User talk:Quuxplusone

Hello, Quuxplusone, 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. :)

Hi I saw the message you left at User talk:Wolfman. Unfortunately he hasn't been active here in a while so I thought I should answer. Wolfman left the welcome message here in December when the template was significantly different. Since then the template has been redesigned and no one realized the possible confution this might cause newbies. I am going to look through the templates and see if anyone else will encounter the same situation. There are way to many unsubstituted welcome templates to check by hand :( --BirgitteSB 07:52, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Aesop's Fables

All of Townsend's translations have been removed from those pages and given pages according to the actual title of the fable (see Aesop's Fables for the complete list). The pages titles like Aesop's Fables-# have been deleted according to our speedy delete policy. The links will have to be changed, of course, to everything that linked to Aesop's Fables-#, but if you need me still to undelete the pages to do that, let me know.—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 20:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

A Thin Ghost and Others

I notice in your proofreading that you are using a mix of straight quotes and curly quotes. All works on Wikisource should have entirely one or the other, not a mix of both kinds. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, for leading apostrophes I think the smart quote is necessary to avoid "mis-smartening" in the consuming software (i.e. ’Ercules is not ‘Ercules). For the double-quotes I was just going with what my keyboard produces most easily. But I'll definitely switch to all-smart-quotes-even-the-double-quotes for future; and if you want to go smarten the double-quotes in "Poynter," please go for it! --Quuxplusone (talk) 21:07, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

As I say, either straight or curly is acceptable, so long as only one or the other is used in each particular work. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:35, 2 June 2024 (UTC)