User talk:Xover

Regarding User_talk:Nihil_novi#Fables_and_Parables

I've recently chatted with NN and learned about this; upon reviewing this discussion (and even asking AI to double check, see here) I don't see why his translations remain deleted? Cam you tell me and NN what excactly needs to be done for his translations to be restored? From my perspective, this is pretty clear: the original works are PD, he is a reputable and notable translator and he wishes to release his work here under a compatible licence, it's reminds me of "take my money" meme, but with us being the "we don't want to take your translations" party... Piotrus (talk) 05:45, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I wrote a long answer, but decided it would just confuse more than help. So I'll try to be brief and to the point, and we can go back to more detail if needed or wanted. The below is partly guesswork on my part, so please do question anytjing that doesn't seem to make sense.

The way to go forward is: 1) find a scan of the original Polish-language collection of these fables, and upload it to Commons; 2) Proofread (transcribe) that, in Polish, on Polish Wikisource and according to their policies; 3) come back here and perform the formalities needed for the copyright licensing; 4) we undelete the old texts, move them to Page:-namespace wikipages for that Polish-language scan; 5) NN uses these as a basis for a user translation (formatting and splitting between pages, assuming the translation as such is done); 6) we host the result as a in progress user translation of the original Polish-language book.

There's a lot of details (in which devils may hide) here, but that's my best attempt at concisely sketching a path forward. I'm a little short on wikitime these days, but as far as my time allows I'd be happy to help and answer questions. But, unfortunately, I don't see a way forward here that does not involve NN jumping through a few hoops (that will probably feel like pointless beurocracy to them; my apologies in advance) and putting in additional work (which feels like it falls in the category of "looking a gift horse in the mouth", but can't really be helped). Xover (talk) 10:06, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

1 and 2 seem to be done: either pl:Bajki i przypowieści (1856) or pl:Bajki i przypowieści. If this is good, what exactly we need to do for step 3? I assume NN will have to do it, since he is the rights owner. Piotrus (talk) 12:06, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Ping? Piotrus (talk) 02:08, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

On Template:Center/styles.css

Why exactly did you remove the margin: 0 auto;? That had a noticeable impact on at least some uses of the templates.

If I write {{center|a random sentence|width=20em}}, which has its use eg when I want to make the centered text match in width with something above it, I currently get:

a random sentence

which as you can see is not centered, kinda defeating the point. The old behaviour (what you currently get with {{center|a random sentence|width=20em|style=margin:0 auto}} is:

a random sentence

which is much better. (Noticed at Page:The Jade Mountain.djvu/9).

(I'm specifically asking about the margins, I have absolutely no idea why there was a display:table there.)

Thanks, — Alien  3
3 3 22:08, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

I've readded those margins. — Alien  3
3 3 20:55, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Author:Charles William Wallace

I came across this page, and tracked down the source, if you want to proofread it at some point—just letting you know for some fun work in the future. (The main issue is that the name of the publication was “simplified” so as to be incorrect; not Nebraska University Studies, but University Studies of the University of Nebraska.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:46, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Child's Ballads

When you moved this to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, you deleted a lot of the old redirection pages (in 2024). Many of these (e.g., Child's Ballads/219) had incoming links. Could you fix these, please, since you made the original move? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:02, 4 January 2026 (UTC)