User talk:Yann/archive 2

Latest comment: 15 years ago by 1st in topic welcome message

Re:Brundtland Report edit

I removed Category:UN because I found I'd put it in a Sub-cat of the UN, the other Category was redlinked so I created it, I did'nt that it no longer exists so I'll remove the Category. Kathleen.wright5 10:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

The Bolshevik Myth edit

I do try and take care to not delete works that you can copy over to Wikilivres. In this case I did not realize and still do not understand why it would be acceptable there. It has been at WS:COPYVIO for over a month with no one objecting to the idea that it is clear violation of copyright (not just unacceptable for Wikisoure's stricter standards). Obviously you must see some loophole that I cannot which would show it not to be a copyright violation. If you will take care to leave a note about such works being acceptable to Wikilivres I would not delete them until all is copied. And of course, if I recognize something that would be acceptable there I will leave you a note. But this is a US work that is fully copyrighted, I do not know what I am missing.--BirgitteSB 23:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

The author died in 1936, so by the 50 pma rule, it should be PD, isn't? Actually it seems that it is also PD in Europe. Yann 08:36, 12 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
You are right. Sorry for missing that.--BirgitteSB 13:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the welcome edit

Thanks - just thought I'd be polite and thank you. I'm a highly active Wikipedia editor, so I'm pretty familiar with most of this, but I won't be editing much. I must congratulate you, welcomes on Wikipedia are never anything like that fast! Just thought I'd pop inDendodge 19:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Question? edit

I want to split the work The Hollow Needleinto chapters but when i do that should I keep the names of the chapters off and just put them at the beginning of each chapter or leave them off entirely? Thanks in advance.

o.O edit

I see one Keep, zero Delete, what gives? Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Charles Spurgeon 23:30, 20 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

I don't necessarily think it should be kept; but I think you and FloNight should have posted your opinions on the page, and given a week for people to respond, before deleting it. It looks sketchy, and doesn't provide details for reference if the issue arises in the future. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Charles Spurgeon 17:59, 22 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Index:Sanskrit Grammar by Whitney p1.djvu edit

I tried to proofread some pages of the above, but the Contents and Abbreviations are out of alignment with the original so I left them unproofread and some pages need Sanskrit writing images. Could you do something about this as its on your TO DO list and you're an Indian specialist? Kathleen.wright5 08:34, 24 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

hangon edit

I had marked Transwiki:Constitution of Republika Srpska with {{hangon}} with details on the talk page, which is now Talk:Constitution of Serbia. Was there a recent discussion regarding why it should be deleted? John Vandenberg (chat) 23:36, 27 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Well, I thought that page was not useful anymore. I restored it. Yann 00:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Paragraph-mark.svg edit

Thanks; it late here, and I'm done. I replied on ws:s. Real name is David. Cheers, Jack Merridew 16:04, 28 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks; some children never grow up. Cheers, Jack Merridew 13:59, 1 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Livres edit

  1. (Deletion log); 23:21 . . Yann (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "The Man of Allah/preface" (Copyright violation: content was: '{{header | title = The Man of Allah | author = Qassim Ali Jairazbhoy | translator = | section = Preface | previous = | next = | notes =...' (and the only contributor was '[[User:Sh)
  2. (Deletion log); 23:21 . . Yann (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "The Call Divine" (Copyright violation: content was: '{{header | title = The Call Divine | author = Qassim Ali Jairazbhoy | translator = | section = | previous = Wikisource:Islamic poetry | next = | notes = 1933 poem that appeared in)
Sure hope those made it to Wikilivres. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Charles Spurgeon 00:40, 7 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Heh.

  1. 22:19, 6 September 2008 Bookofjude (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "The United States of Lyncherdom" ‎ (Copyright violation: see Wikisource:Possible_copyright_violations/Archives/2008-09#The_United_States_of_Lyncherdom) (restore)
  2. 11:28, 6 September 2008 Bookofjude (Talk | contribs | block) marked r762948 of Wikisource:Scriptorium patrolled ‎
  3. 08:37, 6 September 2008 Bookofjude (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Split Cherry Tree" ‎ (Copyright violation: Wikisource:Possible copyright violations/Archives/2008-09#Split Cherry Tree) (restore)

Sorry, didn't think to double check that you had them. I'm not sure whether any of them are appropriate for Wikilivres, they are there, and you have undelete so you can copy. Jude (talk) 03:30, 7 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I copied both to Wikilivres. Thanks, Yann (talk) 20:44, 7 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Desire edit

It's really me. Cheers, Jack Merridew 13:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism edit

Looks like you are currently online - Runescape needs to be deleted. Jeepday (talk) 01:34, 13 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Re: Duplicates On Wikisource:Transcription Projects edit

How exactly did you determine which ones were "duplicates". Taking a random cross-section:

I found only one redirect, and none of them seem to be duplicates. So I'm not exactly sure what the problem is. Psychless 18:59, 13 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Livres 2 edit

Hi,

FYI, I will delete these works shortly. If they're eligible for movement to Wikilivres, feel free to do so.

