Wikisource:Proofreading

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This page allows you to list works you would like proofread by multiple users for featured status. Please only list a few works, and preferably only those you have already proofread. Make sure that an online source is linked to on the work's main page or talk page. When you proofread a work, please make a note of this on the work's talk page using {{textinfo}}.

Proofreaders

Atelierele Albe

I've just started Clerc's Photography: Theory and Practice and got stuckted with images. Any help please? Thanks in advance.

• Photography: Theory and Practice

Alcmaeonid

A little Schopenhauer anyone? The first is a biography and introduction to his thought; the second his doctoral dissertation. Although the latter may get technical at certain points, like all his works it is very readable and contains the kernel of his philosophy. I have proofread them myself to a near finished state but need the help that only a fresh pair of eyes can bring to bear. The links to the original pdf files are on the talk pages. Advanced thanks.

• Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and Philosophy
• On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

AllanHainey

• Speech against the Union. Link to on-line source is on talk page.
• Petition against the Introduction of Slavery. No on-line source but text source noted on talk page.
• The Case Against Vaccination. source link on talk.
• On Books and the Housing of Them. Link to on-line source is on talk page.

Banjee

• The Tale of Pigling Bland - text loaded from Gutenberg, images added, compared against an alternate source with a couple of pages missing. No errors seen against the Gutenberg text. Scanned images available in Category:Pigling Bland. An alternate on-line source is [1] banjee 03:22, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Dear Banjee,

I am not sure how to contact you, as my computer access is currently not too great (working on a system that is not mine), and I do not have too much time to check out this website and get more involved. I just wanted to let you know that I have done a complete copyedit of the first part of The Tale of Pigling Bland, as a sample copyedit for the job hunting purpose. I would like to forward you the word document, but am not sure how. You (or anyone else reading this) may e-mail me ... if you would like me to send you the document.

Sincerely, Sara

Hello,

Please login, so that you can be contacted by email. I removed your mail from here. Thanks, Yann (talk) 15:10, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

BD2412

• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States/Chapter I, available at [2]. A formative document, widely cited, should eventually be a featured text when all the chapters are proofread. BD2412 T 04:55, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
  • I have gone over this word for word, and I think it is done. Cheers! BD2412 T 23:20, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Bebestbe

• In re Pan-American Mfg. Co., Inc. - I would like this proofread towards it becoming a featured text. This text is used extensively in the very detailed Grapico article. The In re Pan-American text is from a printed in a book that I copied, scanned in, and proofread. The online source for the text is Image:In re Pan American Mfg Co Inc.pdf. Once it meets the proofreading criteria for FA, please list the text at Wikisource:Featured text candidates. Thanks. -- Bebestbe 16:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

BirgitteSB

• The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798) Has a link to a scan of the original publication.
• Early Settlers Along the Mississippi Has a link to a scan at Google Books.
  • Proofread—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 22:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
• The New Student's Reference Work/Africa Scanned copy begins here

Jude

• Author:Wilfred Owen I have hard copies of poems by him, and can proofread them; The Internet Archive also has a copy of Poems.

Danny

I would like to see The_New_Student's_Reference_Work/Australia be a featured text this month. Please help by proofing it. Danny 04:11, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

• Proofread Only found problems in captions. Could probably use one more proofreader as it is a good length.--BirgitteSB 21:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Durova

Seeking proofreaders for a short song by Author:Irving Berlin. Original text is available on the sheet music posted at the Wikisource text page with links back to the original file hostings at Duke University.

• I Want To Go Back To Michigan

Done John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:30, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

GorillaWarfare

• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. It's a long project, but I spent six months doing the initial proofread and would love to see it validated and perhaps eventually featured. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 22:35, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

John Cross

• Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 - 66 words not proofread - link to source on page
• Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 - 304 words not proofread - link to source on page

Londonjackbooks

• Stops of Various Quills (1895) by William Dean Howells, with illustrations by Howard Pyle. Source scans are found here. Illustrations were scanned at 600dpi. I am willing to make whatever improvements (formatting or image editing) necessary. Thanks, Londonjackbooks (talk) 12:41, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

You've done a great job; I will gladly help in validating this over the next day or so. - Theornamentalist (talk) 13:47, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Moondyne

Grateful for any help on

• Index:The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.djvu. Excellent OCR and fast and easy proofing. Moondyne (talk)

Done. Moondyne (talk) 13:27, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Pathoschild

Title	Notes
Arithmetic on the Frontier	Featured.
Meat for Thrifty Meals	Proofreading.
Monna Innominata	Proofread.
Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House	Proofread.
The 'Old, Old Song'	Proofread.

