User talk:Jkylefenton

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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Page listing...

Hi, thanks for your efforts.

Can I ask that you attempt to add a pagelist for the uploads?

See: Help:Index_pages#Creating_Index_pages (the section headed "The pagelist tag" ) and Help:Page_numbers

Thanks. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:25, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Index:Incidents in the life of a slave girl.djvu

There is no problem with having this. In fact it is encouraged. Our current copy of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is not backed by a scan. In creating your Index from a scan, you have started the process of creating a scan-backed copy, which is to be encouraged. When you have finished, we would replace the unsourced copy with yours. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:03, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject

@Beeswaxcandle: knows far more than I do.. In respect of my completely unofficial involvement with the NLS project, I wasn't involved in setting up anything, I only gave some pointers on talk pages, and was doing some relatively minor followup edits (in terms of categorisations) and lint error cleanup. The works I actually transcribed recently where ones that I 'rescued' on Commons, when the upload metadata got misplaced.

I don't have enough experience to help set up entire projects, and have plenty of my own personal projects to continue with at present. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:15, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

In respect of line breaks, English Wikisource doesn't attempt to preserve original tyopgraphic layout (mostly due to the many variances of devices and displays on which it will be rendered. So in respect of line breaks, I wouldn't be too worried about exact preservation of those. For poems and Songs, I would suggest keeping original line structure where it's relevant, ( as well as indentation of each line, typically alternate lines in some songs might have indentation for example.)

(ASIDE: It would be nice if CSS had an n-th line selector for DIV or P, but I don't think it does currently) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:22, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

My Bondage and My Freedom

Is the 1857 edition significantly different from the 1855 edition? I see that you set up an index for the 1857 edition, but we already have the 1855 edition. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:47, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Adding further editions is permissible. I ask because there may be other texts of greater significance or with greater added value. There are editors here who become frustrated when they find they have been transcribing a work here, only to discover a near identical copy already exists.

Yes, Wikisource proofreading includes the removal of line breaks from the texts, and leaving single blank lines between paragraphs. This is standard practice, so you will find that editors remove these line breaks while proofreading. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:06, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Lucy Cardwell

Regarding this. I have made a new DjVu with all four pages from a scan of the copy in the Samuel J. May collection at Cornell. Would you like me to upload it over File:Some account of Lucy Cardwell, a woman of colour.djvu and rejig the pages for Index:Some account of Lucy Cardwell, a woman of colour.djvu in the Page: namespace to match? --Xover (talk) 19:45, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

@Xover Would you mind doing this? Languageseeker (talk) 02:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC)