User talk:MJL
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Contents
- 1 Do feel free to have a WikiProject
- 2 Category:Politics of the United States/Carl Schurz
- 3 footer text
- 4 US legislation...
- 5 WS:WPV assitance
- 6 Mistake
- 7 The Signpost: 28 February 2019
- 8 1000th Edit
- 9 User:MJL
- 10 Ligatures
- 11 User:MJL/UN header
- 12 User link
- 13 The Signpost: 31 March 2019
- 14 Wikisource:News: April 2019 Edition
- 15 Works categories aren't done here
- 16 welcoming
- 17 Header templates
- 18 Notes on Czech Politics
- 19 2001st edit
- 20 This Month in GLAM: March 2019
- 21 Wikisource:News (en): April 2019 edition
- 22 Wikisource:News (en): April 2019 edition
- 23 The Signpost: 30 April 2019
- 24 Wikisource:News (en): May 2019 Edition
- 25 Missing /div
- 26 This Month in GLAM: April 2019
Do feel free to have a WikiProject[edit]
Hi. Welcome. Do feel that anything that you are doing in that coordination space is able to be in the Wikisource:WikiProjects space. It has a broad scope to cover any sort of coordinated transcription or organisational aspects. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:05, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- Alright I'll move it. I was sorta worried that it wasn't ready in some way. Thank you for the help.MattLongCT (talk) 02:09, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
Category:Politics of the United States/Carl Schurz[edit]
We don't create category subdirectories like that. Nor do we categorize by author.
Author pages are used to list works according to author. Or, if a set of pages are about that author, we have a section of the Author page set aside for that. If the person who is a subject is not an author, and won't have an Author page, then we use a Portal.
Our policy is to delete categories that group by author, since they are not needed. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:21, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- What are the alternatives to this category? Should it go in a portal? Without it, Category:Politics of the United States gets flooded with more than 150 articles that really should be grouped together. Any suggestions to alleviate that to help readers find more diverse articles? Thank you. MattLongCT (talk) 22:27, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- We don't worry about "flooding" categories. As I said, we list articles on Author pages and Portals as an organized way to present complex topics. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:05, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
[edit]
You moved this text out of the footer [1], which will cause the word to be duplicated. The word was in the footer because older texts would often duplicate the first word of the next page at the bottom of the preceding page, to make oral presentation easier.
That word should remain in the footer. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:09, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
- @EncycloPetey: Thank you for fixing that embarrassing error on my part. I'm still trying to get the hang of a lot of things. I really appreciate the help a lot; I just have a lot to learn. MattLongCT (talk) 03:11, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
US legislation...[edit]
I was sure English Wikisource had a set of templates for these to add "anchor"s and indentation for these. I would suggest asking on the Scriptorum. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:43, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
WS:WPV assitance[edit]
Would you mind helping to validate this work? The assistance of the WikiProject has been requested, and you are as of current the only other participant. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 11:08, 12 October 2018 (UTC).
- @TE(æ)A,ea.: My apologies for not helping before. I am not back to being active on the project! ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖ 19:47, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
Mistake[edit]
Hi,
I do apologize, I wanted to adjust letter spacing at Page:Bohemia An Historical Sketch.djvu/6 and by mistake I edited an old version of the page and thus the validation was removed. Can you validate it again, please?
Thank you very much!
--Jan Kameníček (talk) 08:52, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
- Jan.Kamenicek (talk • contribs), done. ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖ 23:15, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
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1000th Edit[edit]
Nice! (link) –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 15:38, 18 March 2019 (UTC) 1,200 now... –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 15:02, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
User:MJL[edit]
Generated using XTools on 2019-03-21 15:04
General statistics[edit]
| User ID | 2795163 |
| Registration date | 2016-11-14 01:27 |
| User groups | autoconfirmed user |
| Is administrator? | 0 |
| First edit | 2017-06-11 23:07 |
| Latest edit | 2019-03-21 15:02 |
| Live edits | 1,192 (97.9%) |
| Deleted edits | 25 (2.1%) |
| Total edits | 1,217 |
| Edits in the past 24 hours | 134 |
| Edits in the past 7 days | 259 |
| Edits in the past 30 days | 266 |
| Edits in the past 365 days | 345 |
| Average edits per day | 1.9 (647 days) |
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Pages[edit]
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| Average edits per page | 1.811 |
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| Pages moved | 14 |
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| Files uploaded (Commons) | 38 |
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| 12 namespaces | 1,192 |
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| 2 | User talk:Billinghurst | Log · Page History · Top Edits |
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| 2016-11-18 01:27 | +autoconfirmed user | Automatic |
All times are in UTC. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 15:08, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Ligatures[edit]
Hi, we decided a few years back not to reproduce the typographical ligatures such as the "ct". They add no value and break searches. The other main two that people try to reproduce are "fi" and "fl". Which means that the only two still accepted are æ and œ. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 20:48, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Beeswaxcandle: Oh dang. That's certainly noted, so I will revert that edit now. THank you for informing me of this! Cheers, –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 21:06, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
User:MJL/UN header[edit]
While it's fine to create User space tools to make edits easier, links to user-space working materials should not be left in pages once they have been proofread. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:26, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
- @EncycloPetey: Thank you for the notice. Is the solution to substitute it or move it to template-space? –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 22:28, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