Will edit if there are more later. Jude (talk) 09:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Help edit

I am not great with computers and this is something that is required for one of my classes. Is there any way you can help me figure out what the error message means and how to fix it. I went to the style guide and I am not sure what to do. Thank you. Bksecret (talk) 19:33, 24 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

October FT edit

See more comments on Z's page. RlevseTalk 17:36, 27 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Re : Sork Key edit

Dear Yann, Thanks for the info, I will remember this! -- Nvineeth (talk) 14:33, 28 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

new br edit

Yann, the BR you added is being questioned at Template_talk:PD-1923#MOS_violation. {{PD-old-70}} and {{PD-old-100}} dont have a leading BR, so I am curious why you added it to the 1923 license template. John Vandenberg (chat) 01:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Translation and stating a source edit

Hello Yann, thanks for your greeting!

Today, I started editing Russian Wikisource according to my "vintage ethnography" interest.

My long-planned thing is an accurate Russian translation of the article Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Kutenai Indians.

Now that I nearly finished it, I would like to know if there is an accepted order on how to formally (0) name (1) state the article source and (2) categorize the article about an ethnic group accurately in the Russian edition when translated from the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).

For the Catholic Encyclopedia there is a template here, but I am not sure it may fit into Russian edition at the moment.

Please give advice or tell who I may consult on these issues.

I think I am going to ask my questions on the Russian edition too, but en.wikisource seems to be a lot more "populated" at the moment so some of the issues may have already been discussed here.

Thanks in advance, Tar-ba-gan (talk) 10:10, 29 September 2008 (UTC) (my lair in en.Wikipedia)Reply

OK now it has been changed by user:Dmitrismirnov who seems to be ready to mirror most Catholic Encyclopedia organizational features... Tar-ba-gan (talk) 21:36, 29 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please Undo edit

Please revert your edit regarding margin-top: 1em;. The extra white space confuses readers and is unnecessary.24.65.69.8 01:40, 30 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please look at Hatha Yoga Pradipika. You can see practically 3 lines of confusing space between the bottom of the text and the start of the top of the template. This is not the case with other pages in wikisource. Please remove margin-top: 1em;.24.65.69.8 00:52, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
On the contrary, this is much better than when the template is glued to the text. Yann (talk) 00:55, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
The space is creating more hurt then help. I reverted your change on Hatha Yoga Pradipika.24.65.69.8 00:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
You don't know what you want. You complain that there is too much space, so I removed some space, and then you revert me. Yann (talk) 16:44, 3 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
I cordially ask you to please look at the talk page.24.70.95.203 03:06, 10 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
Ok, I see that I might be confusing you. Here, you added a space that makes affects all other templates that use this template. Here is a result. You will see that there is an unnecessary space right between the template and the body of the text. This is a source of confusion. I impore you to delete this extra space you did here.24.70.95.203 03:14, 10 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thank you edit

Thank you so much for helping me with that and correcting it for me! Forever grateful Bksecret (talk) 03:07, 30 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi Yann edit

Thank you for welcoming me almost a month ago. I look forward to your kind help. Cheers. --KYPark (talk) 03:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi Yann, Thank you for the welcome. I know who to ask when I need help now! Would you move The Old Testament in the Jewish church to The Old Testament in the Jewish Church please? --Gister (talk) 14:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Done, but you can rename pages yourself. Yann (talk) 20:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thank-you spam edit

Thank you for supporting me for adminship. :) I'll try to make you glad you did it. So here's a belated Nadezhda "Harry S. Truman" Durova campaign song. All the best, Durova (talk) 05:42, 28 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'm Just Wild About Harry (help | file info or download)

Yann Ignores Plain Information edit

Recently Yann deleted a new posting because of a copyright message. Yann failed to read (or, worse, failed to understand) the sentence that followed it, "Copyright shared with all who retain the previous line", which clearly is an "open" licence for copying it. Yann did not even bother to TRY to find out that the one who posted it was the actual author! And if this Wiki site has a more-clear way of specifying copyright status among the selection-options, when a new text was posted, it is obviously NOT so clear to a new user, or this mess would not have happened.

