User:Tar-ba-gan

Awards for participation

	Proofread of the Month July 2013 Maury's New Elements of Geography

	Proofread of the Month September 2013 First Voyage Round the World

	Proofread of the Month July 2014 Great Speeches of the War

	Proofread of the Month August 2014 (second work) An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

	Proofread of the Month October 2014 The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century

	Proofread of the Month April 2015 Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

	Proofread of the Month October 2015 Moll Flanders

	Proofread of the Month November 2015 Special: Validation month

Current (2024)

• Folk-Lore/Volume 23/Modern Russian Popular Songs
• Index:Oriental Encounters.djvu
• Index:Folk-lore of the Holy Land.djvu
• Author:Abraham Goldfaden
• Author:Avrom Ber Gotlober

Summer 2021

• New Poems by James I
• Index:Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet (1879).djvu—Index:Narratives of the mission of George Bogle to Tibet.djvu
• A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
• Index:Barlaam and Josaphat. English lives of Buddha.djvu

Autumn-Winter 2020

• Index:The National Geographic Magazine Vol 16 1905.djvu
• Folk-Lore/Volume 20/Folk-tales of the Lushais and Their Neighbours
• Index:Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet (1879).djvu
• Index:Three Years in Tibet.djvu
• Index:The Letters Of Queen Victoria, vol. 2 (1908).djvu
• Index:The Letters Of Queen Victoria, vol. 3 (1908).djvu
• Index:Tlingit Myths and Texts.djvu
• Index:The Writings of Prosper Merimee-Volume 6.djvu
• Index:The Writings of Prosper Merimee-Volume 5.djvu
• Index:The Writings of Prosper Merimee-Volume 4.djvu
• Index:The Writings of Prosper Merimee-Volume 3.djvu
• Index:The Writings of Prosper Merimee-Volume 2.djvu
• Index:The Writings of Prosper Merimee-Volume 1.djvu

August 2020

• Index:Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet (1879).djvu
• Index:Three Years in Tibet.djvu
• Index:The Letters Of Queen Victoria, vol. 2 (1908).djvu → /Sandbox/QVL2
• Index:The Letters Of Queen Victoria, vol. 3 (1908).djvu
• Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/River scenes in China - Part 1
• Index:Strange stories from a Chinese studio.djvu
• Index:Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history.djvu
• Index:In Korea with Marquis Ito (1908).djvu
• Author:Albert, Prince Consort
• Author:Leopold I of Belgium
• Author:Nicholas I of Russia

July 2020

• Index:Folk Tales from Tibet (1906).djvu done
• Index:Jewish Fairy Book (Gerald Friedlander).djvu done but for the pictures
• Index:Three Years in Tibet.djvu
• Index:The Letters Of Queen Victoria, vol. 2 (1908).djvu → /Sandbox/QVL2
• Index:Strange stories from a Chinese studio.djvu
• Index:The Chinese language and how to learn it.djvu
• Index:Pekinese Rhymes (G. Vitale, 1896).djvu

June 2020

• Index:Three Years in Tibet.djvu
• Index:Jewish Fairy Book (Gerald Friedlander).djvu
• Index:Scidmore--Java the garden of the east.djvu
• Index:Folk Tales from Tibet (1906).djvu
• Index:A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy.djvu

May 2020

• Index:Folk Tales from Tibet (1906).djvu
• Index:Three Years in Tibet.djvu
• Index:Jewish Fairy Book (Gerald Friedlander).djvu
• Index:A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy.djvu
• Index:Nine Yiddish Writers.djvu‎
• Index:Russian Fairy Book (N. H. Dole).djvu

Not Mine - Priority

• Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 21.djvu (Need help with diacritics)
• Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 3.djvu
• Index:Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet Volume I.djvu
• Index:Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet Volume II.djvu

Mine - Priority

Tales

• Index:Eskimo Folk-Tales (1921).djvu
• Index:Tlingit Myths and Texts.djvu
• Index:Myths and Legends of British North America.djvu
• Index:Chinese Fairy Tales (H. Giles, 1920).djvu
• Index:Chinese Fairy Book (Richard Wilhelm).djvu
• Index:Chinese Fables and Folk Stories.djvu
• Index:Chinese Speaker (E. Morgan, 1916).djvu (Need help with Chinese characters)
• Index:Chinese Merry Tales (1909).djvu‎
• Index:Pekinese Rhymes (G. Vitale, 1896).djvu (Need help with Chinese characters)

Travel and Description

• Index:Essays on the Chinese Language (1889).djvu
• Index:Oriental Religions - China.djvu
• Index:Chinese Life in the Tibetan Foothills.djvu (traditional Chinese characters and Mandarin transcription according to Wylie)
• Index:Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet vol 1 (1876).djvu
• Index:Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet vol 2 (1876).djvu
• Index:From Kulja, across the Tian Shan to Lob-Nor (1879).djvu
• Index:The Chinese Empire. A General & Missionary Survey.djvu (now at Szechwan)
• Index:Chinese Characteristics.djvu
• Early English Adventurers in the East
• Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China (stalled)
• Index:Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes Volume 12.djvu (formatting required is too intricate for me while it contains the first truly scholarly description of China done by a Westerner)
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tibet
• Index:Across Thibet Vol. 1.djvu
• Index:Across Thibet Vol. 2.djvu
• Flora of Kwangtung and Hongkong (China) (1912) (help with botany)
• Index:Flora Hongkongensis.djvu (help with botany)

