Tobias1984

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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:14, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Missing images

Hi, when an image is missing on a page it's best to mark it as "Problematic" rather than "Proofread". Also use the template {{missing image}}. This helps our image experts easily find the pages that need fixing. Cheers, Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:09, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Handling page breaks

Your work so far on South African Geology is great. Thank you for it. When a work is finished being proofread, we want to include it in the main namespace as a continuous text for readers, rather than the side by side text and page scan image mode we have for proofreaders. When that happens, the software needs to know how to properly handle page breaks. Without any human intervention it assumes that the end of one page and the beginning of the next one are part of the same paragraph, and the last word of one and the first of another are separate. To separate them into two paragraphs, we add {{nop}} on its own line at the end of the first of the two pages. If a single word is broken by hyphenation across the two pages, we use the {{hws}} and {{hwe}} templates to recombine them. It's much easier to take care of this when you're doing the first pass than having to go back and do it all after you're done. I've already done it for a few pages if you want to familiarize yourself. Thanks again. Prosody (talk) 20:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

@Prosody: Thanks for the helpful advice. I never got farther than proof-reading before and have already wondered how that is done. --Tobias1984 (talk) 21:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC)