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) (transcription project)
• Giphantie by Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche, published in English in 1761 — this work not listed at Internet Archive as of January 26, 2010. (transcription project)
  • 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).

  @TE(æ)A,ea.: FYI: I uploaded that and it can be worked on here: (transcription project). It seems illustrations for that by Keith Henderson can be found here: (Commons category). —Uzume (talk) 20:08, 15 May 2025 (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)

      Another German source is here: [6] from the Gesammelten Werke, which is the source for the 2007 Riemer translation. MarkLSteadman (talk) 23:45, 15 June 2024 (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

• Remarks recorded by Donald Trump (second term) for the Hall of Presidents at Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World, Florida

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)

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)

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)

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)

At the time this request was made (2021 March 28; see [9]), it was indeed the case that Wikisource "lack[ed] clear sources for many of them". As of today, 2025 March 20, though, every leaf work linked on the O. Henry author page is either cited as part of a given selection or followed by a citation of the original source publication. The funny thing is that until just a few minutes ago, The Complete Writing was then the _only_ thing listed on the page aside from the play Lo that was "unsourced"—listed with incorrect title and publication date and no publisher. That's fixed now, and I've added a link to the Hathitrust scans.    C. A. Russell (talk) 20:24, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Please add this translation c:File:Mexico by Mayakovsky.pdf of the poem ru:Мексика (Маяковский) written by Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky to Wikisource.

The PDF contains many images from Wikimedia Commons, if you want, you can include them.

Or point me to a good example of formatting a poem at Wikisource so that I add it myself. Thanks! -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 04:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

The first question is: Whose English translation is that, and where was it published? --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:47, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

"Trans. w:Adam Halbur and Andrew Krizhanovsky", we published it at the w:Academia.edu.

Is it true that only texts published by an official publisher can be added to Wikisource? Is Academia.edu not good enough? -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 05:14, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

OK. I have read "Wikisource:What Wikisource includes": "... These as well as any artistic works must have been published in a medium that includes peer review or editorial controls; this excludes self-publication." -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 06:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

EB1926

Now that 1926 Encyclopædia Britannica (13th ed.) is in PD - would be great if it could be made available on Wikisource as well. The Internet Archive seems to have a decent scan. ネイ (talk) 12:49, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Doing an edition of EB is an immense quantity of work, and I don't think it's worth doing every one that enters PD. I'd wait four years for EB1933, as the next after that is '73, which will not be PD for ~43 years, so '33 will be (till then) the "last" edition. — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 13:10, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes for a regular edition; EB1926 is a supplement edition so it only contains 3 new volumes. The rest are reprints and do not require separate work. ネイ (talk) 06:48, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

If it's the fac-simile kind of reprint, then indeed, seems a good idea. — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 17:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Upload Help Request

I need help in uploading these two books: Claims And Teachings Of Ahmed (1917) and 3000 Precious Gems (1949). Both written by Seth Abdullah Allahdin who passed away in 1962, so his works should be already over the copyright law of India, i.e. 60 years after the demise of the writer. Thank you. Mbee-wiki (talk) 04:40, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

(Wikisource only counts the copyright law of the US, but both Claims And Teachings of Ahmed (as {{PD-US|1962}}, published before 1929) and 3000 Precious Gems (as {{PD-1996}}, didn't find any indication of publication in the US, and 49<96) are hostable.) — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 08:52, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

For PD-1996, a work needs to be PD in its home country on the URAA data, usually (and for India) 1/1/1996. IIRA, in 1996, India was life+50, but even then, this work wouldn't be out of copyright until after 1962+50, or 2012. So 3000 Precious Gems is going to be in copyright in the US until 2045.--Prosfilaes (talk) 05:02, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, misunderstood {{PD-1996}}. — Alien  3
3 3 16:46, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

@Prosfilaes, @Alien333, @Mbee-wiki: What's the final conclusion regarding the copyright status of these books? At least the one published in 1917 is public domain in the USA, right? If yes, then can it go to commons? Or should it be uploaded to en.wikisource? Also as the author died less than 70 years ago, does this have any implications on the copyright status of this book, for example, in the EU? --Ssvb (talk) 02:45, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Claims and Teachings Of Ahmed is hostable at commons as it's both PD-India and PD-US. 3000 Precious Gems is hostable neither here not there, as PD-US is required by both. (Regarding EU copyright, per w:List of copyright terms of countries#European union, it seems all member states for once got in line and followed the directive, meaning that, yes, they're not PD in europe, but that doesn't really matter, unless you upload thousands of them and you have revealed your real name (c.f. Dcoetzee and the NPG)). — Alien  3
3 3 15:47, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner

Illustration in a derivative book about John Tanner.

