User talk:Lx 121

Hello,

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Zephyrus 18:53, 19 January 2012 (EST)

Auch von mir nachträglich noch ein Willkommen auf WL ;o)--Wassermann 07:25, 2 March 2012 (EST)

Categories

Hi, Thank for your help, but I don’t think categories like « Category:Of Time and the River ~ A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth -- by Thomas Wolfe » are very useful. The titles you choose are too long and confusing and absolutely not helpful for consulting a category like Category:Thomas Wolfe. Marc 10:47, 24 March 2012 (EDT)

Hello, I think you can shorten it a bit. No need to mention the author. The year of publication can be used to differentiate between different editions, or between different works with the same title. Category:Of Time and the River. A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth would do. Also I would avoid special character like ~ in category names. Yann 05:54, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Deletions

I don't know why those category pages were deleted, though the criticism that they were long-winded makes sense. The ownership of the site should be changing soon to Canadian ownership, and many rules will need to be reviewed to conform with that. I understand you are in Canada. Where? Eclecticology 23:57, 7 May 2012 (EDT)

People by name

I deleted this category because it is totally useless. Everybody has a name, whether or not they are authors. Category:Authors will be far more effective for accomplishing what you seem to want. Eclecticology 01:27, 29 March 2014 (PDT)

File:The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley.pdf

I think it would be preferable not to include the author's name as a part of the title unless there is a real need for disambiguaton. Do you have a more specific source for this work than "found online"? Eclecticology 02:25, 7 April 2014 (PDT)

hello again;

i have no objection, if you want to change it. both of the sites i found copies of this .pdf on had its title with his name included, & i think it's fair to say that after 'brave new world', most people today would be hard-pressed to name (or recognize) any other works by huxley, going just by their titles.

as re: sources.

in this case, i found the same .pdf floating around on more than one site, but my main concern is this:

while it is perfectly legal for us to host these texts in canada, as huxley's work is now pd here, the sites where i find the materials may or may not be in compliance with their own local-national copyright laws; & i really don't want to reward some person's efforts in providing the files, with possible future legal grief. i'd rather just leave them in safe & peaceful obscurity.

(also, i expect to find some future texts via fileshare & i'm not even sure how to annotate for that?)

does it matter?

as long as the file is a "pure" copy of a pubic domain (in canada) text, we don't have any legal requirements to provide "sourcing" info. i do understand the desire to be tidy, informative, & complete; but providing source info is only necessary for (many/most) open-source licenses, not public domain materials, & i'm really only uploading pd stuff here.

(if/when i do upload anything that's os licensed, i will make sure to provide the proper attributions, of course)

if you were personally curious, about where i'm finding stuff, it's just google search + dedication. i find random websites that happen to have a copy of whatever text i'm looking for at the time. if they have more than 1 text that i want, i'll probably grab them all @ the same time, & once i've found a text, i don't usually have any reason to visit the same site again, or to keep track of where it's from; all i really care about is finding the digitised texts..

if i ever do happen to find a site with a real "trove" of usable texts, i'll bookmark it, & i could send you a link if you like; but as i said above, if the site is not in canada, & they are possibly being "naughty" about copyright, i don't really want to "out" them publicly.

*tangentially: the chronicles of narnia .pdf still needs to have that one lone image removed (i think?), as per the filepage notes.

i don't think it's a real problem (or i wouldn't have uploaded the file); it's just one single low-res bookcover image, & probably legitimately "fair use", but we should still get rid of the pic asap. if someone wants to tidy up the internal organization of the pdf as well, even better.

i can't do pdf editing myself (or i would have); no software & little experience at it.

there must be somebody in the crew of regular users here who can?

should have another pd-in-ca item to upload again soon, i'm trying to space it out to about one per week or so.

hope things are well with you.

best regards (& if you are in quebec, happy election day!),

Lx 121 04:36, 7 April 2014 (PDT)

by-the-way, meant to ask, as a matter of policy: for items that are hosted as public domain @ other reasonably reliable "free book" sites, like (but not limited to) the gutenberg projects (.ca, .au, etc.), do we want to have a local copy, or just provide the cross-links?

i ask, because i've found some works of lewis & orwell that we haven't got here, & i'd expect to find more (by various authors) over time. so far, i've just been cross-linking with them; but if we wanted to, we could "move" them all here. Lx 121 04:49, 7 April 2014 (PDT)