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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
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

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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.
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[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|January 2010}} 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] 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' are what I would have done. Linking and mirroring wikipedia, etc., should be done with caution (if at all), the explanation can only be provided in an article with refs. The reasons for this are legion; for example, if reader clicked the link at the bottom of w:Waltzing Matilda to locate one of the sources, they would find a mirror of a section of the article and a sea of other links. This is redundant and disorientating. The attempted explanation of Tucker bag, billabong, and jumbuck is given at wikipedia's article on topic; the links here give little or no relevant info, are not supported by references, and are a subjective inclusion. I think that this is a valuable inclusion, we should objectively transcribe what it is given in the scan and avoid editorialising where possible 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)
Validated, though, I am, not categorically sure about the Matildta and sic. billinghurst (talk) 04:01, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
  • mild oppose. Like Cygnis I think this should be a faithful transcription, which means including the hyphens. Arguably it also means including the musical score, a thing beyond our ability at present. I also don't like the Wikipedia links. Wiktionary links would be much more palatable, since surely the purpose of the links is to define the terms; but I think it would be better still to move them into the notes section of the header. Hesperian 06:22, 6 October 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)
My means around such matters in another text was to link the images in twice. One shows in situ in the Page: namespace, and the other transcludes at the end of the paragraph at the main NS. It worked fine, see Omnibuses and Cabs billinghurst (talk) 05:36, 30 August 2009 (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)
  • Agree with Psychless on how the page can make FT. Available DjVu should be our standard, unless reasons are presented to override this standard. billinghurst (talk) 05:30, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
    • That makes three of us, I having already converted it once; but as I said above, my support stands regardless. Hesperian 06:24, 6 October 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] 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)

  • Support; looks great. --Spangineerwp (háblame) 03:07, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Support, good organizational structure. Cirt (talk) 23:54, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Garden of Proserpine

A faithful reproduction of the original, to which a link is provided. — The Man in Question (sprec) 22:51, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

  • Support, document has been proofread by John Vandenberg (talk • contribs), good notation, interesting work, and nice free use image. :) Cirt (talk) 23:53, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The English Constitution

This text is a fine output of the Proofreading of the Month project. It is well done and looks great. Plus it is an important text. That is why I recommend this text. --Mattwj2002 (talk) 05:34, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

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