User talk:Carcharoth

Hello Carcharoth, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here.

You'll find an (incomplete) index of our works listed at Wikisource:Works, although for very broad categories like poetry you may wish to look at the categories like Category:Poems instead.

Please take a glance at our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). Most questions and discussions about the community are in the Scriptorium.

The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page! John Vandenberg ^(chat) 11:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

p.s. you can set your prefs to have Wikisource notify you of all changes via email. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 11:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Patrolling, and quality

As you are now autoconfirmed, you are able to see how, in addition to page scans, we ensure quality is not degraded by patrolling each edit. On Special:RecentChanges, you will see red exclamation marks to indicate edits which havent been patrolled. This will give you a better view of which edits from the last 14 days havent been patrolled yet.

There are a few periods where edits have gone unchecked, but typically they are checked within a week or two. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:18, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

OK. I haven't really done much patrolling before. Any way to avoid conflicting with others? Also, I presume patrolling is limited to mainspace. No need or desire for patrolling of the other namespaces such as user talk page edits? Carcharoth 09:20, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I patrol all namespaces, so that we can track what talk page comments havent been answered, etc. You cant conflict on patrolling - either you mark it as patrolled, or someone else does. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

First one I clicked on was this. Wouldn't want to mark that as patrolled without checking it myself, and "I trust that user" doesn't feel quite like the right reason, though maybe it should be? Carcharoth 09:23, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Tough decisions.. but someone has to make them.

If the edits affect a core principle, such as accuracy, or copyright, I usually go check archive.org and try to set up a transcription project of that edition. This in turn gives the casual editor an opportunity to help migrate the text from the main-namespace to a djvu, where it can be proofread. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

The Muse in Arms

Hello. I have created Index:The Muse in Arms, Osborn (ed), 1917.djvu and started proofreading a few pages. You are free to edit as well. Londonjackbooks (talk) 15:20, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! There are some poems I'd enjoy reading again. Will try and help out soon. Carcharoth (talk) 00:50, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Welcome back! I have completed a couple projects, and so will devote more time to this one now. I have built the TOC and transcluded the base page into the Main, and will start transcluding sections as they are completed. Coffee with a friend takes priority, so more later! Londonjackbooks (talk) 13:08, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I will try and do bits here and there. Couple of questions: are you able to validate pages xxx and xxxi at some point? Does the cover page need proofreading and validating? I'd be happy to validate or proofread the TOC pages now you have set them up. Which is best? Carcharoth (talk) 13:25, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Currently away from the computer. Not a requirement, but I was waiting to mark pages as validated or proofread once I finished adding links. That will be my priority when back :) Londonjackbooks (talk) 13:56, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Authors

Hello! I was wondering if you had any insight into who author "A. J." refers to? They wrote "The Tryst" in The Muse. Thanks, Londonjackbooks (talk) 19:20, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Think I found him: Arnold James Londonjackbooks (talk) 19:32, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

If by chance you have or can find birth/death info for Mr. James, that would be great! Londonjackbooks (talk) 21:23, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

@Londonjackbooks: if that is correct, that is excellent research to identify A.J. as Arnold James. The book introduction identifies some of the authors, summarised here:

The contributors not mentioned in the list of authors are: I.C., O. (two poems), C.A.A., A.J., Imtarfa, Dorothy Plowman (wife of Max Plowman), and Roma White. In the acknowledgments, Osborn identifies A.J. as a soldier and Imtarfa as a naval officer, with the others being civilian authors. Osborn acknowledges "Mr. Ian Colvin" for the poem attributed to I.C. and acknowledges the "Head Master of Eton" for the poem attributed to C.A.A. (Cyril Argentine Alington).

Ian Colvin is mentioned a few times already on Wikisource. Cyril Alington is mentioned once as well. No author pages as far as I can see. Roma White is mentioned here and here. No idea who "O." is, nor Imtarfa. Maybe copy this to the index talk page? Carcharoth (talk) 14:06, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Found Author:Arnold James by Googling lines from "The Tryst" by "A. J." They came up in Wheels: an anthology &c. under Arnold James. Thanks for the info above! I will copy it to the Talk page for reference :) Londonjackbooks (talk) 14:20, 12 March 2018 (UTC)