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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 edit
Date Text
2006
January
February
March
April
May
June
July Gettysburg Address
August Dulce et Decorum est
September The Time Machine
October
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 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 (1913)
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
April J'accuse
May German Instrument of Surrender
June A specimen of the botany of New Holland
July Fatal fall of Wright airship
August Charles von Hügel
September Flight 93 Cockpit Transcript
October A Description of a City Shower
November The Fight at Dame Europa's School
December Descriptive account ... of King George's Sound
2010
January The English Constitution
February Omnibuses and Cabs
March Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
April Diary of ten years
May Anthony Roll
June Celtic Fairy Tales
July The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
August A Study in Scarlet
September Makers of British botany
October The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.
November
December Houston: Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea
2011
January No Treason
February
March Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures
April The Velveteen Rabbit
May Poems by Wilfred Owen
June
July Stops of Various Quills
August A Witch Shall Be Born
September Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine
October
November
December
2012
January
February Picturesque New Guinea
March Flatland
April Shaving Made Easy
May
June
July Popular Science Monthly
August Homes of the London Poor
September Mexico, as it was and as it is
October Special: Halloween
November Bull-dog Drummond
December Black Beauty
2013
January Proclamation 95
February Rambles in New Zealand
March The Art of Nijinsky
April A Jewish State
May Amazing Stories, no. 1
June Laura Secord: A Study in Canadian Patriotism
July Magic
August Tracks of McKinlay and party across Australia
September The Yellow Wall Paper
October The Canterville Ghost/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
November The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
December Vanity Fair
2014
January The Corsair
February The Clipper Ship Era
March Association Football and How to Play It
April Daisy Miller
May Romanes Lecture
June Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
July Doctor Syn
August Tyrannosaurus and Other Cretaceous Carnivorous Dinosaurs
September
October Wikipedia is pushing the boundaries of scholarly practice but the gender gap must be addressed
November
December A Christmas Carol
2015
January The Russian School of Painting
February Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
March The Problems of Philosophy
April On the Determination of the Wave-length of Electric Radiation by Diffraction Grating
May Kopal-Kundala
June Studies of a Biographer
July
August Queen Mab
September
October Calcutta: Past and Present
November
December Tom Brown's School Days (6th ed)
2016
January
February The Kiss and its History
March
April The Descent of Man (Darwin)
May
June The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps)
July The Discovery of Radium
August
September The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier
October
November
December
2017
January Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wiggin)
February The Clandestine Marriage
March The "Bab" Ballads
April Pro Patria (Coates)
May The Panchatantra (Purnabhadra's Recension of 1199 CE)
June Australian Legendary Tales
July Resistance to Civil Government
August Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains
September The Subjection of Women
October A Princess of Mars
November Prometheus Bound
December Author:Beatrix Potter
2018
January Pollyanna
February My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
March Catholic Hymns (1860)
April Trees and Other Poems
May Una and the Lion
June
July Megalithic Monuments in Spain and Portugal
August Oriental Scenery
September A Simplified Grammar of the Swedish Language
October Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
November If—
December Messiah (1749)
2019
January The First Men in the Moon
February The Bird of Time
March The Myths of Mexico and Peru
April
May
June Orphée aux Enfers
July
August
September
October
November The Vampyre
December The Life of the Spider
2020
January
February The Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2021
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2022
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2023
January
February
March
April R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
May Henry IV Part 1 (1917) Yale
June
July
August
September
October
November A History of Japanese Literature
December Little Elephant's Christmas
2024
January The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (1901)
February Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847)
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Notes

Information[edit]

Nominating a text[edit]

  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. Please ensure that "download option" from the sidebar produces a full work
  3. Note the nomination on the talk page by adding the template {{featured text candidate}}.
  4. Begin a discussion at the bottom of this page. Note your reason for nominating the text.
See also

Discussion[edit]

  • 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.

Closing a nomination (administrators only)[edit]

  • Failed nominations
    1. Add a comment explaining why the nomination failed.
    2. Archive it.
    3. Place {{featured text not passed|year|title}} at the top of the work's main talk page (adding the year and heading of the archived discussion).
  • Passed nominations
    1. Add a comment noting the selection.
    2. Archive it.
    3. Add the work to {{Featured text}} (inside the respective month) and {{featured schedule}}.
    4. Place {{featured}} on top of the work's main page {{header}} template.
    5. Place {{featured talk|April 2024}} at the top of the work's main talk page (changing the numbers to the appropriate date if not next month).
    6. Protect all the work's main namespace pages.
    7. Indicate the work's featured status on its associated data item at Wikidata.

