User talk:Chris~enwikisource

Hello, Chris~enwikisource, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at 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. :)

Dead sea scrolls

Nice work with the Dead Sea scrolls that you've been uploading! You might want to have a look at Template:Header (and [[Template talk:Header), which is pretty much our standard template for works. You might also want to consider moving the pages you just created to subpages of Dead Sea scrolls, for example, 4Q166 would become Dead Sea scrolls/4Q166; this helps us to keep all the related pages together, and also makes for ease of reference from other Wikipedia projects. You can find more information about our naming convention at our style guide, which I've linked above. :-) Jude (talk,contribs,email) 03:54, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

{{PD-NASA}} redundant?

Hello. {{PD-NASA}} seems to be redundant with {{PD-USGov}}, since NASA releases copyright as an official agency of the United States federal government. The exceptions where NASA retains copyright are the same as apply to USGov copyright— works written for hire or copyright transferred to NASA, for example. Would you object to replacing the template with {{PD-USGov}}, or is there something I didn't think of? —{admin} Pathoschild 17:43:46, 03 June 2007 (UTC)

Going against consensus

Chris, you are going against consensus on this astrology issue. We are here to add texts, not waste our time discussing the nuisances of everything - that is Wikipedia's game. More importantly, we do not rush these matters. We have fewer people here, and we give each other time to respond, and we wait for a true majority consensus before doing making changes that one or two people disagree with. Please slow down and think about what we are saying. Also consider, is this really important? John Vandenberg 23:00, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Consensus has already been reached on this subject for 200+ years. And of its important when were mixing superstitions with science. Why not include religion in the science index too wile were at it? After all they use to be mixed all together at one time too.Chris 23:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Bear in mind that our mission here is not to be "current". The majority of our content is at least 100 years old, and a large component of what we do is bring online ancient works.

From my prospective there are over 100,000 public domain NASA documents available on the subjects of Space Exploration and astronomy subjects. Documents from all time periods are being added to wikisource and this is more than any true of space related subjects because of NASA.Chris 00:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, NASA is rather unique in that it provides copious amounts of modern works that we can include. The patent office is another one. They deserve their own index as a result. But, note that we have lots of incomplete NASA texts, and relatively few recent patents. Modern works rarely attract dedicated Wikisource contributors. Until we have a strong body of NASA work, it wont be a major consideration in the way we organise the site. That said, you will have seen that I support keeping the NASA WikiProject, as I agree that it will grow over time. It would be great if you want to tackle this: sort out what we do have, finish the incomplete texts, and then nominate any that are not worth finishing for deletion. John Vandenberg 00:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

What we mix together can change, but please do it slowly with consensus among our small Wikisource community. John Vandenberg 00:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Note that you have been plenty of other options, including Portal:NASA, Wikisource:NASA, and Wikisource:Space Exploration. Feel free to take ownership of any or all of those. John Vandenberg 23:03, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

"ownership"?Chris 23:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, ownership. If these are topics you are interested in, the rest of the community will let you develop it with your own flair and without much interference. That will change as the size of the community changes, but what we need right now is people who can create inertia. John Vandenberg 00:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Note that I started Portal:NASA, but you are more than welcome to take it over and develop/expand it however you like. John Vandenberg 00:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Owning pages goes against most of what a wiki stands for.Chris 00:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

We are not here to create content in a collaborative fashion. We are here to collect texts that do not change, and we do need people who look after them. What I mean by "ownership" is that you are welcome to take on the role of "curator" of NASA texts and others relating to Space Exploration, because nobody else is doing it at the moment. John Vandenberg 01:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Chris. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Chris~enwikisource that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

06:43, 21 April 2015 (UTC)