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File:The Kings Breakfast - cover illustration.png[edit]

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And also:

Yours sincerely, Tagishsimon (talk) 00:46, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Affected:

File:The Kings Breakfast - cover illustration.png

And also:

The previous speedy deletion process for these files has been contested to allow further investigations. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion with any knowledge you have about these works, which will help us reach the correct conclusion. From Hill To Shore (talk) 01:59, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright status: File:Child Stories from the Masters - Siegried.png[edit]

Copyright status: File:Child Stories from the Masters - Siegried.png

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This action was performed automatically by AntiCompositeBot (talk) (FAQ) 06:05, 8 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Why are you removing categories?[edit]

Why are you removing categories tracking which source a book came from? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:55, 15 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I thought there was redundancy of "Biodiversity Heritage Library" on the pages. Every time I was doing searches I was getting too many repetitive results and so as I was adding categories that were more precise and exact I thought it would make searching for these files easier.

Each page has acknowledgement of the Biodiversity Heritage Library in the "Licensing" section. Plus under "Hidden Categories" there is the categry "Files from the Biodiversity Heritage Library." It seemed redundant to also have the "Category:Books from the Biodiversity Heritage Library."

I'll stop doing it. St. Andrews Drive (talk) 06:16, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ah. I was generally retaining them so that if a specfic library source was found to contain 'problematic' works still subject to copyright, only that library sources works could be examined in a PAWS, AWB or Petscan query, as opposed to the million or so works in the entire category of mirrored works from IA. It was thinking ahead. If you have a better way of doing it though, I'm open-minded. You might also want to consult on the Village Pump, or other experienced users before doing any large scale category moves. I note that you have followed the guidance on some categories to 'disperse' files. Thanks for that :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:41, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I was thinking I was "dispersing"the categories but after your note I think I might go back and create a sub-category for within BHL main category. Might be more work but it'll keep things still under BHL. For instance, I was doing a lot of organizing of the American Journal of Science. Perhaps I'll create a sub-category for BHL for the American Journals of Science they scanned. I had thought the "hidden category" would still be the source for any problematic works but if that's not true I can go create the sub-category within BHL itself. St. Andrews Drive (talk) 07:55, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Categorising Journals is much needed effort. Carry on :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you! I can't stand an unorganized category and spend probably too many hours trying to straighten things up without going down too many rabbit holes (i.e., missing author categories leading me to wikipedia, etc. etc.) St. Andrews Drive (talk) 08:41, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your attention to category detail, might be appreciated on English Wikisource. Ask at their Scriptorum for advice on how you might be able to help. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:58, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Autopatrol given[edit]

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:01, 1 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Cool -- Thanks! St. Andrews Drive (talk) 04:42, 1 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Careful[edit]

This is not just a recording of a work by Robert Browning, it's a recording of Robert Browning's voice. As such, I strongly feel it belongs in Category:Robert Browning, and have partially undone your edit. DS (talk) 15:41, 3 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Good call. It was a confusing categorization. I'm curious if there are other "failed recordings" from back in the day. Could make for an interesting category unto itself. Thanks for fixing my bad. ;) St. Andrews Drive (talk) 17:35, 3 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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