User talk:Carcharoth

Hello Carcharoth, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here.

You'll find an (incomplete) index of our works listed at Wikisource:Works, although for very broad categories like poetry you may wish to look at the categories like Category:Poems instead.

Please take a glance at our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). Most questions and discussions about the community are in the Scriptorium.

The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page! John Vandenberg ^(chat) 11:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

p.s. you can set your prefs to have Wikisource notify you of all changes via email. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 11:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Patrolling, and quality

As you are now autoconfirmed, you are able to see how, in addition to page scans, we ensure quality is not degraded by patrolling each edit. On Special:RecentChanges, you will see red exclamation marks to indicate edits which havent been patrolled. This will give you a better view of which edits from the last 14 days havent been patrolled yet.

There are a few periods where edits have gone unchecked, but typically they are checked within a week or two. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:18, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

OK. I haven't really done much patrolling before. Any way to avoid conflicting with others? Also, I presume patrolling is limited to mainspace. No need or desire for patrolling of the other namespaces such as user talk page edits? Carcharoth 09:20, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I patrol all namespaces, so that we can track what talk page comments havent been answered, etc. You cant conflict on patrolling - either you mark it as patrolled, or someone else does. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

First one I clicked on was this. Wouldn't want to mark that as patrolled without checking it myself, and "I trust that user" doesn't feel quite like the right reason, though maybe it should be? Carcharoth 09:23, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Tough decisions.. but someone has to make them.

If the edits affect a core principle, such as accuracy, or copyright, I usually go check archive.org and try to set up a transcription project of that edition. This in turn gives the casual editor an opportunity to help migrate the text from the main-namespace to a djvu, where it can be proofread. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)