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One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances

w:One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances 66.76.243.26 16:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

File:The Viaduct Murder (1926).pdf

Ran across this while doing some unrelated maintenance and since it was unused and unlinked I figured you might have forgot about it. Xover (talk) 10:14, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

This work was completed to proofread status a while back. Chrisguise (talk) 08:24, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

An Adventure in the Fourth Dimension

You originally marked this page as proofread a couple of years ago - Page:Weird_Tales_volume_02_number_03.djvu/70 - it was subsequently marked as problematic because of the image, but now it has a good image. Do you want to mark as proofread again ? -- Beardo (talk) 19:12, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Jules de Grandin

I noticed your comment about the Category:Jules de Grandin. In fact there were five stories featuring him already existing. I have added them to that category. -- Beardo (talk) 15:05, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

New texts

The instructions for new texts specifically state " (nowiki=yes displays the author name without a wikilink) ... please do not leave author red links in your added item." If you disagree with that policy, you should get the instructions changed. -- Beardo (talk) 15:35, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Template:New texts/item specifically says "Options to be used sparingly (emphasis mine) ... To have a plain text, rather than an active link for the author, add a fourth parameter nowiki, eg. nowiki=yes where the author is a body without an author name. Note for anonymous authors, do not use this parameter, instead utilise {{anon}}." It does not imply that authors should be nowiki'ed just because nobody bothered to create an author page. In fact, I'd say such a work is not eligible for adding to new texts, since it's not complete without an author page.--Prosfilaes (talk) 15:50, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Re: Bibliography of Alaskan Literature

I saw you delete this from the requested texts year sub-page. Given that the sub-pages are more for listings rather than requests, I don’t think it’s any great harm to keep the listing there. On another note, if you’re interested in transcribing it, I can try to get a scan. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 03:27, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

I can get a scan from HathiTrust; I was actually downloading some new things from there when I was looking at it. If you'd like to restore it, that's fine, but I don't think anyone is going to work on it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:28, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

• I didn’t know about the scan, but I just didn’t want a work not to be done for that reason. If you ever need a scan in the future, feel free to ask me here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 03:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

History of Italian fascism, mentioned on w:Giovanni Gentile

Crespi, Angelo (1926). Contemporary Thought of Italy, Williams and Norgate, Limited. Prosfilaes (talk) 01:44, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

World Fiction

Hello. Would you mind if I moved the proofread pages from Index:World Stories-1922-08.djvu to Index:World Fiction 1922–1923.djvu? -- Jan Kameníček (talk) 07:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

That's absolutely fine.--Prosfilaes (talk) 14:57, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

You added this film to the list of requests for 1929, back in 2023, implying you had a personal copy. Is this still the case? Does your copy happen to be better-quality than what's here? Are you able to rip? Let me know if you'd like to upload it to Commons (or if it's better to just pull from IA instead), and I'd be happy to work on it around this month. I happen to be personally interested in this picture myself, since I first saw the story adapted for the very cute 1917 film nearly five years ago. SnowyCinema (talk) 22:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

It looks like it worked from the same DVD release; this one looks like it may have had some noise-reduction applied. It'd be just as easy for me if you work from the IA release; I'm not chomping at the bit to mess with reencoding and Common's requirements for such. I can upload the MPEG2 MKV files to IA if that would help.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Countee Cullen author page

Hi, I removed the separate link to the version of From the Dark Tower in Fire!! as the poem is not an individual work. It also occurs in Copper Sun and so the link to both versions is now from the versions page at From the Dark Tower. Regards, Chrisguise (talk) 14:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

It is an individual work in a sense. Author:Willard Edward Hawkins, for example, has his works linked from his page despite the fact that they were published as part of a periodical. His page would be useless if we didn't do that. It should probably link to the versions page like Author:Edgar Allan Poe, though I'm not a total fan of that page. But I'm strongly of the opinion that all versions of a work by an author should be linked from that author's page.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:48, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

So by your argument, every poem in each of his collections of poetry should be listed on the author page? I believe the preferred approach is that used for Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others, where all the individual poems are listed on a sub-page. Otherwise you end up with messes like Robert Browning, John Keats or Alfred Tennyson. Chrisguise (talk) 06:47, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

In the case of Hawkins, the two versions of 'The Dead Man's Tale' should be replaced with a single link to a versions page (called, for example, 'The Dead Man's Tale'] that contains the information on the main author page. They should only be listed separately on the author page if they were actually different poems with the same title, in which case they would need to be better differentiated (typically by putting the first line of the poem in brackets after the link). Chrisguise (talk) 07:09, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

That's debatable, but you didn't have a link to Fire!!'s version of From the Dark Tower from the page at all. That's the point, that there needed to be a link to that page, or the versions page, from the author page, not just the collected works.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:14, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

I suggest you look at the versions page. It's the first entry. Chrisguise (talk) 07:22, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

We're talking about the author's page, not the versions page. I'm fine with the versions page being linked from the author's page.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:41, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

George Washington Crane

What happened there ? -- Beardo (talk) 04:31, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Fat-fingered the rollback button.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:39, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

OK. Cheers. -- Beardo (talk) 16:53, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

the mess that is Argosy

Poor Frank Munsey! It seems that in addition to using all his mags to jump financially from one year to the next, he also couldn't write! I found it painful to even scan his autobiographical story of Argosy; a word he was way too taken with especially as it was already "owned" by a Brit rag.

