Wikisource:Featured text candidates

←Featured texts

Featured texts (candidates)

archives (current)→

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
June	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
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	—
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
Notes

Information

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

• Proofreading

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.

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 respective month) and {{featured schedule}}.
  2. Place {{featured}} on top of the work's main page {{header}} notes template.
  3. Place {{featured talk|March 2012}} 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.

Nominations

For older nominations, see the archives.

The Art of Nijinsky

Came across this work today, and the art work is excellent. I have been through and done a tidy up, and it looks like a suitable candidate for Featured text. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:36, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Problematic:

• It is annotated, so that should separated or disposed of.
• The images should honour the user preference, for those with limited access.
• The illustrator needs an author page and an article at the other place if notable; so does the author, if only to provide the bio and biblio data with citations. The articles would also go some way toward establishing the importance of the text, or at least its creators (if properly referenced). CYGNIS INSIGNIS 12:31, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

ok, I don't know how to do any of that stuff (in fact I don't understand what is meant), so I guess this will not become a featured text candidate. I am realizing that there is less and less I can do on this site. Thanks anyway. Respectfully, Mattisse (talk) 15:01, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

• Provisionally Support - need more time to review the work in detail but it looks sharp. With respect to Cyg's points
  1. Annotations: I disagree, the footnotes appear to be from the original; the wikilinks, well, this is a wiki
  2. the images: that's a minor issue and easily fixed but I'm not the one to explain it, images are a pain for me and I don't see this issue as particularly important
  3. author pages, yes, click the red link for the illustrator and fill in all the details you can then make sure both the author and illustrator's author space pages link to en.wp if possible but I don't think we should determine our featured texts by whether wikipedia has an article. If you have information sufficient to create one, great, otherwise, just create the illustrator page.

  --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 19:24, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

• Comment - I know it's been validated, but I've gone through the first few pages and found text that was missing. Think the rest needs to be verified before anything else. - Theornamentalist (talk) 18:15, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Can you give an example of "missing text". CYGNIS INSIGNIS 18:58, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

For you: illustration name, "CHAP. and its column, "Missing page" to "To face page", and some other formatting on prior pages like {{smallcaps}} and breaks. - Theornamentalist (talk) 19:11, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

The third bit of missing text, "missing page" turns out to be a user annotation, and is, unfortunately, quite correct. The plate facing page 16 is missing and I can't find an alternative source :( CYGNIS INSIGNIS 21:18, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Found it here. - Theornamentalist (talk) 21:47, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

I have extracted the image, I will insert it into the appropriate point and re-align the pages. The page realignment will take a few minutes, {{inuse}} is on the index page. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 23:31, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Done , just needs a validation on the new image's page. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 00:10, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

•  Comment With regard to the author, I had done a couple of hours research on her last night, the issue is that there is nothing definitive, so it will be a scant page at this time, and I was leaving it until I could get a little more data. There is indicative stuff, but nothing absolute, though I think that she is the daughter commented upon at w:Richard Mullock#Personal history. There are a couple of Dorothy Mullocks at that time, and just a little separation to do. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:11, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support - personally, I find the wikilinks somewhat excessive and would like to see them trimmed down. However, there is no guideline, so this does not prevent me from supporting. Willing to discuss annotations outside of this candidacy, and how we can reach some kind of consensus at Wikisource:Annotations/types. - Theornamentalist (talk) 04:23, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I added my two cents on the types page. Londonjackbooks (talk) 05:34, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

• Comment The wikilinks needed to be re-examined with a focus on the frequency of linking to a particular target rather than the link seen on the WS side. I don't find them inherently excessive, but I noticed some proper nouns linked more than once and for example w:Swan Lake was the target of three links in the same chapter.--BirgitteSB 01:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

The Fables of Florian

Another POTM alumnus; fully validated with DjVu source etc. We have had a few works of children's literature but nothing quite the same as far as I can tell and another can't hurt. It includes the origin of the quotation "'Tis he laughs best who laughs the last." (in The Two Peasants). Main page text could be based on the author's brief Wikipedia biography. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 01:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

• Comment. I'm not sure about the name of the page: I think it should be Fables (Florian) like Tales (Poe). If we want to specify the name of the translator, for example if there is another translation of the same work, we can use Fables (Florian-Phelps).--Erasmo Barresi (talk) 15:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Flatland (first edition)

Fully validated text with source and appears to be in good order. Flatland is famous work, both a social satire and an early form of science fiction. There is a Wikipedia article for descriptive text purposes. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 01:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

• Support—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 21:29, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Shaving Made Easy

Validated DjVu again, and all technical requirements appear to have been met. This one is not a famous work and I have no idea what the descriptive text on the main page might be but I like the unusual nature of the subject matter. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 01:24, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Support - Sufficiently organized and meets all our requirements. My only suggestion is to change the images to "frameless" width instead of hardcoded. - Theornamentalist (talk) 01:02, 8 January 2012 (UTC)