User talk:McGhiever

Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:38, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

The Worst Journey
I noticed this in the recent changes. I would like to do the images for it, well, I am going to do the images for it, but I would like to put them into this particular book you are working on. Is that okay by you?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 16:20, 3 July 2021 (UTC)


 * That would be a most welcome bit of assistance! And I just found The Worst Journey uploaded and languishing, so I have no particular claim over it other than a willingness to help move it along. -McGhiever (talk) 16:28, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding this very interesting publication! However, listing it on the main page seems quite premature, as the wikilinks in the illustrations’ ToC have not been finished yet. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 16:12, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


 * More than a year for me to do this! I am very sorry about that.  I would like to say it was something noble like "not knowing how to handle the pencil drawings" or some such, but that would be a lie.  Vol. 2 just kept getting shoved behind in the TODO list.  I was surprised to see that it took less than a year for you to change it from red to yellow and am impressed with your "way".


 * In truth, once I started to work with the pencil drawings, they were a challenge. I ended up doing simple color adjustments because anything else lost information which is exactly not the point of those images.


 * Well, after the apology, I am mostly here to gauge your feelings about me replacing your tif with my jpeg. At commons, the guidence was to upload separate versions.  Here, I have been told to upload over existing images, that was for older works.  That this is impossible for jpg/tif was fine with me -- as I really didn't know what to do.  The photographs, well, this is my year for opting for sepia tones.  As it is new to me, it has all the makings of a fad for me, but, a few years from now I will probably still be doing that.  So, the replacement of your tifs, with your permission, is gray to sepia for the photographs.  You can hide personal offense behind an abhorrence of sepia, if you like.


 * So, sorry and can I replace your tif?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 16:22, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
I noticed that you're working on this book. I've queued up a match-and-split to fill in the remaining pages with the proofread text from PGDP. It will not affect the already proofread pages. It should be done tonight. Thank you for working on this book. Languageseeker (talk) 03:00, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Lady Molly
Hi, just finished validating all the pages I can do. There's just the list of illustrations that I can't because I set them to Proofread back when the book was started. Could you have a squint at them, then we can mark the book off as completed? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:50, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Table line segments
Hi, to get the line segments in a table to join up put in the first line of the table (after the {| ). Beeswaxcandle (talk) 17:48, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Baroness Orczy
Thank you very much for your contributions on the Baroness's detective stories. I saw mention of "The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace" on the main page, and, as I had heard of that series, I read - and enjoyed those two stories. (You will have seen that I noticed a few scanning errors that had got past you.) I look forward to further stories.

I then saw that you had previously done the Lady Molly stories. I had been interested in those a while ago but hadn't thought to look here. I am now reading them, and loving them. -- Beardo (talk) 03:07, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Dixon books
Hi, we are deliberately not listing individual works on the Stratemeyer pseudonym author pages and are listing them on the Portal:Stratemeyer Syndicate page instead. Over there I've been only been listing the works that are PD—mostly to reduce the temptation to link and host works that are still in copyright. But if we're near the end of a series then I've put in the last title or two. I'm gradually working my way through the Portal page and adding the missing series that are known. Next challenge, of course, is to locate scans. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 17:08, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

The Ayrsham Mystery
On one of the pages, a letter r in "manufacturer" does not appear in the scan. I noted that as reconstructed - do you think that is necessary.

Also, on the description for an illustration, the o in Holder is unclear - it had been put as Helder. Should that be recorded as reconstructed ? -- Beardo (talk) 17:05, 30 July 2023 (UTC)