User talk:ToxicPea
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— Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 23:20, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Deprecated markup
[edit]Hello, just dropping by to tell you that you should avoid using deprecated markup, such as <small>, because it is obsolete and will eventually stop being supported. Replace it by templates (such as, in this case, {{smaller}}) when you can. (more detailed explanation there). Thanks, — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 22:10, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
Printer marks
[edit]Hi (and thank you for all your validation work!), things like "B2", "A", "H2", at the bottom of pages, are printer marks, used by them to mark how the physical book was printed and bound. They're usually not transcribed, as they are considered by most people to be something added to the content of the work after publication, just like library stickers or handwritten annotations. Some people do, but it's considered on a per-work basis, i.e. when you start something you decide whether you want them, but don't add them to the books that don't have them or remove them from those that do. Good day, — Alien 3
3 3 07:49, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
This appears to be a secondhand transcription, which is no longer allowed. The site from which you are copying the text also says "The Maryland Constitution presented here includes amendments proposed by the General Assembly and ratified by the voters through November 8, 2022" which means that this is not the 1867 constitution. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:03, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
Can you locate a printed copy of the Constitution of 1867? I can help set up an Index, if you can. The problem with this online source is that it isn't the 1867 edition, and based on the note, the online version will continue to change whenever there are new amendment or changes passed by the state legislature. If the source is neither authentic nor stable, it cannot be used as a source for a Wikisource document, and the copy may be subject to deletion here. Your efforts would be wasted. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
I found this scan at IA. Would you like to work from this scan? It includes not only the Constitution, but the Proceedings, a List of participants in the writing of the constitution, and other useful contextual information. Alternatively, there is a later edition with simpler formatting and without the additional information. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
Long 's'
[edit]Hi. Thanks for validating various pages of works I've transcribed. However, could you please stop changing 's' to 'ſ'. For works I've transcribed, a conscious decision not to replicate ſ has been made and changing random pages isn't achieving anything. Regards, Chrisguise (talk) 21:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Italics
[edit]The usual markup for italics ('') does not carry across line breaks (or, well, it does, but it's a bug, and we shouldn't do that). {{ppoem}}'s {italic} permits us to apply the class to the whole stanza at once, so that is what should be used in cases like this. — Alien 3
3 3 15:29, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- How would I not apply italics to the last line but apply them to the rest of the stanza? ToxicPea (talk) 16:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- You'd have to
''each line you want, individually. — Alien 3
3 3 16:29, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- You'd have to
Proofreading and links
[edit]Hi, and many thanks for helping with proofreading my legal texts. I would like to remind that a number of titles are intentionally not linked.
Particularly, if some text mentions an amended form of some enactment (which is inserted by some previous enactment), then it would be inappropriate (in my opinion) to link to the enactment. This is because English Wikisource does not do consolidation, and linking an amended version to its original version breaks the context — readers have no clue why there would be discrepancies between the original enactment and the mentioned one.
Please feel free to inform me if you have other opinions, thank you.廣九直通車 (talk) 10:29, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
US Supreme Court Rulings,,
[edit]https://www.loc.gov/collections/united-states-reports/about-this-collection/
This might help also clear the backlog at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_reference_errors