User talk:Zyephyrus

Awards for participation

Proofread of the Month June 2009 Omnibuses and Cabs Proofread of the Month July 2009 A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 1 Proofread of the Month August 2009 The English Constitution (1894) Proofread of the Month September 2009 Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey Proofread of the Month October 2009 Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines Cordials and Liqueurs Proofread of the Month November 2009 Special: Validation month Proofread of the Month December 2009 Handel Proofread of the Month January 2010 The Passenger Pigeon Proofread of the Month bonus award January 2010 Celtic Fairy Tales Proofread of the Month February 2010 The Craftsmanship of Writing Proofread of the Month bonus award February 2010 Mars Proofread of the Month March 2010 Bull-dog Drummond Proofread of the Month April 2010 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ‎ Proofread of the Month May 2010 Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and other profitable tales Proofread of the Month July 2010 The Federalist Papers Proofread of the Month August 2010 Elizabethan People Proofread of the Month September 2010 Picturesque New Zealand Proofread of the Month October 2010 Triangles of life, and other stories Proofread of the Month November 2010 Special: Validation month Proofread of the Month December 2010 The Fables of Florian Proofread of the Month December 2010 Christmas bonus works Proofread of the Month January 2011 The Harvard Classics Proofread of the Month February 2011 Ornithological biography Proofread of the Month March 2011 The Art of Bookbinding Proofread of the Month May 2011 The fairy tales of science Proofread of the Month June 2011 The Life of Michael Angelo Proofread of the Month July 2011 Picturesque Nepal Proofread of the Month July 2011 bonus Picturesque New Guinea Proofread of the Month August 2011 The World's Famous Orations Volume 6 Proofread of the Month September 2011 Ninety-three Proofread of the Month October 2011 English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the nineteenth century Proofread of the Month November 2011 Special: Validation month Proofread of the Month December 2011 Yule Logs Proofread of the Month January 2012 A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery A Desk-Book of Errors in English

Collaborative French Translation Needed

The Two Mules

Le Grand Meaulnes

French poems, nursery rhymes and riddles

Collaborative Latin Translation Needed

De Methodis

Carmina

De Regimine Principum, Ad Regem Cypri

Montaigne

Essays (Montaigne) Author:Michel de Montaigne 1575 ESSAYS by Michel de Montaigne translated by Charles Cotton

To get a translation of a later edition (Édition de Bordeaux) more complete would do better. --Zephyrus 07:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey Zephyrus,

I've deleted Talk:Zephyrus/edit1 for you :)--Shanel 01:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

That ancient Greek Diodorus looks excellent (as does the French--I wish I could speak French!). Do you know if there is a special wikisource for ancient language texts? Robth 03:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Instead of OCR'ing the text, I think it would be more efficient to take the text from Wind in the Willows; or are they very different editions? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know, we dont have anything like the fr template ADroite. Please create a that template here. We may not use it very often because currently our header is always on the top of the page, ... but ... I am sure this will be useful at times. p.s. we are about to discuss header changes at Wikisource:Scriptorium#Standardization_run; French ideas are always welcome :-) John Vandenberg ^(chat) 11:31, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Final push for the Proofread of the Month...

This month's Proofread of the Month, Index:The Pilgrim Cookbook.djvu, is still a ways away from being fully validated. However, we're within striking distance.

If all ten members proofread just two (but preferably three) pages a day, we'll be able to finish the book before the end of the month.

We can do it. :) EVula // talk // 01:20, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Admin

I have been seeing your work at Special:RecentChanges and after checking your edit history and SUL I think you would make a wonderful candidate for Admin at Wikisource. Would you be willing to accept a nomination? Jeepday (talk) 23:51, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

• Your nomination has been posted Wikisource:Administrators#Zyephyrus, Thank you and good luck :) Jeepday (talk) 23:57, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

proofreading Aristotle

Hi, could you please check out the last edit you made here [1], the ref no longer looks correct, and I can't figure out why. Thanks, Epousesquecido (talk) 01:29, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank-you spam

Thank you for supporting me for adminship. :) I'll try to make you glad you did it. So here's a belated Nadezhda "Harry S. Truman" Durova campaign song. All the best, Durova (talk) 05:42, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

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Index:Montesquieu - The spirit of laws.djvu did you want this added by bot?

Zyephyrus did you want me upload the OCR for Index:Montesquieu - The spirit of laws.djvu or is this a copy and paste project? Please leave me a message on my talk page with the answer. Thanks. --Mattwj2002 (talk) 22:22, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Proofreading Our American Holidays

Thanks for the feedback! I'm figuring this out as I go, so please let me know if there are other ways to do this that would work better. Acarmack (talk) 22:52, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Historical Lectures and Addresses

Hi, Zyephyrus. Thanks for validating some of pages in Historical Lectures and Addresses.  :D After so much work, it's nice to see one of those lectures reach valid status.—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 13:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Small Caps

Good Morning, Not sure if you know about {{smallcaps}}, see my edit on Page:Marie de France Lays Mason.djvu/25. Jeepday (talk) 11:56, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

• Response at my talk Jeepday (talk) 23:40, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

commons:Category:Scanned English books in DjVu

Quick question—could you explain why you created this category on commons? Most djvu texts are placed in commons:Category:Scanned English texts. Do you think it makes sense to break these out separately? --Spangineer^wp (háblame) 15:00, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Okay, great. Unless you object, I'll propose that the category be deleted. And yes, it is quite confusing that there are different file structures for these texts. Originally the German wikisource created a file structure on Commons that was specifically identified as "Wikisource files," and at the time I was an administrator on Commons, so I got involved in trying to convince them that it made more sense to just call their books "Scanned German texts," since they could be used anywhere, not just Wikisource. It never really changed, so now there are different category structures and it's all rather confusing. --Spangineer^wp (háblame) 15:34, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, those three make sense. Personally I'm not convinced that the Wikisource template is necessary (there's no "Wikipedia" template on images used on Wikipedia, for example), but it's not hurting anything and if people find it useful, so be it. --Spangineer^wp (háblame) 04:00, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Huck Finn

Hello

The original title of the work is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, without "The". The version of the book I have is this one: Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Ed. Bernard De Voto. The Portable Mark Twain. New York: Penguin Books, 1977: 193-539.

