Wikisource:Requested texts

Old and sorted requests

Multi-volume book series

• Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, vols. 1-22, 1888-1938.
  • vol. 01 (1890)
  • vol. 02 (1891)
  • vol. 03 (1893)
  • vol. 04 (1895)
  • vol. 06 (1899)
  • vol. 07 (1901)
  • vol. 08 (1903)
  • vol. 09 (1905)
  • vol. 10 (1907)

    -- Jasonanaggie (talk) 04:35, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

• Volumes up to 1900 (limit of commons:Template:PD-old-assumed) present: Portal:Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset Inductiveload—talk/contribs 00:03, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

books.google.co.uk

Cited in enwiki

• University of Cambridge (1859). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge (PDF). Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. Retrieved 2008-10-01. 
  • Index:A complete collection of the English poems which have obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal - 1859.djvu
• Burke, Bernad (1858). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain. London: Harrison.  - NB eneiwki cite refers to a later version not online as pagescans in UK.
• W. B. Woodgate (1888). Boating. 
  • Index:Boating - Woodgate - 1888.pdf
• "Obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine". The Gentleman's Magazine (F. Jefferies): 208. January 1855. 
• Buckle, H.T. (1861). History of Civilization in England. Appleton & Co. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 
• Castillo, John (1843). Awd Isaac, The steeple chase, and other poems, with a glossary of the Yorkshire dialect. Horne & Richardson. p. p. 8. Retrieved 2008-08-05. 
  • Index:Awd Isaac - Castillo.djvu
• "Miscellanies - Greece" (pdf). The American Monitor 1: 538. 1824. Retrieved 2008-03-27. 

as External Links from enwiki

• Nature's first issue
  • Index:Nature - Volume 1.pdf
• The works of Arthur Murphy NB This indicates at least 7 Volumes.
  • All 7 volumes uploaded: see Author:Arthur Murphy
• Some Reflections on the Importance of a Religious Life: offered to younger members of the Society of Friends, 1834, 37pp, Society of Friends. Index
• Castillo, John (1850). The Bard of the Dales. John Hughes,W.T Lumley and all Booksellers. 

• Index:The Bard of the Dales.djvu

Without pagescans but cited in enwiki

Some of these have pagescans so a sort out would be appreciated:

• The Beaconite Controversy, Anna Braithwaite Thomas, 1912 - URL given notes - Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society, (Philadelphia) Vol. IV, no. 2 (Third Month, 1912,) pages 70-81 (which is pre 1924) (external scan)
• http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/proslav/prar170akt.html Mrs Stowe in England], "Daily Despatch", Richmond, 3 May 1853
• Edward Lear poem inline of w:John Cropper (fixed Victuallers (talk) 17:58, 21 November 2009 (UTC))
• NY Times Article cited in - w:Josiah Forster New York Times, 6 April 1862
• (1855) Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine. Richard Bently and Sons.
• Project Gutenberg A short biography written in 1917 by G. K. Chesterton Done (index)
• http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=27019&geotype=London&gpn=6375&type=ArchivedIssuePage&all=&exact=&atleast=&similar= - London Gazette: no. 27019, page 6375, 1 November 1898. Retrieved on 2008-04-18.- If Bridgmen applies to archived text :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:18, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
• Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Henry Somerset Beaufort, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1888). "Boating", The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes 29. Longmans, Green, 298.
  • Index here: Index:Boating - Woodgate - 1888.pdf MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
• Edwin Dampier Brickwood (1868). The Rowing calendar and aquatic register. <Unknown>, p125.
  • I see references to 1867 and 1866 in the NLS / BL catalog without scans but not to a 1868 edition `MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
• Ross, R., and MacGregor, W. (Jan 1903). "The Fight against Malaria: An Industrial Necessity for Our African Colonies". Journal of the Royal African Society 2 (6): 149–160. 
• http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/JamesNasmythEngineerAnAutobiography/chap17.html James Nasmyth, Autobiography (1885)]
• Memoir of the late Charles Baird, esq., of St Petersburg, and of his son, the late Francis Baird, esq., of St. Petersburg and 4, Queens Gate, London (London, 1867)
  • Only full copy is likely at the ICE [[1]], abridged version published in the Minuted of the Proceedings of the ICE (external scan) MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
• Mary Steel poem cited in w:Robert Falcon Scott; two different modern books about the expedition, as well as the Wikipedia article, quote just the last stanza. Originally printed in Daily Mail 14 February 1913, and Daily Chronicle 13 February 1913.
• The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson (2005), cited in w:William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 2005, which is late enough to be out of copyright, since Hodgson died in 1918.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:50, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
• The works of Author:Charles Spurgeon — online archives listed on author page.
• Septuagint (see w:Septuagint, very historically important ancient Greek Bible translation, with significant differences from the common text), see 1851 Brenton translation into English — online archives listed in enwiki article.
  • 1844 version: (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
  • 1900 parallel-text with apocrypha: (transcription project)
• The Rambler (1750-52) by Samuel Johnson (Partial text at Project Gutenberg)
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (w), http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/, http://www.hazegray.org/
• Every Man in His Humour, 1598 comedy play by Ben Jonson (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• Giphantie by Author:Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche, published in English in 1761 — this work not listed at Internet Archive as of January 26, 2010.
  • The English title is Giphantia and was uploaded later in 2010 IA MarkLSteadman (talk) 16:19, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
• Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich (c.1393) (wikipedia articles, available at [2])
• Thoughts are Things by Printice Mulford — rare book
• Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, Owen Chase (published 1821) —  Support Done, Lemuritus (talk) 18:24, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
• January 31 Bush-Blair memo — this was classified correspondence leaked to a newspaper, and thus unlikely to be found in its original form
• John J. Pershing speeches -> have a look at search john pershing — only lists one 25-second speech which is described as "long for him". This can be added, but otherwise another obscure request.
• Encyclopédie, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (that is, "Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts" w) (in French on the French Wikisource) (English translation) — There are two online projects bringing translations of this work to the web. Presumably a translation does not yet exist.

Works exist at Wikisource — candidates for addition of pagescans

Where pagescans can be identified to pair with existing works, and files to be loaded to Commons:. Following upload:

• Index file should be marked Ready for Match and Split
• main namespace work should have {{Migrate to djvu}} added

Works underway will have the Index: page converted from a redlink.

