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American Seashells deletions

More than 100 pages associated with Index:American Seashells (1954).djvu remain in the Page namespace following the deletion of the supporting file on Commons. (For history see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/American seashells (1954).) Does someone have a bot/script to delete pages beginning with "Page:American Seashells (1954).djvu/ . . ." --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:29, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

done.— Mpaa (talk) 10:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Shift Roman-numeral volumes of Once a Week to Arabic numeral

Request moved from Scriptorium#Cleaning up Once a Week namespace. Currently, the various wiki-pages for the eleven existing volumes of Once a Week have volume numbers partly specified in Arabic numerals and partly in Roman numerals. Could a bot please change any Roman-numeralled page names to Arabic numerals and correct all links? (But links should be piped to display the numerals as Roman.) Thanks. Levana Taylor (talk) 21:32, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Update - all sorted out. @Mpaa: thanks for helping. Levana Taylor (talk) 02:37, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Move Shakespeare's sonnets to Shakespeare's Sonnets

Each of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets are on separate pages with titles of the form [[Sonnet ## (Shakespeare)]]. These sonnets were checked against an edition which has since been added as a scan, at Shakespeare's Sonnets. I would appreciate the assistance of a bot to move each of these sonnets from [[Sonnet ## (Shakespeare)]] to [[Shakespeare's Sonnets/Sonnet ##]]. (Note: a redirect should be left for navigation purposes.) Thanks! —Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:51, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

done.— Mpaa (talk) 16:05, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

@Mpaa: could I request your bot to help move these again, this time to Shakespeare's Sonnets (1883)? There are too many subpages for an automatic move, and EncycloPetey is planning to add another edition with the same title. Thanks! —Beleg Tâl (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

done.— Mpaa (talk) 20:53, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Remove work category from subpages of Castes and Tribes of Southern India

There are 2032 subpages in Category:Castes and Tribes of Southern India. I've explained to the editor that we don't do work categories here and have used the category contents to create TOC pages instead. Please remove the category from all the pages, then it can be deleted as empty. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:53, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Done.— Mpaa (talk) 22:02, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Move Moby-Dick

Please move all pages of Moby-Dick to Moby-Dick (1851) US edition so that we can disambiguate the 1851 US edition from the 1851 UK edition, and from later editions. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:32, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

done.— Mpaa (talk) 14:31, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Index:Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger.djvu

This work has quite a few instances of repeated em-dashes ("——"). Please replace these with {{bar|n}} where n is the relevant number of em-dashes. BethNaught (talk) 22:10, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

done.— Mpaa (talk) 14:31, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Repair broken header syntax

Could someone use a bot to repair the broken header syntax throughout Index:The Pilgrims Progress (1890).djvu? The central value should be italicized, but User:TE(æ)A,ea. has gone through and removed the closing quote marks from every header [1] Also, the italicized text in the header should be THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, which may need to be corrected throughout as well. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:55, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Done.— Mpaa (talk) 19:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, but he's since created many new pages with the same problem. I've alerted him to the issue, but have had no response nor seen any corrections. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:07, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Should be OK now.— Mpaa (talk) 18:26, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 08:49, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Repair page sequence

I asked this over in WS:S but was directed here, so apologies to anyone who's already seen this request. The pages titles of the letters listed at Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters are currently out of joint with their contents because the bot that imported them assigned "Letter #" page titles to other material. I've done what I can without admin privileges. What remains: The pages titled Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 2 to …/Letter 317, inclusive, need to be decremented by 1. …/Letter 318 to …/Letter 327 need to be incremented by 2. …/Letter 328 to …/Letter 349 need to be incremented by 6. Ideally a bot could also replace the prev/next/section title info in the page headers appropriately. —Nizolan (talk) 23:21, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Done. A double check is appreciated.— Mpaa (talk) 21:04, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 08:49, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Bulk create empty pages

Would it be possible for someone to bulk-create pages 36-92 of Index:Morningeveninga00palmgoog.djvu? All are without text so I expect it will be easier to automate than to do it manually. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 17:26, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

@Beleg Tâl: I did it manually --DannyS712 (talk) 04:45, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 08:49, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

A possible bot request

Can I "revert" and undo my edits of this history page to clean up the mess I made with the move of Index:Vol 1 History of Mexico by H H Bancroft.djvu? If not, is there a bot that can do the task? — Ineuw (talk) 23:09, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