The following extract is taken from Rasmussen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z. The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings. New York: Facts on File, 1995: "It should be noted that the full title appearing on the title page and cover of the first edition of this book is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). E.W. Kemble's illustration for the half-title page that opens the first chapter reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; however, "The" is not properly part of the book's title, though it has been used more often than not in reprint editions."

Do the wiki guidelines say that the title used in the article should be the same as the title appearing on the written version used as a source? Anyway, I don't really care what title appears, but since you asked if I had a published version, here it is.

regards

[from 78.22.104.150 15:34, 28 April 2009]

Thank you, 78.22.104.150. I transmit these informations to the Huckleberry Finn Discussion page. --Zyephyrus (talk) 23:03, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Re-adding the links

Why have you re-added the links? As I pointed out, they cause problems when one wishes to convert the stories to a pdf and print them out for offline reading. There seems to be a problem there, though perhaps it lies with the pdf conversion tool? Surely links to versions of the stories in different languages can go else where. There is also the problem that as they were, they didn't even show up on the page! They should be deleted as far as I can see as there is no good reason to keep them, they cause problems and provide nothing useful as they were not available to click to find the versions in different languages.

A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament

Zyephyrus, I think your the only admin on the English Wikisource that knows Greek. I wanted to let you know about A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament. Could you also please leave a message on the Greek Wikisource about this as well? I would let them know, but frankly it is Greek to me. Please leave a note on my talk page. Thanks. --Mattwj2002 (talk) 06:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

correction

Nicely picked up [2] I sensed there was an error, but the two spellings threw me off. Cheers, Cygnis insignis (talk) 22:07, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

created Author:F. C. Tilney

not sure which of the bits that he translated, so can I leave for you to add that component. -- billinghurst (talk) 06:15, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Popular Science Monthly update

Hi Zyephyrus. Please see the new documentation on the namspace and page naming convention for the The Popular Science Monthly Project . — Ineuw (talk) 02:40, 25 December 2009 (UTC) ps. nice to meet you.

Category organization

Category:The Popular Science Monthly Project

Detailed documentation of the PSM proofreading

Proofreading guide

Annotations

Hi Zyephyrus. I noticed your question about annotations, and frankly, I haven't annotated anything yet, but I created THIS PAGE, where there are references and they appear in smaller text, by the use of the {{smallrefs}} template. I hope this helps.— Ineuw (talk) 10:16, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion

We already have some version of the fables, you should consider subpaging the versions you are creating for a lot of reasons, but the best is it makes it easier for everyone to add or view the version they want. Cygnis insignis (talk) 11:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Glad I could clarify what was going on in the document. Hey ! I noticed you put a transclusion up here, beating my version here by a few years - this makes helping you an extra pleasure :-) Cygnis insignis (talk) 18:37, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Little request

Notice modeled after [3]

As Template:New texts is monitored in IRC, and many users have it in their Watchlists, I was wondering whether you would consider adding the name of the text being added to the edit summary, rather than solely +1,-1. Even if it is just have +Name of work, -1 that would be most helpful. Thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 04:29, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Little help

Hi User:Zyephyrus, I'm a newbie here and would like to ask you for a little favor. Can you check if this User:Krenakarore/monobook.js is right ? Just wanna add a few buttons and learn how to do the job. Any Tutor here on WS that might come to assist me ? Don't know much about computers and programs, so help would be welcome. Thanks Krenakarore (talk) 07:54, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

First Folio

Ok. Validated the page you showed me. Just tell me whenever you want me to look over one and validate it. - Tannertsf (talk) 22:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

old text "s"

How do you put the old character "s" into these pages, like on the First Folio book? - Tannertsf (talk) 22:14, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

{{long s}} = {{ls}} — billinghurst sDrewth 13:54, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikilivres

Do you know what is happened to Wikilivres? Is it going to functioning again? I wrote to Yann, but he did not respond. I don't know why... Dmitrismirnov (talk) 09:54, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikisource Translations

Hey Zyephyrus,

I apologize if it surprised you, but I can explain what led me to replacing the text. I came across an edit by an IP who it seems had been systematically making small changes that appeared to be vandalism. Well, some certainly seemed to vandalism, but that was what I found difficult. The page had been changed fairly often and in the same manner, but in not knowing latin, I felt somewhat helpless in protecting it against vandalism. I found a translation and thought it would put an end to it, and I could maintain it. I have no problem having both and can disambiguate and move the work I added if you like; I thought using the scan would be easier for everyone. - Theornamentalist (talk) 11:49, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Newly added text in Greek

Hi, I know this is in modern Greek, but would you mind taking a look at Μια διαλεξη? My Greek is pretty awful, but I suspect that this is a self-authored work and wanted to check before bothering to transwiki to the Greek WS. Is it worth keeping? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:17, 1 June 2011 (UTC)