Available pagescan	Local version	Link to Commons	Index: page
Pudd'nhead Wilson	Pudd'nhead Wilson	Commons:File:Pudd'nhead Wilson.djvu (1894)	Index:Pudd'nhead Wilson.djvu
A history of the Inquisition	A_History_of_the_Inquisition_of_the_Middle_Ages/Volume_I	Commons:A_History_of_the_Inquisition_of_the_Middle_Ages/Volume_I.djvu (1887)	Index:A_History_of_the_Inquisition_of_the_Middle_Ages/Volume_I.djvu

Unsorted

• The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (pub. posthum. 1702-1704) by w:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  • See scans provided under History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England at the author page. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• "A Letter concerning Enthusiasm" (1707? 1708?) by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury here it is
• "A Satyr Against Mankind" (1675) by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  • This poem is found in his complete poetical works (e. g. (external scan)). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• The poems of Samuel Boyce (18th c.), such as [3]
  • (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Theodosius, or the Force of Love (1680) play by Nathaniel Lee
• The Adventures of David Simple (1744) by Sarah Fielding
  • A later edition has been proofread here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville here it is
• Moralia by Plutarch, translated from Latin (Wikipedia)

1. Moralia translated by Philemon Holland

2. Comparative tables of contents.

Does this suit your needs? -Zyephyrus (talk) 09:02, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

• Census results from around the world
• The Statesman by Sir Henry Taylor available at The Statesman]
• Peace of Augsburg, 1555 treaty
• Peace of Westphalia, 1648 treaty (refers to the pair of treaties, the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück),
• Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (The original Russian is already available)
  • The following is a 1943 translation by Babette Deutsch, which was not renewed: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• John Dickenson. Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
  • As Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania by J. Dickinson: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Charles I - His Speech from the Scaffold -- http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html
  • A scan may be viewed here: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Geneva Bible-http://bible.christiansunite.com/genindex.shtml
• Philately in a nutshell, by J.H. Smyth, L. of Congress number 83196129, Sydney, 1911, 110 pages
• The Primary Chronicles (Kievan Rus)
• Swish of the Kris - The Story of the Moros by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com(dead link, 1938)
  • Renewed: “Swish of the kris. By Vic Hurley. © 1Sep36; A98249. G. V. Hurley (A); 3Feb64; R331038.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Jungle Patrol - The Story of the Philippine Constabulary by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com(dead link)
  • Renewed: “Jungle patrol; the story of the Philippine Constabulary. With photographic illus. maps by Paul H. Kirk. © 17Oct38; A123109. Gerald Victor Hurley (A); 2Sep66; R393109.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Roman de la Rose, translated from French (Wikipedia)
• The Romaunt of the Rose, in Middle English (Wikipedia) — two possibles 1 & 2
• The Romance of the Rose, Modern English translation of The Romaunt of the Rose
  • For the three above, I found a fine illustrated copy here: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Who did it? a novel. by Robert Nash Ogden see Publishers Weekly December 17, 1887 p 941, worldcat,and bio online Edition Who did it? a novel--Wright American Fiction Project Indiana University Digital Library Program
• Works by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky‎
• The Virginian by Owen Wister text at PG pagescan -- Jasonanaggie (talk) 04:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
  • See the author page for information about scans, two of which have been uploaded. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Leaves from a Russian diary, and thirty years after by w:Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1950) (not renewed)
• /The Epigrams of Martial
• A Political Crime is a book review of A Political Crime: The History of the Great Fraud, an 1886 book that alleges that w:Warren Hayes stole the election...isn't that marvellously interesting? We must find this book and put it online :) StateOfAvon (talk) 02:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC) here it is
• A survey of English literature, 1780-1880 (volumes 1 - 4) by Oliver Elton. Per WS:PD. Jeepday (talk) 13:22, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
• /The Invasion of the Crimea, table of contents to a desirable work. [Moved from main CYGNIS INSIGNIS 16:22, 10 July 2011 (UTC)]

is available in full from the Internet Archive. ----Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 00:48, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

• Author:Thomas Moore (1779-1852). These quite a lot of books printed during author life-time on Google Books and likely on other projects. His poetry was translated on other languages like Polish and Russian during 19th century. Looks like his works are better represented now in Wikisource on other languages then in original. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 03:13, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Governmental and organizational works

• US government documents regarding the Vela Incident.
• Urantia Foundation v. Michael Foundation, interesting copyright case [4]
• http://www.history.army.mil/books/AMH-V2/AMH%20V2/Prologue.htm (and subsquent chapter) - This work provides a useful summary of US involvement in the Great War, and it would be nice to be able to use it conjunction with other projects discussed at the Scriptorium.
• Official Olympic Reports from 1896 through 1920 (7 reports).
• Rules of procedure of the United Nations General Assembly - particularly relevant to questions of eligibility for UN membership under international law. According to the UN Charter page here, all official UN documents are in the public domain so there shouldn't be any rights issues.
• Gryczan v. State of Montana [5] case overturning sodomy in Montana

Statutes

• Public Health Service Act
• Statute of the International Court of Justice International Court of Justice. "Statute of the Court - International Court of Justice" (HTML). www.icj-cij.org (in English). Retrieved 2010-01-30. 

See also

• Wikipedia:Category:Copy to Wikisource where the work would need to be assessed for inclusion.

New speeches

• related portals: Speeches.
• sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes, news, definition, textbook, course, taxonomy, travel guide, Wikidata item.

• The Speeches of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ed. A. W. Hutton and H. J. Cohen (1902)
  • Can't find scan Looks like this is a 10-volume set, but only v9, v10 are immediately obvious (files uploaded). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 19:10, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

  Per various libraries (British, Oxford, London, etc.) only volumes 9 and 10 were ever published. MarkLSteadman (talk) 23:25, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

• Socialism - Kier Hardie
  • Unsure what speech this is. If it was in the House of Commons (e.g. this one in 1901, it should be easy to find a transcript? Inductiveload—talk/contribs 16:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
• Blood and Iron - Otto von Bismarck
  • Is there a full text of this? I can see some German original text at here (top of col 2, Oct 6, 1862). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 16:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
    • @Inductiveload Best I can find are this in Fifty major documents of the nineteenth century and this in the Life of Bismarck. Another scan here has a line of the speech and makes reference to a French translation, here, which in turn points to pp. 33–34, vol. 1 ed. 2 (which I could not locate, though it might be helpful for French Wikisource). Apparently, though, no verbatim transcript of the speech exists. Shells-shells (talk) 16:58, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
    • @Inductiveload I have zero clue why I didn't mention the German-language transcript of Bismarck's speech listed as a source in Fifty major documents: namely, "Horst, Kohl, ed., Die politischen Reden des Fürsten Bismarcks: historische-kritische Gesammtausgabe (14 vols.; Stuttgart, 1892-1904), II, pp. 29-30." A scan is available here. Shells-shells (talk) 05:08, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
• Jeannette Rankin's sole dissenting vote, and the speech that accompanied it, against US participation in WWII
  • Vote at Cong. Rec. v.87, part 9, p. 9536. But I do not see a speech by Rankin (note there are two Rankins) on that date, just some comments/points of order. Presumably the speech was then not made on the House floor that day? Inductiveload—talk/contribs 20:47, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
    • @Inductiveload Is there any reason to believe that she gave a speech at all? Here's all I can find: Rankin objected to the declaration of war (p. 9520, col. 2); then, after some sixteen pages of her colleagues' oratory, she attempted to speak but was refused the floor. Two days later (p. 9496 9646, column 3) w:Clare Hoffman mentioned "that I noticed on the day war was declared that recognition was denied to a Member of the House, the gentlewoman from Montana [Miss Rankin] to express her views." Rankin shows up again on the 15th (p. 9798, col. 3) to object to a bill proposing a death penalty in cases of wartime sabotage, and then seems to disappear from the record. If Rankin did have a speech prepared for the declaration of war, it does not appear in Part 9; nor can I find it in the Appendix. Did she publish it elsewhere? Shells-shells (talk) 05:35, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
• Any speeches missing at Portal:Speeches by British Prime Ministers

