User talk:MER-C

— billinghurst  sDrewth  17:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

div and span
Hi. Please pay attention to properly nest -based and -based templates, see. Otherwise a lint error will be flagged, see misc-tidy-replacement-issues. I am tying to lean the backlog. Thanks. Mpaa (talk) 20:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

nop on title pages
Hi, hi! Thanks for the validation on Ruskin. Just a quick note: nop is not required if a page ends with block content (e.g. center, center block, etc.) because it's impossible for the following content to be joined to it in-line.

Also, titles pages should be followed by a page break like padded page break or similar, so there shouldn't be anything directly following it anyway.

It doesn't harm anything to have them; but it doesn't do anything either. Inductiveload— talk/contribs 18:25, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Hws/hwe
Hi! Just a tip in case you didn't know: you no longer (since about 2017) need to use hws and hwe in most text - any page that end with a hyphen will be joined up automatically with the next page. Might save you a few key presses in the long run! They're not wrong as such so you don't have to stop using them, they're just not really needed any more. ^_^ Inductiveload— talk/contribs 21:25, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Running Header Gadget
Regarding the header you added to the works of Thomas Carlyle Volume 6... Rather than trying to use a complicated #ifexpr: expression for the header of each page (which IMHO is just ugly and also gets evaluated every time somebody loads the page), you should consider enabling the "Running headers" gadget in your preferences. This enables a link on the left side of the Page: namespace that attempts to dynamically figure out what the header should be, based on the header on surrounding pages. You can read the documentation: Help:Gadget-RunningHeader. Thanks for all the other contributions you've made to this work! — Dcsohl (talk) (contribs)  15:32, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Page end hyphens
Hello,

While working through Tales of My Landlord, it seems you may have figured out how the peh template works, at least in part. Just in case, I thought it might be worth providing a recap below.

If you do not want a hyphen to appear when transcluded, type a conventional hyphen; e.g. someth-

If you do want a hyphen to appear when transcluded, use the peh template with no optional parameters; e.g. someth

If you want an em-dash, or similar unbroken text, at the end of a page, use the peh template with the optional parameter; e.g. something

If you want an em-dash, or similar unbroken text, at the start of a page, use the peh template on the preceding page, while proofreading the current page exactly as it appears; e.g. for the last word of the previous page, befor

Otherwise, thanks for all your work on Volume 1 (I have also put in a bot request to update all the quotes to straight as per your comment on the discussion page).

Thanks again, TeysaKarlov (talk) 00:10, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. MER-C (talk) 19:48, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

July MC
I suggest keeping Dostoyevsky, Heidi, and Bertrand Russell for July, as these three works have been making progress in recent weeks. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:46, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Agree, but I hadn't had time to backfill the previous months yet. Looks like someone had done this already. MER-C (talk) 09:41, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Also: The Tolstoy PDFs are going away, in favor of the DjVu scans, since we have two complete duplicate sets of scans. See WS:PD. The PDFs will be going away. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:25, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Noted, and adjusted the long term series queue. MER-C (talk) 17:18, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Index:Cornelli (IA cornelli00spyr 0).pdf
Can you upload audiobook from

https://librivox.org/cornelli-by-johanna-spyri/ 2A00:5400:E139:99B:50B2:E35D:1D2B:CBA7 10:03, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Please make file upload requests at c:Commons:File requests. MER-C 12:31, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * no reply 82.167.149.197 03:48, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Please be patient (we're volunteers) or register an account. MER-C 16:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay 82.167.149.197 03:25, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Long term nominations for the Monthly Challenge
I wanted to note that Index:The blue poetry book (IA bluepoetry00lang).pdf is a book of poetries, not fairy tales. This one is not a part of the series of "coloured fairy books" from Andrew Lang. Ciridae (talk) 06:01, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Page:Life And Letters Of Thomas Jefferson -- Hirst (IA in.ernet.dli.2015.89541).pdf/653
There are four pages 653 to 656 which are not linked in the main index. Are those pages needed ? Or can they be put up for speedy deletion ? -- Beardo (talk) 21:59, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. MER-C 09:29, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes they are needed ? Or yes they can be put for speedy deletion ? -- Beardo (talk) 11:01, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * They can be deleted. MER-C 11:07, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

The House of the Dead
Try to listen and enjoy the audiobook of The House of the Dead while validating the source. You will gain deep understanding and meaning.

This is what I do during edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riA7iykIczg&list=PLkAikJ5yssoZGmWoCM9oj9BYfIxtxNFUb&index=1 82.167.150.115 13:12, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

tofix
I do not understand why the Treaty of Versailles was ever marked "to fix". There was never a problem with the scan, as far as I am aware. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:57, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * It required an image and transclusion. MER-C 17:58, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * That's not what "tofix" meant, as far as I'm aware, unless something has changed. Nothing was actually wrong with the scan, which is why the designation was initially created: to warn users that they should not proceed with work on that item until the scan was repaired. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:08, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

On an unrelated note, using the "England" flag in place of the "UK" flag has current political implications that are best avoided. I've used the Scottish and Welsh flags to spotlight underrepresented groups of authors, but the base flag for the country is "UK" and has been so for centuries. Authors from England are hardly underrepresented. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:03, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Mosquitos
What is there to fix? --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:49, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I remember seeing it not transcluded when I looked at it. I've moved it out of tofix. MER-C 17:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)