User talk:Krenakarore
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Victuallers (talk) 22:33, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
I may be misunderstanding, however, the page Primero looks to be an article, rather than a work that is in the public domain (encyclopaedic articles belong at Wikipedia:). If you have a look at WS:IO you will see the purpose of what Wikisource, so in this situation, we would be looking for reproducing the original work, and probably all of it, rather than just a snippet. -- billinghurst (talk) 23:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Little help[edit]
Hello Krenakarore,
Your monobook seems very good to me. Here is mine: you have nearly all the buttons I have got. You might be interested in adding the Author one, I use it a lot and the poem one a lot too: do you like poems? Another useful one for me is the <br /> one. I seldom use the other ones (sidenotes) but perhaps you will? And you might be interested in trying the images of my buttons too: they are the imageFile line at the beginning of each button. Are there any other questions I can answer?
Regards, --Zyephyrus (talk) 19:37, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you Zyephyrus, I haven't tried to proofread or edit anything here yet. I will as soon as I come back from north Moravia, where I am supposed to be this coming weekend. I hope I can get you supervise my initial work here and see that everything is according to the rules. I thank you very much for all help provided and for the moonbook.js tips as well. The best was to copy your page and make mine a mirror of yours, just to be sure that everything will work out fine. One last question: how do editors here move pages to Wikipedia so that another article may be created there ? All the very best, Krenakarore (talk) 12:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)