User talk:Copio

Help choose next week's choice

The current community collaboration is for works related to the Eminent Women Series. Last collaboration: Slavery in the United States (1837)

Help choose next month's proofreading

The current Proofread of the Month is A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories  (1926) by Montague Rhodes James. Last month completed: A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand The next scheduled collaboration will begin in January.

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Yann (talk) 22:35, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind ...

I have been and some formatting on your documents. Some are just alternate (and hopefully occasionally easier) means of achieving what you seemed to be looking to do. At WS:S we are very helpful for all sorts of questions, it is a nice friendly community. -- billinghurst (talk) 11:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Proofread

Hi Copio. The pages at The Motorway Code seem to be proofread, were you leaving them 'not proofread' for some reason? Cygnis insignis (talk) 03:29, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Current practcie is this: one user, in good standing, corrects the ocr to produce a satifactory transcription for main-space, a second user validates this text. If you have done all you can, it is proofread. This appears to contradict the "proofread by several users", you can safely ignore that when you are contributing in good faith. Regards, Cygnis insignis (talk) 13:15, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I validated p. 3 and 4, with some slight changes if you want them. Because I proofread 1 and 2, the software prohibits me validating them. You can do that, meeting the minimum requirement of two users checking it. Now you're done! :-) Good luck with the next work. Cygnis insignis (talk) 09:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

A Short History of Wales now transcluded from Index:Ashorthistoryofwales.djvu

I have match and split the pages from A Short History of Wales to the scans, then transcluded the pages back to the pages. I will try and work on the Table of Contents so we can transclude that too. billinghurst (talk) 13:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)