Forthcoming speeches

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New requests

Solidarismus / "Solidarity"

I request a translation of the book Solidarismus by w:Rudolf Diesel (the inventor of the diesel engine). I coulnd't find online a copy (in german of translated). The section about Diesel bibliography and social ideas are also missing on wikipedia. --109.49.141.100 14:57, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

I can still only find a German-language Project Gutenberg copy, and no evident scan at the usual suspects (IA, GB and HT): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58351. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 19:15, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Found one: Index:Solidarismus - Diesel - 1903.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 17:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Old Science Fiction of 19c

Robert William Cole:

• The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236
  • Available on HathiTrust (HathiTrust)
  • Done Index:Robert William Cole - The Struggle for Empire; A Story of the Year 2236 (1900).djvu MarkLSteadman (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Author:Albert Robida

• Le Vingtième Siècle (1883) - English version
• La Guerre au vingtième siècle (1887) - English version
• Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (1890) - English version
• La Fin du Cheval - English version
• La Guerre Infernale - English version
  • The first published translation I can see is from 2004... A portion of his early novel was published starting with page pg. 768 / Jan 28, 1880 (vol. 6) in Puck (HathiTrust) MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:31, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Railway/Railroad material

I would appreciate someone making a check on the status with a view to inclusion of :

• 1904 Railway Clearing House Atlas of England and Wales. (There is also a post grouping 1935 version)
• The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations, 1912 (This would support the Junction diagrams on Commons.)

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Railways Act 1922 Transport Act 1947

Any UK 'Local Acts' relating to railways, especially the railways which eventually amalgamated into the the Great Western and Southern upon grouping or the regions they served. 62.56.112.112 23:10, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Not progressed further — billinghurst sDrewth 01:05, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Constitution of the State of Mississippi (1861)

May somebody please add this text to the source? It can be found here, here, and here. Thank you! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 11:15, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Constitution of the State of Alabama (1861)

May somebody please add this text to the source? It can be found here. Thanks! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 06:12, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

The Reshaping of British Railways

aka "The Beeching Report" A version [6] here but under an NC license.

This is an important report in relation to British Transport policy, Does anyone have a copy of this for the production of scans/OCR? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:45, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Are you looking for the following?

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Online version

Hrishikes (talk) 06:30, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Thats the one, but the scans source given has an NC license... ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:32, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

It is a 1963 report which puts into the public domain at +50 as it is crown copyright, so these files are public domain. I don't give a toss that some site thinks that they can upload with an NC license, Unless they have some introductory text, they don't get to redefine a work's copyright. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:02, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Reference works by James Hastings

I am asking assistance with this because, ignorant idjit that I am, I haven't figured out how to get my damn djvu plug-in to work yet. But if anyone were interested in uploading the w:Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, several articles of which are still included in the bibliographies of articles in the best current reference works in the field. Also, his other multi-volume reference works, including "A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels," of "Dictionary of the Apostolic Church," or his "Dictionary of the New Testament," or "A Dictionary of the Bible," along with (maybe, if anyone really wanted to spend a lot of time on this) his "Greater Men and Women of the Bible" and "Great Texts of the Bible," all of which are I think available at archive.org or elsewhere, I could start work on them. John Carter (talk) 16:47, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Vital documents in international law

When I was in law school, my international law professor posted a list of "vital documents" that he felt anyone with an international practice should be familiar with. Most of these Wikisource already has; a few were magazine articles or the like, clearly under copyright and not within the scope of Wikisource. The remaining documents, still apparently missing from Wikisource but (to the best of my knowledge) in the public domain are:

• African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights[7] (UNTS I-26363) (start transcription)
• Index:Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America on Air Quality.pdf[8] Done Zppix (talk) 01:19, 11 December 2017 (UTC) (UNTS I-31532, A-31532) (start transcription)
• Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States (UNTS I-8359) (transcription project)
• Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone (UNTS I-7477) (transcription project)
• Declaration of Helsinki
  • Need to check license. the versions in JAMA e.g. (external scan) are coprighted: (external scan), as this is advisory and not law MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• Establishment of the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea pages 19-20 of this document (UN A/CONF.62/121 (external scan)
• European Human Rights Convention (European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms?) (ETS 5)
• Exon-Florio Amendment to Defense Production Act (US Statutes at Large 102(1988): 1107) (transcription project)
• Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (90 Stat. 2891) (transcription project)
• Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNTS I-30822?) (start transcription)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (UNTS I-814) (transcription project)
• Rules of Conciliation and Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (or ICC Rules of Arbitration)
  • Copyrighted by the ICC (external scan) MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention
  • Not sure how this differs from the Convention above which establishes it MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer or Montreal Ozone Protocol (UNTS I-26369) (start transcription)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (107 Stat. 2057) (transcription project)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (or OECD Declaration on Multinationals) (OECD/LEGAL/0144)
  • The OECD version is copyrighted. MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:48, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• Optional Protocol on Dispute Settlements (I-8640) (transcription project)
• Protocols to the Human Rights Convention (ETS 9, 44, 45, 46, 55, 114, 117, 118, 140, 146, 155, 177, 187; CETS 194, 204, 213, 214)
• Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) (I-324?) (transcription project)
• U.S. Reservations to the Genocide Convention (Senate Consideration of Treaty Document 81-15, KAV 2303)
• U.S. Trade Representative Letter on Uruguay Round
  • Not sure which letter this is (during the negotiations? afterwards?) MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:40, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• U.S.-Egypt Bilateral Investment Treaty (US Treaty Doc No 99-24 (1986), (1982) 21 ILM 927) (external scan)
• U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty (1972) (28 U.S.T. 227, 1977 WL 181653 (U.S. Treaty), T.I.A.S. No. 8468) (external scan)
• U.S.-U.K. Supplementary Extradition Treaty (1985) (T.I.A.S. 12050, 1556 U.N.T.S. 369 ) (start transcription)
• "Uniting for Peace" Resolution (UNGA 377)
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (or Vienna Ozone Convention) (UNTS I-26164) (start transcription)
• World Trade Organization Agreement (Marrakesh Agreement UNTS I-31874 ?) (start transcription)

Note that we may have some of these under different names. Also note that the list as a whole reflects one professor's views of what documents are "vital", but I can't see a reason why we wouldn't want to include everything on the list. Cheers! BD2412 T 21:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

@Jusjih FYI, I added links to the UNTS documents here in case you want to create the missing index pages. MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:43, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

British Future Fiction

https://www.routledge.com/British-Future-Fiction-1700-1914/Clarke/p/book/9781851966172 is an enormously expensive reprint collection that might offer some interesting suggestions.

