Cygnis insignis

“ I am wondering if you would like to collaborate on a work that you are interested in: I can do images, and any other bits and pieces, and 'validate' (second proofreading) the text corrections you are so good at. The fiddly parts, like setting up a new work, I can probably manage for you. Checks are still welcome, although I feel that some of the works I do are not appropriate reading for some Christian readers. What do you think? CYGNIS INSIGNIS 10:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC) I hope you don’t mind me checking your user rights. ”

“ I gave a reason, it is not broken, you haven't, in your edit summary when you reverted me without discussion, or in your statement here, which is to say it is, somehow, broken. Cygnis insignis (talk) 11:56, 24 October 2021 (UTC) link to result of exhaustive discussion given also, changing format at one page of work diffs Cygnis insignis (talk) 11:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC) 1914 Bookman That file has a link to the whole volume at Hathitrust. In the commons:Category:The Bookman (London) /Volume 49 I uploaded every ad that mentioned AR or Dulac, both have a featured plate in the issue. ”

“ I thought it made a good example, you can find some more at User:Cygnis insignis/contributions. Some of these have internal links, using the headings and page numbers in the 'table of contents' and index. Have a look at Indian Fairy Tales (Jacobs) /Notes and References for anchors and links to the rest of the book, and other pages on wikisource. That is good news :-) I thought it was quite interesting, I have noticed that pages are quoted elsewhere. They also turn up on google searches very quickly. ”

“ I recommend you assume that a user is capable of getting a definition, article, or related image when they desire it, they are capable of finding wikipedia if they found their way here; we don't have to link everything or decide how it will be used - that is not the purpose of a library. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 18:53, 1 March 2011 (UTC) This does not answer my question as to whether sister links are appropriate or inappropriate for a particular text as there is no clear policy or guideline on the matter of annotations, but I am happy to go with your view if this is your preference. ”

“ My favourite "wise admin" here made the point a while back that his earlier contributions, valuable as they were at the time, now looked like crud compared to these later developments. Cygnis insignis (talk) 16:59, 23 June 2010 (UTC) I took a minute to search for the equivalent of Gutenbergs's text, this one is a reprint of the Benzinger edition. They have many versions, not as easily found as we try to make them, but if you fiddle with search terms and add "site:archive.org" after them, you can use google to search the site. ”

“ Cygnis insignis (talk) 18:32, 19 March 2010 (UTC) Personally I think what you have done there is best practice. It is what I would do if I were building the page, but I probably wouldn't bother changing it if I were passing through validating. Apparently the <pages> doesn't populate the links table properly. We've been talking about this at User talk:Hesperian/V, though this is a different manifestation again. Hesperian 22:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC) is definitely problematic with transclusion and it totally misbehaves with stuff. ”

“ I don't see why meta data like similar should be out the header, if it should appear at all is dubious, and think the link name should appear. People should know where they are going. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 00:37, 19 March 2011 (UTC) I understand what you're getting at and it makes sense to keep dab pages purely for works with the same (or very similar) name. However, to do that will need some clarification at WS:STYLE#Disambiguation pages. What's the best forum to seek the appropriate consensus in? ”

“ Speaking of page: namespace problems, I'm having problems with the formatting of poems. The trivial concern of line spacing is more noticeable with these, using or ":" indents, and if I ever knew how to control this I've forgotten now. Hiding tags in the header/footer doesn't seem to work, that was my best guess. Cygnis insignis (talk) 12:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC) My brain is slowing, and not my area of specialty. ”

“ If other authors keep referring to a title, and it is ambiguous, I might think about sorting it out in main. I'm not consistent with the way I style these pages, I just make the path if it is likely to be a problem; finding solutions is less important other aspects of the site. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 01:48, 19 March 2011 (UTC) Help please - The Natural History of the Newspaper Hello, I've tried to download The Natural History of the Newspaper in PDF format, but the downloaded file does not contain any text except the heading and the public domain notice. ”

“ I don't remember seeing it around when I gathered up the contemporary reviews for the artist (who is relevant to some other interests, rather than—anything more than—quite good (not an AR) ) . Cygnis insignis (talk) 04:02, 27 October 2021 (UTC) You mean the one in that scan? I can do that right now, but if you find the better version then be certain to upload over that one! Hathi has good search which means good ocr, which typically means bad art scans....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 04:52, 27 October 2021 (UTC) I'm just looking at IA now, which has some of issues. I'll see it that one is around. ”

“ A clean text is not a big lump of grey to someone who wanted to read it. The page is the terminus, the end point of a search, the desired target, they have arrived! Portals should link to texts, if they have any value, and at the moment they have very little; a link should be to a title or their authors because that IS what the author IS referring TO. I'll refer you to my comment above, at 00:37, 19 March 2011, and many others besides. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 14:51, 4 April 2011 (UTC) I'm sorry, your definitions clearly differ from mine on several fronts: namely "useful" and "library." ”

“ Please do as I ask, restore the history and link it here. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 17:00, 13 July 2018 (UTC) Here is the history. No real value in undeleting. Page history
(diff) 20:22, 6 July 2018 . . Cygnis insignis (talk | contribs | block) (424 bytes) (probably complete) (diff) 19:49, 6 July 2018 . . Cygnis insignis (talk | contribs | block) (148 bytes) (interim save) which would indicate that it was artefact in that a transcluded page was putting in the delete template. I believed that you had moved the pages you wanted moved, put in a deletion request, which I did and cleaned up. ”

“ I think this work is a worthwhile investment, btw, if you carefully proofread the transcript you have done a good thing. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 15:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC) Pardon, I skipped over the part about "deleted". The pages were created by a bot and deleted after discussion here, let me know if there is any problems with the improved Index. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 02:25, 31 May 2011 (UTC) Thanks, I have dropped Billinghust a note and will see what he says. The OCR seem very decent for the now file, so there is actually not a lot of editing, just formatting. ”

