Talk:Olney Hymns
A small portion of text I entered to Olney Hymns was recently reverted by BirgitteSB. I think she mistook me for a vandal, as near the same time, someone had vandalized a religious poem contributed by Zhaladshar. I assume she checked Recent changes to help determine the extent of the vandalism and saw my contribution (while logged in as a different anonymous user) as suspicious. But the authenticity of the text can be verified by this link to "Olney Hymns" at www.ccel.org where it exists in a different format. I don't wish to have that IP address blocked, so can someone please tell me how I can clear its status? I replaced the text and added a bit more using the IP address to which Birgitte reverted back, and which I am using now. Thank you for your help. 64.154.26.251 06:31, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry if mistook you for a vandal. I did do some research before reverting. I was referencing the hymns from http://www.ccel.org/ccel/newton/olneyhymns.pdf which don't seem match up with what you are adding. As far comparing hymn 36 on both sites and I also did a text search for a line on that site and didn't find a match. This seems to be the same website you are refencing above, can you show me a link to hymn 36 as it matches what is on Wikisource?--BirgitteSB 12:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- The 1893 Olney Hymns edition I am transcribing contains only the Cowper poems. The edition on the CCEL site contains both the Cowper poems and the Newton poems. So the 1893 Cowper hymn #36 is the same as the CCEL edition book 3, hymn #16 (which is where I linked above).
- Looking to the future, the "Olney Hymns" title probably ought to be changed to "Olney Hymns (Cowper)". Especially since someone else has contributed a lot of the Newton hymns to Wikisource. I didn't realize the Olney Hymns even had hymns by Newton till I saw the CCEL version, and since a combined version exists, I think the most valuable contribution I could make would be to continue with the separated version (although the CCEL combined version in TML is a little hard to read!) 216.119.139.2 02:02, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- Thank you for the clarification. Again I am sorry for reverting your work. I didn't look much beyond the title of Hymn #16 on your link to realize that was the one we were discussing. If you were thinking of registering for an account, I would add that I would have left a message on your talk page before reverting if I could have. Also by using the history tab at the top of the page you could have undone my reversion leaving a message on the talk page attesting that your edits are sincere and saved the work of re-transcribing the text. If you have any questions about using Wikisource or any help I could give you to make amends in the future, please let me know at User talk:BirgitteSB--BirgitteSB 03:38, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
The actually history of this is at Olney Hymns and was misplaced in a cut-and-pate move to this location. Since all substantive edits including the the move were made by the sam IP I see no need to do a history merge.--BirgitteSB 03:19, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- The above discussion was copied to Talk:Olney Hymns/Cowper (Olney Hymns/Cowper was moved to The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/Olney Hymns at 11:14, 15 January 2016, and then redirected to Olney Hymns). I think that the discussion was about the edits at Olney Hymns in December 2005, and the relevant edit history of Olney Hymns is more helpful than the cut-and-past text to us to understand the context of the above discussion. So I moved it from Talk:Olney Hymns/Cowper to Talk:Olney Hymns. Hope that's fine for BirgitteSB.--Neo-Jay (talk) 13:17, 15 January 2016 (UTC)