User talk:GinnevraD

English
Greetings. You are on the English Wikisource. To add works in French, please visit the French Wikisource. To add works in Spanish, please visit the Spanish Wikisource. Content added to the English Wikisource must be primarily in English, and not in another language entirely. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:15, 20 April 2017 (UTC) Thanks - GinnevraDubois (talk) 15:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Welcome!

 * Welcome to English WikiSource! I hope you stick around. When you have the chance, please consider reviewing our formatting guidelines. Rather than using wiki markup like == for headers, we use templates such as larger for variations in font size. This is covered in the Beginner's Guide to Typography as well as the general Style Guide. Feel free to drop me a line or ping me if you have any questions. --Mukkakukaku (talk) 16:09, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Formatting, proofreading, and transcluding
Hi! Thanks for the work you've done at Once a Week. I've tidied up a couple of pages you've worked on. If you take a look at the changes I've made, you can use that as an example to improve your future contributions :) Good luck! And if you have any difficulties, you can ask for help at the Scriptorium, on my talk page, or by using the template help me here on your own talk page. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:56, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Page:Once a Week Volume V.djvu/731 (Differences)
 * Dulce Domum! (Differences)

this pdf file does not include two pages originally published - probably missed during scanning. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Once_a_Week,_Series_1,_Volume_II_Dec_1859_to_June_1860.pdf - what to do?


 * Which pages are missing? Probably available here: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000062394 Hrishikes (talk) 13:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Pages 74 and 75 - yes, they are available at hathitrust.org how can I include them? What help section includes this info.?
 * ✅. Also replaced the Google frontsheet. Hrishikes (talk) 16:57, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Categories
Some categories, such as Category:United States authors are exclusively for categorizing Author pages, not for articles or books about authors. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:50, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Once a Week
This may need to be moved to Once a Week (magazine), since there is also a 1915 book by A. A. Milne with that title and we'll need to disambiguate. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can make the changes. I just wanted to be sure you were aware of the situation before taking any action. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:36, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

contributor vs. override_contributor
I'm not sure if you're aware how the "contributor" and "override_contributor" parameters work in the header template. I want to explain it to you so that you will understand why I am replacing "override_contributor" with "contributor" in a lot of the articles you have created.

The "contributor" field automatically creates a link to an author page. Like this:
 * → by Harriet Martineau

We like to have author pages for all works that are hosted on Wikisource, so please use this field whenever you can.

Sometimes we don't know who the author of an article is. If the magazine only lists the author's initials, and you can't find out whose initials they are, you can use "override_contributor" instead so that it won't make an automatic link.
 * → by G. D.

You can also use this field to make a link that isn't automatic, like so:
 * → by Harriet Martineau and Andrew Wynter

Summary: Use "contributor" if you know the author's name; use "override_contributor" if you can't find the author's name, or if the author link is too complicated for "contributor".

And, as always, I am happy to help you and to answer any questions. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 15:57, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Colored images
Hi -- You've digitally colored the images you uploaded for Once a Week; is that allowed by Wikisource standards? I've been told to strictly not add anything that's not in the original. Actually, whether it's allowable or not, I'd really prefer if you didn't: I'd rather see the picture as it was published; and your colorization makes it difficult to see the lines! Do you still have the originals? Thanks for listening -- Levana Taylor (talk) 17:13, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Peterson's Magazine
Page titles such as Volume XX are not descriptive enough. Please include the name of the magazine as part of the pagenames. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:49, 21 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @EncycloPeteyI was just copying from this page https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once_a_Week_(magazine) supposedly from an
 * experienced user. GinnevraDubois (talk) 12:42, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
 * But that page uses full names. Hover to look at the link titles, such as Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1.  Your links weren't pointing to page titles like that, but to naked volume names. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:25, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
 * That is because the pages have not been created so I left them with the minimum info b/c whoever creates the volume pages will insert the correct name. Anyway I included the name of the
 * magazine already (all pages). Is that what you wanted or should I use more time to
 * correct them? GinnevraDubois (talk) 17:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
 * What you've done will work. Long-time editors have noticed that, when a multi-volume Magazine is set up, the standard naming needs to be set up at the start.  When it isn't, we end up with multiple editors all using different structure conventions which then have to be standardized, and this is a huge pain to do after the fact. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:48, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * There is another problem. Peterson's Magazine used to be called by other names at the beginning of its publication. GinnevraDubois (talk) 01:32, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Godey’s Lady’s Book
Thanks for your work at Godey’s Lady’s Book! Just to say, even if one Index: scan contains more than one volume, we'd still separate it into individual volumes in the mainspace, and transclude them separately, so the reader would see the volumes as published, not as scanned by Google or whoever. -- Yodin T 10:38, 4 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks, how do I correct the mistake? GinnevraD (talk) 14:20, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * No worries, I've already separated vols XVII & XIX back out at Godey’s Lady’s Book. Also just wondering, would you prefer all the volumes have roman numerals for the links on the page, like you currently have for volumes I to XIX? I normally use arabic numbers so readers don't have to calculate what number each volume is, and to match other magazines/periodicals, such as at Periodical guidelines (similarly to the chapter/section guidelines), but I wouldn't object if you'd rather have them as roman numberals. -- Yodin T 15:33, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * You mentioned earlier that it must be as the book was originally published and the volumes I have found are listed in Roman numerals, as to readers having to calculate, IMO and as an instructor {Spanish}, I don't believe in saving the reader a little bit of intellectual work. However, if it is the usual I will go by the rules. GinnevraD (talk) 15:51, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Fair points. The page titles aren't part of the transcription, so don't have to be exactly as they were printed (for example, long titles and subtitles can be reduced, chapters names replaced by numbers, etc.; all to make it easy to navigate), but we do try to keep the structure of the works as close to the original as possible (within reason). That said, as you're working on this, it's ultimately your call! -- Yodin T 11:06, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your help. GinnevraD (talk) 12:37, 6 June 2024 (UTC)