User talk:Animaldoctor

Beeswaxcandle (talk) 23:39, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Texts missing images
Hi, just wanted to explain what I was thinking here. Many books/magazines/etc. are super annoying, in that they were apparently scanned with the photos intentionally obscured. (I assume this has something to do with the scanning entity being extra super cautious, probably unreasonably so, about copyright.) So that means we have the text, but no images. I generally mark such pages as "problematic," even if I've proofread the text, because that way it's easy to find all the pages that need photos if a source for them ever shows up in the future. I've noticed that's what other folks tend to do,so I've just adopted that convention. I don't know that it's super critical, because finding the pages marked "missing image" would be pretty easy too. So, if you want to keep marking them like this, I probably won't interfere, but just wanted to explain my thinking,and invite yours if I'm missing something. -Pete (talk) 03:01, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I appreciate you letting me know! In that case, I'll keep that convention going and just mark them as problematic pages, although, I'm not sure if we should still include the fact that there are missing images there or not. Animaldoctor (talk) 06:08, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I think it's important to use either missing image or else FI with the "file=missing" parameter, as those will appear to the reader and inform them that they're not looking at a complete transcription. IMO the "proofread" vs. "problematic" status is less important. I wonder if might have some words of wisdom around this? -Pete (talk) 07:29, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, and one detail it took me a while to realize. missing image is not as obnoxious as it may appear at first. It shows a lot more detailed text when rendered in "Page" namespace; when it gets transcluded into a book/chapter, it's much more concise. -Pete (talk) 07:33, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. I'll keep that in mind for future edits. Thank you for reaching out! Animaldoctor (talk) 17:52, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem, always happy to discuss the many oddities of wiki editing :) -Pete (talk) 18:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * in my opinion, while missing image (or in this case you could use bad image scan) are helpful tools, it is really the "problematic" page status that is the most important thing to do. Proper use of page statuses is a fundamental part of the proofreading process, which is in turn a fundamental part of Wikisource itself. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 02:44, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Library Marking
Thank you for all your work on Wikisource. I noticed that you proofread some library marking, such as those here or here. These are not proofread and should be marked as blank. Thank you and I hope that you're enjoying your time on Wikisource. Languageseeker (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Oh, okay, good to know! Thank you for letting me know and I am definitely enjoying my time editing here! Animaldoctor (talk) 22:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)