Talk:Intentionally blank page

This is a horrible, difficult to parse phrase due to the multiplicity of senses the last two words have (one of which is an antonym of a form of the first word!) and the fact that "manual" reads an an adjective at first. Someone more invested than me should fix it. 184.56.114.218 (talk) 15:57, 7 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

After looking at the book "Lazlo Letters" on Open Library, I can't seem to find any pages marked "free paper". I will leave it up to a more experienced Wikipedian to remove this, as I am not exactly sure what to do in this case. Evenite (talk) 04:14, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

In the phrase "This page intentionally left blank", the implied verb "to be" is omitted. I have been told that it should be "This page is (or was or will be) intentionally left blank," but I'm happy with the form that is commonly seen. Does anyone know what it is called when the "to be" verb is omitted from a statement such as this? Grammarians must have some term that applies here. Ba2kell (talk) 16:43, 25 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

This part...

"For example, a three-page work (starting on the left-hand sheet) followed immediately by a two-page work involves one page turn during each work. If a blank page immediately follows the three-page work (on the right-hand sheet), the two-page work will span the left and right pages, alleviating the need for a page turn during the second work. Intentionally blank pages may also prevent a page turn during a difficult passage."

... make no sense to me. The word "page" shows up ten times and it seems to mean something different each time. Is it a sheet of paper, or a block of text filling half a sheet, or a numbered count of designated text? Mooseman2 (talk) 13:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

This part is worded quite strangely, and although it does make sense to me, I can see where the wording can get hung up. "Page" in the context of this excerpt just means "one side of a sheet of paper".

"a three-page work (starting on the left-hand sheet)" for example, refers to a piece of music, that takes up two sheets of paper, and if you put them side by side like a book, it would start on the left side. Additionally, "followed immediately by a two-page work" just means that right after the first piece of music ends, the next piece begins on the next sheet of paper, and it lasts for two pages (both sides of one sheet of paper).

Many sheet music publishers will print on both sides of paper, so in this hypothetical example, if you were to print the pieces of music on consecutive sheets of paper, it would require you turning the pages twice while playing. This is because the first piece starts on the left side, so it will take up the right side as well as the left side when you turn the page once. Then, the second piece would therefore start on the right side, but take up two pages, necessitating the page be turned again while playing.

The article points out the use of blank pages for this problem in sheet music (which are typically left entirely blank, with nothing written on them), by leaving one between the first piece of music and the second. This would make it where there is a blank page, being on the right side directly after the end of the first piece. The second piece of music would now begin on the left side, and taking up only two pages, can now be played without stopping to turn them.

When I get the time I'll definitely make an attempt to word this section better, because it's a little confusing as it stands now. SmittenGalaxy (talk) 19:17, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply