User talk:Mike s

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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:26, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

150,000th Validated Page
You have just made the 150,000th page validation here on the English Wikisource with your edit to Page:Hector Macpherson - Herschel (1919).djvu/26‎. Unfortunately, there's no prize other than the thanks of the Community. Well done, Beeswaxcandle (talk) 19:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Short history of astronomy
I'll see about adding some of the missing images from the first chapters later today. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:54, 29 June 2014 (UTC)


 * thanks!Mike s (talk) 20:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

The first 12 figures are now uploaded, and of those the first six have been set into the text. You can probably figure out how to put in the next six by copying and pasting syntax that I've used. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:50, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

A Short History of astronomy(1898).djvu
Could you possibly come to this topic and proofread some of the last unproofed pages while I work on the validations of your project? November is a big project on Wikisource. —Maury (talk) 05:09, 9 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I will try to speedup my proofreading of A Short History of astronomy however I am inherently a slow proofer. Mike s (talk) 23:00, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Index:A short history of astronomy(1898).djvu Proof some more? All are proofed and validated thus far. —Maury (talk) 06:22, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

—Maury (talk) 20:16, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * and only halfway doneMike s (talk) 22:19, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * halfway done!? I am thinking that you have "floating images" and you must be using something like rocks for "anchors". Stay Kool Dude, —Maury (talk) 22:30, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

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The Evolution of Worlds
It's really exciting to see this work completed here and now fully available. Thanks! --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:31, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Index:Prehistoric Britain.djvu
I'd been doing some OCR cleanup from the rear of this. Please let me know if you object. Not marking it as proofread as you were doing an admirable job of it. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:02, 30 July 2016 (UTC)


 * No problem, thanks for the help. Mike s (talk) 15:59, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Mike s, is it okay if I do some on your project. I would look at validating and perhaps b/w image work. —Maury (talk) 19:16, 12 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Go for it, any help is appreciated. Mike s (talk) 00:11, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

/*Index:Rude Stone Monuments.djvu*/
Mike s, do you plan on more proofreading on this work? I have been validating it so far. Index:Rude Stone Monuments.djvu I am interested in the topic and mostly I would like to consider some of the image work if you don’t mind. I would use it as a break of what my present project is on 9 volumes of illustrated England which gets a little tiresome as a subject after volume five of nine but I’ll still be there too. —Maury (talk) 06:18, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I will try to proofread more pages of Rude Stone Monuments and any help with images would be great. Mike s (talk) 18:59, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * If you have uploaded any images yet please let me know on my talk page or "ping" me. Thanks, —Maury (talk) 00:19, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, I needed to know. Some people will upload many, or all images, and then insert them, or have others insert them.—Maury (talk) 05:59, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

PSM wiki links to Authors and Wikipedia
Thanks for the multitude of contributions to the Popular Science Monthly. I noticed that you are doing wiki links to the Authors and Wikipedia pages, but I think that linking unknown words to Wiktionary is far more beneficial to readers. Both Firefox and Chrome have extensions that look up words in Wiktionary, an example of which you can see ON THIS PAGE. The link syntax is Wiktionary. — Ineuw talk 09:42, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

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WEF WD gadget available locally
Hi. Just flagging whether you are aware that we have the WEF gadget available, it allows the quick creation and editing of WD from a page here. — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:39, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Template:New texts‎‎
Please do announce your completed work to the world. After all that time and effort, it does deserve a little publicity. Congrats! — billinghurst  sDrewth  02:12, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, and are you going to poke the edition into WD? — billinghurst  sDrewth  02:14, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Preferable to move pages rather than convert to disambiguation
Hi. For future cases where disambiguation is required, would you please move the existing content page to its new target as that maintains the page history, identification data, updates wikidata, etc. Then the redirect that is created can then be converted to a disambiguation page. Thanks. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:21, 28 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Did you want me to move Author:Robert Ball to Author:Robert Ball (1802-1857) despite the fact that it was a redirect targeting Author:Robert Stawell Ball?