I cleaned up manually as much as possible and I created this list of pages that need to me moved. — Ineuw (talk) 01:20, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ineuw: Your moves are shown at Special:Log/move/Ineuw and the easiest way to undo a move is to use the revert link. The existing pages are

and we are going to need to do page deletions to manage the existing redirects for those pages, and the list of existing pages isn't that long. I suggest that with 15 pages (the 2nd list) that they can be manually, individually moved, with use of overwrite trigger, rather than by bot. I don't know what your long list is representing, or from where you pulled it. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:19, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

P.S. When I questioned your naming of main namespace works, it was solely the main namespace titles that I was questioning. What is presented in File:/Index:/Page: namespace is interesting and worthy of consideration at the time of creation, though not binding or overly problematic. Whereas the main namespace is a problem in my opinion when it starts with the word Volume .... I would generally recommend about NOT renaming in the Index:/Page: namespace, it is just ugly and only should be done on rare occasions and where absolutely essential. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:25, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice. The list of page titles was extracted using the quarry. The additional 15 pages will be managed manually. I had to replace the original Volume 1 on the commons because that copy was a republication (1886) of the original under a different title. — Ineuw (talk) 07:08, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Not done to be manually processed. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:41, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't understand why is it marked not to be done?? I can't change 800~ manually. — Ineuw (talk) 20:29, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Because as I explained there are fifteen, and you agreed to do them manually as there were redirects in the way. Again here is the link that shows the pages that exist and needed to be shifted … special:prefixindex/Page:History of Mexico (Bancroft)-Volume 1.djvu. Your reliance on a query from quarry, is not supported by the looking at the real situation (I have converted your sandbox page to links to demonstrate this.) — billinghurst sDrewth 21:12, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Now commons:File:Vol_1_History_of_Mexico_by_H_H_Bancroft.djvu redirects to commons:File:History of Mexico (Bancroft)-Volume 1.djvu, so it either needs to be moved back at commons, or move forward here.Mpaa (talk) 21:26, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 21:12, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

I have returned it at Commons. I don't see that it is a desired practice to move Index:/Page: namespace pages, especially not when they have been transcluded. It is just asking to break transclusions, have gaps, and creates administrative burden for no good purpose. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:19, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Template swap in one work

Please could someone have bot change all instances of {{frac}} to {{sfrac}}, in all of the extant pages of Index:Aerial Flight - Volume 1 - Aerodynamics - Frederick Lanchester - 1906.djvu? I was not aware of the latter template when I created the pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:02, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Doing… --DannyS712 (talk) 10:10, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Done 16 edits made: [2] --DannyS712 (talk) 10:15, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: Great job; and prompt. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:47, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 09:15, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Layout borders for Once a Week

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I’ve decided I need to change the standard width of the page layouts for Once a Week from 500px to 600ox, to accommodate various pages where text and image are side-by-side. This is causing me all sorts of woe. I am adding a layout box to the Page namespaces in the form of a border; unfortunately, before I figured out what exactly I am doing, I added some borders that aren’t helpful. The following bot actions would greatly speed up my work:

find and replace {{border/s|maxwidth=620px}}{{border/s|maxwidth=610px|style=padding:10px}} with {{border/s|maxwidth=635px}}{{border/s|maxwidth=625px|style=padding:10px}}
find and replace {{border/s|maxwidth=530px}}{{border/s|maxwidth=520px|style=padding:10px}} with the same
find and replace {{border|{{border|style=padding:10px| with the same, and change the closing }}}} to {{border/e}}{{border/e}}
find and replace {{border|maxwidth=620px|{{border|maxwidth=610px|style=padding:10px| with the same, and change the closing }}}} to {{border/e}}{{border/e}}
to all existing pages that don’t have any of those, add {{border/s|maxwidth=635px}}{{border/s|maxwidth=625px|style=padding:10px}} before any header text that may already be there, and add {{border/e}}{{border/e}} at the end of the footer

Thank you very much --Levana Taylor (talk) 16:26, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi. Maybe it is just me, but I can't see the benefit of having this kind of complexity in headers/footers of Page ns to mimic the something that in the Main ns will be lost. Other comments welcome.— Mpaa (talk) 19:00, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

It is just for people who will be working with tables and images on those pages (there are rather a lot of tables an images, considering that OAW is 8K pages in total). Having a box around the preview helps with getting the relative size of such elements consistent throughout the magazine. Levana Taylor (talk) 19:06, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Can you please give examples so we can better understand. At this stage I am with Mpaa's position of "why?" If we have to make changes and there is a necessity to have Page: ns formatting, and there is the potential requirement for change, I would much prefer that we had a template that was specific to the work and the namespace, so if changes were required then we just have to amend a template. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:42, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, yeah, that’d be even better. See this, this, this, this, this and this for six examples of places where I can’t fit things into less than 600px wide unless I reduce the font size -- I thought it would be better to keep the default font size. If you have ideas for making this business easier, please do tell me! Levana Taylor (talk) 22:08, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