• C Oman (ed.), The Reign of George VI, 1900–1925 (1763)
  • Done not the modern version, the first edition
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1872)
  • Done see below
• W D Hay, Three Hundred Years Hence (1881)
  • Can't find scan (BL has record, no scan)
  • Unrelated to Mary Griffith story in Index:Camperdown - Griffith - 1836.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 13:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
• W H Hudson, A Crystal Age (1906)
  • Index:A Crystal Age - Hudson - 1922.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 12:58, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
• W Grove, The Wreck of a World (1889)
  • Index:The Wreck of a World - Grove - 1890.djvu
    • Proofread. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• Louis Tracy, An American Emperor (1897)
  • IA: (external scan)
• Sir Walter Besant, The Revolt of Man (1890)
  • IA: (external scan)
  • PG text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48690
• Henry Robert Samuel Dalton, Lesbia Newman (1889)
  • Index:Lesbia Newman - Dalton - 1889.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 12:51, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Proofread. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• Anon, Star of the Morning (1906)
  • Can't find scan Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• A C Fox-Davies, The Sex Triumphant (1909)
  • Can't find scan Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• Sir George Tomkyns Chesney, The Battle of Dorking (1871)
  • Done Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• Abraham Hayward, The Second Armada (1871)
  • Index:The Second Armada - Hayward - 1871.pdf
• William Francis Butler, The Invasion of England (Butler) (1882)
  • Can't find scan
  • The Invasion of England is a different work Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• ‘Posteritas’, The Siege of London (1884) (1884)
  • Index:The Siege of London - Posteritas - 1885.djvu
    • Validated. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• James Eastwick, The New Centurion; a Tale of Automatic Warfare (1895)
  • Index:The New Centurion - Eastwick - 1895.pdf
• Captain S Eardley-Wilmot, The Next Naval War (1894)
  • Index:The Next Naval War - Eardley-Wilmot - 1894.djvu
    • Proofread MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• Robert Wililiam Cole, The Death Trap (1907)
  • Can't find scan (IA, HT, BL/NLS have record but no scans) Inductiveload—talk/contribs 14:58, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
• Lloyd Williams, The Great Raid (1909)
  • Can't find scan (IA, HT, BL has 1910 record but not scans)
• Anon., Under the Red Ensign (1912)
  • By Spencer Campbell: Under the Red Ensign: A Story of England's Peril
  • Another work from the 20's exists by Tomlinson, H. M.
  • Can't find scan (HT, IA, BL has record, no scans)
• William Delisle Hay, The Doom of the Great City (1880)
  • Index:Doom of the Great City - Hay - 1880.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 17:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Validated. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• John Davidson, The Salvation of Nature (1891)
  • Can't find scan (HT, IA, BL)
• Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World (1907)
  • Exists now, but needs migration to Index:Lord of the World - Benson - 1908.djvu. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 12:51, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Migrated and proofread. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Here's The Reign of George VI: Index:The Reign of George VI, 1900–1925.djvu. It's an 1899 reprint, but the text should still be the 1763 original (with a new preface/front matter from 1899.) --Mukkakukaku (talk) 18:23, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I've put in a deletion request for this. The 1763 first edition is already on Wikisource (The Reign of George VI). No work has been done on the scan and there are pages missing from it. Chrisguise (talk) 22:39, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Also Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race is here: Index:Lytton - The Coming Race (1871).djvu. The date on the title page is 1871, though, not 1872. --Mukkakukaku (talk) 18:32, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Darwin Journal of Researches References

Index talk:Darwin Journal of Researches.djvu lists a number of references by Darwin which would be good to have on WS. — Zoeannl (talk) 13:42, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Project Blue Book

• Project Blue Book (author:USA Air Force) is a noteworthy work for ufological history and research that I think would make a great contribution to Wikisource. The work is marked as public domain. Source links provided from Wikipedia are:
  • http://www.bluebookarchive.org/
  • http://www.archive.org/details/bluebook/
  • Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:40, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

  @Nicole Sharp: I uploaded many related files to Commons: see c:Category:Project Blue Book and parent category. The one you want is probably File:Project Blue Book, complete status reports.pdf, 707 pages. Yann (talk) 14:55, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

What about importing The Architecture of Open Source Applications books? There's even a MediaWiki chapter in volume 2, so surely it might be of some interest to our community, and importing it here might help with translation facilities provided in the Wikimedia infrastructure. I suggest to import it in Wikisource, as this is a books with paperback available, but you might argue that it would have it's place on wikibooks. Thank you in advance for your feedback and any help on this subject. --Psychoslave (talk) 09:54, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Bible (King James)

User:David Haslam and I have found scans to back most of the 1769 Blayney revision of the KJV, but the books of Lamentations through Malachi are missing from the scans (I assume they are in a 3rd volume yet to be discovered). Assistance finding this third volume, or another complete facsimile (with apocrypha, prefaces, and notes) would be appreciated. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 00:05, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

This is pasted from the Sword developers' wiki.

The 1769 KJV facsimile is used for text, front-matter, notes, cross-references, titles, .... for versions after 2.11.

• The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 1 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169826
• The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 2 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169819
• The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 3 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169802
• The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
  Translated Out of the Original Greek:
  And with the Former Translations :Diligently Compared and Revised,
  by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to by Read in Churches.
  Volume 4 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169796

David Haslam (talk) 09:24, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

AFAIK, a Print on Demand published facsimile of a PD work doesn't introduce a fresh copyright on the content any more than publishing a scanned facsimile on a website. It's merely that fewer people would readily have access to the printed one. For further background reading, see the article about Copyfraud. David Haslam (talk) 10:26, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

My CrossWire fellow-worker owns the complete set. I myself recently ordered volume 2 at a discount price. David Haslam (talk) 10:29, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

It looks like those volumes are published from scans at EEBO Editions, ProQuest. Is that right? In that case we'll need someone with access to http://www.proquest.com/products-services/databases/eebo.html to retrieve the digital scans for us to use. Alternatively, re-scanning the printed facsimile, if it's a good enough scan, would also suffice. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:43, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Brown, R., (1810) Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae

The text is available at BHL and can be downloaded as PDF or OCR, but the OCR needs to be corrected with the aid of the pdf to give (1) a corrected Latin text, requiring (2) an English translation. MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:15, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

The latin language work would need to undertaken at latin WS. While I can understand the desire for a translation, knowing how well these progress, I cannot see it happening unless it is coordinated and prosecuted. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:19, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

The file at least is available at Index:Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen - Brown - 1810.djvu. It's unlikely a 400+ page la-en translation will happen unless someone is very interested in the subject, however. This is Volume 1, but I see no obvious sign of a Vol. 2. Also the paging starts at 145 so unsure what's going on there. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 11:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Modern Mathematical texts

This is a list of select modern mathematical texts available at HathiTrust. A great deal of work, each, but I was making a private list and I thought I'd drop it here.

