User talk:Rya38

--EncycloPetey (talk) 21:29, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Footnotes and sections
If a work has footnotes, simply put the Footnotes at the bottom of the page, without using section syntax. That is,m don't use ==Footnotes==. Wikipedia articles have this but Wikisource texts should not, unless the original has them. If you need a separation, you can use dhr to vertically space them away from the text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:29, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

You may also find it helpful to see the edit I made on this page. We have a nop template that ensures a paragraph break happens. I moved the "8" into the footer, so that it won't display in the final work. And I use the ' " template to add a bit of spacing between a single and double quote without adding a full space between them. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:34, 22 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Will do, thanks so much for your help! I'll go back and fix the pages I used ==Footnotes== on Rya38 (talk) 21:48, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Index:Legends of the Gods.pdf
Unfortunately, I've had to mark this document for deletion, as it is a secondhand transcription. The PDF you obtained from the Internet Archive was a PDF printout of an OpenOffice document, not a scan of the original 1912 text. Wikisource does not accept secondhand transcriptions because those transcriptions are often "corrupt" - they contain errors or omissions which were not present in the original. (For example, this one is missing all of its illustrations, as well as a number of short passages of hieroglyphics.)

If you'd like to continue transcribing this text, User:MarkLSteadman mentioned that there's a scan of the original on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/books-on-egypt-and-chaldaea-1-33/32%20Egyptian%20Literature%2C%20v1/. There's a second volume in that collection ("Annals of Nubian Kings") as well.

Hopefully this isn't too discouraging. Omphalographer (talk) 18:14, 24 July 2023 (UTC)


 * My apologies! I can upload the proper scan and transcribe it instead. Thanks for letting me know. Rya38 (talk) 18:50, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Note that there is no expectation to transcribe the raw side-by-side hieroglyphic text, you can just mark those pages as without text. That is standard practice for such texts, as this is English WS and we can link to various versions on their own language wikisources. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions. MarkLSteadman (talk) 01:49, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know! I don't mind transcribing them, since it'll just require the Gardiner codes, but if it would be discouraged for me to do that, I'll leave those pages alone. Rya38 (talk) 20:06, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't believe it is possible to make it flow nicely when transcluding currently, and still support things like mobile / export. See here for an example request.I am not familiar with the status of Ancient Egyptian Wikisource. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:24, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Progress bars
Progress bars should not be placed on works in the Mainspace. They can appear on Talk pages, User pages, and Project pages, but should never appear in the books themselves. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)