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Archive to 30 November 2011

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Some close out?

If you have some time over the next while, I would appreciate it if you could help close out Index:Devonshire Characters and Strange Events.djvu. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:39, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Looks like GO3 has beaten me to it. However, I've got a return favour to ask: could someone please validate the TOC and illustrations list for Index:The Story of the Treasure Seekers.djvu. Then this one will be completed as well. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:45, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I hit that too but I have to say once again that many issues still arise under dynamic layouts that need to be resolved - in this case all the dotted TOC text is shoved to "absolute" top-left, again, under version(s) of IE once viewed in the mainspace.

This does not happen in the Page: namespace so its most likely(?) a bug being brought to light because of Dynamic Layouts and its "relation" to pre/post transclusion & not the browser(s) involved. -- George Orwell III (talk) 02:21, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

It's not happening for me in Firefox 3.6 in the normal layout (1) or in either of the ugly ones (2 & 3). However, when I look at it in IEv6, oh dear what a calamity. It's truly horrible in all three layouts. I don't have any other browsers on here to check. I've no idea what to do about this, but something needs to happen with the number of IE users out there. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

??? Something probably will happen... I suppose they'll move on rather than look through :-( -- George Orwell III (talk) 13:35, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

That dratted dotted thingy? A PITA and the z-level itsy bit seems to be the culprit. Shoot that template. The dotted ToC is typographic only, not author specific, I vote we ditch them. <he says stridently before dismounting his horse> — billinghurst sDrewth 13:46, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

... I vote for a new smiley :) Londonjackbooks (talk) 13:59, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Not so sure about that, Drew - even under IE, using 'mobile view' approaches the desired "look" so I lean toward blaming the implementation of Dynamic Layouts without any wide-spread testing rather than CSS 2.0/2.1 first. -- George Orwell III (talk) 14:04, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Help with formatting

Thanks very much for your rapid response to my SOS, (both of them). I really appreciate your help. The reference continuation scenario is indeed messy as you point out. Hope I don't come across too many of them, but I should be able to sort it out OK now that I have your solution to the problem. Thanks again, and a Happy New Year to you. RonSimpson (talk) 00:11, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

2008 documents on en:Wikisource

I've completely forgotten about them. But never mind, I am to revise them as soon as possible. Happy new year in advance :) --Aristitleism (talk) 05:31, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Andreas Gryphius

Thanks so much for the welcome and for fixing my duplication of author:Andreas Gryphius. I couldn't figure it out. Would you mind telling me how to transfer a page to the authors category so next time I can do it myself? Thanks so much!

Once you gain "Autoconfirmed" status (editor for more than 4 days and have 10 or more edits) a move button will appear at the top of pages that you are allowed to move. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 00:48, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Formatting help

Hi again, and thanks for your help with the split references. I think I've managed to do it correctly by myself in the next example that turned up almost immediately. But here's another problem rearing its ugly head, and that's on page "First Voyage Round the World.djvu/242" This page includes an illustration. Can you let me know some time how to handle this? No hurry, I've skipped that page for now and moved on. Thanks for your patience RonSimpson (talk) 22:49, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ron, at the moment while you're still getting your head around the arcana of references I suggest you proofread pages with images and put {{Page contains image}} in the appropriate spot. Then mark the page as "Problematic" (rather than "Proofread"). This will put the page into a Category for the image experts to pay attention to and will signal to other editors that this particular page has a problem. There's no reason why, later on, you can't deal with the images yourself—but they take time away from actual proofreading. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 22:57, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned Euripides pages

I'm sorry about those orphaned pages; they slipped my mind. Yes, they have already been moved. Do you have a bot or something that you are using to delete lonelypages by having the bot follow a list? If so, could you add them to your list? If not, let me know and I will get rid of them.

Thanks, ResScholar (talk) 23:24, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips

And for the validation. -- Jimregan (talk) 00:29, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Main page

I clicked on to Wikisource front page during the 45 seconds between those edits. You've been caught! ResScholar (talk) 07:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

[Sheepish grin!]] Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)