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This page hosts nominations for featured text status in accordance with the Featured text guidelines. A featured text should exemplify Wikisource's very highest standards of accuracy. If you nominate a text, you will be expected to make a good-faith effort to address objections that are raised.

Any established user may nominate a text or vote (as long as it matches the criteria). Every month the nomination with the highest support ratio, weighted in favour of nominations with more numerous votes (equation forthcoming), will be chosen as featured text. All nominations with under 70% support after a week will be archived. The most promising nominations (up to 10) will be carried over to the next week, during which time established users may continue to place votes.
Featured texts
Date Text
2006
June Gettysburg Address
August Dulce et Decorum Est
September The Time Machine
October A Drink Problem
November Elegie II
December Come not, when I am dead
2007
January After Death
February Anthem for Doomed Youth
March Resignation letter (Roosevelt)
April Darkness
May Lights
June Arithmetic on the Frontier
July —
August Cole's Old English Masters. John Opie
September Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration
October —
November —
December —
2008
January The Black Cat
February Balade to Rosemounde
March The Times/The Late Mr. Charles Babbage, F.R.S.
April South Africa Act 1909
May United States patent X1
June —
July —
August ACLU v. NSA Opinion
September The Wind in the Willows
October Early Settlers Along the Mississippi
November Coker FOIA documents
December —
2009
January George Washington's First State of the Union Address
February —
March Transcript of the 'friendly fire' incident video (28 March 2003)
April J'accuse
May German Instrument of Surrender (7 May 1945)
June A specimen of the botany of New Holland
July Fatal fall of Wright airship

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[edit] Information

[edit] Nominating a text

  1. Ensure that the text meets all the featured text criteria and style guidelines. Nominations that are flagged as not meeting the criteria will be unlisted after 24 hours, unless the criteria are met in that time.
  2. Note the nomination on the talk page by adding the template {{featured text candidate}}.
  3. Begin a discussion at the bottom of this page. Note your reason for nominating the text.
See also

[edit] Discussion

  • If you believe an article meets all of the criteria, write Support followed by your reasons.
  • If you oppose a nomination, write Object followed by the reason for your objection. Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed. If nothing can be done in principle to "fix" the source of the objection, the objection may be ignored. This includes objections to an text's suitability for the Wikisource main page, unless such suitability can be fixed.
  • To withdraw an objection, strike it out (with <s>text</s>) rather than removing it.

[edit] Closing a nomination (administrators only)

  • Failed nominations
    1. Add a comment explaining why the nomination failed.
    2. Archive it.
  • Passed nominations
    1. Add it to {{Featured text}} (inside the ParserFunction) and {{featured schedule}}.
    2. Place {{featured}} on top of the work's main page {{header}} notes template.
    3. Place {{featured talk|August 2009}} at the top of the work's main talk page (changing the numbers to the appropriate date if not next month).
    4. Protect all the work's text pages.

[edit] Nominations

For older nominations, see the archives.

[edit] Flight 93 Cockpit Transcript

This is an important and interesting transcription that was submitted as government evidence; link to the PDF original is on the talk page. Ideally a djvu should be created from the PDF.

While we wouldnt want to have both this and Transcript of the 'friendly fire' incident video (28 March 2003) featured back-to-back, having two candidates means we can pick the best one, or we could feature both at times when they are most relevant, like on the anniversary of the events. John Vandenberg (chat) 05:52, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Support A valuable contribution. Cirt (talk) 05:07, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Support for September '09. --Spangineerwp (háblame) 04:33, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Support Psychless 13:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Support, definitely, but as per User:Spangineer, I'd like to suggest that the closing admin leave off promoting this until September. Jude (talk) 00:03, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A Description of a City Shower

This is a poem by Jonathan Swift, best known for his book, Gulliver's Travels. It provides rare insight into urban life in London at the time, and the economical, inustrial and social revolutions that were happening. The text has been proofread against three sites, and two books, on of which is linked to through Google Books. I believe it meets the style criterias, and it even has a relevant image to boot. Thanks. ---- Anonymous DissidentTalk 14:28, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Support. I've moved the text to Page:Cyclopaedia of English Literature 1844 Volume 1 page 548.djvu, which is recorded as the source on the talk page, so it should be identical.

It would be good to find a pagescan of the original, and it would also be good to accompany this text with other PD resources about this work. See for example the many works mentioned in this PDF. note that the PDF says "O Hehir notes that when the poem was first published in the Tatler, it was accompanied by a different and “slightly misleading headnote . . . ”" so the text may not be fully appreciated without the original headnote. John Vandenberg (chat) 04:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Just an aside: The link to the .djvu page seems to be obscuring the first line of text of A Description of a City Shower. -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 16:49, 28 May 2008
That is probably an undesirable side effect of {{Page}}, which has had a few changes lately. John Vandenberg (chat) 07:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Then we should fix it. Who knows how many pages it affects? ---- Anonymous DissidentTalk 07:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
It doesnt effect a lot of pages, yet. I have annotated a few more details about what it is supposed to do on the template page, and noted on the talk page that it doesnt do what it was doing a few weeks ago. John Vandenberg (chat) 07:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Following the virginia.edu link AD added to the talk, I see that they have a pagescan of the "first" page of this work in Tatler (p. 275), but only the tail end of the headnote is on this page. John Vandenberg (chat) 07:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
virginia.edu also has page 276 and 277 (and some Tatler No. 9: [1] [2], and more). John Vandenberg (chat) 07:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I'd rather like it better if this one wasn't transcluded. The "[ page ]" text is over the first letter, "C", from Careful, which I find pretty disturbing. diego_pmc 13:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