Hi, I would like to suggest A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner by Author:John Tanner (w:John Tanner). The correspoding file is allready available if I'm right here File:Tanner - James, Narrative of captivity and adventures of John Tanner, 1830.djvu. Its translation in French is allready available on Wikisource in French fr:Mémoires de John Tanner. I used it (and the article on en.wikipedia) to write vikidia:John Tanner. Thanks! Astirmays (talk) 06:50, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Latin America

If someone have interest, Hathitrust has made Machado of Brazil (1962) available in the US due to the lack of copyright renewal. Erick Soares3 (talk) 00:18, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

The eater of darkness by Robert M. Coates

This is said to be the first American Dada novel. I had a note stashed away for 1929, but it seems to have first come out in 1926. Nonetheless, the pages on HathiTrust are still unavailable, and the Internet Archive shows no sign of it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:47, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Billboard (November 1894)

First issue of Billboard Magazine. Although there is a scan here on the Internet Archive, the edges are completely unreadable. Norbillian (talk) 13:08, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

(Can't help you about that, just wanted to note that in general, for IA scans, addresses in the form of "https://archive.org/details/billboard01-1894-11" are preferred to direct file links, as it allows other to see the full details of the item easier.) — Alien  3
3 3 13:58, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

"Thursday Night Massacre" Texts

Does anyone know where to find the texts related to the recent Justice Department resignations, primarily the resignations themselves. The Danielle Sassoon and Hagen Scotten letters have been added, but I'm having trouble finding the rest of the resignation letters. ToxicPea (talk) 02:20, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

I request an upload of the syllabus for the United States Supreme Court case w:City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. —unsigned comment by ThePhantomOfTheNight (talk) 20:54, 4 March 2025.

Foster on Mah Jong

It's been cited by a few historians of the game. Published 1924, not available online as far as I know so a scan would be helpful. Arcorann (talk) 09:35, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Do you mean this book? --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:43, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Not that one (as a matter of fact, the book you linked I uploaded the other day), but the book by R. F. Foster. You can see the cover on Tom Sloper's website (the page, admittedly, has transcribed already much of the book's most worthwhile content). Arcorann (talk) 00:29, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

• Arcorann: Here you go: File:Foster on Mah Jong.pdf. I can also scan the images from this book in high quality, if you would like. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:53, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Abrego Garcia v. Noem court filings

Chris Van Hollen recently posted that "A FEDERAL JUDGE said “no evidence before the court connects Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or any criminal organization.”". Culd someone find the exact document that he is referring to? ToxicPea (talk) 19:32, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

This opinion "Defendants have offered no evidence linking Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or to any terrorist activity.", "Even worse, Defendants have claimed—without any evidence—that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 and then housed him among the chief rival gang, Barrio 18.": https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/04/kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia-040625.pdf. Fyithe original immigration judge ruling ruling he is a member is here [10]. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:18, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

• Note: the decisions of the immigration judge and the BIA are included in Index:Kilmer-Abrego-Garcia-Documents.pdf, and I have proofread and transcluded them (Matter of Abrego Garcia (IJ 2019), Matter of Abrego Garcia (BIA 2019)). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:47, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Books by Charles Caleb Colton

There are versions on the Internet Archive : https://archive.org/search?query=charles+caleb+colton Jona (talk) 16:11, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Are you looking for specific ones?

Anyhow, I've added Modern Antiquity, and other poems to my todolist. — Alien  3
3 3 17:16, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

I would say Lacon on top of the list, there are many quotes on Wikiquote from this one. Jona (talk) 20:12, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Timeless Classics

I found, scanned, proofread, and transcluded this the other day—a list books, published before 1961, which were recommended by schools for children at different reading levels (the list itself was published in 1995 by the U.S. government). I think that some of the omissions on this list would be good additions here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:50, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

"Letters captured from Baron Ungern in Mongolia" (Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, 1921)

This pamphlet is highly important for anti-communism movements before WWII.

I have read the some translated text, but I would like to see the original text. 106.73.67.160 14:50, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

The original text would presumably not be English, so it would be out of scope for the English Wikisource.--Prosfilaes (talk) 01:10, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for my bad English. I meant I've read some Japanese translation of the text and it was deeply interesting so I want to see its origin, the English booklet which was sent to USA during Washington Naval Conference. --106.73.67.160 04:36, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

The Midnight Bell, by Francis Lathom, (1796, 3 volumes)

I have just reviewed the detailed status of progress with the 9 novels listed at Portal:Northanger Abbey's "horrid" novels. 'The Midnight Bell' is is the only one without scan backing. Unfortunately the work is not available via IA, Hathi, or Google. Could you please source scans of these 3 volumes (preferably the edition for which https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Midnight_Bell_title_page.png is the title page of volume 1). Hopefully they will be available via the Virginia University library per others of these work Chrisguise (talk) 09:23, 5 May 2025 (UTC)