साहाय्यम्:Beginner's guide to maintenance

Beginner's guide to maintenance

Deletion →

Things that often need work and how to do it.

Where to find pages in need of maintenance

First, you might browse Category:विकिस्रोतसः निर्वहणम्.

Alternatively, you may find pages that need help while you are browsing the site or looking for something else.

General

The {{header}} might be missing some things. Author, translator, title

Year

All works in the main namespace should have a year of publication in the header but many are missing this piece of information. The header has a parameter for this:

| year =.

If this is not present, it can be added. Only the year of publication can be recorded. If the day and date are known, they can be entered under the notes parameter for users to read.

If a year is not possible, decade or century can be added here instead. (eg. "1950s" or "19th century".) Use the year wherever you can.

All works with no year are listed here: Category:Undated works

Licences

All works should be licensed to show that they are legal to hosted on Wikisource and how they can be reused by readers.

Most common... PD-old PD-1923 PD-US-no-renewal PD-1996

Fed Gov etc

Translations

Creative Commons

All works without a license template are listed here: Category:Works with no license template

For more information, see Help:Copyright tags

HotCat

HotCat is a useful gadget for quickly adding, changing or removing categories to a page.

To turn it on, go to the your preferences and, under Editing tools, check the box with the description "easily add / remove / change a category on pages, with dynamic suggestions". Then save.

For more information, see Help:Gadget-HotCat (this help page is on a different project).

Wikify

Wikisource's style guide describes how a page should look. Some pages on Wikisource do not match the style guide. These pages should be edited to fix them.

Some pages are copied with "OCR errors" (mistakes made by a computer) and other problems. Often these pages are not backed by a scanned source.

Other pages

Author pages-->No initital (move) & redirects (alt names)