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One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances

w:One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances 66.76.243.26 16:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

File:The Viaduct Murder (1926).pdf

Ran across this while doing some unrelated maintenance and since it was unused and unlinked I figured you might have forgot about it. Xover (talk) 10:14, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

An Adventure in the Fourth Dimension

You originally marked this page as proofread a couple of years ago - Page:Weird_Tales_volume_02_number_03.djvu/70 - it was subsequently marked as problematic because of the image, but now it has a good image. Do you want to mark as proofread again ? -- Beardo (talk) 19:12, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Jules de Grandin

I noticed your comment about the Category:Jules de Grandin. In fact there were five stories featuring him already existing. I have added them to that category. -- Beardo (talk) 15:05, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

New texts

The instructions for new texts specifically state " (nowiki=yes displays the author name without a wikilink) ... please do not leave author red links in your added item." If you disagree with that policy, you should get the instructions changed. -- Beardo (talk) 15:35, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Template:New texts/item specifically says "Options to be used sparingly (emphasis mine) ... To have a plain text, rather than an active link for the author, add a fourth parameter nowiki, eg. nowiki=yes where the author is a body without an author name. Note for anonymous authors, do not use this parameter, instead utilise {{anon}}." It does not imply that authors should be nowiki'ed just because nobody bothered to create an author page. In fact, I'd say such a work is not eligible for adding to new texts, since it's not complete without an author page.--Prosfilaes (talk) 15:50, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Re: Bibliography of Alaskan Literature

I saw you delete this from the requested texts year sub-page. Given that the sub-pages are more for listings rather than requests, I don’t think it’s any great harm to keep the listing there. On another note, if you’re interested in transcribing it, I can try to get a scan. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 03:27, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

I can get a scan from HathiTrust; I was actually downloading some new things from there when I was looking at it. If you'd like to restore it, that's fine, but I don't think anyone is going to work on it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:28, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

• I didn’t know about the scan, but I just didn’t want a work not to be done for that reason. If you ever need a scan in the future, feel free to ask me here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 03:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

History of Italian fascism, mentioned on w:Giovanni Gentile

Crespi, Angelo (1926). Contemporary Thought of Italy, Williams and Norgate, Limited. Prosfilaes (talk) 01:44, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

World Fiction

Hello. Would you mind if I moved the proofread pages from Index:World Stories-1922-08.djvu to Index:World Fiction 1922–1923.djvu? -- Jan Kameníček (talk) 07:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

That's absolutely fine.--Prosfilaes (talk) 14:57, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

You added this film to the list of requests for 1929, back in 2023, implying you had a personal copy. Is this still the case? Does your copy happen to be better-quality than what's here? Are you able to rip? Let me know if you'd like to upload it to Commons (or if it's better to just pull from IA instead), and I'd be happy to work on it around this month. I happen to be personally interested in this picture myself, since I first saw the story adapted for the very cute 1917 film nearly five years ago. SnowyCinema (talk) 22:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

It looks like it worked from the same DVD release; this one looks like it may have had some noise-reduction applied. It'd be just as easy for me if you work from the IA release; I'm not chomping at the bit to mess with reencoding and Common's requirements for such. I can upload the MPEG2 MKV files to IA if that would help.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Countee Cullen author page

Hi, I removed the separate link to the version of From the Dark Tower in Fire!! as the poem is not an individual work. It also occurs in Copper Sun and so the link to both versions is now from the versions page at From the Dark Tower. Regards, Chrisguise (talk) 14:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

It is an individual work in a sense. Author:Willard Edward Hawkins, for example, has his works linked from his page despite the fact that they were published as part of a periodical. His page would be useless if we didn't do that. It should probably link to the versions page like Author:Edgar Allan Poe, though I'm not a total fan of that page. But I'm strongly of the opinion that all versions of a work by an author should be linked from that author's page.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:48, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

So by your argument, every poem in each of his collections of poetry should be listed on the author page? I believe the preferred approach is that used for Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others, where all the individual poems are listed on a sub-page. Otherwise you end up with messes like Robert Browning, John Keats or Alfred Tennyson. Chrisguise (talk) 06:47, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

In the case of Hawkins, the two versions of 'The Dead Man's Tale' should be replaced with a single link to a versions page (called, for example, 'The Dead Man's Tale'] that contains the information on the main author page. They should only be listed separately on the author page if they were actually different poems with the same title, in which case they would need to be better differentiated (typically by putting the first line of the poem in brackets after the link). Chrisguise (talk) 07:09, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

That's debatable, but you didn't have a link to Fire!!'s version of From the Dark Tower from the page at all. That's the point, that there needed to be a link to that page, or the versions page, from the author page, not just the collected works.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:14, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

I suggest you look at the versions page. It's the first entry. Chrisguise (talk) 07:22, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

We're talking about the author's page, not the versions page. I'm fine with the versions page being linked from the author's page.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:41, 15 January 2025 (UTC)