User talk:Kickstart70

Hello,, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at the Scriptorium. The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page. :)

Thanks for the contributions from Project Gutenburg's database. It would great is you could add the information on the author and the PG text number so it will be easier to complete the articles. The help pages explain how we usually set up this information. You can also just put the info on the talk page of each article, and I or someone else who is more experienced can set it all up properly.--BirgitteSB 19:45, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks that was what I needed. The text number (EText-No. 9580) was on the page you linked to.--BirgitteSB 19:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

The Yankee Girl
I've redirected Yankee Girl to The Yankee Girl, as the latter is the full title.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 20:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Whittier's poetry
I've noticed that you've been working on Whittier's poetry, and that you did an entire facelift of Whittier's author page. Thanks a lot for the work! I have a question, though. Whittier's been an ongoing project for me, and I've been slowly adding his complete works here. The poems you added, were they just the list of red links down at the very bottom of the page from before you alphabetized everything? Have you added any poems yet of your own, or just added the ones which were red links?

I only ask this because those poems were the last bit of one of the volumes of Whittier's works. If you've only added those, I can easily begin porting over the next volume of his poetry without having to worry about creating any duplicates. Either way, this is not a problem, though, because it won't be too hard to check for dupes at all, but I just was wondering if I could figure it out before hand.

Again, thanks for your work on Whittier's poetry, and please keep contributing to Wikisource!—Zhaladshar (Talk) 20:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, I got it. Regarding displaying the article "the" at the end of the title (as in "Angels of Buena Vista, The") I'd suggest that that might not be the best way of displaying it.  Moving the formatting over to that method would require thousands and thousands of links to be displayed differently (and would take so much time) that it would be best to first bring it up at the Scriptorium to see what others think of it, as this job would take everyone's effort to do.  But from the looks of Whittier's author page, it looks like we can just alphabetize it by eyeballing it.  And I'll keep adding Whittier's poetry to it anyway, so even for the time being, it might be best just to hold off on much organizing on that page (you can if you want, but I'm adding the new links at the bottom of his author page, and once I've added a substantial amount, I'll alphabetize them—this just cuts down on the number of times we have to do the same repetitive task).

Sir Walter Scott
Yes, I suggest that we divide his works among prose (and its sub-sections) and poetry. This is commonly done for prolific authors, as in Dickens' case and Doyle's case. It makes for a much better way of presenting his works to people. So if you decide to transcribe the Scott book you have, please feel free to do separate his works into different sections.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 22:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)