User talk:Chris~enwikisource

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Hello, Chris~enwikisource, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at 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. :)

Dead sea scrolls

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Nice work with the Dead Sea scrolls that you've been uploading! You might want to have a look at Template:Header (and [[Template talk:Header), which is pretty much our standard template for works. You might also want to consider moving the pages you just created to subpages of Dead Sea scrolls, for example, 4Q166 would become Dead Sea scrolls/4Q166; this helps us to keep all the related pages together, and also makes for ease of reference from other Wikipedia projects. You can find more information about our naming convention at our style guide, which I've linked above. :-) Jude (talk,contribs,email) 03:54, 6 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

{{PD-NASA}} redundant?

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Hello. {{PD-NASA}} seems to be redundant with {{PD-USGov}}, since NASA releases copyright as an official agency of the United States federal government. The exceptions where NASA retains copyright are the same as apply to USGov copyright— works written for hire or copyright transferred to NASA, for example. Would you object to replacing the template with {{PD-USGov}}, or is there something I didn't think of? —{admin} Pathoschild 17:43:46, 03 June 2007 (UTC)

Going against consensus

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Chris, you are going against consensus on this astrology issue. We are here to add texts, not waste our time discussing the nuisances of everything - that is Wikipedia's game. More importantly, we do not rush these matters. We have fewer people here, and we give each other time to respond, and we wait for a true majority consensus before doing making changes that one or two people disagree with. Please slow down and think about what we are saying. Also consider, is this really important? John Vandenberg 23:00, 4 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Consensus has already been reached on this subject for 200+ years. And of its important when were mixing superstitions with science. Why not include religion in the science index too wile were at it? After all they use to be mixed all together at one time too.Chris 23:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Bear in mind that our mission here is not to be "current". The majority of our content is at least 100 years old, and a large component of what we do is bring online ancient works.
From my prospective there are over 100,000 public domain NASA documents available on the subjects of Space Exploration and astronomy subjects. Documents from all time periods are being added to wikisource and this is more than any true of space related subjects because of NASA.Chris 00:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Yes, NASA is rather unique in that it provides copious amounts of modern works that we can include. The patent office is another one. They deserve their own index as a result. But, note that we have lots of incomplete NASA texts, and relatively few recent patents. Modern works rarely attract dedicated Wikisource contributors. Until we have a strong body of NASA work, it wont be a major consideration in the way we organise the site. That said, you will have seen that I support keeping the NASA WikiProject, as I agree that it will grow over time. It would be great if you want to tackle this: sort out what we do have, finish the incomplete texts, and then nominate any that are not worth finishing for deletion. John Vandenberg 00:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
What we mix together can change, but please do it slowly with consensus among our small Wikisource community. John Vandenberg 00:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Note that you have been plenty of other options, including Portal:NASA, Wikisource:NASA, and Wikisource:Space Exploration. Feel free to take ownership of any or all of those. John Vandenberg 23:03, 4 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
"ownership"?Chris 23:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Yes, ownership. If these are topics you are interested in, the rest of the community will let you develop it with your own flair and without much interference. That will change as the size of the community changes, but what we need right now is people who can create inertia. John Vandenberg 00:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Note that I started Portal:NASA, but you are more than welcome to take it over and develop/expand it however you like. John Vandenberg 00:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Owning pages goes against most of what a wiki stands for.Chris 00:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
We are not here to create content in a collaborative fashion. We are here to collect texts that do not change, and we do need people who look after them. What I mean by "ownership" is that you are welcome to take on the role of "curator" of NASA texts and others relating to Space Exploration, because nobody else is doing it at the moment. John Vandenberg 01:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Your account will be renamed

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23:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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06:43, 21 April 2015 (UTC)