• Introduction to projective geometry and modern algebra. Rosenbaum, R. A.
• Rudiments of algebraic geometry
• Structure of rings. Jacobson, Nathan, 1910-1999.
• The theory of rings. Jacobson, Nathan, 1910-1999
• Rings and ideals, by Neal H. McCoy

--Prosfilaes (talk) 12:34, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Works on banned, prohibited, or condemned books

Requesting any of the following

• Books Condemned to Be Burnt by James Anson Farrer
• An Index of Prohibited Books by Joseph Mendham
• A Catalogue of Curious But Prohibited Books

John Carter (talk) 22:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Index:Books_Condemned_to_be_Burnt_-_James_Anson_Farrer.djvu for the first one.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:08, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Index:An Index of Prohibited Books (1840).djvu seems to have been around for a while. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:24, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

• Can't find scan : To my knowledge, the only scan of A Catalogue… is (external scan), which is so broken as to be entirely unusable. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC).

• It looks like it might be available on the Gale ECCO system: https://lib.ugent.be/nl/catalog/rug01:001128914 Inductiveload—talk/contribs 20:58, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

• Inductiveload: Scan available for A Catalogue here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:30, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

@TE(æ)A,ea.: cool! Where did you get it from if you don't mind me asking? Inductiveload—talk/contribs 20:29, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

• Inductiveload: The same place as I got Psychology of Religion (at Scan Lab): my university’s ILL request service. Occasionally, I am sent through a different system (the O system), which gave me a PDF scan for these two works. I’m also looking for the Hymns below, although that request has been sitting around for a while now. If you have any old, no-scan-found requests lying about (and that you’re interested in proofreading), send me a message. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:09, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1791)

A scan of the 1791 edition of this text, containing the Appendix which is included in our edition, is available in the w:Early American Imprints collection. If any editor has access to this collection through a subscribing library, I would like to request a copy of this scan to be uploaded to Commons. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 15:08, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

The Tatler, Nov 30, 1923

The Mask of Sacrifice, by Margery Lawrence, is an early work of fantastic literature by a woman, and has been reprinted as such. It can be found in The Floating Cafe and Other Stories (1936), but that's going to take a decade to leave copyright. So The Tatler, Nov 30, 1923, is the best source, but HathiTrust doesn't have that issue, nor does IA.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:55, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

@Prosfilaes: The British Newspapers Archive has it, but it needs a subscription.

Side note: since the author died in 1969, it'll be copyright in the UK until 2039, so it's definitely a local-file job.

Side side note: watch out for the contemporaneous but unrelated "New York" Tatler which appears to be rather more salacious affair around 1920. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 11:19, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Ah, I was looking for The New York Tatler, so that might have been part of the problem, though HathiTrust still doesn't seem to have it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:12, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

@Prosfilaes: also unhelped by the 50 bazillion yearbooks and other periodicals called Tatler! There is very little on the New York Tatler that I can see other than a motley collection of IA scans and a few images at Commons (from the same scans). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 19:55, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes, Inductiveload: It is now available here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

The Negro Family: The Case For National Action (1965)

Commonly known as the Moynihan Report. Requested at Scriptorium. A scan is available at Google Books, but the first page will need to be removed. The work is {{PD-USGov}}. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:23, 5 December 2020 (UTC).

Black’s Law Dictionary

An index already exists, but the OCR is poor, as has been discussed. A new file, generated from the same original page, is needed. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC).

• Done — Hrishikes (talk) 06:59, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Monarchs and Millionaires

Lalla Vandervelde (1925), Monarchs and Millionaires, British version published by London: T. Butterworth Limited; American version published by New York: Adelphi Co.

So far I haven't been able to find any scans online, but someone else might have more luck? Clay (talk) 16:34, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

I also can't see any obvious scans. OCLC isn't encouraging, they know of no digital holdings. :-( Inductiveload—talk/contribs 16:44, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Complete Works

We have many of the stories of O. Henry, but we lack clear sources for many of them. The author page mentions The Complete Writing Of O. Henry (1918) (14 Vols.), which would provide a source for all of O. Henry's work, and a complete or near complete collection of his work. I've too many projects in the air to take this on, but it seems like a reasonable suggestion. (Same for any other author we have unsourced and is old enough we can upload a complete collection of their writing.)--Prosfilaes (talk) 11:58, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Seven Great American Poets (1901)

By Beatrice Hart, a digital scan of of it can be found on Google Books. Published by Burdett Silver. -- StuckInLagToad (talk) 20:55, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

@StuckInLagToad: Index:Seven Great American Poets - Hart - 1901.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 21:23, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

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Import 5 books about Malayalam language

Please Special:Import five Malayalam-English linguistic books:

1. ml:A dictionary of high and colloquial Malayalim and English (Benjamin Bailey 1846) => #A dictionary of high and colloquial Malayalim and English
2. ml:A Malayalam and English dictionary or 2 (Hermann Gundert 1872) => A Malayalam and English dictionary
3. ml:A Grammar of the Malayalim Language (Peet 1841). => A Grammar of the Malayalim Language (Peet 1841)
4. ml:Malayalam Selections (Arbuthnot 1851) => Malayalam Selections
5. ml:മലയാള വ്യാകരണ ചോദ്യോത്തരം/Catechism of Malayalam grammar (Hermann Gundert 1897)

All these books are for English speakers to learn Malayalam words, and the definitions are all in English. I hope these public domain books will be helpful for d:WD:LD as well. Thank you. Vis M (talk) 08:03, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

 Comment at this stage I have created {{interwiki redirect}}s to the first four works. Proponent has been raised at WS:AN for discussion the matter about importing these works. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:08, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Sino-Japanese Joint Defence Agreement

Please import the 'DOCUMENTS CONCERNING MUTUAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN RELATIVE TO JOINT ACTION AGAINST THE ENEMY' section of this text, which is in the public domain. This is a translation of what is commonly known as the 'Sino-Japanese Joint Defence Agreement', which I am working on an English Wikipedia article about. There is already a Japanese Wikisource page for the Japanese version. I'm afraid I don't really understand how to import this Wikisource, so I'd appreciate if someone else could do so. RGloucester (talk) 16:29, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

@RGloucester: sorry this took so long to get round to: Index:The Truth about China and Japan - Weale - 1919.djvu, the section starts at page 159. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 08:00, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

@Inductiveload: Thank you, but I don't really understand. I just wanted a Wikisource page for the agreement, as there is in Japanese, with that book as the source...this seems like something else, a transcription of the book? RGloucester (talk) 21:03, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

@RGloucester: That's right, all texts at Wikisource should be, as far as is practical, "scan backed" so that others can check the transcription and verify that it is accurate (aka "validation"). The Wikisource page for this treaty would in fact be a transcribed portion of the book The Truth about China and Japan (and we can have other versions of it if there are alternate sources, for example a government gazette). Proofreads of the book happens in the "page" namespace, and then we transclude it to the mainspace. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 21:18, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Harkavy's Yiddish-English

Please import Complete English-Jewish Dictionary (Q108376683). Scans in good quality are available it seems. It is not in Gutenberg.--So9q (talk) 05:33, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

@So9q: Found some reasonable IA scans: Index:Complete English-Jewish Dictionary, 6th ed. - Harkavy - 1910.djvu. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 07:27, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Northanger Abbey's list of Gothics

From Northanger Abbey: “I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time.” “Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?”

