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Selected for August 2025. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:07, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
I am nominating Tagore’s work Nationalism. It is transcribed from original scans and has been fully proofread. This work is relevant especially today with a rise of Nationalism in India and many countries around the world. If featured next month, it would coincide with India’s independence day on 15 August. I am happy to make improvements to the work wherever necessary. —Prtksxna (talk) 09:09, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Support I checked around 10 random pages and everything looks perfect to me. Only 1 page was not validated and I have done that. I completely agree with Prtksxna (talk • contribs)'s rationale behind selecting this book as next month's featured text. On another note: The text in itself is complete, however the index contains some advertisements and we might want to do something about them which could be as simple as mentioning on the talk page that they haven't been transcluded or can actually be included in the text since they are about other works of Tagore. Check this for more info: Wikisource:What_Wikisource_includes#Advertising --Satdeep Gill (talk) 12:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Done I decided not to include the advertisements. I've made the changes as per the documentation you linked to. —Prtksxna (talk) 09:47, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Comment In order to feature a work, it needs to have a blurb to accompany it on the Main Page. What is the history or circumstances specific to the creation of this work as opposed to the many others on the subject? What influence or legacy come from this work? I am not familiar enough with Tagore or his works to draft a blurb with any competence. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:50, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- I could take stab at writing this. How long does this blurb need to be? 50-100 words? —Prtksxna (talk) 03:59, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Prtksxna: Could you suggest the blurb at Template:Featured text/March/sandbox, please? As for the approximate length, you can have a look e. g. at Template:Featured text/January. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 15:11, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- The book can be thought of as a collection of lecture-transcripts, the lectures being delivered in Japan and the United States, after Rabindranath Tagore achieved fame as the first non-European Nobel Prize winner in 1913. Set in the backdrop of WW-I, it's the voice of reason and sanity urging against war- and fear-mongering among nations. While the admiration of Tagore for the culture of Japan is evident, he also cautions Japan against following the footsteps of the industrialized (and heavily-militarized) world; his words (w.r.t. Japan) will prove prophetic in another couple of decades. He draws a comparison between the nations of the West and India in his third lecture; while admitting to many areas of failure of the Indian way of thinking, he doesn't share the unbridled enthusiasm for all things 'Western' as evidenced by its impact on his native land by the British colonization process. Sutradhar links (talk) 10:59, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- I could take stab at writing this. How long does this blurb need to be? 50-100 words? —Prtksxna (talk) 03:59, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Also, this work has many minor transcriptions issues that will need to be corrected. There should not be spaces around em-dashes. That is instead of spacing — like this; there should be no spacing—like this. This will require a careful check against Wikisource:Style Guide for any other similar issues before it can be featured. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- What other issues have you noticed? FWIW I've looked at a few pages. The quality of the proofreading seems pretty good, except for the spaced emdashes you mentioned, and the inconsistent use of both straight and curly quotes. BethNaught (talk) 22:43, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing these out. I've tried to correct the dashes and quotes at most places. —Prtksxna (talk) 04:25, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Support I am quite familiar with the author and, in particular, this book. This will be a valuable addition to the list of featured texts. I have checked a few pages and things look good. Of course, it has to meet the style guides specified; if anyone is competent in that area, they can fix any stylistic errors. Sutradhar links (talk) 10:47, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Comment - "Nationalism" is a generic enough title that it's almost guaranteed that another work of the same name exists somewhere. However, I can't find any on Wikipedia or Hathi immediately. Given this, disambiguation will probably eventually be necessary, so what should we do about that now? SnowyCinema (talk) 23:47, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
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Selected for July 2025. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:51, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
The notes in the work's header explain why Knut Hamsun's novel is a candidate for featuring. It is also a very stark and immediate text, even today. Its author is also a Nobel laureate in literature. I do not believe we have ever featured a text from a Scandinavian author. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Comment. It would be nice if the last three remaining advertisement pages were at least proofread too and if those of the authors and books that are mentioned in the adverts and that are present in Wikisource were linked. Otherwise it looks good, besides the adverts I went through about 10 pages and found only two smaller problems, which I corrected. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:42, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
- Did the adverts, though the four last pages still need validation. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 17:06, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support: Looks good to me, I found no mistakes. — Alien 3
3 3 08:08, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
A classic work, and a play. Featuring a play might encourage people to add more plays.— FPTI (talk) 09:08, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support SnowyCinema (talk) 23:42, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
- Mostly Support. I'm not a fan of {{advertisements}} and how it makes it look like the text actually contained that "advertisement" word like that (sc, not the usual added-green), but it's not a hill I'd die on. — Alien 3
3 3 21:31, 17 November 2025 (UTC) - Support I've been through many pages, and found only a few minor errors, all of which I corrected. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:57, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
How about setting this for December? The play was first produced on 27 Dec 1904, and we haven't changed Dec work in 2 years. — Alien 3
3 3 09:16, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Alien333: Though I admittedly take some pride in Little Elephant's Christmas being in featured, sure. Let's get some diversity going. SnowyCinema (talk) 09:30, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- I suppose it'll be for next year. Ideas for a blurb? — Alien 3
3 3 09:15, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
- I suppose it'll be for next year. Ideas for a blurb? — Alien 3