Thanks + Maid of Amsterdam edit

Thanks for your welcome. I can't get this, my first effort, to format. Getting stuff how you want it seems to require something different than on en.wiki. For instance on en.wiki, I can just press return to make a space between to lines, like I was in Microsoft Word. All help/cleanup appreciated!:) Sticky Parkin (talk) 14:21, 30 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Question about your edit to Template:DJVU page link edit

Hey, why did you add the right alignment to {{DJVU page link}}?[1]

I ask because it makes it impossible to use multiple instances of the template on the same line; I had to create Page:Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke - 1899.djvu/5 without the template, otherwise it looked very bad (the first number of the range, the hyphen, and the last number of the range were each on their own lines). Since I'm going to be creating a similar template (but about five times larger and more complex), I'd rather use the template.

Thanks. EVula // talk // 21:09, 4 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

welcome thanks edit

Thanks for the welcome, you were quick off the mark, I was only into my third edit! I have strayed over from the en' version of wikipedia when I found a book of interest, but with OCR errors to fix. As yet I don't know what I am doing! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:00, 7 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the welcome edit

Much appreciated! Could you have a quick look at the proofreading I've done so far and let me know if I'm making any major errors, please? I'm reading up on the guidance as fast as I can: it's a bit different to Wikipedia here. Best, Smalljim (talk) 19:16, 12 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Fr edit

Is there a French version of Portal:Religious texts or something like it, where I could list a number of French religious works I'm adding to IA this week?

Not really. You can add that on the talk page of fr:Catégorie:Religions et croyances. It is true that a portal would be much useful. Thanks, Yann (talk) 22:37, 5 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Would I be welcome to try and set up a system over there, despite mon francais mauvais? Si je seulement utilise les mots je connait...ish? C'est seulement copy/pasting les noms de livres et son auteurs et l'annee, si je pense c'est d'accord...?

Also, I know you were looking for a Public Domain pre-52 version of the Origins of Totalitarianism, so...HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Nostradamus‎. 01:22, 12 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

moving a text edit

can i do it? Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China (2000) to Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China (2000 reform) ?

some tips pls... edit

Hi there again... I movbed the paged i refered to before (additional articles)... but the URL hasnt changed yet, just the title. How long does it take to do it? Cya

Welcome edit

Thank you for the welcome message. I do have a few questions regarding formatting. My goal is to add all 5 Pennsylvania constitutions (1776,1790,1838,1874,1968) plus the myriad colonial constitutions. I am not clear on how I should go about 1) proper formatting 2) naming conventions 3) how to organize them.

I have already added Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790, Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1776,Plan or Frame of Government for the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania, and A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania. Thanks!--MumblyJoe (talk) 04:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Claudius Bombarnac edit

I have uploaded this book and now need some guidance on what comes next formatting etc. --Varnesavant (talk) 01:10, 17 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

How do I get the preloading gadget to work? I think I enabled it in my browser at least I checked it off in "preferences", but it doesn't show up as a script like the regex script does on the left side. Also don't kknow if this filles in all the entries or they have to be done manually for chapters.

I had to delete your work as the text was corrupt and I had to start over. Will add text at end.--Varnesavant (talk) 14:42, 19 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Correct information for image page edit

I've just uploaded File:DennisWriting.jpg for Author:C. J. Dennis page, but how do I put the image information on it (The file is from Wikipedia), at the moment I've put Template:PD-Australia and that it's from the Wikipedia:State Library of Victoria to prevent it being deleted. Kathleen.wright5 11:11, 27 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

I know how to put it on the author page, but how do I put the correct information on the File page. Kathleen.wright5 11:34, 27 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Charter 08 edit

Please see User talk:Coppertwig#Charter 08. Coppertwig (talk) 17:40, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

OK, thanks. I put those templates at the bottom of the page at Charter 08; or should they go at the top? And I added comments to clarify which version the templates apply to. Thanks for putting in the header template; I'm an experienced Wikipedian but new to Wikisource. I would appreciate it if you would check whether I did it right, and if so remove the "new license required" template. Coppertwig (talk) 18:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks!! Coppertwig (talk) 18:04, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Mahatma's works to go public 60 years after his death edit

This news might be of interest to you! Nvineeth (talk) 09:19, 6 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Retrieving books from Digital Library of India edit

Dear Yann, Greetings! I am sharing a small python script which you can use to fetch the OCRed books from the Digital Library of India, which houses several books related to Gandhi, scriptures

