Wikisource:Featured text candidates
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- If you believe an article meets all of the criteria, write Support followed by your reasons.
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Alexander Pushkin is considered "the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature". I nominate his book of Poems translated by Ivan Panin. This would be only the second work we've featured by a Russian author (the previous one was the nonfiction The Russian School of Painting, featured in in 2015). --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:31, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
Support. It seems well proofread, I have checked 10 random pages from various parts of the book and found no problem. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 19:32, 6 April 2020 (UTC)- Support.Worthy author, and in 20 randomly selected pages I found only one error. BethNaught (talk) 19:31, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- Support checked several pages and seems good —unsigned comment by Serprinss (talk) 07:50, 10 January 2022 (UTC).
- Support seems like solid work; quotation marks are consistent, and I could find no errors in punctuation or spelling. Suitable care is taken to formatting – note how on page 23, the quotation mark on the smaller block lies outside the leftwards margin of the quoted poem (using {{fqm}}). A potential pick for November? Cremastra (talk) 13:31, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Because this is one of only two nominations with support, I think we ought to hold it for longer. We aren't getting a lot of nominations (or supporting voted), and as a result we have very slow turnover. We got new November and December FTs last year; they've never repeated. But the last time March or June changed was 2019, and July and August since 2018. So, I'd prefer to see this listed in one of those months, rather than turn over November again so soon and risk having Mar, Jun, Jul, & Aug continue with the same works for an eighth year. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:15, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Good point. Cremastra (talk) 22:09, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Because this is one of only two nominations with support, I think we ought to hold it for longer. We aren't getting a lot of nominations (or supporting voted), and as a result we have very slow turnover. We got new November and December FTs last year; they've never repeated. But the last time March or June changed was 2019, and July and August since 2018. So, I'd prefer to see this listed in one of those months, rather than turn over November again so soon and risk having Mar, Jun, Jul, & Aug continue with the same works for an eighth year. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:15, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
As the mini-constitution of Hong Kong, it is often argued that the Basic Law is currently facing increasing violation of its contents by the Chinese Central Government. Given that 2020 is the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the law, all criteria have been made, and Hong Kong is currently embroiled in the political crisis about the Hong Kong Liaison Office, it is nominated that the text to be a featured text.
- Note: In April 2020, the Hong Kong Liaison Office (中聯辦), a office of the Central Government, has claimed that it has the authority to oversee Hong Kong internal affairs and is not bounded by Article 22 of the Basic Law, which prohibits Mainland Chinese authorities"(interfering) in the affairs which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region administers on its own in accordance with this Law."廣九直通車 (talk) 07:23, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Comment why is the "Get involved Get to know the Basic Law" logo not included on the back cover Serprinss (talk) 05:25, 5 January 2022 (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)
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Selected for October 2024. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:58, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
Recently ran across this transcription of the Oscar Wilde play (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley). It seems to be well polished and I couldn't find any errors after spot-checking several pages. I'm assuming there's no way to improve the layout fidelity of Page:Salomé-_a_tragedy_in_one_act.djvu/7. If so, I can't find any areas to improve and it seems to be featured text quality. Nosferattus (talk) 03:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
- I did some tidying of image placement and the associated Wikidata item, which was a mashup of two different language editions. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
- Support. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:02, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support Arcorann (talk) 09:20, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Support if a versions page can be created before featuring, so that Salomé (film) can be properly linked to. SnowyCinema (talk) 12:06, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'll see about doing that, but it's complicated. The play and the film are both the same work (by Wilde) and so they need a disambiguation page for Wilde's work, but there are other works by this name, including the Strauss opera, based on the same story and having the same title. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:03, 22 April 2024 (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)
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Selected boldly for September 2024. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Williston's book was the first to survey all groups of reptiles, both living and extinct, complete with original illustrations and labelled diagrams that allowed herpetologists worldwide to examine and compare the anatomy of all the reptile groups. It was the most important book in the field for the next 30 years, only superseded when Alfred Romer published his Osteology of the Reptiles in 1956. The illustrations from this book are currently used on multiple Wikipedia articles, because they were made with care and accuracy from the original material. Williston had co-discovered the first fossils of the dinosaurs Allosaurus and Diplodocus, and that was before he became a grad student, then faculty member at Yale. --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:02, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support Work is significant and 100% validated, with good attention to formatting and text styling; the images are excellently extracted and retouched. Transclusion looks good. Cremastra (talk) 12:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has been called the perfect play, and was held up by Aristotle as the ideal model for all tragic drama. This particular translation is by Irish playwright William Butler Yeats, a key figure in Irish drama and the Irish literary revival, as well as the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. Our copy also makes use of LilyPond so that Yeats' songs that were written for the play can be listened to.
We have never featured Sophocles, nor have we featured a work containing music, and the only Irish writer featured previously is Oscar Wilde. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:03, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
The second (and last) book written entirely by Amelia Earhart. The book is a sort of memoir, describing how she became a pilot and her experiences flying, but also a description of the state of aviation in the 1920s and 1930s, with many observations about the social norms of women as compared to men. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:59, 12 September 2024 (UTC)