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Please help start a list of text that need to be proofread. Larger text are preferred because we hope to have a large group of people working on the text of the month. Here is a great place to start looking for text to be proofread.

List of suggested works not actioned Index:The Life of Thomas Linacre.djvu Index:A Compendium of Irish Biography.djvu Index:A Danish and Dano-Norwegian grammar.djvu Index:Footsteps of Dr. Johnson.djvu Index:Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857.djvu Index:Historical Works of Venerable Bede vol. 2.djvu Index:Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821.djvu Index:Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 1 (2nd edition).djvu Index:Robert the Bruce and the struggle for Scottish independence - 1909.djvu Index:True stories of girl heroines.djvu Index:Twilight.djvu Index:What will he do with it.djvu Index:Documents from the Den of Espionage.djvu Index:The Garden of Romance - 1897.djvu Index:The Moonstone.djvu Index:The How and Why Library Index:The Methodist Hymn-Book Illustrated.djvu Index:Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1894 Burt.djvu

Links Coding 'Now' snapshot of PotM Wikisource:Proofread of the Month/validation works

Little works requiring validation

• Ainsworth's Magazine Vol 1 11pp (has some problematic pages)
• Index:December 1915 QST.djvu 20pp
• Index:CooperBull1(2).djvu 20pp
• Index:COTUS (1787 Edition).djvu 4pp
• Index:Provisional Confederate Constitution.djvu 15pp
• Gettysburg Address; recently split into ind. works; 2-3 pp each.
• Index:1800 Report of the Joint Committee.jpg 1p
• Index:A bill to provide a temporary government for the territory of Arizona.djvu 3pp
• Index:A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.pdf ~20pp
• Index:United States patent 285584.pdf 3pp
• Index:1893-09-23 Chicago Tribune p. 14 Storm Damage Along the Midway.djvu 1p
• Index:Charters of the Weehawken ferry company.djvu 12pp
• Index:AnnexB Members of the Commonwealth.pdf 4pp
• Index:RC WEEK Proclamation City of Charleston, South Carolina.jpg 1p

Larger works with little bits to close out

• Index:TheAmericanCarbonManual.djvu already proofread, 6 problematic pages

• Index:John Masefield.djvu 44pp sitting in copyright review

• Little works page
• Wikisource:Proofread of the Month/validation works

A list of potential PotM candidates

On the transcription project, there is a good list of text that are ready to be proofread. That list is available here. This list continues to grow so it would be great if we could knock it down. --Mattwj2002 11:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Calendar 2012

Month	Work	Category	Status
January	Index:A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationary.djvu Index:A Desk-Book of Errors in English.djvu	non-fiction, social interest	both Done
February	Index:Natural History, Mollusca.djvu	biology	Selected
March
April
May
June		Biographical
July		non-fiction, geographic, sparse content
August		WS:RT
September		fiction
October
November	Validation month	Working on finishing proofread works
December		Seasonal

January

I've found a couple of smaller works that could be interesting. A Desk-Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery [1] and Index:A Desk-Book of Errors in English.djvu. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 22:33, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The first is now loaded at Index:A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationary.djvu (yes, I know I spelt it wrong!) Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:23, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

The double works sound good to me. Do you think sequentially or were you thinking simultaneously? And I think that I resemble "social stationary". — billinghurst sDrewth 09:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm thinking sequentially. It seems to me that choices in PotM create inertia. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 10:42, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

February

I've noticed that we have no works on molluscs (or sea shells for that matter), so I've had a dig around on IA and have found Natural history, mollusca [2] as a possible beginning. It's part of a series from SPCK on Natural history and seems to be written with the lay person in mind. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 00:03, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Uploaded at Index:Natural History, Mollusca.djvu if selected. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

March

A couple of possibilities:

• Sawdust & spangles; stories & secrets of the circus [3], which is about one of the first circusmen in America.
• The National Gallery [4], which is a history of the National Gallery in London as at 1912
• The Clergyman's Wife, and other sketches [5], a collection of short pen portraits. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
• Show Folks [6] (small work, nice colour images)

Books parked for consideration

Noting the list at the top of the page too

• Index:Female Prose Writers of America.djvu — billinghurst sDrewth April ^^^
• Ireland and England in the past and at present (1919) written c. independence UToronto copy — billinghurst sDrewth
• The fairy tales of science: a book for youth, an eclectic book where trying to educate about science through allegory of fairy tales, has some cartoon style drawings of monsters. Author died 1872. Very quaint. 470pp though smaller, OCR is good. — billinghurst sDrewth

Propose we choose for May 2011

At Index:The fairy tales of science.djvu if we go with it Billinghurst (talk) 13:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Support for May Beeswaxcandle (talk) 22:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

I've had a look, and like you said, this is a charming mixture of children's fiction and science. I'd love to do this one come May. MichelleG (talk) 00:09, 24 April 2011 (UTC). May^^^

• Index:Paul Clifford Vol 1.djvu along with the other two volumes. First edition of the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel that starts with the famous line "It was a dark and stormy night". Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:09, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

  I see that it is on the web though the 1830 edition we have is earlier than that version, is it still over interest?

I'll get to it later in the year if we don't do it as POTM. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 22:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

• How about Index:How They Succeeded.djvu? Looks pretty easy to proof, and is an interesting history of entrepreneurship in the US in the late 19th century. —Spangineer (háblame) 15:08, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

  I would be happy with this being in the rotation. It's medium length, but the typography is easy, so it should be doable to get it validated in a month.—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 20:44, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

• Done English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century : how they illustrated and interpreted their times because I like caricuturists and their development of social commentary along side the corresponding emergence of a community moving from agricultural age to industrial age. Larger book, though has numerous sketches/caricutures. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:26, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

All of them would be all right for me, perhaps the fairy tales of science a bit more than the other ones  :) --Zyephyrus (talk) 16:08, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

I was having a look at our copy of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" a renowned and significant piece of English literature, and I notice that 1) ours is incomplete, and 2) it comes without the images which are integral the poignancy and significance of the work. While it is in two volumes, I would like to gauge thoughts on getting a good quality version of images up for PoTM. There is also a LibriVox edition that can be paired with this, though I haven't found their reference to which version they use. To note that there is a Gutenberg edition which means that it is not new subject matter. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

• Burns's The merry muses of Caledonia : (original edition) a collection of favourite Scots songs ancient and modern : selected for use of the Crochallan Fencibles (1911) [7] We have some of the works, however they are often unsourced and not backed by images. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:15, 21 November 2011 (UTC)