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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:09, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Proofreading pages

Thank you for proofreading pages in "Tales from the Arabic" and "Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp". But for the future, try not to alter the line breaks, it makes keeping track of changes much harder. (For these particular books, where the source text does not come from OCR.) See e.g. Index talk:Alaeddin_and_the_Enchanted_Lamp.djvu. Jellby (talk) 20:29, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

em dashes

Thanks for proofreading Once a Week! I just undid the changes you made to one of the pages, though, because em dashes should not have spaces next to them according to Wikisource:Style guide:

Dashes (emdash or endash) preferably should be entered as actual characters (i.e. — (em) and – (en)). Longer dashes should make use of ——————. Whichever dash is used, it should not be flanked by spaces.

Carry on, -- Levana Taylor (talk) 15:44, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

div and span

Hi. Please stop doing this, it generates a lint error: {{larger|{{rh|1920|''RELATIVE TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS''|113}}}}. Do this instead, if you want to keep the size: {{rh| {{larger|1920}} | {{larger|''RELATIVE TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS''}} | {{larger|113}} }}. BTW, there is no much point in formatting headers/footer, they are not transcluded anyhow. Thanks Mpaa (talk) 14:21, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Also {{fine|{{left|Streatham Common.|offset=2em}}}} is problematic. Better {{left|{{fine|Streatham Common.}}|offset=2em}} Thanks. Mpaa (talk) 12:14, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Please pay attention to properly nest <div>-based and <span>-based templates. Otherwise a lint error will be flagged, see misc-tidy-replacement-issues. I am tying to lean the backlog. Thanks. Mpaa (talk) 20:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Could you please pay attention to this topic? See this. If you need assistance, let me know. Mpaa (talk) 10:17, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Once again [1], it is not that difficult ... Thanks. Mpaa (talk) 21:22, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Abusefilter

Apologies for your getting caught in the abusefilter. I have made some modifications that should further limit false positives. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:00, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Of Six Mediaeval Women

If you would like to complete this work, please feel free to take charge of it. I started the work for its biography of Roswitha, but have no plans to return to the rest of the book in the forseeable future. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:05, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

I completed the handful of pages that you were uncertain about. Most of them involved one of two things. Some needed {{***}} which is a useful template to know about. Some had a letter in the lower right corner. We typically don't transcribe those; they are printer notations used to assemble the pages into books, and aren't part of the book's text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:34, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Block templates across pages

Hi. Just to inform you that proper way of using block templates across pages is this. What you have tried does not transcludes properly in Main namespace- Mpaa (talk) 18:50, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thanks.

Thanks!

Thank you for making some helpful edits here. I think you might be interested in writing (or proofreading, or validating) a few pages? -- AnotherEditor144 ^{t - c} 08:43, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Page statuses

I noticed that you set the status of Page:Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (tr. Shoberl, 1833).djvu/26 to Proofread immediately. That should have been Not Proofread. therefore, I have proofread it and kept it at that status. Feel free to validate. -- AnotherEditor144 ^{t - c} 09:38, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Index:Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (tr. Shoberl, 1833).djvu

I reverted your edit; the misspellings from the original text should be preserved. Special:Diff/10969268/10969227 -- AnotherEditor144 ^{t - c} 09:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Bohemian Review

Hello. Thanks very much for trying to help with the Bohemian Review. May I ask you if you could validate some of the pages? It is not a problem to proofread the remaining pages for me, but unfortunately I cannot validate those which I have already proofread, and so it would be really helpful. What do you think? --Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:27, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

I have noticed you already did some validating, which is great! If you want, you can start with the first volume (Index:The Bohemian Review, vol1, 1917.djvu), which is already fully proofread :-) --Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:01, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

I am afraid that this does not help at all, it is quite useless, I will have to replace it completely later anyway. However, validating the proofread pages would be a really big help as I cannot do it, have you considered it? I cannot (and do not want to) force you to do what you do not want to, of course… I am just suggesting what would really help and what does not… --Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:15, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

query

Why did you save out the pages I was just about to proofread? CYGNIS INSIGNIS 23:00, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

I've mentioned this at WS:AN. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 09:40, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Okay. And the reason is: I am not psychic. Sorry about that. --Hilohello (talk) 20:24, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

"our relationship"

I laughed because "our relationship" consists of me thinking you've got pretty good taste in works you choose to work on. Just so you know....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 22:54, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

anything you would like to do!!

commons:Category:20th Annual Meet -- League of Wheelmen (1899, Wheelmen Company Press) Your edits have been great!

The overfloat table is broken somehow and in a "has problems" category here. I am seeing double and triple, so good night!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 04:15, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

dhr

Hi. Please do not insert {{dhr}} into those works that I have started. I dislike that template and find it unnecessary in reproduction of works into the electronic space—we are not dogmatically reproducing books to books. Also as a pointer, replacing poetic indents with the colon is html code incorrect, as that is really <dd> and has html specific meaning, and is not appropriate in reproducing a work. In conversation/talk spaces, it is a useful cheat however it should not spill over to content spaces. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:45, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

'curvy' lines

Hi. You did one page of the "useful phrases" in Index:A Pocket Guide to China (1943).pdf using

• U+23DD ⏝ BOTTOM PARENTHESIS

I had started the first page of that section using the first thing I had found

• U+203F ‿ UNDERTIE

Which is better?

s⏝yah⏝OO S⏝YIN

or

Miss—s‿yah‿OO-jeh

I'm so stunned by the horrid attempt at transliterating that I can't tell. "s⏝yah⏝OO S⏝YIN" == "小心" == "Xiǎoxīn" ?!? Ugh!   (Note WP article w:Tie_(typography)) Shenme (talk) 05:23, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello. If I can contribute with some advice too, I would strongly recommend the undertie which is typographically used for tying, while parentheses are used for inserting some text into another piece of text. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 08:15, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

I honestly have no opinions, it was the first thing I found that looked right. Jan's probably right. Hilohello (talk) 23:16, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

A Quick Thank You Note

Thank you for all the hard work that you've done to make the November Monthly Challenge a success. :) Languageseeker (talk) 22:47, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Amazing Stories

Hi, thanks for your work on the Amazing Stories issues I uploaded. Unfortunately it looks like two of the issues (v15n10 and v16n11) had individual stories that had their copyrights renewed. I've flagged this up at Wikisource:Copyright discussions#Amazing Stories v15n10 and v16n11, and have uploaded new versions of the djvu files without the copyrighted sections. By the looks of it, you'd proofread around ten of these pages in v15n10, which might need to be removed until the copyright expires – sorry for not catching these earlier! --Yodin^T 11:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Strand Magazine Thanks

Thank you for the validation and categorisation on the Strand Magazine Volume 1 - it's been a bit of a lonely furrow for a while, and it's great to see some of the pages being validated (I hope I didn't make too many proofreading mistakes!). After Volume 1 is done I'm planning on formatting Volume 2 in a similar way (if I'm not going to be treading on anyone's toes) - let me know if you have any thoughts on how I have been approaching the layout of the Volume 1 pages, so that I can adjust my 'style guide' (such as it is) for the future. The most long-winded part of the process is extracting the images - fortunately I have some quite good quality 400dpi scans to work from and I'm already looking forward to adding these to the pages you have already done in Volume 2. Qq1122qq (talk) 07:35, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Lint errors

{{EB1911 Shoulder Heading|{{smaller block| doesn't work, you need to use {{smaller}}. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)