Nominations[edit]

For older nominations, see the archives.

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Not selected, illustrations need to be fixed. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 19:17, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A well-known book by New Zealander Georgina Burne Hetley, with color illustrations by the author. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:11, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not eligible (unfortunately) because I had to access a print copy in the rare books room at the library and write out the lacunae on a few pages and then type them into the Pages. WMIII was happy to validate based on that, but they are non-verifiable without access to a print copy. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 03:08, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's a shame, as this is a seminal work and beautifully illustrated. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:12, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, just confirmed print pages 2 & 4 from the Preface remain problematic. Should we be able to find another scan and swap those two in, then this would be good to go. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 03:18, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
IA has: (external scan) which looks like a clean scan. --EncycloPetey (talk) 05:06, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
DoneHrishikes (talk) 04:21, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - Beautiful book, but it's unfortunate that the images are blown out. Compare Page:Native Flowers of New Zealand.djvu/81 with the original. The background drawings aren't even visible. Kaldari (talk) 01:05, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No problems with someone updating the images. Just upload new versions over the old ones rather than under new file names. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:58, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment I'd be happy to work on the images, but I don't want to interfere with anybody else's efforts. Is anybody else already working on this? -Pete (talk) 19:45, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose - Since the illustrations are the main feature of this book, they need to be fixed up before the work is featured. Nosferattus (talk) 16:27, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
 Oppose Seconded; good candidate for re-nomination when the images are tackled. Azertus (talk) 09:24, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Not selected, not a remarkable or significant work. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 19:26, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this work as it is an interesting view following San Francisco's earthquake in 1906. Thanks, Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 13:57, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment "Interesting view" is not worthy of featuring an item. There is no special significance in the work that I can see; it is not among the best offerings at Wikisource. The speech seems to be a bit of a ramble, and the publication provides no context. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:22, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment (Caveats: I am new to the FT process, and primarily interested in learning about it. Along with @Thatoneweirdwikier: I'm one of the primary editors who worked on this text.)
@EncycloPetey: I'm curious about your comment. It seems to me that the significance of whether something is an "interesting view" is not covered by any of the FT criteria. Am I correct in understanding that this is where subjective judgment comes in? Seems sensible enough if so, but if I'd be interested to learn what are the proper criteria for determining what texts are worth featuring, in your view. I'll comment that as a student of U.S. west coast history in this period, and as a former resident of San Francisco, I found Bancroft's view in this piece quite striking, and I am glad to have encountered it. I found a brief contemporaneous review which summarizes the thesis. -Pete (talk) 21:41, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It is the result of previous discussions. A featured text is considered "the best of what Wikisource has to offer". For example, we had Jane Eyre nominated for FT, but it was not featured because the nominated edition was a later, unremarkable edition, neither the first edition nor the authoritative one, nor a richly illustrated one. Jane Eyre as a novel was considered worth featuring, but not that edition, on the basis of unremarkability. The proposed pair of speeches are not remarkable in any way, and do not showcase what Wikisource has to offer. I lived in the Bay Area for a long time, and I know who Bancroft is, but beyond that very local interest, there is no anniversary to mark, nor lasting historical impact of the work, nor anything to recommend them for featuring. It certainly ought to be listed in a Portal somewhere, but I don't see it as a featurable text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:14, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you -- very helpful. -Pete (talk) 22:44, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I would still argue it meets the criteria. When I wrote 'interesting view', I assumed that the fact it met the criteria was a given. Hopefully that clears it up. Thanks, Thatoneweirdwikier Say hi 06:04, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Thatoneweirdwikier: If I'm understanding correctly, nobody has argued that it does not meet the criteria; but the criteria here on Wikisource, I think, are a minimum qualification, not a reason to promote. Unlike English Wikipedia and probably some other sites, "featured" status is not something obtained in the abstract, but something that indicates an item has been selected to be featured on the front page for a month. So, note that EncycloPetey merely commented, but did not vote

against; I think they are (tacitly) acknowledging that the criteria have been met, but skeptical about whether this item is worthy of featuring on the front page (in relation to other works, which may have more topical interest etc.) Of course, please correct me if I'm wrong. I do think this could use some more spelling out in the text introducing "Featured texts", which would help newcomers like us form more realistic expectations; I'm happy to work on that, but I'd like to be sure I understand it well before I start making suggestions.

