User talk:Laverock/Archive

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hi
Hi Laverock, I saw you adding lot of entries from the britanica encyclopedia to wikisource, I wanted to know if you have a script/tool which can automatically upload the contents... Even I am in a similar situation, I need to upload lot of preexisting works to wikisource.. I was planning to implement one such tool using python and curl, but before that i want to know if a similar tool already exists, thanks. --Nvineeth 17:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello
Hi, just wanted to point out that I did seven new B areticles from your Britannica list this morning, but I was not sure of teh categorization. Danny 13:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Category:EB1911:Buildings
Hello. I have seen some of the nice work you are doing on this project in recent changes so thank you. Quick question - I saw you blanked this category page, did you mean to have it deleted? If not, is there a parent category that it could go into? Cirt (talk) 18:42, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah okay thank you. Cirt (talk) 19:08, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Just to follow Cirt and say a big thank you for all your additions to the Encyclopædia Britannica pages. They're great! Suicidalhamster (talk) 19:36, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

source
Please add the source for Compleat Surgeon somewhere, a web address if you are bringing that here. cygnis insignis 23:17, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

MidsummerSources -> The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'
Thanks for contributing the text at MidsummerSources. I am going to move this page, since we usually name a page with the title of the work. Best, Eliyak T · C 18:44, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

EB1911 and article names
I have moved "Digestive organs (Pathology)" to "Digestive Organs". The part in brackets was not needed for disambiguation and it did not appear in boldface in the original scan. I have capitalized "organs" to follow the current common practice in Wikisource's EB1911, a practice that follows the capitalization in the original scans apparent from article links typeset in small caps.

See also WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Style Manual. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I have moved "De Tabley, John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron" to "De Tabley, John Byrne Leicester Warren", thereby removing the part ", 3rd Baron", which is not boldfaced in the original scan. I have done similar renames in the past, so omitting in page titles the parts that are not boldfaced in the original scan is the current convention in EB1911. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:26, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I have responded at my talk page. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:01, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

EB1911 and capital letters
You seem to be one of the significant contributors to EB1911. Would you care to opine at Wikisource talk:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Style Manual? --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:15, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * In this post, you seem to have agreed that the use of big letters in article headings could be discontinued. But you are creating new articles that are using these big letters. May I ask what is the purpose of your doing so? --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:06, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Contents rendering
Just a curiosity... I noticed that when viewing this page (the Feb POTM) using the Google Chrome browser, I can see the three columns; but on the same computer, when viewed using Internet Explorer, it lists the contents in a single column. Does IE not recognize the columns-list notation?

Thanks for the PotM fixes
I obviously missed a couple of things on my morning rollout on the day. Thanks for coming along and checking and fixing those bits. — billinghurst  sDrewth  06:55, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Continuing footnotes -> ref name=... and ref follow=...
The developer of ProofreadPage recently suggested and made changes to the extension Cite, that now allows us to utilise a format of <ref name="xxx" on the first page and <ref follow="xxx" on each subsequent page that has a continuation of the original footnote. While it had been noted onsite of the change, in reflection it was not significant, so I recently updated Help:Proofread to reflect this change. — billinghurst  sDrewth  15:20, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Picturesque Nepal upload conflict
Sorry, I think I attempted to upload File:Picturesque Nepal pg 033.jpg at the same time you did. I didn't get an error message. I'll back off and come back later. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 16:14, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

EB1911 indexes
Thanks for your work in organizing eb1911. It is much easier to work with now. I suggest using moves instead of copying and redirecting as it preserves the edit histories better, and seems easier to me. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 01:21, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Index:Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Volume II.djvu
Would you want to enter into a plan where I validate, and you proofread this book? - Tannertsf (talk) 22:36, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

footnote reference centering
Noted your note. Thanks! Londonjackbooks (talk) 16:42, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Typos
Good typo catches! :) Got away from multiple users (me included)! :) Londonjackbooks (talk) 14:28, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Category:Articles by
In this edit I closed an older Wikisource:Proposed deletion. When I was doing the cleanup I saw your name on a few of the works. It looks like you might have been continuing on a path started by others, and subsequently abandoned as not the best approach, The decision was essentially made in September 2010, thought it was not officially closed and implemented until now. I apologize for any difficulties this may cause. If I can be of any assistance let me know. Jeepday (talk) 13:55, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Dashed quotes withdropinitial
This is how I saw handled it and it seems to work — billinghurst  sDrewth  07:11, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Page:A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationary.djvu/66 - Wrong image
Please note the previous page image has been used, please correct as soon as possible. This index can then be validated. --kathleen wright5 (talk) 21:08, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Sawdust & Spangles
Thanks for proofreading page 137. I tried page 136. Copy and paste is not always easy. So it should be better if you'll have a look at it.WeeJeeVee (talk) 20:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

We have information
I notice that you have done a job of trying to recreate the information template from Commons here. We have it already, so to make it more obvious I have added it to the editing page for File:. Probably also worthwhile adding do not move to Commons template to those sorts of files where they cannot be housed at Commons. Thanks. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:34, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. As an afterthought, would it be worth adding Category:Media not suitable for Commons as a sub-category to Category:Images or Category:Image maintenance? I looked there for similar occurences to mine and didn't find them, hence my reinvention of the wheel.--Laverock ( Talk ) 08:26, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ good thinking! To note that I have been through and updated all those recent files. — billinghurst  sDrewth  08:39, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

