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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:38, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi. A quick note that I moved your notes to be the talk page of the work. We reserve our main namespace for the pure published work. We also utilise our talk pages a little differently than WPs as our needs and scope is different, and this allows for commentary about a work to be added, usually quite cleanly. The talk pages are also quite useful for research commentary, and we do that a fair bit with author talk pages, or for formatting discussions we will use index talk pages. Happy to answer any questions, though I ask that you send me a {{ping}} if you do ask. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:28, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: Thank you for your help. I'd created a subpage by analogy of what another book was doing (I've forgotten which!) but talk makes much more sense. Also thank you for the edit you made for me the other day at diff although in that case I didn't understand the rationale. I've found it an enjoyable challenge working on this as a first (don't yet know if the last!) wikisource project though I'll only take on another book if I find one really grabbing. Thincat (talk) 23:44, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- The previous edit was 1) to add some wikilinks for easy navigation to the author and main ns work, 2) to show that we had checked the transclusion of the work — sometimes people do all the transcription, then don't publish it in the main ns, or they miss pages! So we have our manual processes and markers.Finally, if you consider your work proofread and presented, then please do add it to template:new texts as that will then allow it show on the front page of enWS, and will build it into our lists of complete works. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:39, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: Thank you again, and for creating author:Charles Catton which had, for me, so magically appeared! I think now I am beginning to glimpse the underlying role of the "Table of Contents" field in the Index page and I'm now able to guess the role of the mysterious "header" and footer" fields as well. Although I had created the Index file first I had then gone on to create the page files without understanding its full significance. I had left flagging it as "proofread" until after flagging all the pages on the (wrong} supposition that it somehow triggered the whole book as being fully proofread. Finally, although I have proofread the text as best I can (and I have been very careful), I am still working on the higher-level presentation of the pages and of the overall presentation in main space. It's an unusual book in being very page-orientated, even more than The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1910), so I've been taking some ideas from there. I'll ask more questions at Wikisource:Scriptorium/Help though I'll be very happy if you feel like answering there! Thincat (talk) 08:06, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
- The previous edit was 1) to add some wikilinks for easy navigation to the author and main ns work, 2) to show that we had checked the transclusion of the work — sometimes people do all the transcription, then don't publish it in the main ns, or they miss pages! So we have our manual processes and markers.Finally, if you consider your work proofread and presented, then please do add it to template:new texts as that will then allow it show on the front page of enWS, and will build it into our lists of complete works. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:39, 22 March 2017 (UTC)