User talk:Duckmather

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Again, welcome! SnowyCinema (talk) 04:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Taming of the Shrew

The Yale Shakespeare series requires some seriously advanced formatting, even many of our experienced editors here find such a volume challenging. It is also part of a series with an established formatting, so the formatting must match the other volumes in the series. It may not be a good option for a new Wikisource editor. I recommend trying works from the Monthly Challenge first. --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:40, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Royal Book of Oz

Thanks for your help on this transcription project! I really appreciate all of the help that you've been providing with the bot and your own manual checking. It felt so daunting to do all on my own that I had given up a bit, but I've got some renewed energy to keep working on it since you're helping! Thanks, and do let me know if there is anything I can help with.

Best, SDudley (talk) 13:38, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Match and Split

The text you are loading into the Page namespace is quite seriously different from the text of the scan. Look for example at all of the linked Biblical passages in Page:04.BCOT.KD.PoeticalBooks.vol.4.Writings.djvu/34. Match and split should only be done when the texts closely match, not when the two texts are radically different from each other. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:11, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I also see pages like Page:04.BCOT.KD.PoeticalBooks.vol.4.Writings.djvu/579 that are missing chunks of sentences, and none of the in-text Hebrew has the vowel markings from the original. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:25, 15 May 2024 (UTC)