User talk:Zhaladshar/archive 5

Author:Alexander H. Stephens

Author:Alexander H. Stephens and Author:A. H. Stephens both refered to the same person. I made Author:A. H. Stephens a redirect to Author:Alexander H. Stephens --Droll 09:07, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Application for admin ship

Some time ago J.Steinbock invited me to be an admin. If the invitation is still open I would at this time like to ask if I could be made and admin. As you know I have contributed to Wikisouce over some time now and in a substantial way. Also, I believe I have something special to offer since I have a BS in computer science and experience in Information Systems. Thank you for you consideration --Droll 22:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Author template vandalism

This has been vandalised several times in recent hours. I thought I would be clever and protect it, and now see on recent changes that I have in fact unprotected it so I have now protected it again. From this it would seem we have to put up with vandalism of this sort:-( Kind regards Apwoolrich 13:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I propopse we expand this to include all templates once we have establised their form and colour schemes etc. The echemes are important since once we get to the stage of agreeing thr forms and a suite of colours for particular purposes I would not like to see an editor coming in later and altering them just because he/she does not like them! I don't recall having told you this, but I work as a publisher's editor (I also wrote and edit books under my own name as well) and I see the WS documents being rather like the old Everyman series, which had an identifiable typographic style. Its the various templates which will ensure what we do is consisitent.

Shall I put a message on Scriptorium about this? Kind regards Apwoolrich 18:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:AuthorsList

sorry that I react so late, but why did you delete this template? it is used in order to navigate between the 26 Authors-letter categories. it is not doing the same job as the "Author index" template.... ThomasV 15:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes it is; see Category:Authors, for example. // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 17:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I corrected all the broken template links. {{author index}} can now be used for any namespace, so we deleted the one specifically for categories.—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 18:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

hmm, it sounds like you do not want to use categories for author pages, but the templates system instead... you currently have two systems coexisting (categories and templates), and one of them (categories) is broken since you put the wrong template on it. if you don't want to use categories for authors pages, why don't you just delete these categories? it will be less confusing ThomasV 04:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure what you mean...What template system are you referring to? All that we did was we generalized one template to allow it to be used in two different namespaces. Nothing else was changed. How is the category system broken?—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 04:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

sorry, I did not understand how it works. it works fine now. ThomasV 04:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

IRC

You might want to get on if you can if not ill explain later.--BirgitteSB 04:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Jane Addams.jpg

Please delete Jane Addams.jpg. I uploaded it some time ago and it is unused --Droll 08:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Disciplinary templates

In view of the problem we have had with logoboy95, I ask if we have any suitable templates for this kind of thing. I am putting together on the talk page of Wikisource:template messages samples of all the templates we use, based on an analysis by Birgitte of the different classes. She has a class for templates for unacceptable behavour. Do we have any? If so perhaps you would be kind enough to add them so we can see what they look like. Plus any others I have managed to overlook. By concern for now is the colours they are in, not so much what they say. Kind regards Apwoolrich 19:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Signatures

This is only meant to be of help in the future. I should have signed entry you stroke. Sorry. I seems to me that it would be very easy to fake a signature. It would IMO be very difficult to fake the history page as it records the identity of the user who made the edit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Droll (talk • contribs) 03:42, 11 February 2006.

• Sorry about the signature again. It was very late at night. --Droll 22:10, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Pilaf's Gizmo

Thanks. I was puzzling out what to do next when you wrote. The speed of WS amazes me. Where are you in the USA? I live in the middle of the UK's Somerset Levels at the end of a slow line with dialup, yet responses are instantaneous. Apwoolrich 20:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Monobook

I tried adding you monobook info, but it doesn't seem to work. I use Mozilla and did Ctrl+Shift+R. The header and author are supposed to show up as tabs right? Any ideas?--BirgitteSB 04:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning

Hi Zhaladshar, I need administrator assistance for modifying a protected page; please see MediaWiki talk:Copyrightwarning (I'm an admin on en.wikipedia.org) —Quarl 2006-02-14 21:31Z

Script updated (Live Preview)

Since you're using the Live Preview script, You might be interested to know that a major update has been released, named InstaView. The code and instructions are now available at Wikisource:Tools and scripts. The code there also includes a tracking link which will allow me (and anyone else who participates) to update your code without any effort on your part, assuming we have your permission. // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 21:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Keeping track of things

Hi, I am a bit concerned that we seem to have periods of great activity discussing technical matters, such as colours of templates, how to do indents, etc, which then go dead for a bit without any clear concensus emerging. Some get relegated to the archive and are hard to find later. There is often quite a lot of useful info locked up in these pages of relevance to later developments on how we operate WS - maybe providing a reference for a newbie.

