User talk:Zacwill

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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:43, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits in EB1911 and a tip

Hi Zacwill, thanks for your edits to pages in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. I've found a useful technique to aid proofing by using Earwig's Copyvio Detector and the pages at theodora.com/encyclopedia. As an example, the link below compares a random page in EB1911 vol. 21 against the "Pliocene" article at theodora.com/encyclopedia :

https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikisource&title=Page%3AEB1911+-+Volume+21.djvu%2F880&oldid=&use_engine=0&use_links=0&turnitin=0&action=compare&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheodora.com%2Fencyclopedia%2Fp2%2Fpliocene.html

It picks up several typo errors in the EB1911 page. Further proofing is still needed, of course, but it's a great help to use the generally very good quality text at theodora.com/encyclopedia (although the numbers often have errors).

By the way, I find it's best to leave line-breaks intact when proofing. It makes it easier to locate text when manually proofing and makes it easier to see what changes have been made.

Any questions? Let me know. Hope you can do some further proofing in EB1911 with the above Copyvios technique to help proof. DivermanAU (talk) 04:31, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the warm welcome! Zacwill (talk) 14:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)