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User Dude RB: Registered Oct 30, 2020 (and a viewer for many years prior.)


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[[File:GdArt_2bol.jpg|Good Article Award, 3rd ribbon]]
[[File:SubAdd 1bol.jpg|Substantial Addition Award, 2nd ribbon]]
[[File:AA.jpg|Assistance Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon]]
[[File:TIS2 1t.jpg|Time in Service (6 months)]]

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=Projects=
I am currently working on pages related to Miniatures, Miniature History, Products, Foreign Products, and Product History.

*[[User:Dude RB/Images of Miniatures (Progress)]]
*[[User:Dude RB/Task List|Task List]] (list now largely out of date)


=QuickLinks=

*[[Miniatures]]
**[[Miniatures - FASA]]
**[[Miniatures - Catalyst Game Labs]]
**[[Ral Partha Catalogs]]
**[[Miniatures - Ral Partha]]
**[[Miniatures - Iron Wind Metals]]
**[[Miniatures - Ral Partha (Uncategorized)]]
**[[Miniatures - Armorcast]]
**[[Miniatures - MechWarrior]]
*[[BattleTech boxed set]]
*[[List of BattleTech products]]
*[[Product Type Classification Tree]]
*[[Help:WebArchive Notes]]
*Categories
**[[:Category:BattleTech Universe Products]]
**[[:Category:Core Game Sets]]
**[[:Category:Miniatures]]
**[[:Category:Miniature Sets]]
*Templates
**[[Template:InfoBoxProduct]]
*Resources
**[[BattleIntelligence:Administrators]]
**[[BattleIntelligence:Research Desk]]
**[[Help:References]]
**[[Policy:Images]]
**[[Help:User Sub-Page Creation]]
**[[BattleIntelligence:Manual of Style]]
*Tips
**To "Comment out" rather than delete empty sections, use the following: 
::<nowiki><!--Commented out due to lack of information</nowiki>
::==Notes==
::<nowiki>--></nowiki>
*External Resources
**[https://excel2wiki.toolforge.org/index.php Wiki Table Converter]
**[https://archive.org/web/ The Web Archive]
**[https://www.bookfinder.com/ BookFinder.com] (has some good search options for books)
**[https://isbnsearch.org/ ISBNSearch.com] (simple, includes small image sometimes, useful for quick double checks, but finicky about hyphens)
**[https://fastspring.com/blog/how-to-format-30-currencies-from-countries-all-over-the-world/ Article on Currency Formatting]
**[https://www.imperial.ac.uk/brand-style-guide/writing/numbers/money-and-currencies/#:~:text=When%20writing%20about%20other%20currencies,currency%20should%20be%20in%20lowercase.&text=For%20US%20dollars%2C%20the%20symbol,prefixed%20with%20the%20country%20abbreviation Imperial College Style Guide on Currency]
**Spanish items
***[https://www.todostuslibros.com/ Spanish Independent Bookstores] (search for Spanish books, see Spanish formatting of title)
***[http://www.mcu.es/webISBN/tituloSimpleFilter.do?cache=init&prev_layout=busquedaisbn&layout=busquedaisbn&language=es Database of books published in Spain] (search for Spanish books)
**Hungarian sites
***[https://bookline.hu/ Bookline.hu] A major online book seller in Hungary
***[https://beholder.hu/ Beholder] Webstore of Beholder, a Hungrian book/game publisher.  webstore includes products for other publishers 
**Italian sites
***[https://www.ibs.it/ ibs.it] Online Bookseller in Italy
***[https://www.libraccio.it/ libraccio.it/] Online Bookseller in Italy
***[https://www.lafeltrinelli.it/ lafeltrinelli.it/] Online Bookseller in Italy
***[https://www.amazon.it/ amazon.it]
**Portugese sites
***[https://catalogo.bnportugal.gov.pt/ Catalog from Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal] (catalog from the National Library of Portugal)
***[https://www.wook.pt/ Wook] A major online bookseller in Portual
**German sites
***[https://portal.dnb.de/opac/showSearchForm Catalog from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek] (catalog from the German National Library)
***[https://www.booklooker.de www.booklooker.de] Booklooker, an online book sales forum for buyers and sellers, often good for finding photos of books (as opposed to the standard cover images of online booksellers), helpful to establish/confirm covers that actually appeared in print.   
**French sites
***[https://catalogue.bnf.fr/index.do Bibliothèque nationale de France Catalogue Général] (General catalog from the National Library of France)
**Czech sites
***[https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=file&file_name=base-list National Library of the Czech Republic]
***[https://www.altar.cz/altar/onas.html ALTAR Publishing]
***[https://obalkyknih.cz/ ObalkyKnih.cz] (a central web database compiled from and used by various libraries and booksellers in the Czech Republic) 
**Russian sites
***[http://fantlab.ru/series514 Лаборатория Фантастики trans. Science Fiction Lab, BattleTech 1995-1998] (has list of Russian translations by Armada)
***[http://fantlab.ru/series515 Лаборатория Фантастики trans. Science Fiction Lab, BattleTech 2001-2003] (has list of Russian translations by Alpha Book)
***[https://nlr.ru/eng National Library of Russia]  (Gives various bibliographic, ISBN, and print run information)
***[https://ruslania.com/en/ Ruslania.com] (online bookstore in Russia)
**Japanese sites
***[https://iss.ndl.go.jp/ National Diet Library (Japan)] 

*Interesting Points of Information
**Hungarian names are written using Eastern name order (family name followed by given name) in Hungarian contexts.  But in foreign language contexts (presumably those using Western name order) Western name order is then used for Hungarian names. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names]

=Some Outstanding Issues with Categories=
Background: On Sat April 30, I recategorized pages with the “Pilot Cards” tag as “Characters with Pilot Cards”.  To track which pages I converted, I activated the category page “Characters with Pilot Cards”, with the plans to later replace such with the description from “Pilot Cards”.  I learned afterwards that one can’t move pages to overwrite another.  I then moved “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” to “Category:Characters with Pilot Cards(temp-delete)” in the hopes to move “Category: Pilot Cards” to “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards”, but that did not solve the issue either.  I did manage to move the talk page for “Category talk: Pilot Cards”.  But “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” has been locked for six days now.  Plus I am uncertain if move would allow me to overwrite a redirect page that corresponds to a different page.  [FYI: I have now learned it is best to move the category page first before changing category tags.]  

[[User:Dmon|Dmon]] has noted that there have been some unsusual things happening with categories moves over the past month or so and that the issues will need further investigation.  I am documenting the issues here so that the matter can remain on the radar until an appropriate time in the future.


What needs to be done 
*<strike>Move “Category: Pilot Cards” to “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” replacing the latter (but leaving the talk pages untouched). </strike> ('''Resolved''')

=Testing Section=
Just a test for search capabilities.
* [[Tales of the Black Widow Company#Spanish|Las crónicas de la Compañía Viuda Negra]]
* [[List of BattleTech Print Novels in Spanish#Guerra fantasma|''Guerra fantasma'']]
* [[Tales of the Black Widow Company#German|Der Biß der Schwarzen Witwe]]
* [[Tales of the Black Widow Company#German Edition|Der Biß der Schwarzen Witwe]]

=Subpages for Testing=
* [[User:Dude RB/Image Table Test]]
* [[User:Dude RB/MWDA Miniature Table Test]]