“ When something is really good I am tempted, but tend not to add them. By the way ... "'tards"? I suppose the term edge-lord is old-hat, but you know what I'm getting at. Be well. Cygnis insignis (talk) 14:30, 13 September 2021 (UTC) Accusations of racism You have been asked several times by several administrators in the past to provide evidence if you're going to make accusations of racism towards Billinghurst, which you have done yet again in an edit summary on M-le-mot-dit's talk page (I have hidden that edit summary from public view) . ”

“ Subjective indexing is an age-old problem in libraries, they don't have the advantage of having wikipedia providing access to their catalogue of texts. I reckon that the publication details, source, and authority (author) are the only requirement here, it seems pointless, or problematic, attempting to duplicate a site the reader will probably use to navigate to this site. Cygnis insignis (talk) 03:39, 18 June 2010 (UTC) Update: FWIW, I have asked George Orwell III (talk • contribs) if there is a way to utilize {{USCongRec}} in order to generate index pages by year/page in work. ”

“ How can anyone understand without an explanation. How can the next person understand. These are all our works, and the style guide gives guidance about replicating, so some will replicate; if they are not to replicate knowing why is informative. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:20, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Indeed ... my edit summary should have requested that you use an edit summary. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 15:34, 12 January 2016 (UTC) Essays in miniature is validated, but for two pages I have proofread. ”

“ No worries, use your watchlist so I can demonstrate a solution. The templates you have seen would be amongst the most frequently used, some templates wrap around a block of text, Template:Center, Template:Smaller block etc., others change parts of the text, {{smaller}}, {{smallcaps}}. Once you have a suite of these, you can proof as fast as you read. I enjoy sharing what I read and enjoyed, showing others how to do the same is also a good thing. Cheers, cygnis insignis 20:19, 17 August 2010 (UTC) My watchlist is made up overwhelmingly with pages that I have edited. ”

“ But I did come across "A Guide to Ghost Seeing; or, Every Man His Own Medium" ;) Londonjackbooks (talk) 22:56, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Very good of them to make that available to you. If you persist with the spreadsheet it would be useful to make the your work available somewhere. It is a shame that google is not allowing me access to that article, sounds amusing. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 14:44, 5 April 2016 (UTC) "A Guide to Ghost seeing & etc.": Among large store of shorter contributions Repplier made to Life magazine. ”

“ It would be good if we could have these conversations on Template talk:Welcome so the community can be involved, and not have random changes and reversions to the template. These resolutions on user talk pages are problematic. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:39, 13 June 2021 (UTC) I restored the comment. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 16:50, 13 June 2021 (UTC) There's no reason we can't have a preliminary discussion here to determine (a) what qualities would make for a good image, and (b) select one or more possible candidates. ”

“ Do you mean undo, revert or otherwise change an edit made by someone, such as yourself, who does have sysop tools? Fairy tales can be complicated, I've been thinking about the storyteller in the thousand nights and one night: its important to note that she is trying to save her own life by telling the ruler what they want to hear and believe, not what is just. I'll have a look at the images, biblical illustrations is yet another thing I'm interested in. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 20:36, 3 September 2021 (UTC) Re: “warned” It’s called the “Table of contents” field for a reason. ”

“ Fixed. Cygnis insignis (talk) 22:07, 24 May 2009 (UTC) My thanks to both of you. Hesperian 00:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC) Speaking of which, a passing reference. Cygnis insignis (talk) 14:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC) and curiouser Because I'm helpful and sexy like that, I even proofread two of them. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Carl Jung. 06:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Success with Template:Multicol With List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 and the associated Page: namespace, I have plenty of success with {{multicol}}, {{multicol-break}} and {{multicol-end}}. ”

“ There's not much we can do; we're not mind-readers, and we can't very well ask. Hesperian 00:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC) I apologise for forgetting to upload the page scans for that; I have done the few remaining for you. Hesperian 00:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Cheers for that, even more so for the validations. Cygnis insignis (talk) 17:50, 30 March 2009 (UTC) TB I'll check the index every now and then, and green anything yellow. Hesperian 00:20, 31 March 2009 (UTC) Curtis's Botanical Magazine/Volume 73/4275: publication date to bottom - done. ”

“ It is almost amusing when you see well intentioned schemes (at other sites) to substitute italic will allcaps; highly principled, but it quickly comes unstuck. I should try to keep that in mind. I think your effort in wrangling all that together is worthwhile, I just found a bug or two. Regarding blockquote, my.js has float center and smaller block labelled 'quote': this is usually what the format of a quote section of text is, a floating block of smaller text. Cygnis insignis (talk) 07:58, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Ta Thanks for all those fixes. ”

“ If you look at my file descriptions, I give the link to the website. You can get a jpeg image there, djvu is not a good source for illustrations. See Help:Adding images, which i hope does what it says. My conversions are adequate, someone showed me up the other day with a sharper image than my own :-) this is why providing a link is good, so others can improve on what we do. Watch what you edit, I try to explain what I'm doing in the summary. cygnis insignis 19:27, 11 September 2010 (UTC) You can follow what I do at Commons too, if you need to, I use a unique login across the sisters. ”

“ The Grateful Dead An opinion needed. Do you think that this (Page:The Grateful Dead.djvu/197) and following pages should be proofreaded? Thanks. --Mpaa (talk) 21:16, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
I would redlink it in the 'next' part of the header, to indicate its absence, and probably never get around to proofreading it. The end-matter that appears in the society's volumes has been useful to me, but it is not crucial to the completeness of the work. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 05:35, 2 June 2011 (UTC) Hope I got your comment right. ”