User talk:MichaelC-The-Gamer

--Jan Kameníček (talk) 10:23, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikisource user namespace
May I just ask about your intentions with Wikisource? All new contributors are really welcome. However, Wikisource is not a social networking site and the user pages serve the users only to provide some information about themselves as contributors to Wikisource and their efforts to contribute to the project. Talk pages serve for communication with other contributors and this communication also has to be connected with their effort to improve the project. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 10:23, 18 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Jan-
 * I am quite embarrassed to say the least! I am responding to your Welcome and friendly query almost 2 years late! Please, please forgive my lack of response. I want to thank you for your patience as well. You could have thought, "Well that is just rude!" And I would not have blamed you one bit. I guess it is safe to say that I do not use this site very often. The reason I had gotten this login and User Page was because I was under the impression that the Wikisource as a login name and password was a sort of Master Key, or Skeleton Key, if you like, so that I did not need a separate login for say, WikiData, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, and Wikisource, but rather just the one. And, quite honestly, though I do have a special repository for all of my passwords (I think Bitwarden works quite well!), as long as I am careful, I think fewer passwords can be an asset. I must admit, I cannot remember where I had gotten this idea, initially, but I do believe it has worked for me on other wiki sites, even if that was quite some time ago. I am an avid--no, a voracious reader. I average 2 to 3 books every week with consistency and I had initially thought Wikisource would be a great well, source of information for my studies as well as my insatiable appetite for nearly all types of subjects. Yes, I am also in the process of compiling my notes into a book but that will not be for a few months yet. Anyway, I do hope that helps to assuage any worry or concerns that you may have or have had. If it does not, please let me know. I do promise to check back in with some semblance of regularity...at least a couple of times per month to begin with; more as I begin to put my notes together. I will ask though: I was initially a bit conflicted as to whether I should submit my work to Wikisource or to Wikiversity. Could you help me with your opinion as well as knowledge? I would greatly appreciate any Pros and Cons of each site, and anything else you can think of. Thanks again and I do hope you will forgive a scatterbrained old man. 2603:3005:401:B300:5376:BC8F:BAB:99EA 01:37, 7 August 2023 (UTC) (aka MichaelC-The-Gamer)
 * Hello, thanks for the answer.
 * Your login to one Wikimedia Foundation project (e. g. to Wikisource) automatically works in other sister projects too (e. g. Wikipedia, Wikiversity and others).
 * As for the book you are compiling: I am afraid that this work will not be elligible for Wikisource, which hosts works that are in the public domain. For details see WS:What Wikisource includes. I know almost nothing about Wikiversity or Wikibooks, so I cannot say whether they could accept it. You can try to ask at Wikiversity:Colloquium or Wikibooks:Reading_room. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 09:21, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Jan,
 * Oh, well that is okay, too. Actually, it takes a bit of pressure off as I no longer feel the need of a deadline to have "so much" done by such-and-such a date. Okay, I was going to ask about public domain and copyright laws in another Country (like England) versus the US copyright laws. Then, I stumbled upon--of all the writers I could have chosen--one of my all-time favorites, C.S. Lewis. Have you seen the laws regarding his Narnia books and other laws regarding ones like his book, The Screwtape Letters? Wow. If that is anything like the way copyright laws in other, or in the above cases, the originating Countries in addition to US Copyright laws, I think I will just remain an avid reader and let others who know what they are doing deal with such intricacies. Thank you again for all your help!
 * Respectfully,
 * MichaelC-The-Gamer (talk) 23:17, 8 August 2023 (UTC)