User talk:Toohool

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Please add some detail on the source of the transcript for the page you created. cygnis insignis 20:30, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

The title is helpful, but I only see a snippet view. Are you able to provide a link to the actual page? cygnis insignis 20:36, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

If you scroll down on that page, you'll find the full table of contents with links to the pages, but I've gone ahead and linked to the specific page. Toohool (talk) 20:42, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Didn't work for me, the note at right says "No preview available". cygnis insignis 20:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Maybe it's not available outside of the US. I've replaced it with an archive.org link. Toohool (talk) 20:58, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

When scans are available

Gday. When scans are available for works, we then do have a preference to use those scans for our proofreading and validation. More detail at Help:Proofread and supplemented by Help:DjVu files. When a text only version is uploaded, they become really difficult to double-check. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:01, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Terminating paragraphs on pages and {{nop}}

When a paragraph terminates at the end of a page, we would normally apply {{nop}}, as this will force a paragraph mark when it is transcluded, otherwise it will run the succeeding paragraph onto the end as one. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:21, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

CCE

Index:Catalog of Copyright Entries 1950 Motion Pictures And Filmstrips Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 4 Pts 12-13.djvu

Want to work your formatting magic on this as well? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:07, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Assuming you mean splitting the pages up into columns.. It looks like it would actually require some substantial changes to the script I'm using. There are vertical rules between the columns that would require some adjustment to the algorithm for detecting where the columns are. I also currently have to manually enter the top and bottom margins individually for each page, which I would have to figure out how to automate if I want to process a whole 150-page volume (versus just processing the 5-10 pages of renewals). Right now I'm focused on getting through the artwork renewals up to 1977, but maybe by the end of that I'll have improved the script so it can work in more situations. (Or, if you're a coder, I could give you the script if you want to take a crack at it.) Thanks for your work on the artwork renewal pages, by the way. Toohool (talk) 04:12, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

I wasn't talking about extracting columns from the scans. I meant formatting in terms of the content I'd already cleaned up. Multi column was something I'd ignored in transcribing as you had with the Renewals initally.:) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:47, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Ah I see. I'm pretty focused on working on the artwork renewals from 1965 to 1977 though, since this will fill in a gap in the existing transcriptions and make the whole process of clearing images for non-renewal a bit simpler. Toohool (talk) 06:05, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, don't forget to consider part 11B (the prints and labels) at some point as well, next project after the artwork renewals? ;) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:08, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Yep, I have my eye on those too. Toohool (talk) 08:21, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

CCE

I thought you would want to know about:- c:Category:Catalogs of Copyright Entries

As they are volumes on Commons, it wouldn't be infeasible to set up Index pages for them here at Wikisource. Something to consider once you finish up the Art Renewals. It may with the support of the existing PG transcriptions being match, split against relevant PDF, to have a fully searchable version of the pre 1978 records, in the very very long term! ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:17, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Yes, I came across those not too long ago. That would be nice, but I think you need a few more "very"s... by the time it's done, all those registered copyrights might have expired. :) Toohool (talk) 01:20, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Newspaper.com

Hello. I would like to thank you for the note about Newspaper.com, I have applied for the access too and it has just been approved. Now I am waiting for the access details :-) Thanks very much, that was a great idea. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 08:24, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

@Jan.Kamenicek: Glad to help. It's really an amazing resource. Toohool (talk) 16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Excellent addition to Wikisource

Hi Toohool, many thanks for adding My Country 'Tis of Thee (editorial). Even as an Oregonian who's taken some interest in the Pulitzer prizes won in this state, I had not been aware of this. It's a resonant piece in these challenging times, I enjoyed it. (And I tweeted it.) Thank you.

I've added a number of works from the Oregonian and other newspapers, and I have been taught to title them as [[Oregonian/<date>/<title>]]. Any reason not to do so here? -Pete (talk) 15:49, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

@Peteforsyth: Glad you liked it.. I thought it was striking how relevant it is to today's times.

To me, that degree of hierarchy seems like overkill, given the very small number of dates that would have even 1 subpage, much less multiple subpages. But I won't object if you want to move it for the sake of consistency. (A look at PrefixIndex shows there already some inconsistencies though.) Toohool (talk) 07:04, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

I tend to agree with you, for that reason I have generally not used the full <year>/<month>/<day> format, though I have seen others using that. I have instead used just <year>/<month-day> or even just <year>. (This topic might be worth a discussion at the Scriptorium.) But I think these distinctions are the less important ones; my main point is, I think it should be a subpage of Oregonian and some (precise or imprecise) indication of the date, rather than just the bare title. That way, the header properly links it to other Oregonian content. -Pete (talk) 20:53, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough, I've moved the page. Toohool (talk) 05:16, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Post-publishing corrections

Hi Toohool,

Regarding this edit. It is entirely possible that this was a correction deliberately made by the Copyright Office staff, but we can't know that and in any case we do not reproduce matter that's not present in an edition as published. To do so is in violation of our annotation policy.

If you would like to make the case that this is an acceptable special case for which an exception is merited, that is something you would need to put to the community at the Scriptorium. --Xover (talk) 07:30, 8 September 2020 (UTC)