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Please help start a list of text that need to be proofread. Larger text are preferred because we hope to have a large group of people working on the text of the month. Here is a great place to start looking for text to be proofread.

List of suggested works not actioned Index:A Compendium of Irish Biography.djvu Index:Documents from the Den of Espionage.djvu Index:Footsteps of Dr. Johnson.djvu Index:How and Why Library Index:Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 1 (2nd edition).djvu Index:The Life of Thomas Linacre.djvu Index:Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1894 Burt.djvu (Proofread) Index:The Methodist Hymn-Book Illustrated.djvu Index:Robert the Bruce and the struggle for Scottish independence - 1909.djvu (Proofread) Index:What will he do with it.djvu (Validated) Index:Collected poems Robinson, Edwin Arlington.djvu Index:The War with Mexico, Vol 1.djvu (Proofread) Index:The War with Mexico, Vol 2.djvu (Proofread) Index:Victory at Sea - William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick.djvu

Links Coding 'Now' snapshot of PotM Wikisource:Proofread of the Month/validation works

Short works requiring validation

• Index:Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Deborah Weston (1842).pdf 4 pp
• Index:ComstockInertia.djvu ‎[21 pages]
• Index:Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act (India) 1994.djvu [16 pp.]
• Index:The Bride of Lindorf.pdf [17 pp.]
• Index:Thoughts on the Corn laws, addressed to the working classes of the county of Gloucester.djvu [24 pp.]

Have problematic pages

• Index:Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Amendment Act 2002.pdf 5 pp
• Index:Daphnaïda.djvu [22 pp., three with images]

Translations, not eligible for simple listing

• The Translation of Deformable Electrons and the Theorem of Conservation of Angular Momentum 2p
• On v. Ignatowsky's Treatment of Born's Definition of Rigidity II 2pp
• Index:EhrenfestStarr2.djvu 3 pp
• Index:LorentzRelatieveBeweging.djvu 6pp.
• Index:MinkowskiRaumZeit 14pp.

New works of less than 30 pages to be added to QUEUED

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• Wikisource:Proofread of the Month/validation works

A list of potential PotM candidates

On the transcription project, there is a good list of text that are ready to be proofread. That list is available here. This list continues to grow so it would be great if we could knock it down. --Mattwj2002 11:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

My person opinion, If people keep bringing in projects (and I have seen it) then they should do a good part of the editing. Some, whoever they are, bring in works for others to do and the work-load adds up. Too, if the texts are brought in and left for others, then others may not like the topic so the work load keeps building up. It would be nice to know [who] likes what to work on. *I* like history and specifically illustrated history* but not children’s books or poems. I have several more volumes to do and more I want to do after that. This way I work on what I brought in, or have another bring in because he/they like the same kind of work. --Maury (talk) 01:33, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

2023

The PotM hasn't been updated in several months, and I noticed there haven't been any proposals for this year. Given this, are there any ideas for what to do with the PotM this year? DraconicDark (talk) 20:08, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

2023 List

Month	Work	Category	Status
January		Quirky
February		Fine arts
March		Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month / Woman author
April	The Playboy of the Western World	Poetry / Drama
May	The Ocean and Its Wonders	Geography
June	The Doom of the Great City	Fiction: Novel
July		Anthropology, Mythology, or Religion
August		Biography
September		Science/Technology
October		Fiction (SF/Fantastical/etc.)
November		Language
December		Fiction: Short story collections

April 2023 (Poetry / Drama)

Let's get one teed up. I'm up for anything. BD2412 T 02:27, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

• Without nominations to select from, I've put in The Playboy of the Western World, since it was a notable play of its time, and is the "masterpiece" of an Irish author. There is an entire section on the play's reception at WP, as it caused quite a scandal. We have a dearth of Irish literature, and a dearth of drama. This particular edition also has simpler formatting than most dramatic works. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:03, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

May 2023 (Geography)

In previous year's we've always done terrestrial geography. Can anyone recommend good works on the ocean or oceanography that would still be useful? --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:25, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• I've found two works on oceanography that could work: A Textbook of Oceanography by James Travis Jenkins (external scan) and Science of the Sea by G. Herbert Fowler (Commons file). What do you think of these? DraconicDark (talk) 03:31, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

  The Jenkins text is too complicated for a PotM. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:40, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

  Noted, but what are your thoughts on the other one? DraconicDark (talk) 20:13, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

• A few more suggestions: The Sea and its Wonders by Cyril Hall (external scan), General Examination of the Pacific Ocean by Charles Philippe de Kerhallet (Commons file), General Examination of the Atlantic Ocean by Charles Philippe de Kerhallet (Commons file), General Examination of the Indian Ocean by Charles Philippe de Kerhallet (external scan), and The Ocean and its Wonders by R. M. Ballantyne (Commons file). Are any of these suitable? DraconicDark (talk) 21:30, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

  The Ocean and its Wonders looks doable. We would need a DjVu file to run with that option. PDF transcription still has serious issues. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:44, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

  I have set up a DjVu file at Index:The ocean and its wonders.djvu. DraconicDark (talk) 06:23, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  Since there were no objections, I have set up The Ocean and its Wonders as this month's PoTM. DraconicDark (talk) 19:25, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

June 2023 (Fiction: Novel)

For June, I'm thinking we do a novel that entered the public domain this year; some suggestions are Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (transcription project) and Oil! by Upton Sinclair (transcription project). DraconicDark (talk) 21:33, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Both of those options are already part of the Monthly Challenge. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:41, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

My apologies, I didn't see them listed in the Monthly Challenge when I looked. In that case, of the novels listed in Wikisource:Requested texts/1927 that have a scan link, is Red Love by Alexandra Kollontay (external scan) already part of the Monthly Challenge? If not, that could be an option. DraconicDark (talk) 22:47, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Since it is already June, we should switch the PoTM over. We can do either Red Love, which I suggested above, or as an alternative suggestion, I found The Silent Prince by Hattie Arnold Clark (Commons file) (IA also has a DjVU file if necessary) which we can do if the first option isn't suitable. DraconicDark (talk) 21:08, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: @BD2412: any comments? DraconicDark (talk) 21:21, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

I did add Red Love to Requested Texts; I'd like to do it, but I'll prepare it now whether or not we're going to do it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:27, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

• I would like to see The Doom of the Great City (1880), by Author:William Delisle Hay (a UK author we do not have; died 1885). It depicts London suffocating under a cloud of pollution, which is timely given what is happening in US cities like Boston and New York. However, I cannot locate a copy, except at Hathi. If this can be set up quickly, it is only 52 pages. It is also timely, given what is happening this week in cities of the eastern US like Boston and New York City. I have no objections to either of the nominations above, but as this would be a short one, and is unusually timely (the book itself is in the news as well). Perhaps we swap themes for June and October? --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:48, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

  I'm fine with that as well. It's easy to set up, since someone already uploaded it to Commons here, so I can switch it over. DraconicDark (talk) 03:16, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

  The index was even already set up, so I have switched the PoTM over. DraconicDark (talk) 03:21, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

  Awesome. Because this is so short, we might want to be ready with another short work or two, in case time allows. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:26, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

I'm fine with that.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:57, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

I agree with The Doom of the Great City. We have gone to the well of authors just entering the public domain a bit much lately. We also have to get the old books in. BD2412 T 06:24, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

The June selection is almost done, needing only some validation. We should have a "July" selection ready, and might be able to start it a little early. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:40, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

June is done (except for Adverts). Do we want to proceed to the next selection? --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:00, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

July 2023 (Anthropology, Mythology, or Religion)

For July, I was thinking we do a work on Zoroastrianism, which we currently don't have many works from or about, despite the fact that it is one of the world's oldest religions. Some suggestions related to this are Zoroastrian Theology from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (external scan), Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ancient Iran (external scan), The Gathas (transcription project), or Sacred Books of the East, Volume 4 (transcription project). Are any of these suitable? DraconicDark (talk) 19:21, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Zoroastrianism is cool with me. The Sacred Books of the East is a bit of nightmare to proof though, with diacritics and italics (as special characters) scattered all over the place.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:23, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

The Gathas volume is in poetic format with copious footnotes. It also has a lot of formatting in many lines. See page 120 for an example of the complexity. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:43, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

• Perhaps The Souls of Black Folk, 2nd ed. by W.E.B. Du Bois. We have only an unsourced copy currently, despite the huge significance and impact this collection of essays has had. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:37, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

  I'm withdrawing my nomination of this work as a PotM suggestion. It has musical content that would make it too challenging. It might be doable in the Monthly Challenge, but not PotM. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:42, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

• The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII is in need of some love ... MarkLSteadman (talk) 02:10, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

  If this isn't selected for July, it ought to be nominated for the Monthly Challenge. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:24, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

August 2023 (Biography)

For August, I suggest Napoleon by T.P. O'Connor (external scan). Would this be suitable? DraconicDark (talk) 21:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

It's long, but each page has a smaller bit of text than a usual work. The text also looks clean, without tables, footnotes, and such. That might make it less valuable to a researcher, but it would make for a more readable text for the average person, and easier to proofread. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:45, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

I've set up Index:Napoleon (O'Connor 1896).djvu and am going to start it a week early, as no one seems to have set up anything for July, and the June work is still lingering on the main page. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:35, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

This is agreeable. BD2412 T 04:47, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

September 2023 (Science/Technology)

Two works that could be considered "technical", or could be held till next February as "fine arts".

• The Tony Sarg Marionette Book (1921) with illustrations (external scan) This nonfiction book includes illustrations and interviews, explaining aspects of how the illusions are created using puppetry. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:00, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

• Marionettes, Masks and Shadows (c)1927 is a book by Winifred H. Mills about the construction of marionettes and masks, as well as stages, scenery, and general stagecraft. (external scan) The potential downside of this one is that, although it is an American book by an American author, and explicitly copyrighted 1927, I can't find a date of death for the author, so I can't say whether the work is PD in the UK/EU. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:00, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

October 2023 (Fiction: SF/Fantastical)

One possibility is Jefferies's After London (external scan), about life after post-apocalyptic rewilding. MarkLSteadman (talk) 03:23, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Note here is a list of books by female authors as well. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:46, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

How about w:Melmoth the Wanderer ? Or is that too much ? -- Beardo (talk) 13:21, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Or "The conquest of the moon : a story of the Bayouda" - https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-hssl_conquest-moon-bayouda_PQ2269G7C61894-18172/page/n5/mode/2up - original title Les Exilés de la Terre – Selene-Company Limited (1887) -- Beardo (talk) 22:00, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

November 2023 (Language)

For basic language learning material, in a Latin alphabet, how about Index:Latvian self-taught for English speaking people - Kratins.djvu? It's short, the diacritics are found in Special characters/Latin, but it's not a language that's well covered.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:56, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

We'd have to watch carefully, and be sure editors are briefed to use {{IPA}} with examples. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:54, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Support ;) feydey (talk) 09:36, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

December 2023 (Fiction: Short story collections)

One possibility is Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men (external scan). MarkLSteadman (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Shall we go with that, as no-one else has suggested an alternative ? -- Beardo (talk) 17:24, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Template:User PotM participation

I noticed that a number of users have userboxes about their PotM participation, so I made a template to simplify things a little. Hope it helps! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:26, 23 April 2023 (UTC)