User talk:Schwerdf
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Links and sourcing
[edit]Hi Schwerdf,
Thank you for your contribution at Lament for the Makaris. But a couple of pointers regarding it…
First, I've had to remove the Wikipedia links in the text as they're against our linking and annotation policies. Where the links were to a person that is an author I've changed them to links to that person's author page here. The wiktionary links are permissible (in moderation, but I think for this particular work they're fine).
Second, the information about the source for things like this goes in a {{textinfo}} template on the work's talk page, so I've moved it there.
And "last but not least", I noticed that here and in previous contributions you've added a single poem and directly into a mainspace page. This was the common practice when Wikisource was started (before the development of the Proofread Page extension), but these days the norm is that we host complete works as they were published and with scan backing (for reasons analogous to verifiability on enwp). As a rough rule of thumb, this means we start with a complete scan of a book, and present individual chapters (or poems for poem collections) as subpages within the context of that work. There's a description of the process at Help:Adding texts.
Please let me know if you have questions or need assistance in this regard (it can be really fiddly to begin with if you're used to how things work on Wikipedia). --Xover (talk) 09:58, 23 May 2020 (UTC)