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(unindent) I’ve been thinking. The best way to make sure the images are always correctly scaled relative to each other is to have a template where their width is expressed as a percent of the width of the page, as measured on the original images. That way, these percents can be translated to an absolute size by a value stored in the template (100% = 600px in my current thinking), and thus changed globally while staying the same relative to each other. Would it be much trouble to make such versions of {{FI}} and {{FIS}} for Once a Week? Levana Taylor (talk) 02:12, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

I agree with User:Mpaa even though I indulge in it occasionally. It is only for personal gratification and for varying the editing experience. Otherwise, it's a waste of time. — Ineuw (talk) 22:59, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Agreed, as to borders. But what do you think about having a percent-sizing template for images? Levana Taylor (talk) 23:45, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Comfortable with running a bot through to resize images. That seems reasonable, and I will look to do it. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:27, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

That is not what I meant. I should have, I suppose, moved this conversation to the area for template proposals. What I mean is, that currently the images for Once a Week have been sized (in pixels) according to several different principles. I might like to see a template to facilitate consistency, namely, work-specific versions of FI and FIS with the size expressed in a percent of page width; the percents to be converted to absolute pixels as a percent of some globally-set pixel value (600, I would argue; that is the width which I have now found necessary to accommodate text+image combinations.) I would have to set the percent values of existing images by hand because they have not been done consistently and thus can't be converted automatically. It would only take me a couple of days though because there aren't yet very many images uploaded. I wouldn’t be in such a mess if I had done the image sizes by percent to start with and could easily scale them! This is hardly a very high-priority template though--to be done only if it’d be easy! --Levana Taylor (talk) 06:46, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

On yet further thought, I don’t think this is necessary. I don’t think (fingers crossed!) the layout sizes will be adjusted again. Mot worth the work to create a template, though, as I say, if only it existed to begin with … so, forget this whole idea, no work is needed. Levana Taylor (talk) 09:41, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 13:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Cato's Letters

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Would it be possible to move the parts of this work to subpages? Cato's Letter No. 1 -> Cato's Letters/Letter 1 and so forth. Headers need to be updated too, but I can fix them afterwards using AWB. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 17:00, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

@Beleg Tâl: What about Additional Letter of Cato No. 1? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 21:41, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Cato's Letters/Additional Letter 1 I guess? —Beleg Tâl (talk) 03:37, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

done.Mpaa (talk) 18:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 13:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Page Shift in Tolstoi's Complete Works

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I found pages 72 and 73 of Index:The Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi - 11 (Crowell, 1899).djvu were duplicates, and at the same time that pages 82 and 83 were missing entirely. I have reconstructed the file to remove the duplicated pages and add in the missing pages, but could use some assistance shifting the contents around. I've updated the Index to match the new DjVu, but the contents of pages 72-83 are out of sync now.

The text contents of book pages 74-83 need to be moved 2 pages earlier in the document, so that the text that now appears on page 74 needs to be shifted two pages earlier so it will be on page 72, and page 75 needs to be shifted two pages earlier so it will be on page 73, and so on, up until page 83 getting shifted so its text is on page 81. Page 84 and everything after does not need to be moved. —Dcsohl (talk) 17:21, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

@Dcsohl: You'll probably want to specify exactly what page moves are needed so that whoever handles the request doesn't have to research it themselves. Running a bot to move pages is relatively quick; but researching exactly what needs to move takes time, and is best done by the one who altered the DjVu and knows the work. --Xover (talk) 17:29, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

@Xover: I've updated the original request above, trying to be more specific. Does this look good? —Dcsohl (talk) 17:59, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

@Dcsohl: That does indeed look good. Thanks for helping improve this work! --Xover (talk) 18:05, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Done.Mpaa (talk) 18:21, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

@Mpaa: Thank you!

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 13:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Index:Eight Harvard Poets.djvu

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After fixing the source file, pages from Page:Eight Harvard Poets.djvu/20 onward are now offset by two pages. Could someone please move 20->22, 21->23, and so forth? Thanks —Beleg Tâl (talk) 15:59, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Done, Main ns transclusion done, pagelist needs to be aligned. Mpaa (talk) 17:44, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 13:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)