Talk:Archived Interviews
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A guide to adding to Archived Interviews[edit]
What belongs here[edit]
- Yes: Print (or web chat, or transcribed) interviews with extensive quotes from a band member and/or unique information.
- No: Articles which review the band or its music without original quotes or research.
- No: Show listings or show reviews. While we do archive that information, it goes on appropriate Shows pages.
- Yes, but: Web interviews that are still up on the original publisher's site can be added to the index as external links.
Tools[edit]
- Automatic wiki-formatting tool for MuseumOfIdiots articles (upload the html file)
- Decent free batch OCR (upload scan image)
- Wayback Machine and archive.is, to save copies of pages so that they can be imported to the wiki in the future if they stop being available online
Formatting a page[edit]
Use the Archived Article Template and name the new page using a YYYY-MM-DD Publication Name format.
If importing an article with a decent quality image scan and unique photos/page layout, consider uploading the image and adding it to the top of the page (example). Add [[Category:Paper Archives]] to any uploaded scans.
Remember to preview and scroll down the page to look for broken formatting. Adding inter-wiki [[links]] to mentions of specific songs, releases, or shows helps future readers, and visiting those links may catch quotes or citations to your article which can be converted to a stable on-wiki link.
Formatting the index entry[edit]
In the appropriate year's table, add four lines like so:
|-class="JF JL Other" |Aug |12 |[[2002-8-12 The New Yorker|''The New Yorker'' - "Urban Legends: The Do-It-Yourself Success of They Might Be Giants"]] (With [[Jamie Kitman]])
- In the class=" " list, put any combination of "JL JF Other" to note who the interview is with.
- 3-letter formatted month (Jan, Feb, Mar, etc) or period (Jun/Jul, Winter)
- Day of the month (if known, otherwise leave blank)
- Finally, link the article, with the following format: Publication title - "Article title" (Note any "other" interviewees in parentheses if applicable.)