Politicaljunkie

• Northwestern University Commencement Address - link to on-line source on talk page.
  • Proofread - no problems. Good speech. banjee 17:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Commencement Address at Syracuse University, College of Law - link to on-line source on talk page.
• Democracy in Belarus - link to on-line source on talk page.
  • Proofread - AllanHainey 11:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Tarmstro99

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. 2008 is the tenth anniversary of this very controversial piece of United States legislation, and it would be nice to see Wikisource’s copy achieve feature-able status. Link to the official PDF copy is available on the talk page. There are five linked sub-pages to review: WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act of 1998, Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act (very short), Digital Millennium Copyright Act/Title IV, and Vessel Hull Design Protection Act.

The Man in Question

IT'S SHORT, IT WON'T TAKE YOU LONG. (Sorry for the ugly caps, I just wanted to catch your attention.) Please proofread this article by Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne. Link to the original text is listed at the top of the page.

• The Garden of Proserpine

That got my attention. I found two cases where our page uses British English instead of the American English, and a hyphen issue mentioned on the talk page. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:56, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Theornamentalist

• The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts. Relatively small amount of text, mainly illustrations as it is a child's book. There are also a few validated pages. - Theornamentalist (talk) 04:08, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

• There are only 14 pages left, and they are very short. - Theornamentalist (talk) 04:15, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
• Thank you to everyone who helped - Theornamentalist (talk) 04:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikijeff

I would like to se History of the Ten Lost Tribes - Anglo-Israelism Examined become a featured text when its ready. I have begun proofing, but I need the help of others to complete the work in a timely manner. Links to the page-scans have been posted to Wikimedia Commons, a link is provided on the Wikisource page. —Wikijeff 04:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I proofread History of the Ten Lost Tribes - Anglo-Israelism Examined/Chapter 16 —unsigned comment by Java7837 (talk) 03:10, 25 March 2007.

Currently nominated for featured status. —{admin} Pathoschild 02:35:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Xdamr

I have personally proof read these texts, but they need others to take a look at them if they are to become Featured Texts.

• Reform Committee's invitation to Jameson - source (book) noted on talk page, can provide scan of relevant page(s) if desired.

Yann

• Heroes of the hour: Mahatma Gandhi, Tilak Maharaj, Sir Subramanya Iyer: interesting short biographies of three personalities of the Indian Independence movement. The scan is quite good (compared to other Indian documents of this time), but the spelling and typography are quite weird (well, Indian style...). This book is not available elsewhere, so it could be proposed to Gutenberg.
• M. K. Gandhi: Indian Patriot in South Africa: the first biography of Gandhi, much before he was known world wide. Scan of poor quality, but the boring work is already done. ;o) This book is not available elsewhere, so it could be proposed to Gutenberg.

Done validated. billinghurst (talk) 05:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Zhaladshar

• Literature and Dogma - hard copy found on Internet Archive's page (linked from talk page)
• The Discovery of New Brittaine - scanned pages to check against can be found at the Library of Congress.
• Federalist No. 1 - scanned images can be found at Google Books (link on Talk page)
• Federalist No. 2 - scanned images can be found at Google Books (link on Talk page)
• Longfellow poems (source to check against is on each page's talk page):
  • Footsteps of Angels
  • Hymn to the Night
  • The Light of Stars
  • Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
  • A Psalm of Life
  • The Reaper and the Flowers

Proofread all poems above Psychless 21:47, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

See also

• Featured text guidelines
• Wikisource:WikiProject OCR
• Wikisource:OCR
• User:Quadell/Proofing swap meet