-Pete (talk) 17:34, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. Meeting the criteria (item 1) is considered prerequisite to nomination, not a reason for being featured (item 4) in and of itself. The process description should be clarified and updated to current norms. I will try a draft when I have the time to spend doing so. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:27, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Oppose - Per EncycloPetey. Not a remarkable or significant work. Someone still needs to revise the featured text criteria to clarify what we consider worthy of featuring. Nosferattus (talk) 16:38, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Pushkin is considered "the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature". I nominate his book of Poems translated by Ivan Panin. This would be only the second work we've featured by a Russian author (the previous one was the nonfiction The Russian School of Painting, featured in in 2015). --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:31, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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not selected, lack of support --Jan Kameníček (talk) 19:35, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Style fulfills all applicable style guidelines (and the format is quite loyal to the original one), well-proofread, scanned from the official gazette, and also inflicted significant importance/controversy worldwide.廣九直通車 (talk) 04:41, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment What is the reason for nomination? You say "inflicted significant importance/controversy worldwide", but I have not heard of this act. Could you elaborate? --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:47, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • @EncycloPetey:See this. Due to alleged unfairness to Muslim refugees, the enactment of this act inflicts mass protests around India, some turned violent. Should have some plenty Google search results.廣九直通車 (talk) 07:17, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      Part of the nomination process is to provide a summary reason for the nomination. This helps both with voting and for the person who has to write the blurb for the main page. Telling commenters to look elsewhere or search the web is not a reason for nomination. The nominator should give their reasons why they think the nomination should be featured. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:24, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Updated explanation:"Section 2 of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, allows 'any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014' become refugees, while implicitly excluding Muslim refugees. Such treatment leads to criticism of religious discrimination and international concern, and later fueled a prolonged series of protests among India, some turned violent." I'm new to FTC, and so I need to describe why the information of the text should be featured?廣九直通車 (talk) 02:56, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes. You are nominating this work to be Featured. This means you should present your reasons for nominating it, and not ask people to figure out those reasons for for themselves. Why do you think this work deserves to be Featured for a month on the Main page? --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:01, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    See the bolded reasons above. Nominated for significant local social and international importance.廣九直通車 (talk) 04:08, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    It might or might not be enough to warrant Featuring. What I see is that there were some protests in India over this, and people of Indian descent protested elsewhere as well. Responses to nomination may take weeks or even months. We won't know until people begin voicing their opinions about the nomination. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:17, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I'd lean towards support, as it's certainly a document with uncommonly strong links to real and current events (we have lots of works that relate to historical events, but not a lot from the modern world, disregarding the drama from the US). However, I think since it's a fairly small work, the associated documents of this one (including the associated NRC documents) should be added before this capstone is featured. From a skim of the enWP articles, perhaps Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003 and the other amendments back to Citizenship Act, 1955, Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, The Foreigners Act, 1946, etc? Hopefully there might also be some court ruling or something non-legislative to mix it up a little bit. And then perhaps have a section of Portal:Law of India or a sub-portal or something to tie it together thematically? Without some kind of librarianship, I don't find simple replication of short documents that are already publicly available electronically (http://egazette.nic.in and https://indiacode.nic.in) particularly thrilling.
Also, I'm a little wary of featuring a text that uses sidenotes that don't work on mobile browsers and don't work if the user is using Layout 1 (though it's defaulted to Layout 2, users can turn of defaulting). But I know sidenotes are an everlasting pain in the backside, so maybe it's just tough. Inductiveloadtalk/contribs 15:33, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As the mini-constitution of Hong Kong, it is often argued that the Basic Law is currently facing increasing violation of its contents by the Chinese Central Government. Given that 2020 is the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the law, all criteria have been made, and Hong Kong is currently embroiled in the political crisis about the Hong Kong Liaison Office, it is nominated that the text to be a featured text.

