User talk:SnowyCinema/Archives/2020

New Texts
The "Episode "Piggy Bank Robbery" of The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican" should not be listed in New Texts until all pages have been proofread. Right now one of the pages is marked as "problematic", so it cannot be considered ready to be listed as a new text.

I have corrected the author link for the BSA film. When the "author" is a company or corporation rather than an individual, then we use a Portal page, such as we have at Portal:Stratemeyer Syndicate. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:16, 18 April 2020 (UTC)


 * By the way, it's not the first TV episode here. Our usual format for video clips is .ogv and a search there finds a few others. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:51, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Dotted page
I have moved that out of template namespace. We already have enough issues with the existing dotted leading templates without having more issues in more of the same templates. There is requirement to replicate dot leaders in tables, we are not a facsimile site. Some of us would profess that there are many reasons why we wouldn't want to use dot leaders due to their template bloat, etc. and consider that they have little upside. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Balmer copyrights
I looked in to the copyright status of the “copyrighted” works you listed, if you are interested in working on them sooner. “The Man Higher Up” and “The Eleventh Hour” were first published in 1909 in the collection The Achievements of Luther Trant (which may be found here, and at other places); “The Hammering Man” has already been created (from Amazing Stories vol. 1 no. 12, which was not copyrighted); and That Royle Girl is copyrighted for the full term (which expires in a few years). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:55, 5 December 2020 (UTC).
 * Yes, I believe they were indeed later printings. I know that “The Man Higher Up,” at least, was reprinted in 1926 (in some issue of Amazing Stories, I believe). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:32, 5 December 2020 (UTC).

Typos
"nnd" in all lower-case on PAGE pages is exclusively a misreading of "and" it seems, if you look at this; would be a decent scheduled task every X months. And learneil is learned in every instance according to a Google search of Wikisource. And pattem is consistently pattern. Peace.salam.shalom (talk) 07:23, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Template:New texts
Please input the entries (1) yourself (not with the bot) and (2) not as a minor edit. It’s fine to use the bot to input pages (since you proofread the work yourself separately), but you should be the one to add the entry to “New texts.” Good job proofreading (both the books and the films, since we don’t have many films here). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:59, 15 December 2020 (UTC).
 * (The reason edits are being marked as minor, except when pages are created, is because that's all pywikibot will apparently allow bot edits to be marked as. I'm sure that's changeable within pywikibot's source code, though.) But okay, will add the new texts myself from now on. PseudoSkull (talk) 15:55, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Films
If you’re interested in proofreading (perennially perhaps) some films, there are plenty which have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (Category:Silent films videos on Commons has almost 1,500, although, of course, not all of those will be actual films.) You can start a WikiProject for that (although I realise as I am writing this that you were already thinking of doing that). I would be happy to join; more films would certainly be a valuable addition. (Also, I changed smaller to fine block on this and the following page; when text changes size for a lengthy period of time, one should use the “block” form of the template.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:40, 15 December 2020 (UTC).
 * Sure, I will start that WikiProject page soon, glad there is interest here in it! It's also worth noting that there are also a handful of 1925 films going into the public domain in less than a month, freed from the chains of their pointless 94-year-old copyrights.
 * Since I now see that what I for all this time thought was "smaller" sized text is actually "fine", then I am going to have quite a lot of pages of my old work to fix. Since some of it should be done by means of Template:fine block and others with just Template:fine, I am going to need a few days to script up this automated cleanup process. But I hope that this doesn't have to be done with Template:fine block/s and -/e, because that is even more complicated to automate. PseudoSkull (talk) 00:28, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The starting and ending templates are only needed when text crosses a page—if that helps. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:38, 16 December 2020 (UTC).

Film list suggestions and comment
I would recommend (if you haven’t already) to create a template in your personal namespace that you could subst: that would include the header template and all of the letter subheadings. I would also recommend to include the file for those already uploaded (probably using ). Also, files created outside of the United States, in the public domain there (due to age), but not so in their country of publication can be uploaded to Wikisource (with ), and proofread as normal (e. g., this film). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:16, 27 December 2020 (UTC).
 * I was wanting to make a template like that, but to be honest, I'm not that good with MediaWiki coding. My template idea would link to both Commons and Wikipedia, and would look like this:


 * Isn't Life Wonderful (Wikipedia article, Commons category, Video file)


 * In cases where a video file is not uploaded, or there is no Commons category, those should be delisted from the template. Perhaps if there is even no Wikipedia article on top of everything else, it should just link to the Wikisource page and that's it. Also the Commons category, Wikipedia article, etc. may have different names than the entry would at Wikisource so the template would have to allow users to change the names accordingly. So I'm not quite sure how to make a template like this, and I think the template should be in the main template space as a WikiProject itself is not located in my user space, but in the Wikisource project space. By the way, I don't wish to suggest that those WikiProject subpages are to be edited only by me; others can contribute to the lists as well if they please. PseudoSkull (talk) 04:43, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I have created the template I was thinking of here; I am working on the template you are thinking of now. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:12, 28 December 2020 (UTC).
 * I have finished the template; it is Template:WPF link. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:26, 28 December 2020 (UTC).
 * Thank you. I'll convert them soon. PseudoSkull (talk) 17:32, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Completed films

 * I have another question: Where should completed films be listed? I see that you have removed films from the “uploaded to Commons” list, but I don’t see a place for completed films to go. I have completed two (small) films, but they wouldn’t be added to the “uploaded” list, because they have already been proofread. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:56, 31 December 2020 (UTC).
 * We really should be adding them to Portal:Film, but I haven't been doing that lately because I forgot. Portal:Film is a bit messy right now and probably should eventually, if not now, be separated into separate portals such as Portal:Mystery film, Portal:Cartoons, or Portal:Educational film, as an example of a way to give a directory of what people want based on the film genre, as we do with books. It will be more important later as we will have such an abundance of films that a page listing all of them would be way too long for a single page. As a matter of fact, I'll go ahead and start doing that right now, since it needs done. And thank you for adding those films, by the way. PseudoSkull (talk) 17:07, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Please add any new films to the Portal:Film subportals or, if it does not fit well in any existing categories, add it to Portal:Film. PseudoSkull (talk) 18:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Portal:Film
Thank for for setting this up. I have reclassified it and its subportals as TR (instead of ZA). The ZA classification is used by the Library of Congress for works that do not sit on the shelves with its books (photos, films, and digital copies). But all items hosted on Wikisource are digital copies, so most items that would be classified there in the LoC would not be placed there on Wikisource. The more suitable location for Wikisource purposes is TR (Photography). --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:49, 31 December 2020 (UTC)