That is:

• Castle of Wolfenbach
• Clermont
• Mysterious Warnings
• Necromancer of the Black Forest
• The Midnight Bell, by Francis Lathom (1798)
• Orphan of the Rhine
• Horrid Mysteries.

(All real books, published not too long before Northanger Abbey's writing.) --Prosfilaes (talk) 16:14, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes: I have found the following scans (which are named on Wikipedia here):
  • The Castle of Wolfenbach (external scan), by Mrs. [Eliza] Parsons, first published 1793.
    • Index:The Castle of Wolfenbach - Parsons - 1854.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 20:23, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Clermont (first published 1798) (external scan) (two-volume set, 1799 ed.); I could only find the second volume (same on HathiTrust).
  • The Necromancer: or the Tale of the Black Forest (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2) (1794)
• The others are very obscure, and likely are only known through 1960s and more modern reprintings. I have access to those (and could scan them in), but there is some concern regarding reasserting copyright. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:13, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
  • I've had some success over the years at such works; since they are so marginal, they're frequently facsimile reprints that need no special work. However, it seems likely we've uploaded enough of these "horrid" obscure Gothics, at least for now.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:59, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
• @Prosfilaes: I've uploaded File:Horrid Mysteries Volume 3.djvu and File:The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest Vol. 1.djvu, and File:The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest Vol. 2.djvu is in progress at IA Upload. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 23:06, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

  Looks like the Volume 2 upload failed. It's here if you want it. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:43, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Summary of work statuses:

• Castle of Wolfenbach: index Done
• Clermont: volume 1 not found, volume 2 file Half done
• Mysterious Warnings: Not done
• Necromancer of the Black Forest: volume 1 index, volume 2 index Done
• The Midnight Bell: Not done
• Orphan of the Rhine: Not done
• Horrid Mysteries: volume 3 index Half done

—CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:48, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds

Would it be possible for someone to grab the scan from HathiTrust? —Beleg Tâl (talk) 03:11, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Doing… Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:00, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Done Index:The fastest bicycle rider in the world - 1928 - Taylor.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 11:26, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

The records of the Virginia Company of London

In editing wikipedia:en:First Africans in Virginia, I was looking for the Wikisource version of a famous note recording their arrival in Virginia, but it looks like The records of the Virginia Company of London have not been uploaded to Wikisource yet. I don't think this is a very high priority for anyone (unless someone is revising the articles about the early history of Virginia or something!), but I thought I'd mention it! -- Gaurav (talk) 04:37, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

If anyone is interested in having a go: (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4) Inductiveload—talk/contribs 22:24, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia @ 20 (published by MIT Press)

I am starting to translate individual essays from Wikipedia @ 20 (published by MIT Press) to Croatian and I wonder if it would be good to import the whole book (licence), as well as to advance with translations here on Wikisource? --Zblace (talk) 04:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

OK - things are not moving swiftly here and considering that the compromised and de-admined rightwing Croatian Wikipedia users: Ex13, Roberta F. and SpeedyGonsales are still admins on Croatian Wikisource I will not push for this now. -- Zblace (talk) 08:40, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

FYI the work itself is under a CC-BY 4.0 license. In general it would be good to have the works hosted here as well to a. provide a convenient interwiki link between languages and b. to allow someone to double check the translation easily side-by-side. MarkLSteadman (talk) 23:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Zblace is there a complete, canonical, PDF of this available? Ideally, we'd have a copy of the original for verifiability purposes. The MIT Press version is split up into lots of separate PDFs (and also claims a CC-BY-NC license, which is incompatible with Wikisource, though the PubPbub version doesn't have the NC bit). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 13:12, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

@Inductiveload thank you for info! @Reagle @Jackiekoerner do you mind responding to the above as editors?

--Zblace (talk) 13:08, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

@Inductiveload is right, the published book is NC, but the PubPub version would be available and I believe it's otherwise identical except that it's missing the pagination information -- I don't know if Wikisource maintains that in any case. One could start by scraping the PubPub version and using Pandoc to convert it to MediaWiki -- unless Wikisource has a different method. -Reagle (talk) 14:31, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Passenger Pigeon Manifesto

Dear All,

I would like to ask if you think this text could be included in Wikisource? It has also been published in a peer-reviewed journal but as I'm the author I'm not allowed to upload the text myself. Thank you.

Best, --Adam Harangozó (talk) 16:42, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

@Adam Harangozó: Hello. That would be a useful contribution and you can add it here yourself: the fact you are its author does not make any difference if the text is notable enough to be placed here, which it is. There are two possibilities, the easier one and the better one :-)

The easier one is to add the text simply to Passenger Pigeon Manifesto and to give the source of the text and its licence at its talk page, with the link to the page where the license is given. A disadvantage of this way is that if later the original page with the text and its licence disappeared from the Internet, we would have no proof about the license, which might threaten the existence of the text in Wikisource in the future.

For this reason I suggest to download the PDF of the published article, upload it to Commons and at the same time email the Commons:Volunteer Response Team about releasing the text under a free licence. You can use one of Commons:Email templates for the email. After they confirm the licence, you can transcribe it here, either directly, or using the proofread extension. Feel free to ask me any questions or inform me about any problems at my talk page. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Ran Away from the Dutch, Or, Borneo from South to North

Published at 1887. Author: Michael Theophile Hubert Perelaer, Abraham Pereira Mendes.

Actually, I've found it on external sources but there are many of them and I don't know which one is the best. So, please your help. Thanks. Mnafisalmukhdi1 (talk) 07:30, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

And yet, thanks for someone on Commons. It's here: File:Ran away from the Dutch; or, Borneo from south to north (IA cu31924023893609).pdf. Mnafisalmukhdi1 (talk) 13:01, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Lithuanian-English Dictionary by Lalis

Third edition if possible. There are various scans on Google Books and the Internet Archive; the most readable/OCRable of the third edition scans should be the one chosen.

