User talk:JoeSolo22

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 09:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Sources for material you have uploaded and transcribed.[edit]

Hi, You've contributed a lot of UN related material. Thanks :)

However, can I ask you to add 'source' details, such as the document reference numbers, or URLS where you took the text from?

This helps other researchers and academics using Wikisource to appropriately locate related documents and to include appropriate citations and footnotes when they use English Wikisource as a reference tool. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:11, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Absolutely! I will go back and cite all the UN General Assembly Resolutions I did as well as the three CIA NIS Reports.
Where would source links/URLs go? At the bottom of the page? JoeSolo22 (talk) 16:26, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
Generally you leave a source link in the header, The notes field is the normal place, or more typically you put a fully completed {{textinfo}} box on the talk page. Don't forget to remove the {{no source}} from the transcription page, once you've done this. My understanding is that whilst you don't need to give a full Harvard or MLA style citation for things, giving more than just the basics, helps immensely. For weblinks it helps to add an access date, as well as the nominal publication date.

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:44, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks again! CIA NIS reports are sourced and I will work on the UN resolutions as well.
I appreciate someone catching this and letting me know. JoeSolo22 (talk) 17:23, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to English Wikisoruce[edit]

Thanks for the clarification.

You can also upload "freely licensed, approved for public release" versions, of documents to Commons. Generally other transcribers on English Wikisource prefer to work with scans, as it helps confirm what was actually written, and helps give context when trying to determine if an unusual wording or phrasing is genuine, or is an OCR/transcrition artefact.

If interested, on English Wikisource, there was also an extensive set of UN Treaty Series volumes. [[1]] which are backed by scans. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:35, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Problematic[edit]

Per Help:Page status and Template:Missing image, pages with missing images should be marked “Problematic.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:24, 25 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, appreciate it. I'll handle the rest of that for my stuff. I left a message on your talk page but this appears to be resolved, thanks. JoeSolo22 (talk) 19:29, 25 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Can you provide a {{book}} template and a license? This looks to be in scope though.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:29, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi JoeSolo22. Please add the missing information on File:Report by the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in Cyprus (For the period 10 September to 12 December 1964).pdf. I've filled in blank headings and a {{book}} template. Please fill in at least title, author, date, source, and description fields in the {{book}} template; and add the relevant licensing template in the "Licensing" section (see Help:Copyright tags for some options). Xover (talk) 12:59, 2 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Should be good. Thanks for reminding!
JoeSolo22 (talk) 14:58, 3 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Proofread and transcluded indexes[edit]

Hello. Only indexes whose all pages have been transcluded into the main namespace can be marked as fully transcluded and only indexes whose all pages have been proofread can be marked as proofread. So far I have noticed (and corrected) this wrong marking here and here, but I suspect there are more. -- Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:20, 17 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hey! Sorry about that - I will go back and make changes appropriately.
JoeSolo22 (talk) 14:09, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Operation Crossroads files[edit]

If the scans are official works of the US Government, and are thus in the public domain, the files should be uploaded to Commons, rather than locally. We can still build an Index if the file is at Commons, but Commons is the better place for scans. We only upload local scans if the work is public domain in the US, but still copyrighted in its country of origin. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:57, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Oh sure, thanks for letting me know! I assume that's Wikimedia Commons, right? JoeSolo22 (talk) 16:53, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Yes. The Index page will still be local here, and its name should exactly match the filename on Commons of the scan. So upload the scan to Commons with the exact same filename, then set up Index here. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:17, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Adams v. Illinois/Dissent Douglas[edit]

This page shows up as having a "lint error" on the italics - most likely a missing opening or closing. -- Beardo (talk) 05:47, 5 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Fixed! Error's gone, thanks for catching that! JoeSolo22 (talk) 15:00, 5 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Fein v. Selective Service System/Dissent Marshall[edit]

This had an error on the italics - I have guessed what the problem was.

But where can I go to see the source ? -- Beardo (talk) 02:08, 31 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for catching that. As for source I use the Library of Congress scans of the US Reports; for Fein v. Selective Service System, it's this: https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep405365/ JoeSolo22 (talk) 02:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC)Reply