User talk:ArchPope Sextus VI

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Paradise Lost 1667[edit]

I'm glad to see someone taking this on (finally!). I can provide help and advice on formatting, but not until this coming weekend. I will be very busy this week, but have next week off entirely. So, please ask for help and suggestions. . . but don't expect much from me in the way of replies before Friday. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:52, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the offer! Anyways, whenever you get around to reading this, I was wondering what the purpose of transcribing this addition is. It appears that it is already complete, based on reading version. Is this just a temporary hold in for the second edition or something? Sorry if this question is really obvious, admittedly, I'm new here :). Anyways, I'll keep on working on it when I can. ArchPope Sextus VI (talk) 17:16, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The goal on Wikisource is to have all our works backed up by scans of the original texts, so that if there is doubt about the transcription, a user can compare against the original. In the case of Paradise Lost, it is quite likely that the current version we have was processed by Project Gutenberg, so we've lost information about spelling, punctuation, and typography that will be restored by transcribing directly from the scans. I'm doing something similar now with English translations of Aristophanes, and in some cases, I've found that the older copy (without source scans) was incomplete.
With Paradise Lost, we'll also want (eventually) to have the original and revised editions that Milton did. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:01, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]