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I very much support standardization and NOT using "the" in the title. Speaking of standardisation, do we have an official language? |
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FWIW, I prefer just Programming Historian as well. |
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Also prefer dropping the "the" from the title. |
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Ditto. |
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I am happy to drop the "the"! |
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Ok. I suppose we need to go through and remove all 'the' instances from the site documentation. |
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@fredgibbs I think we had this discussion about language a few years ago and decided not to choose a form of English because of the international nature of our project. The Spanish team have also been battling with that because of the differences between Iberian and Latin American Spanish. Is there a reason you're asking? |
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At the risk of unnecessary delay, since it seems like it has broad support, can I ask why dropping the "The" is preferable? While I think we do use both on the site, my rough impression is that "The Programming Historian" is more widespread, so standardizing in the direction of "Programming Historian" would likely be a more noticeable change. Just wondering ... I kinda like "The PH" but if I'm alone in this, I'm happy to defer to the group---and reasons for the change would probably easily persuade me. |
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@wcaleb I am with you on the preference, but I wasn't going to go against the flow. I'm curious also. |
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Echoing @wcaleb - I agree that the most prominent uses of "The" have been in both the old and new site titles... so it would seem that it makes more sense to standardize to "The Programming Historian" rather than "Programming Historian". Whichever way this is decided, I'm glad to take point on actually carrying out the standardization across the site. |
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Reading this interesting conversation. We are using The programming historian en español... Why? Because in Spanish we need an article. However, we did not discuss this, it just came naturally, right? @mariajoafana @vgayolrs |
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I've been thinking a lot about the question from @wcaleb over the last couple days, and I can't really come up with any real reason. And the more I think about it the more I think I'm ambivalent. Even though I said I preferred dropping it, when I wrote various constructions of both I think I'm more persuaded to standardize to keep "The."
And if "The" is more widely used already and necessary in translation anyway - those seem like compelling arguments to me for keeping it. |
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I'm fine with going either way. My leaning toward cutting "The" before was because I kept writing
which now that I think about it is more awkward—I should use the "The" that's already there. |
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I can go either way. |
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We discussed this briefly on #412. The general consensus for those who were on the call was:
This solution seems to be the one adopted by the Journal of American History. See examples here:
If you support this solution, please "thumbs up" this comment---if you want to discuss further or suggest changes, please comment. |
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@fredgibbs to implement the above decision re 'the' |
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The short term solution to fix title page and masthead are complete, so i'm un-assigning myself but keeping ticket open for later content review. |
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All english pages fixed as per @wcaleb suggestions above. |
acrymble commentedApr 2, 2017
Since we've been working towards standardisation in many ways, I wondered if it wasn't time to decide once and for all what the title of the project is.
We use both 'The Programming Historian' and 'Programming Historian'. "The" is included in the original: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/historydig/3/, but what do we want to use moving forward?