User talk:Cremastra

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Again, welcome! --Jan Kameníček (talk) 23:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jan.Kamenicek: Thanks! Cremastra (talk) 23:41, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Voodoo formatting[edit]

Hi Cremastra,

I took a look at Page:Rudyard Kipling's verse - Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.djvu/243 (and surrounding pages), and I wonder if perhaps you may have fallen pray to "voodoo formatting" (repeating formatting seen elsewhere without actual purpose). For example, why are you putting the entire page into {{block center/s}}/{{block center/e}}? What non-verse text there is in this work does not appear to be generally in a centered block (it just has normal margins). And poems formatted with {{ppoem}} are block centered regardless. And speaking of {{ppoem}}, why are you inserting <br /> tags there? The whole point of {{ppoem}} is to preserve line wrapping so it does that regardless. I also see you're using {{gap}} templates for indentation, but {{ppoem}} has syntax specifically for indentation (: at the start of a line; add more colons for more indentation).

But, conversely, when you use {{ppoem}} to format a poem that stretches over multiple pages you need to tell each invocation how it is to connect with the next and previous one. For example, on the first page you need to tell {{ppoem}} whether it ends in the middle of a verse line, between one line and the next within a single stanza, or at the end of a stanza. Use |end=[continue|follow|stanza] (pick the relevant one). And on the next page you need to tell it how its contents start: |start=[continue|follow|stanza]. On middle pages you'll need both |start= and |end=. At the very beginning and end of a poem you don't need to specify anything.

I've fixed "The Irish Guards" (and only that poem, not the others on the page) to show what I mean. Xover (talk) 20:01, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help, @Xover:. I was trying to follow the suggestions at Index_talk:Rudyard_Kipling's_verse_-_Inclusive_Edition_1885-1918.djvu#Formatting_as_of_2023. However, I realize I was mixing the earlier proposal and the more recent one, causing the redundant formatting. The center block tags were already placed in the header by other contributors. Sorry for the mistakes. Thanks, Cremastra (talk) 20:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sophocles' King Oedipus[edit]

If you are able to validate ll (or even most) of this work, it would be greatly appreciated. This is a potential candidate for a Feature work, given that both its original author and its translator are highly regarded and the play was the one Aristotle singled out as the epitome of drama. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:33, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do. Cremastra (talk) 20:58, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tables of Contents[edit]

The table of contents should never link to the Page namesapce, but to the place in the Mainspace where the transcluded copy will be. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:03, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. I'll fix that shortly. Cremastra (talk) 23:04, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sea spray and smoke drift/From Lightning and Tempest[edit]

It seems to me that this is using inconsistent capitalisation. Either "Sea Spray and Smoke Drift" or "From lightning and tempest" but not this mixture, surely ? -- Beardo (talk) 18:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New texts archiving[edit]

Thanks for archiving December. I've set things up to list 2024 now as well. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:29, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Though I think that you have put both November's and December's on to December's. -- Beardo (talk) 01:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Beardo: I don't think so, unless I missed something. The last text listed on the December page is The Beloved Rogue, which was added on Dec 1. Cremastra (talk) 01:55, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah no, sorry - you had left the November entries on the main page. Now moved. -- Beardo (talk) 02:44, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I forgot about November. Cheers, Cremastra (talk) 13:21, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Validated texts link on the April News[edit]

Hi, the count you've got comes from Category:Validated texts, but this category is very incomplete and also has a lot of subpages, which are arguable as to whether they constitute a separate text or not. The better count would be to use Category:Index Validated, where we've got 6,210 works. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:44, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I thought that count seemed a little low. Cremastra (talk) 19:05, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NOAA Storm Events Database – 2021 Western Kentucky tornado[edit]

Hey Cremastra! I have been working on the NOAA Storm Events Database – 2021 Western Kentucky tornado, which is a set of 14 webpages from the U.S. government. I did some level of organization for the 14 pages, but I am unsure if I did the organization appropriately or the best way. Could you take a look at it and let me know if there is a better way on Wikisource to organize pages like that? Thank you! WeatherWriter (talk) 20:36, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WeatherWriter Well, I'm flattered by your confidence in me. I don't really know much about how Wikisource formats webpages, so WS:S/H is probably a better bet. It looks good on a glance, though (although {{textinfo}} goes on talk pages, not at the bottom of texts.) Cheers, Cremastra (talk) 20:50, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]