I looked this up today and was happy to see it was fully validated. It's classic work of detective fiction, considered one of the (if not the) best book by Agatha Christie, the best-selling fiction writer of all time. It is, as I say, fully validated and well-proofread. Cremastra (talk) 15:15, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Did you check any pages for errors, or simply note that it was validated? We have found validated works in the past with high error rates, transclusion errors, mixed straight and curly quotes, and the like. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Quote marks are consistently straight; I'll do a deeper check tomorrow. Cremastra (talk) 20:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Looks good to me. Cremastra (talk) 14:37, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Quote marks are consistently straight; I'll do a deeper check tomorrow. Cremastra (talk) 20:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Oppose Some pages are done entirely with straight quotes (e.g., p. 64), but others entirely with curly quotes (e.g., p. 52). It needs to be all one or the other. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:39, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
I've straightened out the 60 pages that were using curly quotes, and corrected a few errors on the way. — Alien 3
3 3 10:10, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
With regards to esteemed members. I would like to propose this work for FT. This work contains the original papers constituting Bose's contribution towards the invention of the radio (1, 2 and 3 may be seen for details). One of the components of this research had led to this patent: US Patent 755,840 A (Bose's Wireless Detector). The work also contains the author's papers on biophysics, including the crescograph. Hrishikes (talk) 05:04, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- But what makes this collection of assorted papers worth featuring on the Main page? A featured text is considered "the best of what Wikisource has to offer", so what makes this the best we have? --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:18, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support - interesting and complex work with lots of images. SnowyCinema (talk) 23:41, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
This is an account written by John C. Cremony, an American soldier who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language. Although he spoke Apache and personally knew the Apache Chiefs Mangas Coloradas and Cochise, the title of his book is today considered an exaggeration, and modern historians "have come to deem many of Cremony's accounts of his Indian campaigns extravagant or embellished." (per Wikipedia) The Arizona Evening Star compared his veracity to that of Baron Munchhausen. Nevertheless, his book had a lasting influence on how the US viewed the Apaches. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:13, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support SnowyCinema (talk) 23:49, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support interesting (though the blurb should mention inacurracies, probably), found no problems on spot check. — Alien 3
3 3 21:29, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
Recently validated by Beeswaxcandle. A very interesting collection of short alternate history sketches—hard to find anything like it—so I think it would be interesting to feature. SnowyCinema (talk) 23:39, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support—Nice, looks good to me from a spot check; nothing I can find to reproach. — Alien 3
3 3 21:21, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
1929, proofread by Qq1122qq. It's a beautiful, deeply unique, futuristic work for its era, and I think it's deserving of featuring. SnowyCinema (talk) 07:26, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
- Comment looks mostly good to me, except for the image captions at the bottom. Eg "THE FOUR STAGES" at Page:The Metropolis of Tomorrow.pdf/84. These don't look like they should be {{l}}? @Qq1122qq what do you think of that?
recently validated in the monthly challenge. it's a beautiful book. ltbdl (talk) 17:42, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- @EncycloPetey @Ltbdl If it helps, I had requested an image upgrade from Sp1nd01 for Bambi a couple of weeks back, and the new images are now in (they also shouldn't balloon now either). Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- The images on the title page are still oversized. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:32, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- I fixed the title-page image. From spot-checking, I think it was the only one oversized. That's a Support from me. — Alien 3
3 3 09:10, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- I fixed the title-page image. From spot-checking, I think it was the only one oversized. That's a
- The images on the title page are still oversized. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:32, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- @EncycloPetey @Ltbdl If it helps, I had requested an image upgrade from Sp1nd01 for Bambi a couple of weeks back, and the new images are now in (they also shouldn't balloon now either). Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 00:24, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- I don't like that the word "A" is capitalized in the title, but other than that, Support. Most people probably don't even know that the Disney movie was based on this. SnowyCinema (talk) 14:47, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- Support Now that the images are corrected. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:17, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- Comment Personally, I don't think the inside cover illustrations should be transcluded. Nosferattus (talk) 05:52, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
- I would disagree with that. I think the whole work's content should be respected. In fact, when I looked into it, I discovered that the image on the cover is not transcluded, and said to be "not needing to be proofread". My understanding is that for covers, it's understood to be optional to proofread if it has an image. But I personally think these images should always be included. They, especially the cover image, are useful as images.
- But setting my own personal disagreements about the inside cover illustrations aside, I'll just speak to consensus and say that editors (and I think policies) aren't in full agreement about this, and these illustrations are understood to be (against my opinion that they should be required) on a sort of "optional" basis, so I don't think this is a reason not to feature it. Some people have put the parts of the front matter they consider to be worse-looking in a subpage called "/Front matter" (a practice which I disagree with as I hope for the work to be presented as the author/publisher intended, but am posing it as an option because there's consensus against my own sentiments that this is an okay compromise). SnowyCinema (talk) 15:17, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
- @SnowyCinema: I actually don't mind having outside covers included, but I wouldn't consider inside covers (or blank pages) to be worth transcluding in most cases. There is a whole continuum of different treatments of inside covers from blank to marbled to decorated to illustrated. For example, the Wizard of Oz books were known for having beautiful inside cover illustrations. In this case, I would put the inside cover treatment somewhere between 'decoration' and 'illustration'. It doesn't add much to the transcluded book, in my opinion, but we can agree to disagree on that. I'm willing to support the book with the inside cover illustrations included, but only if they are properly paginated. Having a double-page illustration squished into one page doesn't work well with any of the export formats. It should be split into two pages so that it displays properly in an ebook reader, with the left and right illustrations stretching across the left and right pages (rather than shrunk down to a tiny picture on 1 page). Finally, I think it's an awkward thing to begin the book with. If you're going to include the inside cover illustrations, you should have the cover as well. Nosferattus (talk) 23:33, 3 December 2025 (UTC)