User talk:Brother Officer
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John Vandenberg (chat) 10:29, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
- John, I thank you for the polite and heartfelt invitation to do some more work here and I do look forward to it. I will be in and out as time allows me. I strongly appreciate your welcome and your good manners far more than you would ever imagine. These are important to me and have been all of my life.
Brother Officer (talk) 22:44, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
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[edit] A finished work?
Did I just see that you finished a work? If so, hearty congratulations. I would also ask for you to consider adding it to Template:New texts. Noting the instructions on the bottom of that page on how to add a work, plus as add to the top, take one off the bottom. Doing that adds it to our front page. 
billinghurst (talk) 09:31, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- I placed a book consisting of 22 chapters on Wikisource but it is not "wikified" to the extent of having 22 chapters with links connecting to Wikipedia. So, is that considered "completed"? It should be easy to wikify the material but I have two other books I wish to add to Wikisource and have already added the titles and chapter contents. If wikifying by adding links is a necessity please let me know. Thank you, Brother Officer (talk) 16:33, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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- It is complete (which is probably a better word) as a text, which is what I was meaning, so can go to the front page. I am not sure that texts are ever finished being wikified. -- billinghurst (talk) 16:50, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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- When Billinghurst says front page he indeed means the main page. Inspect the new works section of the main page. You'll see the word "add". If you'd like to try to add, press it, and follow the instructions found in the template, as Billinghurst described above. The title, author and date of your new work will appear on the main page for a period of time. ResScholar (talk) 04:42, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 2.djvu/789
tripped over this obituary that I thought that you may wish to proof read in situ so we can transclude to the main name space. billinghurst (talk) 02:37, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Subpage-work001
Hi! I'm clearing up some templates. What is Template:Subpage-work001 for? It is unused. If it just a test page or a personal sandbox/staging area, would you mind moving it you a user subpage (maybe User:Brother Officer/Subpage-work001) and I will delete the template page. Cheers, Inductiveload—talk/contribs 03:21, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
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- It is there because I am seeking and finding science fiction and historical fiction works that include Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury with the hope I learn more about him through those authors. That area is where I stored found information. I have also found excerpts by E A Poe and Herman Melville -- and I hope to find more. —Brother OfficerTalk 14:24, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
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- I have found and moved your work to where you expected to find it at User:Brother Officer/Subpage-work001. Somehow (and I don't know how) you created it as a template rather than as a subpage. Anyway, all back in place. For your information, if you had look under Special:mycontributions I would think that you would have found it in the list. Billinghurst (talk) 09:41, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
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[edit] The mysterious Header toggle button
When proofreading in the Page: namespace and one has their toolbar turned on [Gadgets | Editing (tab) | Editing toolbar (checkbox)], one will see the button 
, and clicking it toggles the header/footer on and off. In this space we put the relevant components for top and bottoms of pages, usually by use of the template {{RunningHeader}}, so for example {{RunningHeader|Stanhope|3|Stanhope}} produces
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I personally have my header/footer set to open in the Page: namespace and I achieved this by activating that option in my Gadgets. To also note that at this time, the use of the newer Wikieditor toolbar (Editing tab in My preferences) does not yet display all the tools that we utilise for proofreading. If you turn it off in your preferences you access the older toolbar and more editing options. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:08, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- I see no use to toggle that button. If anything it is confusing because it isn't needed. I think it should be deleted and something better can be placed in that spot. I too am now doing as you have taught me. I have the system set to show the header and footer every time. I thank you, Billinghurst, you always come through to assist others and there is great honor in that. Respectfully, —Brother OfficerTalk 05:27, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Southern Historical Society Papers
Two questions about the Southern Historical Society Papers:
1) Some of the scans at the Internet Archive combine two volumes into one DjVu file. Are these OK to transfer directly to Commons like the others or would you like them to be split (this will take longer)? It shouldn't make a difference to the final version in the main namespace either way but the former will mean one Index page covering two volumes in a few cases (if that matters).
2) I started the Southern Historical Society Papers page with a list of volumes and the first page of the first volume (just the contents). Is this OK? - AdamBMorgan (talk) 11:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- Adam, anyway that works best for you is fine with me. You decide what workes best as I will be doing page-by-page no matter what. When all is completed each volume should be seperate though. What you have done thus far is excellent. I would like to see volume 2 indexed though. Also, I own these old volumes and where the Internet Archive is missing a volume (i.e. vol.5) I can scan my hardcopy volume(s) although I really don't want that extra work. I will wait to see if Microsoft or someone else uploads the missing volumes. Either way, we here will not have to have missing volumes. Respectfully, —Brother OfficerTalk 18:00, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
