User talk:Hannaschev/sandbox

Some remarks

Dear Hanna,

I have read your sandbox-article about the Diary of the Shah of Persia during his Tour through Europe 1873. I was really impressed!

This is the kind of information that makes Wikipedia into a real rich encyclopedia, for now and for the future. Thanks a lot for this valuable contribution so far.

Some general remarks in the first place:

• perhaps you can use the Template:Infobox book for your article. It gives a short, technical overview and it places the book partly in the right categories. See, for instance Following the Equator or The American Diary of a Japanese Girl.
• I personally prefer to make a split between footnotes/references and the literature. The footnotes will be a bit shorter, and separately it gives a nice list of literature used. See e.g. Life_of_Sir_William_Petty_1623_-_1687 or The Advice to Hartlib.
• It is good to embed the article in Wikipedia, by making links from other pages, like from the page Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and the page List of travel books.

Some smaller remarks:

• the title. I should say "Tour", not "tour".
• I personally like to make a small "bibliographic" paragraph at the beginning of an article on a book (see for instance Life of Sir William Petty 1623 - 1687), with things like:
  • the original title; could you provide that, perhaps? I suppose it was written in Farsi, originally.
  • OCLC ref. nr
  • When was it translated? etc.
  • I think most of your paragraph "Context" could be integrated in this "Bibliography" as well.

• Persia or Iran: I don't think it is a problem. Just use "Persia", as it was called in those days. The link redirects directly to "Iran" in en-Wikipedia.

• some smaller corrections I made directly in the sandbox:
  • link to other lemmata: only one time.

• categories could be: Persian books and see for instance Following the Equator. See also:

List of travel books for other examples.

Many greetings, --Dick Bos (talk) 13:29, 29 May 2018 (UTC)