• GBooks option 1 - has a lot of slanted pages (only including for completeness)
• Gbooks option 2 - has less of that
• IA option 1 - seems fine
• IA option 2 - also seems fine

I guess someone with more experience could judge which of these is likely to be most usable; either of the IA ones would be okay. I realize that the second part where the headwords are English words and the glosses are Lithuanian belongs more properly on lt.wikisource (but they don't even use source-backed texts there, which is inconvenient). Even if only the first part with Lithuanian headwords and English glosses is allowed here, that would still be great. 70.172.194.25 21:01, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Prince & Speck (1904): Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language

Should be PD, and can be downloaded from various sources, e.g. [9], [10]. I would like to transcribe it for easier reference/copying on Wiktionary. 98.170.164.88 21:08, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

• 98.170.164.88: Index:Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language.pdf. If you need any specialized help for this index, feel free to talk back to me here or ask questions at the Help Desk. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:15, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

  @TE(æ)A,ea.: Thank you very much! Could you also do these articles? [11], [12] 98.170.164.88 01:29, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

  • 98.170.164.88: Index:The Modern Pequots and Their Language.djvu and Index:A Modern Mohegan–Pequot Text.djvu. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:37, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Henry Fielding (1746): The Female-Husband

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/meet-charles-hamilton-18th-century-female-husband-scandalized-british-society/ mentions Henry Fielding's The Female-Husband; or the surprising history of Mrs Mary, alias Mr George Hamilton, convicted for marrying a young woman of Wells, London, 1746. I can't find a copy of it; a 1925 work in HathiTrust says there's no existing copy, but the article says there's a few copies, and surely as a Henry Fielding work, it's been reprinted. (The title page in the article is for an unrelated work.) 66.76.243.26 16:12, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

• 66.76.243.26: There may only be four original copies left, but it was, at some point, transferred to a microform medium, and copies of those are in numerous libraries. I have requested a copy; when it arrives, I will scan the microform to digital images and create and upload a PDF of the same. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:44, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
  • 66.76.243.26: Index:Female Husband.pdf. Also for Shells-shells, if you’re interested. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:08, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
    • Thank you.--66.76.243.26 21:10, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

It was reprinted in 1960 by the Liverpool University Press ([13]), but this is probably still under copyright. There's a scan of a similarly-themed work available: An authentic narrative of the extraordinary career of James Allen, the female husband (see also [14]). Does this strike your fancy? Shells-shells (talk) 21:35, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

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David Cory (1921) - Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures

Uploaded a PDF of the book at Wikimedia Commons by the name File:Little Jack Rabbit’s Adventures.pdf, if a better scan is required I would be more than happy to oblige. However, it must be noted that some of the pages in the beginning are colored in by an unofficial third party, and some text is therefore hardly legible. Please respond to this request if you have any need for help in transliteration. VGPaleontologist (talk) 22:16, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

At a point, the PDF glitched and resulted in showing the same page over and over again. I'll try to solve this, but I don't know if it'll work. VGPaleontologist (talk) 22:48, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

To who it may concern; Index:LJRAdventures.pdf. VGPaleontologist (talk) 02:29, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

@VGPaleontologist you marked the index "source file needs fixing": is there anything I can help with to resolve that? It looks readable enough to me (and the OCR tool works) but I didn't go though every page. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 14:52, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Frank Merriwell's woodcraft - 1904 - public domain

PDF page scans: ^[1] Raw OCR of good quality: ^[2] Information link: ^[3]

1. Title: Frank Merriwell's woodcraft, or, To the rescue of Old Gripper
2. Author: Standish, Burt L., 1866-1945
3. Publisher: Street & Smith, 238 William St.
4. Publication Date: 1904-11-12
5. Magazine: Tip top weekly - number 448 - 31 pages
6. Includes departments: Applause (pages 27-29) -- Questions and answers / Professor Fourmen (page 30-31) -- Football championship of America (page 32).
7. Location: Merriwell Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
8. Rights & Use: Use of this public-domain resource is unrestricted, however, attribution is customary and requested.
9. No Copyright - Public Domain

• 2600:1700:D591:5F10:B880:39E:FB47:EEE5: See File:Frank Merriwell's Woodcraft (Tip Top Weekly).pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:44, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

References

1. https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/dimenovels:331336/datastream/PDF
2. https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/dimenovels:331336/datastream/OCR
3. https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/dimenovels%3A331336#page/5/mode/1up

The lady's assistant for executing useful and fancy designs in knitting, netting and crochet work.

3 vols (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)

I am interested mostly in the kintting patterns of volume 2 , but it seems sensible to grab the 3 volume set. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:30, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Latter-Day Psalms (1914)

Latter-Day Psalms (1914) by Olaf Stapledon is the only work of his that seems to be PD. Prosfilaes (talk) 22:54, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes: File:Latter-Day Psalms.pdf. I can create an index as well, if you’d like. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:33, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Early works by Alfred Tennyson

I've done a fair amount of work on Tennyson but can't find two of his earliest works on line (I've checked the usual IA/Hathi/BL/Bodleian/CUL, along with various US sites with publicly accessible digital scan content, Worldcat and online books pages). If anyone can access either of the following I'd appreciate a copy.

- Poems, by Two Brothers (1827), Alfred Tennyson and Charles Tennyson, London: printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers'-hall-court; and J. and J. Jackson, Louth.

- Poems, chiefly Lyrical (1830), by Alfred Tennyson, London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, Cornhill Chrisguise (talk) 23:00, 5 August 2023. (UTC)

• Chrisguise: For Poems, by Two Brothers, does this work? It’s a later reprint, but it’s a facsimile of the original. As for Poems, chiefly Lyrical, I couldn’t find any copies, so I ordered one through ILL. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:58, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
• Chrisguise: Poems, chiefly lyrical. Is the HathiTrust scan for Poems, by Two Brothers good? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:43, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Translations of Homer's Batrachomyomachia (The Battle of the Frogs and Mice)

I have done, or contributed to, transcriptions of several translations of this work. I plan to do a couple of the early ones but I can't find a scanned copy of:—

• The crowne of all Homers workes Batrachomyomachia or the battaile of frogs and mise. His hymn's - and - epigrams translated according to ye. originall (1624?), by George Chapman, London: Printed by John Bull, his Majesties printer (text is on EEBO-TCP at UMich)

Chrisguise (talk) 23:27, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

• Chrisguise: I was actually interested in this work, and ordered it (and scanned it) a while ago. I’ll upload it soon. (By the way, if there are any other EEBO works of which you want scans, including other Batrachomyomachia translations, they are pretty easy to request.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:41, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks, I'll bear that in mind. Chrisguise (talk) 12:51, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

  • Chrisguise: Here you go: IA. The normal reader doesn’t know what to do with the images, though, so the download page is easier. The individual images (from the reel) are two-page spreads, so some work will need to be done before an index can be created. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 14:19, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

    Thanks, I have the means of creating a single file. I'll make a start on it. Chrisguise (talk) 14:36, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

    • Thank you as well, I was interested in it but didn’t want to deal with making the file. I’ll probably stop by to do some proofreading on occasion. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:01, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

      I have just started to process the files you uploaded (rather later than intended}. Could you check whether what you uploaded is complete, since the file names jump from 1879 to 1981 (i.e. should there be a file 1980?). Thanks Chrisguise (talk) 08:03, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

      • Chrisguise: Yes, the scan is complete. The scanner I use allows for series of scans of pages, but sometimes those get offset (or they run short). In this case, I think scan file 1980 was a duplicate of scan file 1979. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:45, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

        Thanks for checking. Chrisguise (talk) 19:22, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

        Sorry to bother again but I have come upon some problems. Although I haven't been able to access a full bibliographic description of the work, I found a description on a couple of auction websites, as pi2 (-pi1) A1-2 [par.]4 A-Z4. Both of these sites, plus a Chapman bibliography on IA, refer to a detailed catalogue of the Pforzheimer collection published in 1940, but I can't find a scanned copy of it.