The Argosy I just finished (at least until the name changed and they were already here, Index:ed and all) also crossed publication paths with The Peterson Magazine (which I have not looked into yet) and The Railroad Man's Magazine.

So, I am here asking permission/your blessing to rework Argosy All-Story Weekly into Volumes rather than dates. Can I have that?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 11:04, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

That's fine if you really want to do the work.--Prosfilaes (talk) 08:21, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

File:Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan - A Book of Translations (1928).pdf

Why did you upload this here and tag it with {{Do not move to Commons}}? As a US (Seattle) publication that is published more than 95 years ago (currently anything before 1930), there is no issue with it being hosted at Commons. It does not matter if its contents are derived from things published elsewhere (e.g., in this case translations). It was legally published in the US and its US copyrights have since expired. It might still be considered under copyright in other jurisdictions but that is not an issue for Commons which only cares about US copyright and copyright of country of origin but this originated in the US so they are the same. Here are some examples:

This 1908 London publication is free of US copyright but portions are still under copyright in the UK so it cannot be hosted on Commons, however, this 1911 US edition of the same book can be hosted at Commons without issue. This 1922 London publication is also free of US copyright but portions are still under copyright in the UK so it too cannot be hosted on Commons, however, this 1926 US edition of the same book can be also hosted at Commons without issue.

When you tag media like this with {{Do not move to Commons}} you should probably add either |expiry= or |test=. —Uzume (talk) 18:21, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

That's not how it works. The US edition of the Romaunt of the Rose is at RfD, and I'll put the Worm Ouroboros up for RfD as well. The countries of origin are the countries where the underlying copyrighted works originated. The theory is that if a work on Commons is copyright-free in the US and its country of origin, it should be free most everywhere due to the rule of the shorter term. That doesn't work if you ignore where works were first published and just pay attention to where they were once published.

I can't add expiry until I know when all the included authors died, and I don't.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:29, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

You are welcome to put it under RfD but there are plenty of examples that survived RfD just like those. The country of origin is the country of publication and a work can have multiple if published in multiple locales. This is why File:Peter and Wendy (1911).djvu is hosted on Commons (which BTW, has a perpetual copyright in the UK); UK published editions of Peter and Wendy can never be hosted at Commons (unless either Commons rules are changes or UK laws are changed). You can add the expiry of publication date plus 150 years. —Uzume (talk) 20:55, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Peter and Wendy is not an analogous situation because it was originally written in English, and the edition in question is also in English. For translated works, the translation may have been published in the US, but the originals were not, and so the country of origin for the original Japanese poems is Japan. Copyright must consider both the translation and the original. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:25, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Give me one of those examples that survived RfD. As I said on Commons, w:Peter and Wendy does not have perpetual copyright in the UK; you can read the details at the Wikipedia page, but what the Hospital has falls quite a bit short of real copyright.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:57, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Detective Story Magazine

I have just transcribed some items from the issue that you set up previously, including one which you started. I transcluded that to Detective Story Magazine/Volume 2/Number 5/Grilled but then saw that you have set up the author page with Issue where I have Number. Should I move the works which I have created to follow the style taht you used ? -- Beardo (talk) 02:54, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

@Beardo: The cover uses Number, so Number is probably better.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:13, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that was why I did them that way. -- Beardo (talk) 17:46, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Copyright expiration of non-US works

Hello. I have noticed that the Help:Public domain page says that the copyright of works published outside the US after 1 January 1978 expires 95 years pma in the US, while I would expect it to be 70 years pma per various sources. Is it a mistake or have I missed something? -- Jan Kameníček (talk) 14:54, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, that's wrong. https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain has pretty much all the details. It's 70 pma, but no earlier than 2048.--Prosfilaes (talk) 17:48, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for confirmation, corrected. The mistake was there for almost 20 years :-) --Jan Kameníček (talk) 17:57, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Author:Laurence A. Thalmore

Where did you get the A. in his name ? The wikipedia article doesn't mention it. -- Beardo (talk) 23:28, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

I thought it was from https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2013/11/laurence-r-dorsay-1887-1947.html , but I seem to have misread that.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:11, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Author:Uriel da Acosta

The external link did not work. -- Beardo (talk) 01:21, 22 December 2025 (UTC)