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-- billinghurst (talk) 00:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New Work

A valuable contribution, the Annals of the World. I made a couple of changes to Author:James Ussher, There is also an article on the w:Ussher chronology, which I think could be added to the note section of the your new work. I added the link to wikipedia in the header - here - we usually put the encyclopaedic information at that site. Most author pages have a short note and a list of works, for example Author:William Shakespeare, and readers would benefit from your longer notes in the wikipedia articles. Wikibooks has study guides for works here too, there are lots of ways to develop this. Getting this uploaded was a great idea, regards Cygnis insignis (talk) 04:47, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually, w:Ussher chronology is not just about this work. The article does mention that quotes of Ussher's Annals were fabricated, an interesting fact I recalled, another reason why providing the original is a good thing. Cygnis insignis (talk) 05:05, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Did you give any thought to what you would like to do with the text in Author:James Ussher? Cygnis insignis (talk) 17:36, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Not much, but you seem to have been around longer than me. Do what you think is best. I got the text from the Biography section of Annals of the World. So it isn't like I wrote it by hand. Arlen22 (talk) 17:39, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, is it part of the original work?—then it would belong there. Cygnis insignis (talk) 17:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

It seems to be a biography written by the site creator. The home page gives a copyright notice, so feel it is better to blank it rather than move it somewhere else. Great work with the new project, I've done a couple of academic papers, I'll post some examples there. Regards, Cygnis insignis (talk) 18:02, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

No. To the best of my knowledge it is part of the Public Domain text. It is also included in an e-book of it that I bought on Ebay. The copyright notice said that all the text was Public Domain, and all the formatting was Copyrighted. Arlen22 (talk) 18:18, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I'll get a second opinion and try to sort it out, thanks for responding to my concern. Cygnis insignis (talk) 18:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Dynamic Page List

Could we install the DynamicPageList extension? mw:Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) Arlen22 (talk) 19:13, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Could you explain this extension to me I don't understand its functionality?

B9hummingbirdhoverin'^chittychat 07:33, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Internet Down

My Internet is down right now so I won't respond to messages very fast. I might answer them now and then.Arlen22 (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2009 (UTC)