  • Note: In April 2020, the Hong Kong Liaison Office (中聯辦), a office of the Central Government, has claimed that it has the authority to oversee Hong Kong internal affairs and is not bounded by Article 22 of the Basic Law, which prohibits Mainland Chinese authorities"(interfering) in the affairs which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region administers on its own in accordance with this Law."廣九直通車 (talk) 07:23, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment why is the "Get involved Get to know the Basic Law" logo not included on the back cover Serprinss (talk) 05:25, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Selected for February 2024. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's much-beloved and hugely influential epic poem about the expulsion of the Acadians; this is a transcription of the first edition. As far as I can tell, there aren't any particular upcoming anniversaries to schedule this for, and we haven't featured and long-form poetry since November 2017. BethNaught (talk) 19:46, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Support Well done, I checked 10 random pages and did not find any typos or other errors to be corrected. As there are curly quotes used in the transcription, I just suggest to replace also straight apostrophes by curly ones to make it more consistent. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 18:13, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Support for November 2023. Azertus (talk) 16:45, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've started a page to work on the blurb for the Main Page. Azertus (talk) 18:21, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Will be selected for February 2024. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:44, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating Tagore’s work Nationalism. It is transcribed from original scans and has been fully proofread. This work is relevant especially today with a rise of Nationalism in India and many countries around the world. If featured next month, it would coincide with India’s independence day on 15 August. I am happy to make improvements to the work wherever necessary. —Prtksxna (talk) 09:09, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Support I checked around 10 random pages and everything looks perfect to me. Only 1 page was not validated and I have done that. I completely agree with Prtksxna (talkcontribs)'s rationale behind selecting this book as next month's featured text. On another note: The text in itself is complete, however the index contains some advertisements and we might want to do something about them which could be as simple as mentioning on the talk page that they haven't been transcluded or can actually be included in the text since they are about other works of Tagore. Check this for more info: Wikisource:What_Wikisource_includes#Advertising --Satdeep Gill (talk) 12:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Done I decided not to include the advertisements. I've made the changes as per the documentation you linked to. —Prtksxna (talk) 09:47, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment In order to feature a work, it needs to have a blurb to accompany it on the Main Page. What is the history or circumstances specific to the creation of this work as opposed to the many others on the subject? What influence or legacy come from this work? I am not familiar enough with Tagore or his works to draft a blurb with any competence. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:50, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I could take stab at writing this. How long does this blurb need to be? 50-100 words? —Prtksxna (talk) 03:59, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Prtksxna: Could you suggest the blurb at Template:Featured text/March/sandbox, please? As for the approximate length, you can have a look e. g. at Template:Featured text/January. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 15:11, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Also, this work has many minor transcriptions issues that will need to be corrected. There should not be spaces around em-dashes. That is instead of spacing — like this; there should be no spacing—like this. This will require a careful check against Wikisource:Style Guide for any other similar issues before it can be featured. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
What other issues have you noticed? FWIW I've looked at a few pages. The quality of the proofreading seems pretty good, except for the spaced emdashes you mentioned, and the inconsistent use of both straight and curly quotes. BethNaught (talk) 22:43, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for pointing these out. I've tried to correct the dashes and quotes at most places. —Prtksxna (talk) 04:25, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Salomé (1904)[edit]

Recently ran across this transcription of the Oscar Wilde play (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley). It seems to be well polished and I couldn't find any errors after spot-checking several pages. I'm assuming there's no way to improve the layout fidelity of Page:Salomé-_a_tragedy_in_one_act.djvu/7. If so, I can't find any areas to improve and it seems to be featured text quality. Nosferattus (talk) 03:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did some tidying of image placement and the associated Wikidata item, which was a mashup of two different language editions. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The notes in the work's header explain why Knut Hamsun's novel is a candidate for featuring. It is also a very stark and immediate text, even today. Its author is also a Nobel laureate in literature. I do not believe we have ever featured a text from a Scandinavian author. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment. It would be nice if the last three remaining advertisement pages were at least proofread too and if those of the authors and books that are mentioned in the adverts and that are present in Wikisource were linked. Otherwise it looks good, besides the adverts I went through about 10 pages and found only two smaller problems, which I corrected. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:42, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Williston's book was the first to survey all groups of reptiles, both living and extinct, complete with original illustrations and labelled diagrams that allowed herpetologists worldwide to examine and compare the anatomy of all the reptile groups. It was the most important book in the field for the next 30 years, only superseded when Alfred Romer published his Osteology of the Reptiles in 1956. The illustrations from this book are currently used on multiple Wikipedia articles, because they were made with care and accuracy from the original material. Williston had co-discovered the first fossils of the dinosaurs Allosaurus and Diplodocus, and that was before he became a grad student, then faculty member at Yale. --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:02, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]