User talk:Stefeyboy

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If you can't think of any particular corners to improve on Wikisource, how about taking a look at Portal:Religious texts, Portal:Wars or Portal:Texts by Country for some ideas? Don't forget to list your contributions on those pages as well so others will find and read them in the future!

Yann (talk) 18:13, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Moving Your Files to Wikimedia Commons
Hello !

First, thank you for your contributions to Wikisource. Any contributions are always very much appreciated. While searching around, I noticed that you have some files that you uploaded to Wikisource that would probably serve the community better if it was on Wikimedia Commons, a media file repository. You can view your files to see which ones I'm referring to. See the Image Guidelines for more information.

Why should you do this?

As an example, let's pretend you extracted a hard-to-find image from a book written in 1870. If you upload it to Wikisource, only Wikisource users can use it. What if a user from Japan is writing an article about a similar topic? If your file is on Wikisource, it's unlikely he'll find it, and if he's lucky enough to find it, he still won't be able to use it easily. However, if you uploaded it to Commons, it's much more likely he'll find it and be able to use it. (Files hosted on Commons are accessible from any sister project) The same goes for any PDF or DJVU files you upload as well.


 * Upload a file to Wikimedia Commons
 * Wikimedia Commons Welcome Page
 * A guide to contributing content to Wikimedia Commons

Note: To "move" a page from Wikisource to Commons is simple, but somewhat confusing if you don't know how to. First, upload the file to Commons with the same file name as you did here. Add the same information, making sure you put in the correct license. I suggest adding the  template to its Commons page. Then edit the file's page at Wikisource and add the template Now Commons. Soon an administrator will complete the "move" by deleting the Wikisource copy (as it's no longer needed). You don't need to change any tags on Wikisource as they'll automatically point to the new file. Awesome!

If you have any questions or concerns, don't be afraid to ask.

The Haz talk 03:59, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Not creating empty holding pages
Hi. Please don't create empty holding pages for works. The community discussed it years ago that it is a little misleading to indicate that we have a work, but don't. We found that works do not get worked upon when left in that state and it just creates a mess in main namespace.

What you can do is to create the Index: namespace page, and link to it from the author page using small scan link. Also, at Commons, we try to utilise the book template as that allows a direct import of the data in that template into the Index: template. To assist in that we also have ia-upload that helps to create that template too.

Happy to further explain or indicate examples as required. Get back to me or ask at WS:S if you need a hand. — billinghurst  sDrewth  23:38, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I have created Index:Anson Burlingame and the First Chinese Mission to Foreign Powers.pdf. I will drop the other file names here for the main namespace pages that I am deleting. If you don't create those pages I will get to them later in the week. — billinghurst  sDrewth  23:51, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * c:File:A Digest of International Law.pdf John Bassett Moore
 * c:File:Middlekingdomsur01will.pdf Samuel Wells Williams