User talk:NotFromUtrecht

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 10:57, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Did you stop to think...

... that whole point of Wikisource is to faithfully reproduce works as they were intially published?

You recently changed the title of a Wordsworth poem that no longer matches the source it was taken from as given on in its infobox on it's talkpage. If you had a "scholarlly edition" of the poem you should have added it separately, cited that source on that talk page and disambiguate both titles on a separate disambiguation page. All you've done is defiled the credibility and integrity of the work here on Wikisource. Why and what do you suppose we should do about this now? -- George Orwell III (talk) 10:51, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

The text of the source has already deviated fairly substantially from the source text linked on the talk page -- look at the formatting of the first lines in each paragraph or the use of em dashes for instance. As I said in my edit summary, my page move and edits reflect the titles given in the Lyrical Ballads (both the 1798 and 1800 editions) which is where they were originally published, and in modern scholarly editions -- such as WJB Owen's edition of the 1798 Lyrical Ballads or in Stephen Gill's edition of Wordsworth's poems. Since the text as it appears now closely matches the 1798 edition (see Gutenberg version), surely we could just change the source to that? After all, the formatting which has subsequently been applied to the poetry-online.org source text has apparently taken this edition as its model. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 12:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Please do those changes to reflect the corresponding source for current content. I will delete the redirects created by the move (title change). Thanks for following up. -- George Orwell III (talk) 13:08, 19 May 2012 (UTC)