User talk:SurprisedMewtwoFace

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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 03:40, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Tarzan and the Ant Men

Hello. I have transcluded the book Tarzan and the Ant Men as I have promised and I am sorry it took me so long. As you might have noticed, I made some minor changes at some of the proofread pages, but overall you did a very good job! The only important thing I want to mention is adding {{nop}} at the end of the pages where the page break coincides with the end of a paragraph (e. g. here). It has to be added in such places to prevent joining the paragraphs in the main namespace after transclusion.

Thanks again for proofreading this book. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:19, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

You're welcome! It's been great working with you. In the future, I'll be sure to do that. I'm sorry I wasn't quite up to speed with the nop page break rule. I'm so glad I was able to contribute and help get this book up! (SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 22:11, 4 March 2021 (UTC))

The Box-Car Children

This is not ready to be listed on the Main page for two reasons: (1) No license has been placed at the bottom of the work's primary page. Works without a license are not yet completed. (2) The full text has been transcluded twice. The entire book appears in chapters but also on the work's main page. The text should only appear in the chapters, and not in full on the main page. If someone downloaded this book, it would have the full text twice. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:39, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Paul Bunyon Book!

Between 1850 and 1897(ish) my country (maybe yours also) was at war with itself. When it was over, they threw together a federal school system, created a few "teachers colleges" and started to have a national curriculum. The literature then was mostly from England, because, war and "homesteading" (these are my thoughts about why the literature is mostly Brit). I have started this: Index:State manual and course of study.djvu which has (also, not so complete) Page:State manual and course of study.djvu/161. I search for the books to fill that list. And, as you can see, the list is quite British (with domestic publishers), but they (the Brits) were doing their literature, education, and publication already for a long while.

One of the locals here asked about Paul Bunyon, more important to me as a northern midwest child than johnny appleseed. I was going to search through the "Readers" where they collect stories for classes to read to see if one of them had the story in it. And you have it!

My recommendation: Scan those images anyways, just don't upload them or use them. Actually, they can be uploaded to commons, and when they are "not allowed yet" due to copyright, they get moved offline into a holding server and scheduled for re-entry on the date they can be used.

I would like to help, not take it over, but certainly help.... --RaboKarbakian (talk) 20:50, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

I'll be working on finding a good place to scan it. I'm glad you're enthusiastic about the project!

SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 02:49, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Good News!! No need to scan the whole book (which is dreary work!) But, if you can scan the images. Since Hathi has them available, chances are better that they are allowed (PD). --RaboKarbakian (talk) 20:18, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Tarzan Lord of the Jungle

Hi @SurprisedMewtwoFace,

Sorry for the bother, but I just wanted to check, is this (Index:Tarzan Lord of the Jungle (1928).djvu) the 1928 printing or not? Given that the copyright notice page makes me think not, will this again need some sort of modified/reprint PD-tag?

Thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:02, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Hmm.... I believe you're right. Looking over the text, it is absolutely a total reprint of the 1928 edition with no new copyrightable material added. There is no additional notice for the cover art or any forward or afterward segment, and the text of the book was not changed. However, it is NOT the AC McLurg edition but a Grosset and Dunlap one, meaning it is not the original edition. However, none of the Grosset and Dunlap Tarzan reprints have a specific printing date listed; they simply list the original AC McLurg date for publication. They only clue as to the date this specific reprint was published is on the copyright page, which says "Copyright renewed 1956 by John Coleman Burroughs". Per this article, it is extremely hard for even skilled book appraisers with hardback editions to determine when Grosset and Dunlap Tarzans were published. According to ERB's collector article, G&D Tarzan reprints dated from 1927 to roughly 1967. Since I can't get an exact date of publication for this specific copy but CAN determine it was published on 1956 or later, I will list it as 1956 and update the other info as well. I will use a similar tag that I used on Tarzan and the Lost Empire (the Ace version) for the PD tag. Sorry if I had difficulty getting you a more specific date, but between the fact that it's a straight text reprint, the fact that a first edition of McClurg Tarzan would be quite expensive and difficult to find, and the fact that G&D was not very user friendly about which edition of the reprint this was, I think approximating the publication date as 1956 is the best approach. SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 01:18, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Just finished the adjustments. Also changed the illustrator for this edition since the (uncredited) illustrations that do not have a seperate copyright were not the originals but were done by Rafael Palacios per this credit. Hope this was of help to you. Thanks! SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 03:16, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi @SurprisedMewtwoFace,

Thanks for looking into it, and definitely helpful to have more information. What you have done seems reasonable, to me at least.

Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 05:44, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Tarzan and the Lion Man

Chapter pagenames should normally include the word "Chapter" followed by the chapter number in Arabic numerals. Using Roman numerals (with or without the word "Chapter") has been deprecated. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:40, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Sorry. I didn't know there was only 1 way to render chapter pagenames. Thanks for your help with the table of contents. SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 19:48, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Ten Kiogen in English

You are creating the Japanese pages without adding the interwiki syntax. See for example Page:Ten Kiogen in English (1907).djvu/64. Because this page would be transcribed on another language Wikisource, the template is necessary for displaying the text cross-wiki once that happens. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:08, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

fixing, currently in progress. Sorry about this oversight, usually grey pages have nothing on them. Will soon be done.

SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 00:44, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

All pages greyed by me have now been fixed with the text you requested. I hope this is useful for the Japanese language Wiki.

SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 01:11, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

The Dain Curse

A few things:

With regard to the chapter headings, note this Template:Small-caps#Misuse_for_capitalisation - I think we should be using asc with at least the c and the number as capitals. Are you happy if I change that ?

Some people create the mainspace page and start transcluding chapters as they go along. (Red Harvest was done like that.) I think I prefer to wait until the book is complete, but others may have different ideas.

I had been meaning to do the validating on this, but kept getting distracted by other things. I will try to concentrate on this for a while. -- Beardo (talk) 22:26, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Yes, please do so. I think your change is better than my original, and is much appreciated. SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 00:30, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Validation

Thank you for the time and care you are putting into validation of texts. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:30, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome! SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 16:41, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

A couple of things

When you create a new index, you should include the author as a link (especially when the author page already exists) - I don't know why that isn't done automatically. I think it is also a good idea to link back from the author page as {{ssl}} - so that anyone looking at the author page knows the index exists. (That also helps reduce the chance of getting duplicate indexes.) -- Beardo (talk) 19:02, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Also, with The Dain Curse, do you want to start creating the work in mainspace ? Or should I make a start ? --

Seven Dials Mystery

I finished up Chapter 4! Thanks for the help on this. It motivates me to not have to do the entire project on my own. SDudley (talk) 02:55, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome! I'll be back from vacation on August 11 to help more. Good to know my work on this index was valued! SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 04:15, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Smoky, the Cowhorse

I have requested help getting the text layer re-aligned, but if you are fine with using the OCR tool, it has worked well for me. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:05, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I think it shouldn't be too hard with the OCR tool. I will need your help with the images, though.

SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 04:06, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

That's fine. I processed all the images in advance, so I merely have to drop them in place. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:16, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Tarzan the Invicible

Hi @SurprisedMewtwoFace,

Well done for soloing another of the Tarzan series. I might suggest removing the bold-typeface on the roman numerals at the start of each chapter though, as they look about as bold as the rest of the text to me. Ultimately up to you though.

Thanks for your efforts, TeysaKarlov (talk) 23:27, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Sure. Can do. (the ad pages and images can be proofread by someone else, although I'd be happy to verify them once they've been put in.)

SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 23:42, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

The bold typeface is now removed from all roman numerals. Your request is fulfilled. Hope you enjoy my request next month too!

SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 23:57, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

@SurprisedMewtwoFace Thanks for adjusting. I'll await next month's request with baited breath! Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 19:29, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Mountains Are Free

FYI: Most of the pages followed by a blank page are image pages. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:17, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Will be validating those after the images are in.SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 14:18, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

All of the images are in. I did them first. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:27, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

The image pages are now validated. Couldn't find any wrong images or typos so it went quick. Will now continue work on validating Nicholas (there is at least one other user also validating it, so it should get done before the 3 months expires) SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 14:58, 14 January 2026 (UTC)