User talk:HendrikWBK

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Again, welcome! SnowyCinema (talk) 13:11, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

License

All works hosted on Wikisource are required to have a license template describing the work's copyright status. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:57, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello. I'm aware of that; did I forget to put in someplace? The project I'm working on now is "The House Without Windows", which shows the public domain status. Or am misinterpreting what you said? I'm still inexperienced in this wiki. HendrikWBK (talk) 11:11, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

It has to be on the transclusion's front matter, as I placed it at The House Without Windows. People don't generally see the file (which has to have its separate license at Wikimedia Commons) when they want to read the book. The transclusion is for our readers to read the transcription, so the readers need to be clearly aware of why the file is out of copyright. SnowyCinema (talk) 12:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Understood. Thank you. HendrikWBK (talk) 12:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Previous and Next

When the link and pagename are the same, you can use a simpler syntax. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Italics

Even if it does not show, you need to close italics - for example in the headers in Faust - if not, the page shows up on a list of pages with errors. -- Beardo (talk) 18:07, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

I must have forgot to close that one, I'll be more careful in the future. Thank you for fixing it. HendrikWBK (talk) 18:15, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

I picked up a few. If you are interested, you can check here - that link shows the most recent, so new changes appear at the bottom. -- Beardo (talk) 18:47, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Lysistrata

The Loeb series always need to be at the print date rather than the initial date. It is not at all unusual for the editors to make corrections with a new printing, but without stating anywhere that the changes were made. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:02, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Understood. Thank you. I assume this also applies to any book by another publisher/collection with similar difference in dates? HendrikWBK (talk) 14:05, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Not necessarily. Many books are simply reissued by publishers, but it's typically safer to use the print date rather than the copyright date as a guide. I recently added a children's book where more recent editions used new illustrations (still under copyright) instead of the original illustrations, and the only indication of the change in the book was on the jacket flap, which is something that isn't always scanned.

I take it that you're planing to transcribe only Lysistrata from the volume? --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:07, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

At first, yes, but eventually I need transcription for all the plays. It will take quite a while, however. HendrikWBK (talk) 19:17, 9 February 2026 (UTC)