User talk:Robert K S

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

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I fixed Dover Beach. It was protected by Politicaljunkie so I don't want to unprotect it without asking him. However, it's only semi-protected so you should be able to edit it as a registered user.--Poetlister 22:31, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Robert, please see here. The page doesnt need to be unprotected. We will update the excerpt once the Wikipedia page has changed, and those changes have been agreed upon by other Wikipedians. You can use {{editprotected}} to request a change; alternatively, you will be able to edit this page once you reach "autoconfirmed" status, which is usually after 10 edits and 3 days. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 01:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Wow. Please dont make unnecessary edits to talk pages. As I explained, you can go and make the changes to Wikipedia - our excerpt from Wikipedia will then be updated. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 03:17, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, a little communication problem. I was warning you not to, rather than implying that you would. Frankly, if you did make 10 useful talk page comments in order to become editconfirmed I would be more than happy for you to enter the ranks of the autoconfirmed. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 05:09, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

The gist of my original comment was that unnecessary talk page edits wasnt the ideal solution. Our descriptions of a work are excerpts from Wikipedia (or rarely we also have excerpts from other works, if the text of the review is free and considered to be interesting/worthwhile). So, my warning was that 10 pointless edits to become autoconfirmed would be taken, by yours truely, as a POINTy way of avoiding the simple reality that the better approach is to fix the Wikipedia article, and our excerpt would in all likelihood follow suite. We have aeons of work ahead of us trying to catch up on archiving the published works of past aeons, and I am sure we will find plenty to "discuss" without trying to grapple with the difficult problem of describing works in a way that keeps everyone happy: we'll leave that madness to Wikipedia. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 16:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)