        By comparing the scans you uploaded (and following the catchwords) I believe the following are actual (or potential) problems.

        Pages 36 and 37 are missing (should be between file 1902 and 1903). This is the case because neither the catchwords nor the signatures (E3, but unmarked) follow.

        Pages 54 & 55 are missing (between files 1910 and 1911). This is the case because neither the catchwords nor the signatures (G4, but unmarked) follow.

        Pages 144 to 147 appear to be missing (i.e. two files between 1954 and 1955). However, the signatures seem to follow (from S4 (unmarked) to T), suggesting this is a page numbering problem.

        Pages 180 to 201 appear to be missing (i.e. ten files between 1970 and 1971). However, the signatures seem to follow (from Y4 (unmarked) to Z), suggesting this is a page numbering problem.

        So far as I can make out, the last page is the verso on 1977; everything thereafter is a duplicate of the epistle at the beginning of the work. The final pages bear the signature 'Aa'. I'm not well versed in signature descriptions, but I don't think this is covered by the one listed above. Chrisguise (talk) 07:48, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

        • The 1954/1955 is clearly direct and 1970/1971 less clearly (by the page bleed-over in the scans to microfilm). The end-of-work epistle appears to have been an actual duplication in printing, which seems to me a strange oversight. I’ll check the holdings for the 1902/1903 and 1910/1911 skips, though. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:20, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
          • Chrisguise: I just got the scans in. The 1954/1955 and 1970/1971 skips are indeed illusory, and simply a page numbering issue. The other two page spreads I will upload soon, if you want to get to work on the rest of the index. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:20, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
            • Here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:24, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

              File compiled and uploaded as Index:The Crowne of all Homers Workes - Chapman (1624).djvu. Thanks for your help sourcing and fixing the scans. Chrisguise (talk) 07:08, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

              There isn't any OCR text in the file, so I'm using the text at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03505.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=toc as my starting point. Chrisguise (talk) 07:11, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

A summary of the evidences of Christianity (1797) - John Fawcett

I haven’t been able to find any free pdfs of it, would anyone be able to help? 203.206.17.177 11:59, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

A relatively poor quality scan of it exists in Eighteenth Century Collections Online https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0079700900. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:01, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

A new request for editors/proofreaders to continue work on this project started several ago. The first 18 volumes are almost complete, volumes 19 to 29 need more proofing. There's a project page here: Wikisource:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica which describes other sources of text to aid proofing. Also see the EB 1911 Style Manual. DivermanAU (talk) 21:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

The Traffic Signs (Size, Colour and Type) Provisional Regulations 1933

This was the first set of UK rules about standardising road signs. It's not in the consolidated volume of Statutory Instruments for 1933 though. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:19, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Scarface (1930 novel)

Would anyone be able to help in uploading an edition of the original Scarface novel by Armitage Trail (real name: Maurice R. Coons)?

I did some digging earlier, and discovered that the book was never renewed. I have found this edition and this other edition on Internet Archive as borrow books. Both feature covers that would need to be removed, but otherwise they appear to be the original unaltered text. And they make no further claims of copyrighted elements. I know these are not downloadable, but if anyone has these editions we can use them from other scan sources.

I'd like to see it get transcribed. And at worst it is definitively public domain in 2026. SDudley (talk) 01:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Since the author died of a heart attack only 9 months after the book was published, there was likely no one to renew the copyright. I have also checked and found no renewal in the usual databases. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for double checking! There was a new copyright for the book in 1960, but it was only for the new foreword added it seems. SDudley (talk) 02:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

• SDudley: I have ordered the book, it should hopefully come in fairly soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you! That is greatly appreciated. I will not let the contribution go to waste. I will gladly be of help in transcribing. SDudley (talk) 02:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

  • SDudley: Here you go: File:Scarface.pdf. The image on the title page can be extracted from this file: File:Scarface-title.tif. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:42, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

    Thank you! This is greatly appreciated. And it is nice to have something new to read. :) SDudley (talk) 16:09, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Work on Colors..

4 scans of Ridgway's work on Color Standards. (1910)

https://archive.org/details/colorstandardsco00ridg - Smithsonian https://archive.org/details/colorstandardsc00ridg -Smithsonian (2nd copy) https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125001039383 - Getty https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002026018 - Columbia

Which one to use though? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Volumes 1, 2 and 4 of Index:Horrid Mysteries Volume 3.djvu (1796)

I have been (slowly) doing work on Volume 3 of 'Horrid Mysteries', currently part of the 'monthly challenge'. However, it is only one volume of a four volume novel. Despite looking in a few places (BL, Bodelian, CUL, Google, IA, ECCO, etc.) I have not been able to locate scans of the other three volumes. The library stamp in Vol. 3. is from the Taylor Institution library, which is part of the Bodelian, and their catalogue identifies that they hold all four volumes but only v.3 has a scanned version.

The only place I found a full description (signatures, number of pages) of the four volumes is on the New York Public Library website.

The Manchester University Library has a link to a scanned version as part of the Corvey Collection at Nineteen Century Collections online (NCCO), to which I don't have access. Can anyone help?

Thanks Chrisguise (talk) 12:17, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

There is also a scanned version of UVA's copy gated in AMScholar: https://www.amscholar.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/GF_Part1_Reel7_Vol1 MarkLSteadman (talk) 22:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

1998-1999 tornadoes and a long-term U.S. tornado climatology

It is a 24 page document by the U.S. government (seen here on NOAA.gov) that is cited a ton on the English Wikipedia article w:List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes. A couple of the pages were screenshotted into the commons (See Category:National Climate Data Center Technical Report 99-02), however, it actually appears the original URL used to upload those has been deleted by the government. Due to this, an archived transcribed copy here is being requested. Thanks! WeatherWriter (talk) 21:40, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

• WeatherWriter: An archived copy may be seen here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:09, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

The Paddington Mystery (1925) by John Rhode / Cecil John Charles Street

It's a series starting mystery that's not completely unknown. Unfortunately, neither Archive.org, Hathitrust, or Google Books have it, with Abebooks having the first usable version at $599, with one at $51 from 1934 that might be usable. If I knew that that last one would be usable, I'd buy it, but six hundred is a little out of my budget.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:22, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes: I’ve ordered a copy of the 1925 edition through ILL; I’ll keep you updated. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:09, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
• @TE(æ)A,ea.: Thank you.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:55, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly

A short NYTimes editorial (Q122647649) in public domain, notable for its outrageously wrong prediction about how long it would take for humanity to develop powered flight. It would be great if we could link the full text in the article, hence this request. The Wikipedia article has links to scans hosted by NYTimes and Internet Archive. Thank you. Melmann (talk) 21:05, 21 April 2024 (UTC)