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Best regards! Neo-Jay (talk) 15:03, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Gutenberg editions edit
Gutenberg editions of books should have their own data items, similar to what I've set up for When William Came (Q112628584). --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:24, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
Each edition of each work needs to be its own data item, so that information can be recorded about the language, publisher, publication date, scans, etc. This includes editions hosted at each Wikisource. See The Red Badge of Courage (Q1219239), which lists two different English editions, each with its own publication data. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:27, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
People where you don't know dates edit
Please do not utilise vague dates of birth and death, like 19th century, they are not helpful. It is preferable that you use the "floruit" label and and a little broadly, eg. 1900s (which shows active in the 1900-1909 period). Where dates are missing it is reasonably easy within systems to find empty dates, whereas these forced vague dates don't easily show the absence of the data. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:18, 5 September 2022 (UTC)