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Help choose next week's choice

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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) 11:00, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Riches and Template:Disambiguation

Gday. I have reverted the changes that you made to Riches as I am not sure what you were trying to achieve. If Blake wrote a poem called Riches then what would do is to move the existing page to Riches (Teasdale) and make the existing page a disambiguation page, an example is Nurse's Song. If you need some help, please do not hesitate to ask at Scriptorium or my help page. -- billinghurst (talk) 06:21, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Works named in quotations

Hi again. You have added works and their names have double quotations in the names themselves. Did the actual works have the double quotations, clearly and specifically, whereas other works did not? Generally we would only include dqs if they are clearly required as part of the name of the poem or work. Thanks. -- billinghurst (talk) 06:28, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello. Some of the works from Blake didn't have titles. Therefore, people usually use the first line of the poem as the so-called title to identify each of them. To prevent others mix them up with those titled poems, the double quotations can show people that those poems were untitled poems. Cynthiacaty (talk) 09:23, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks!

No probs! -- billinghurst (talk) 08:26, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey~ I made TOC successfully~ Thanks for your guiding!!(Wow, I know how to use the talk page^^)Cynthiacaty (talk) 09:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Moved Milton: a Poem

For substantive works, we look to have works have a main page, and subpages. I have rejigged Milton: a Poem to how we structure a work, and note the relative links. Happy to answer questions or explain why we do it this way. -- billinghurst (talk) 12:17, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

One of our colleagues has poked me in the ribs about the move to subpages, so I will await his greater poetry expertise. Sit tight. -- billinghurst (talk) 12:35, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

An exaggeration, and I will have to look at it later. Thanks for your work on it, a valuable contribution, don't let my ponderings distract you. By the way, what source did you use? We can add that info for the real scholars. Cygnis insignis (talk) 13:16, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

I got the source from a book in my public library called Selected Poems from William Blake, which is published by Everyman in 1982 and edited by P.H. Butter(ISBN 0460870688). As I know that Blake's work is in PD now, do I still need to add a reference on each work?? And thanks for your consideration :)Cynthiacaty (talk) 06:27, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Milton: a Poem I moved it again to Milton (Blake), for the moment, but I'm still working on a permanent name. The name is somewhat ambiguous, see Milton. Please pardon the shuffling, Cygnis insignis (talk) 20:00, 5 September 2009 (UTC)