- Either solution would be fine. Subst'ing is preferred unless the same header construction is to be used across a large number of works. If the formatting is unique to only a few pages of a single document, then creating a permanent template would not be worthwhile. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:30, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Done –User link[edit]
My two cents is that it is better to leave {{ul}} pointing to {{underline}}, because the community has little need for Template:User link. We've functioned for more than a decade without it. Having a two-letter shortcut for a template that is practically unused in this community doesn't seem worthwhile. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:46, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- @EncycloPetey: I just would like an alternative to {{Reply to}} for pinging users in the middle of a sentence. I don't like the "@" and ":" appearing there, and there is no way to suppress it. I also think the one-letter {{u}} is more than sufficient for {{underline}}. I can't imagine why a shortcut only used 10 times on this platform ({{ul}}) is really needed in that regard. We have {{re}} and that's been used a total of 59 times. {{ping}} was used 873 times. I'm not even going to try and count how many total times {{Reply to}} was used. It's up there. In case you are concerned this, I will also assure you that this is not about making us more like Wikipedia. If that was the case, I'd be arguing to make {{u}} point to {{user link}} like it does there. I understand {{underline}} is more valuable than {{user link}} for our purposes (we use it a lot). I just don't think it should monopolize the secondary shortcut that it doesn't even list in it's own documentation. To each their own, I guess. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 21:51, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- If you feel otherwise, I will respect that
and nominate {{UL}} for deletion myself. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 21:52, 27 March 2019 (UTC)- I have no opinion about keeping or deleting the template; I merely see little point in having it. I see much less of a need to re-dedicate redirects for a template that has (thus far) been used by a single individual. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:56, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
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Works categories aren't done here[edit]
Hi, Please stop the Caledonian poetry category. We don't do categories for works. See Help:Categorization for more. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 03:03, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Beeswaxcandle:, I swear everytime I think I understand the categorization system... Let me fix that. Just so I am clear, the right categories to add for these works are Category:Early modern poetry, Category:Scots poems, and Category:PD-old, correct? –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 03:06, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- You don't need to add Category:PD-old. That will be added automatically by the license template, and the license template should only be placed on the primary page of a work. "Scots poems" should be added only if the work is a poem written in the Scots language. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- A good rule of thumb for adding categories: add a category for the:
- (a) form (novel, poem, speech, play) or a form subcategory (historical novel, love poetry),
- (b) period (modern, renaissance) or form/period category (Renaissance poetry, Modern fiction)
- (c) language or language subcategory (Greek literature, English poetry, works originally in French)
- (d) topic of a non-fiction work, or genre of a fictional work
- Nearly all categories on Wikisource fall into one or more of these. Only a few categories do not (such as book awards). --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Okay, so I just need to go back and remove all instances of the redlinked Category:The Merry Muses of Caledonia and replace it with Category:Early modern poetry and Category:Scots poems (the latter as applicable). I think I can do that! Let me know if I am being too much of a problem, Petey. I don't want to waste your (or anyone else's) time. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 03:31, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- A good rule of thumb for adding categories: add a category for the:
welcoming[edit]
On Wikisource, we usually do not subst the {{welcome}} template. That way, if changes made in the template, then the changes are propagated to all locations where the template was used. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:54, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- I was just following the documentation which allows for the use of {{subst:welcome}}. I personally prefer it, but if that is a rule then I will follow it. I just request you update the documentation, so other contributors aren't mistaken in the future. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 05:35, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- It's not a rule, but it is the norm. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:55, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Header templates[edit]
Category:Header templates is a subcategory of Category:Article templates, meaning that the category is only for templates used in articles, not other sorts of headers. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:17, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- @EncycloPetey: shouldn't we remove Template:Process header then? –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:22, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- Probably. There is likely quite a lot to be cleaned up in these categories. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:26, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Notes on Czech Politics[edit]
Hi. May I ask where you saw the book Notes on Czech Politics, which you have mentioned at Author:Karel Kramář? I would be happy to transcribe it but I failed to find it anywhere. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:06, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Ah, sorry, only now I noticed that you are suggesting to translate the Czech book... --Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:08, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Jan Kameníček, why certainly! I found it while viewing cs:Poznámky o české politice. Czech Wikisource had in turn found this copy. If you would like to translate it (which I sort of expected you would haha), you'll probably want to follow our these proposed translation guidelines. Hope that helps! (ec) –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 22:16, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
2001st edit[edit]
Yay! –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 13:20, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
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Missing /div[edit]
There was a </div> missing from the end of this. I've fixed it on that page, but please look at any other places where you posted it (like this one!), and avoid that in future. Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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