Rossica

• Oblomov (1915) - edition has problem with chapter numbers
• The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol
• Dream Tales and Prose Poems — not like I entirely started it
• Index:Columbia University Lectures on Literature (1911).djvu
• The Writings of Prosper Mérimée
• Russian Novelists (1887)

Judaica

• Index:Short Treatise on God, Man and His Wellbeing.djvu by Spinoza

Special Care Needed

• Author:Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (please add works!)
• Index:Narratives of the mission of George Bogle to Tibet.djvu (Please change source file!)
• Index:Gospel of Buddha.djvu (Please change source file!)
• Index:The Visit of the Teshoo Lama to Peking.djvu (Source file needs to be changed?)
• Index:Kutenai Tales.djvu (Need help with Ktunaxa language - diacritics!)
• Index:Phrase Book in the Canton Dialect or Dialogues on Ordinary and Familiar Subjects.djvu (Need help with Chinese characters)

Random authors

• Author:Prosper Mérimée
• Author:Grigory Potanin
• Author:Mary Everest Boole
• Author:George Trumbull Ladd

Not planning to work on

• Index:Devon and Cornwall Queries Vol 9 1917.djvu
• Index:Japanese Gardens (Taylor).djvu
• Author:William Brighty Rands

I am also interested in items someone else started:

Chinese miscellanea

• The Spirit of the Chinese People
• Index:The punishments of China.djvu
• Index:Chinese without a teacher - being a collection of easy and useful sentences.djvu
• Index:A wandering student in the Far East vol.1 - Zetland.djvu
• Index:Through China with a camera.pdf
• My life in China and America

Journal Articles

• Folk-Lore/Volume 15/Tibetan Charms img
• Folk-Lore/Volume 15/Tibetan Prayer-Wheels img
• Folk-Lore/Volume 15/Tibetan Drum and Trumpet img
• The Folk-Lore Journal/Volume 3/Folk-Lore in Mongolia
• The Folk-Lore Journal/Volume 4/Folk-Lore in Mongolia
• Folk-Lore/Volume 32/Garo Marriages
• Folk-Lore/Volume 32/Garo Marriages, 1
• Folk-Lore/Volume 32/Garo Marriages, 2
• Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review Volumes 32 and 33.djvu/618 (Isle of Skye folklore)
• Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 4, 1893.djvu/266 (white rabbit a token of death)
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 30/January 1887/The Intermingling of Races
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 58/November 1900/China
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 58/December 1900/Chinese Commerce

Great Game

• Index:England & Russia in Central Asia,Vol-I.djvu
• Index:England & Russia in Central Asia,Vol-I.djvu

Sacred Books

• Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 13.djvu
• Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 16.djvu
• Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 17.djvu
• Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 20.djvu
• Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 27.djvu
• Index:Barlaam and Josaphat. English lives of Buddha.djvu

Not Mine, Not Edited

• The fairy tales of science
• A Wayfarer in China
• The American Indian
• The Varieties of Religious Experience

Not Mine - Other

• Index:National Life and Character.djvu
• The Descent of Bolshevism

Not Mine, Finished

• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Kern, Jan Hendrik
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Prjevalsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich ‎
• Folk-Lore/Volume 28/Folk-Lore from the Himalayas
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 21/August 1882/The Topmost Country of the Earth
• The Folk-Lore Journal/Volume 5/Chinese Superstitions
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 21/September 1882/The Chinese: Their Manners and Customs
• Folk-Lore/Volume 1/Notes on Chinese Folk-Lore
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 36/January 1890/The Chinese Theory of Evolution
• Author:William Henry Thornton
• Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 23, 1912.djvu/289 (review of Stein's Desert Cathay)
• Folk-Lore/Volume 23/Meithei Literature
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 60/March 1902/Work and Rest: Genius and Stupidity
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 30/January 1887/Sketch of Nicholas Prejevalski
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 35/May 1889/The Desert of Gobi and the Himalayas
• Popular Science Monthly/Volume 32/December 1887/The Boyhood of Darwin
• Index:A La California.djvu

Started and finished

• Index:Ports of the world - Canton (1920).djvu
• Author:James Mooney
• Author:Pedro Nolasco da Silva: Macao (1908)
• Author:Gombojab Tsybikov: Lhasa and Central Tibet (1903)
• Author:Stephen Troyte Dunn: Flora of Hongkong (1908)
• Author:Ts'o Seen Wan: Ceremonies and Customs of the Chinese (1908)
• Author:James B. Wong: Chinese Characters (1908)
• Author:Cecil Polhill: Tibet (1907)
• Author:Marshall Broomhall: The Jews in China (1907)
• Author:John Campbell Gibson: The Province of Kwangtung (1907)
• Index:The Chinese Boy and Girl.djvu
• Index:Inside Canton.djvu
• The New Student's Reference Work/Canton (China)