Index talk:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf

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I've requested this file be moved on Commons... I'll fix the links here once the bot is done. Jarnsax (talk) 19:25, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi there. Have you done everything that needs to be done yet, because something seems to be broken? If I create new pages the previous and next buttons do not appear.

I can't see why this needed to be moved at all. There are far worse named files on Commons. Chrisguise (talk) 16:30, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

@Chrisguise: It's not working because I haven't had a chance to do anything to fix it. I'm working on that now. I've been off the net due to an ~20 day trip... the day after I got home turned out to get day 0 of having both COVID and the regular flu at the same time. I blame that on the ~12 hour plane trip on the way back... I didn't even check my email until I felt better. I'm working on fixing it now, but how long it will take depends on my free time, and the ~250 needed page moves being rate limited by the wiki.

The reason I requested it moved is in the move request on Commons (which was then done by a filemover who agreed with it). Including the publisher and publication date disambiguates it from other editions of the same work without having to parse the file page (which is commonly wrong, anyhow... for most books old enough to be PD, the MARCXML was transcribed from a typed catalog card, then parsed by scripts that don't understand MARCXML that well). Jarnsax (talk) 02:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Just as a further comment, I've actually fixed the file pages (and renamed) quite a few of the US-published books on Commons, and have a huge backlog of ones that I intend to also fix. I'm checking the publication information against the book itself, and then verifying that the identifiers link to the source physical edition instead of the scanned copy. Jarnsax (talk) 15:34, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

@Chrisguise: This should be done now. Jarnsax (talk) 16:19, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi there. Hope you're fully recovered. Thanks for letting me know.

Best of luck with your efforts - I get frustrated with some of the poor practice I come across on WS and try to fix some of the low level stuff.

When I upload books on Commons I generally go with a file name along the lines of Title - surname of author (year published). Chrisguise (talk) 16:33, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

@Chrisguise: I've seen files named like that, and don't generally mess with them (other than auditing the file page itself) unless I specifically notice that there were editions by multiple publishers in that same year... this is common with simultaneous US and UK publication. As a way to "compensate" for the delay, I'm going ahead and creating the rest of the pages with better OCR and the headers and footers added.

I'm over being sick now, other than some lingering crud in my lungs. Having both at the same time despite having been vaccinated for both was pretty bad luck. Jarnsax (talk) 16:41, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

@Chrisguise: Everything I intended to do is done, and all of the various links should be working. I switched all of the numbers used in titles to lining numbers (except the one title that's in allcaps so doesn't use them)... they also used them in the running text, but IMO when the text is in mixed case the normal numbers actually make it more readable (they stand out a bit more). Jarnsax (talk) 17:48, 26 June 2024 (UTC)