EB1911 and transclusion
I am looking at 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Dutens, Louis and just seeing a blank page, or at least no Britannica text. Most of the transcluded work I looked at for that and nearby pages wasn't working. Do you know what the problem is? Lately I haven't been using transclusion, and when I do, I use a different style (no double pound signs), so it is difficult for me to tell what is going on. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:53, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, this wasn't your edit; it was the succeeding validation edit that messed things up, and I think that was less due to the editor than the editing software which auto substitutes the double pound signs, when Javascript is enabled anyway. I fixed things be restoring the section labels and removing the double pounds. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 20:26, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

The Moths of the British Isles
Hi. I saw you started this work. If you are interested, there are scans (, or ) at IA, also with color images. I haven’t check for their integrity (no. of pages, quality etc.). Bye.--Mpaa (talk) 18:19, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

The Romance of Nature
You might as well set this page up as a disambiguation page now, rather than create a problem flor later editors. The Romance of Nature is the title of a least half a dozen different books by different authors. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:40, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Fig 770 missing
Looking at A Complete Guide to Heraldry/Chapter 33, it is missing figure 770. Do you still have the source material available, so we can get that image? Thx. — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:51, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

ON Birds...
Thanks for proofreading over my OCR cleanup attempts.

I'm also appreciative of your attempts to cross references items in the text. Do you have plans to cross reference to Wikispecies as well?

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:58, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Balthasar Hbmaier pg 8
Hi Laverock, do you think you could clean up the image which is on the eighth page of Balthasar Hbmaier? I've uploaded it to Commons, but I don't know how to clean it up. Sincerely—Clockery Fairfield (talk·contribs) 09:47, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. Hope you didn't mind. —Clockery Fairfield (talk·contribs) 13:10, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

One more image
There is one more image needed at the PotM. It's on Page:Balthasar Hübmaier.djvu/424, and seaparates two sections of series advertisements. Minor, but it would be nice to have for the sake of completion, if you're up for it. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:58, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

I've made an attempt at it, with my limited computer-preinstalled graphics program. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:35, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Matthew Fontaine Maury's "New Elements Geography"
Laverock, would you please upload the tiny logo (or whatever it is called) shown on page http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Maury%27s_New_Elements_of_Geography,_1907.djvu/5 ?

You have done an excellent job with all of those images! That was one heck of a confusing task! Respectfully, —Maury (talk) 15:26, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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Maury Page 141
I know exactly what you mean. After having done the other page (142), I couldn't face this one at the time. Thanks very much for doing it. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 20:33, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Maury Page 141
"Even using the slightly better resolution on archive.org, there were still many cases where I had to use my prejudices on pronuncication to decide what the diacritics should be, especially ī ǐ ï . And some of those which seemed clear I would dispute. I mean, the second "o" and the "a" in Cŏ-lōm'bï-ā, the "a" in Cŏl-ō-rā'dō - really? I comfort myself that nobody is seriously going to base their pronunciation on this page. Or their view of the world in general on the rest of the book, come to that:

"Many of them (African natives) used to be constantly fighting and making slaves of one another. European nations are stopping this."

"Turkey is, perhaps, the worst governed country in the world ... in fact, scarcely anything is well done in all the country."

Laverock ( Talk ) 07:59, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

All of it
''6. Turkey is an empire consisting of many different parts. It is like a body, the head of which is in Europe, the other parts elsewhere.''

Turkey is, perhaps, the worst governed country in the world, but the people now have some share in the government.

Obviously the "people did not have a share in the government and the government was viewed as one of the "worst" for some reason/s. The reasons just aren't given because it is a geography book. —Maury (talk) 09:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

''The Emperor is called the Sultan. The land is fertile, but the farming is wretched. In fact, scarcely anything is well done in all the country.''

Since the land is "fertile" there had to be reasons as to why the "farming (methods?) is wretched." The middle east as we have known it in our lifetime and before has been and remains to a great extent backwards in many ways and has been for many generations. Protests and wars have brought change to the people under rule of former "Dictators" which in the past were often the rulers and poverty was often due to the rulers, all of the economy was overseen by the rulers and rulers go by many titles such as "Sultan" —Maury (talk) 09:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Hola
Hola, Laverock.



We did a good job polishing that book off together. —Maury (talk) 11:54, 8 August 2013 (UTC)


 * And I see that our reward is to be given another job!--Laverock ( Talk ) 21:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

no complaint on proofreads of the month
Where or who runs the complaint office? I don't mind another job and in fact I welcome it - but only if we get an award for each Proofread of the Month we finish. That's fairness. —Maury (talk) 06:22, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Beeswaxcandle seems to be the one who registers the awards, so you could ask him if there will be two this month. There usually are when multiple works are processed, unless they are very short - there were two in July and August last year, for example.--Laverock ( Talk ) 07:58, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Far be it from me to resist the wishes of two of our top POTM contributors. I've just done the awards for the first work, but you'll have to wait for the second one until it's finished. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 22:19, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Beeswaxcandle. We really worked ourselves fast and at the same time -- just as you and I have done on some of your Rover Boys adventures. Full speed ahead and handshakes across the seas! —Maury (talk) 22:34, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for teaching me something new
I was wondering how I could get a space in Page:First_Voyage_Round_the_World.djvu/305. Always great to learn something new. I appreciate it. Rochefoucauld (talk) 14:39, 2 September 2013 (UTC)