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Yann (talk) 17:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the help with A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/preface :) Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Nostradamus. 21:26, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
- If you were wanting to add more of the individual entries, you can find the work here. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Nostradamus. 14:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sadly, we don't really have "barnstars" at Wikisource, but I just wanted to congratulate you on a tonne of work on A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations - and making it look nice with properly formatted references and everything. You've done great work. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Nostradamus. 14:52, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Added <poem> tags
[edit]To The Confessions of Arsene Lupin/Chapter VIII I have added some <poem> </poem> tags around the indented paragraphs. If you don't like the result then please feel welcome to revert the changes. Also, you may wish to consider use of the <div class=prose> as that centres the page, and makes it more like a normal book width. I find that for works with smaller length paragraphs that it can improve the look. Similarly I have used <div class=lefttext> in other circumstances. -- billinghurst (talk) 00:08, 7 May 2009 (UTC)