  • Support I like the image usage as well. Cirt (talk) 05:08, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Support Psychless 13:38, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Oppose until this version is proofed against the page image and things like capitalization match. --Spangineerwp (háblame) 12:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Waltzing Matilda

An iconic folk song by Banjo Paterson, Waltzing Matilda is immensely popular in Australia and is considered an unofficial national anthem. Proofread by myself and John V based on a photo of the manuscript. —Giggy 09:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

  • Support; it would be great to have other editions in addition to this, but they appear to be plauged by copyright issues. John Vandenberg (chat) 11:28, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Support, but with a suggestion Just like I said at A Description of a City Shower: "I'd rather like it better if this one wasn't transcluded. The "[ page ]" text is over the first letter [...] which I find pretty disturbing". diego_pmc 11:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Support Nice work, good formatting, validation, etc. Cirt (talk) 05:09, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
  • oppose "The transcribers hyphens and dots should also be included, the version without is at wikipedia. I made some changes for discussion, then reverted them: Page:no links and a 'clean version'..." Cygnis insignis (talk) 13:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC) [Strike oppose and hide comment] Cygnis insignis (talk) 14:17, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Support - I'm fine with the links. I don't think the dots and hyphens should be included, so I disagree with that oppose. I like the audio file and sheet music. Psychless 13:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Note: this was never validated in the page namespace (see Page:Original Waltzing Matilda manuscript.jpg). --Spangineerwp (háblame) 12:34, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Cinderella (Dalziel)

I have already proofread this once, but it still needs to be proofread by one more person, so if anyone wants to help, here's the index: Index:Cinderella (1865).djvu. I also intend to look for someone willing to do a recording of the text after it's been proofread. diego_pmc 11:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

  • Support. Hesperian 01:11, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
The reason i did not use transclusion is because there are sentences that don't end before an image. I really think that's pretty unpleasant. Also, is there a reson this shouldn't be style=prose? diego_pmc 09:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
By all means revert me if you disagree; I'm not sensitive about such things. My support stands regardless. Hesperian 14:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Support, having read the text but not having proofread. Perfectly willing to proofread, though. Question. I'm not sure how all this transclusion works. Does proofreading in this case mean just something like looking at this page and checking that the text on the left is the same as the scanned text on the right, or does it mean having that page open, side by side with Cinderella (Dalziel) and checking that Cinderella (Dalziel) matches the scanned text on the right of the "Page.djvu" versions? Stratford490 (talk) 09:43, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
  • For proofreading we use pages like this one. Anyway, I see it was proofread already. Thanks for that! diego_pmc (talk) 08:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Support I like the presentation style. Cirt (talk) 05:15, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Support. Proofread index pages, then compared with text. Added index and cover image to talk, suggest moving {{PDF}} there also. Cygnis insignis (talk) 15:03, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Support, with conditions - I would be happy to support this — I really enjoy the images — but I don't understand why the text isn't transcluded from the djvu pages. I would do it myself, but perhaps the contributors have a reason not to. In any case, until it is done, I withhold my support. Psychless 14:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rule,_Britannia!

Let's try this one. Big, high-quality scans of the sheet music, and the lyrics in both the original poem's format and as sung. The recording quality isn't that great, but it is almost a hundred years old.

A few notes:

  • There are standard rules for punctuating repeats of music: You add a comma just before the repeated section. Verses 3-6 are printed with the repeats left out in the sheet music, but, as we're giving the original poem, this isn't quite right. So I followed the standard rules.
  • "Rule, Britannia!" is only given as a quote the first time. Guardian angels are singing it in the first verse, not in later verses. I've gone without quotes in the music version, with quotes in the poetical version. Of course, I haven't actually seen the poetical version myself, and it may well have been printed as Rule, Britannia, etc. and expanded out with the quotes by someone not paying attention. However, I went with the original contributor's version.

Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Support Complete picture, with images, audio, text, all-in-one. Cirt (talk) 05:19, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Support Very nice. Psychless 14:11, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Charles von Hügel

A memoir compiled and annotated by Hügels's son. Interest in the subject has increased since its publication, but it remains as one of few sources of biographical material on Hügel. Transcribed from an online scan, it is, AFAIK, the only fully digitised version available. I think this would add some variety to the types of texts we feature, and is a good example of how an original scan can be enhanced.—unsigned comment by Cygnis insignis (talk) .

[edit] Omnibuses and Cabs

In the month of June, we took the work Omnibuses and Cabs from nothing to completely validated, which is marvellous. I would like for us to consider the work for Featured Text. -- billinghurst (talk) 10:09, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Fight at Dame Europa's School

Sherurcij proofread and set up The Fight at Dame Europa's School. See Index:The Fight at Dame Europa's School.djvu I have proofread it also. The images are all uploaded to commons. It could probably use another proofreader or two, and some people might prefer that the first two pages appear in the main namespace. It is nearly ready for featured status. Recommendations for improvements are appreciated. --Mkoyle (talk) 03:45, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

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