2010b". I knew beforehand that she would do this, and that as a result everything that pointed to "Cohen 2010" would get a red q mark. That was intentional, to force you to look at them. Tough!

A general point: the script can only find errors that exist in the text at the moment the script is run. --NSH001 (talk) 13:39, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

More brekkie

N. Would you like a serving? Itr seems I've bitten off more than I can chew with footnote f on Christian-Aramaic dialect, which, at least on this gerontological computer screen, shows up as {{sfn' without the accompanying footnote in the preview?Nishidani (talk) 07:49, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I could try consolidating it with the previous e note?Nishidani (talk) 07:50, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The error arose because you typed "((" instead of "{{" in front of the "sfn", so it couldn't be parsed as a template. Now my clever wee lassie is very insistent that all things balance that should balance, before she even starts, otherwise she could get her knickers in a twist (a very painful condition, I'm told). Parsing wikitext is tricky enough, without having to handle error conditions. In this case, obviously a closing brace pair was also missing, so the opening and closing brace-pairs did appear to match. Reminds me of plane crashes – they usually happen because more than one thing that could go wrong, each of them rare, all went wrong at the same time (which is why plane crashes are rare). Anyway, I added a closing brace pair at what I thought was the right place, but am not 100% sure. --NSH001 (talk) 13:19, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm quite embarrassed that I let my braces down, giving myself the repute of being a "flasher" to the lass. I'll try and pull my socks up to save you from the annoyance of meat-puppetry. It's hardly meet at my age.:) Nishidani (talk) 15:17, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]