I wonder if we might create a page somewhere listing these technical threads, so they do not get lost. Perhaps a kind of tehnical message board. I am not sure where the page might be - a permanent section of Scriptorium or the Admins page, or maybe one of User:Pathoschild's project pages. The main thing is to have it readily accessible for everyone to be able to find. Apwoolrich 20:04, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Clearly on WS.IGD. but there needs to be a links to it from the main page or the community portal Apwoolrich 20:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikinomics

Hi, Thanks for your comment on the Wikinomics article. I was told by [[1]] to move it FROM Wikipedia to Wikisource. Perhaps you both should could discuss this.

Dan, original research doesn't belong in Wikipedia but it is welcome at Wikisource. I'm sure you can put it up there. [[2]] 15:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dmccreary"

Just trying to do the "right thing" here but I am now getting a little discourged.

Do we have a form letter?

Was curious if we had some kind of templated-form-letter requesting permission to publish a work on WikiSource. I noticed that w:David Irving's book w:Hitler's War which is making all sorts of headlines this week (He just got jailed) actually has a "free version for non-commercial study and use" available at his website - might be nice if we were also able to distribute that while it's still topical and in the news. Anyways, was mostly just curious about whether we had an example eMail to send, or if I have to draw this up from scratch. Sherurcij 12:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

It wouldn't make a difference if we had permission from Irving/hisReps, no? I would've thought as long as they said "Sure, you can host it" that it'd be okay. Sherurcij 19:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Fiction pages

Thanks for the nice words.

If you take a look at Category:Fiction you can see the dates I'm using. I didn't know much about the various periods either before I took this on. I got these as the best guess after getting dates from several sites about eras in liturature. As I mention in the modern fiction pages, I actually combined the Victorian (1830-~1900) and Edwardian (~1900-1915) in with what is usually considered to be the Modern era (1915+). Mainly because that's pretty much what was there when I started. I may get around to breaking it up eventually but wouldn't mind if someone else took it on either. - Illy 21:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[[Category:Authors-J]]

User:Wikibob has an item "[[en:Category:John Maclean]]" on his user page. You have to look in the edit box to see it. It shows up as a subcategory on the [[Category:Authors-J]] page witch kind of makes things messy from my point of view. I'm not sure if anything should be done about it. I know that I don't feel free to edit a user's page. I figure I'll let you worry about it. Thanks --Droll 06:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

It has been fixed --Droll 23:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about that. Just a careless mistake on my part. Feel free to erase Syzygy now that I have moved it. I have been adding a bunch of random EB1911 articles, mostly short ones. I especially like the ones with Greek words, which are being spelled out in Latin letters in Gutenberg. I like the idea of us being as close as possible to the original. Danny 20:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I have been using Tim's scans to make the articles I have added. Danny 23:26, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

A combination of both. I copy entries from here into a word processor and compare them with Tim's scans, make any corrections I find, and add them. If it is a very short article I will manually input it. This way, however, I get the benefit of a scanned article and can compare it with an original. Danny 01:11, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

the "L" word

Hi!, I'm Kcyclopedist, and well, you guess what it's all about. Do you have some spare time to talk about it?

Kcyclopedist 02:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Works

Hello Z I would like if you could check my works... ASAP its nice of you at wikisource... --169.244.143.115 15:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Z can you look at my latest and clean asap please? Where is Pathoschild or Shanel? --HaikuMan 15:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Z Where are you? --HaikuMan 15:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Zhaladshar hello I know you work on History of Wars Works so could you asap look at recent changes for my works on wars? and stuff? --169.244.143.115 15:36, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Since HaikuMan thought wrong let's try and forgive him/her a newbie and so i'am due to misunderstanding the rules of copywrite? --169.244.143.115 16:01, 15 March 2006 (UTC) Z

Z did you hate me? 216.220.231.226 14:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

will you help me? 216.220.231.226 14:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Check it out on recent changes Zhaladshar! 216.220.231.226 14:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC) help Clean please

Canozet ?

HOw FAST and you type something up??? 216.220.231.226 15:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC) eveyone reply...

Please don't be angry I slipped and thought Allan Henley could help me! Cleanup for the Reagan

I take quick rest zzzz ok now you can cleanup. please i be around? 216.220.231.226 15:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC) I not feel good today feel into the cedar tree this mornin beach