#python script to download book from Digital Library of India.
import urllib
import sys
import os

def main(book_base_url, start_page, pages):
    i = start_page
    book_fd = open('book.txt', 'w')
    while i <= pages:
        page = "%08d.txt" % i
        url = book_base_url+"/"+ page
        print "retrieve page %d, url %s" % (i,url)
        url_fd = urllib.urlopen(url)
        book_fd.write( "\n-----------------------------------%d-----------------------------------\n"%i)
        book_fd.write( url_fd.read() )
        url_fd.close()
        i += 1
    # close the book.
    book_fd.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 4:
        print "Insufficient arguments."
        print "Usage : ", sys.argv[0], " BaseUrl StartPage NumberOfPages "
        # Example of base url : http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/data_copy/upload/0077/674/TXT
        sys.exit(-1)
    main(sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]), int(sys.argv[3]))

I don't know if you have programming background, if you face any problems, feel free to talk to me / mail me. Cheers, Nvineeth (talk) 17:13, 10 January 2009 (UTC)Reply


I forgot to mention another thing, we can even fetch the tiff images, convert them to djvu, run OCR on it (using tesseract engine), if you want I will write a script to do this. Nvineeth (talk) 17:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Template header Preloader at AR WikiSource edit

Dear Yann. How are you? We translated Template header Preloader to be used at Arabic Wiki source, but for some reason the script is not fully working (problem is for obtaining next and previous sections, everything else is working fine). Would you please take a look at the translated version User:Ciphers/Gadget-TemplatePreloader.js , and advice me for any possible error. Thanks in advance. Best --Ciphers (talk) 15:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the fast reply. I am sorry, but I don't think it helped much becuase i know these things, i believe the problem is more technical in the code itself. Thank you anyway. good to get to know you. --Ciphers (talk) 13:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the welcome. edit

Thanks for the welcome! --Surturz (talk) 23:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ditto from me. Bjenks (talk) 00:45, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Key To Health edit

"The author died in 1948, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less."

This is valid in US also right?--Abhishek Jacob (talk) 18:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

oops :( Thanks for pointing it out--Abhishek Jacob (talk) 18:35, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Small caps edit

Good Morning, Not sure if you know about {{smallcaps}}, see my edit on Page:Marie de France Lays Mason.djvu/25. Jeepday (talk) 11:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I know this, even if I don't use it. Yann (talk) 12:20, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Index:Principiaethican00mooruoft.djvu edit

I agree totally. But that is the name at W-Commons. If you change the name to Index:Principia Ethica.djvu it will bring up another version. Look on the history page for Index:Principiaethican00mooruoft.djvu. I've already tried it.Ingram (talk) 12:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

There are two editions of this work on Commons, one is named File:Principia Ethica.djvu and the other is named File:Principiaethican00mooruoft.djvu. The former was printed in 1959, the latter was printed in 1922. I am using the latter. There isn't a "move" tab on the file pages, so I did not know how to move/rename the file. Also, I was unable to overwrite File:Principiaethican00mooruoft.djvu with a better name. If you could explain to me how to rename a file on Commons, I will gladly do so. Thank you.Ingram (talk) 17:20, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks edit

...for the welcome! Juliancolton (talk) 01:58, 4 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Pictures edit

Could you help me with images. I want to upload the images for the book Peter Rabbit and his ma. I have already restored the images and they are on my computer. I know how to upload them to commons but I don't know which category it should go under, from somewhere else, form another wikimedia project??? If you could help me with this I would appreciate it very much. --Xxagile (talk) 22:25, 15 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I think that I've figured out how to do it correctly, or at least no one at commons has said that I've done it wrong at this time, so you can just ignore this request. --Xxagile (talk) 22:57, 17 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sanskrit Grammar by Whitney edit

Hello, Please see Index talk:Sanskrit Grammar by Whitney p1.djvu#Merge?. --Csörföly D (talk) 23:42, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks and question edit

Thanks for the welcome message. When adding new material, such as The Canoe and the Saddle, which I am entering, where do I list the source of this material (in this case the Library of Congress)? •••Life of Riley (talk) 22:03, 24 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

CotW edit

cough

CotW is about to end on Author:Romain Rolland, and as the person who pushed for his feature...you have yet to add any works :P This doesn't bode well! Can I push you back towards Index:Rolland Life of Tolstoy.djvu, or elsewhere? Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Romain Rolland. 16:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

welcome message edit

thank you for the welcome message. i'll do my best to improve Wikisource. 1st (talk) 23:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)Reply