Talk:Civil Disobedience
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| Information about this edition | |
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| Original edition | Published in 1849 |
| Contributor(s) | User:Kalki |
| Level of progress | Complete text  |
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[edit] Table of contents?
Can anybody think of an intelligent Tabel Of Contents? It's quite long that's why I'm asking. -- TomK32 17:22, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Oh, that's not too long IMHO. But I advice you use == Part X == to divide this text into several parts, the Table Of Contents will automatically be created. :) --Samuel 18:39, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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- One might put in a few headings such as these above the paragraphs that contain them, if it was emphasized at the start of the document that they were NOT part of the original text:
[edit] Division into sections
- == "That government is best which governs least" ==
- == "All voting is a sort of gaming" ==
- == "Some years ago, the State met me in behalf of the Church" ==
- == "I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject" ==
- == "I know that most men think differently from myself" ==
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- - but I personally do not think that a classic essay such as this should be so casually altered in it's basic structure, especially in a repository of source documents. Kalki 19:41, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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- The text IS long on a averange display (I'm having a 19") and headers would also make referencing easier. -- TomK32 20:15, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Name
Wouldn't a better name be "Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau"? Thinking of predictable linking from Wikipedia. --Maveric149 01:34, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Random Italics?
Just wondering if the first line of each block quote was italicized in the original or not, if they were why?, if they werent why are they in this version? Also, I don't mind these at all but were the bracketed attributions at the end of the quotes in the original? If not I think we should either make some kind of note of that somewhere or possibly make footnotes for them instead. Just some thoughts on making sure sources remain as close to their original form as possible... Biggins 06:34, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I personally don't have a copy of the book so I can't answer your questions about what was in the original. Perhaps you can look it up. I don't mind the attributions being where they are. The square brackets are normally used to show an editorial addition. Eclecticology 19:40, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Misclassification
Why is this article classified as "ficiton" and how does one move it into nonfiction?
