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Do you recall why you included a PD-1923 license ? That doesn't seem right to me. -- Beardo (talk) 13:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

No I don't, but I expect it's because it's the only license that is always valid regardless of where or when the author lived, so if you don't know anything about an author it's really the only license that you can use. (shrug) —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 13:43, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

In this case, the author page should have been deleted after the discussion at WS:CV, so I'll flag it for deletion —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 13:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC) —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 13:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for adding WikiData links

WikiData is an almost complete mystery for me, so thank you for connecting my authors to WikiData pages - I imagine it's done semi-automatically, but it's still worth thanks!

Qq1122qq (talk) 18:58, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Psst @Qq1122qq, don't forget to add license tags when creating author pages :) —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 14:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the prompt - at the moment I'm just going through the contents pages for the 1928 Popular Mechanics issues and adding author stubs. For many of them we don't have autobiographical information, or even full names. What would be the most sensible license tags for them? Qq1122qq (talk) 14:25, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

If they've published something before the US cutoff date (such as the 1928 Popular Mechanics), then you can use {{PD-US}} regardless of any autobiographical information. —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 14:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

All Popular Mechanics 1928 author pages should now be updated with license information. Thanks again for the prompt. Qq1122qq (talk) 09:45, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

‎Poems by Emily Dickinson - Second Series

Don't forget that each of these poems had a Wikidata item associated with it. Either the versions page or a "duplicate" edition should be connected to each of those data items. Right now, what's happened at Wikidata is each data item has been de-linked from Wikisource. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:01, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

If the items are for the poem themselves, I'll link them to the versions page. If they are for the unsourced edition, then they should probably be deleted. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

How would you go about listing all the WD items that were linked to these pages? Can it be done with petscan or something? —Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:09, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

The easiest way might be to check your Wikidata Contributions. You'll be listed as having edited each page as part of your deletion actions. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:15, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

sdelete

Hi. Why leaving a redirect when moving a page and then tag it as sdelete, instead of moving without redirect? You are also an admin, you could speedy right away in case you forgot to uncheck the "Leave a redirect behind". Mpaa (talk) 21:05, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

When I'm using my non-admin account User:Beleg Âlt (i.e. when I don't have access to my MFA device to log in as admin), then I have to use sdelete :) Often I'll be the one to go back and delete them properly when I'm logged in as admin, but often someone else beats me to it. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:32, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Ah OK, I didn't notice the Alt vs Tal :-) Mpaa (talk) 19:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Dab redirects

I'd seen a lot of redirects in disambiguation pages, but up to now I assumed they were created by some sort of (semi-)automatic system. I just realized that you do them manually. What's the point? — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 14:41, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

It's not really necessary, but I do it to maintain the distinction between a work (which will be a versions page or redirect), and an edition (which would be the scan-backed text). The redirect essentially holds the space for the future versions page when other versions are added, and makes for less work in the future (and makes it easier to clean up if they forget to create the versions page). It also makes it easier (for me) when I'm dealing with integrations between enWS and Wikidata, where the work and edition remain separate items even if the work page on enWS is only a redirect.

Anyway if you don't feel like doing this, it doesn't matter too much, I just find it marginally improves the organization of information on this website. —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 16:04, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Makes sense. It is for the same reason that sometimes redirects are created to a subpage of a work, though they not used in the TOC? (first example coming across my mind is Snowflakes, that I've since overwritten for a disambiguation page) — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 16:12, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, exactly. When I am working on anthologies and collections, I always create redirects (or versions pages) from the title of the work, to the edition of the work published within that anthology or collection. Again, it's not really necessary, but it keeps things cleaner and makes it a lot easier when dealing with integration with Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.—See, for example, User:Beleg Tâl/Sandbox/Flint and Feather —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 17:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

For an example of why I do this, have a look at Author:Charles Lutwidge Dodgson#Individual poems. We have multiple versions of most of his poems, but the majority of them do not have a versions page (yet), and most of those with a blue link redirect to only one of the versions that we have. I will be working on cleaning this up, but my personal preference is to handle this stuff as I go. —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 13:22, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Acrostic disambiguation page

Hi, I saw you'd added some items to this recently. Contrary to the title at the head of the page, most of the works listed are not called 'Acrostic', they are an acrostic. Those that are, such as the Keats and Poe poems, and the encyclopaedia articles, should be here but most of the others should simply be categorised as 'Acrostics' (category doesn't exist at the moment). Chrisguise (talk) 18:47, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

On the contrary - the only works I added to that page that are not titled "Acrostic" are Acrostic - Madrigal and Acrostic - The Martyr, which in my opinion are close enough. The others are, in fact titled "Acrostic". There are other acrostics by Carroll that are not titled "Acrostic", which I did not add to that page. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 00:39, 25 May 2024 (UTC)