Wikisource:Requested texts

Old and sorted requests

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• The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (pub. posthum. 1702-1704) by w:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  • See scans provided under History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England at the author page. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• "A Letter concerning Enthusiasm" (1707? 1708?) by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury here it is
• "A Satyr Against Mankind" (1675) by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  • This poem is found in his complete poetical works (e. g. (external scan)). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• The poems of Samuel Boyce (18th c.), such as [1]
  • (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Theodosius, or the Force of Love (1680) play by Nathaniel Lee
• The Adventures of David Simple (1744) by Sarah Fielding
  • A later edition has been proofread here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville here it is
• Moralia by Plutarch, translated from Latin (Wikipedia)

1. Moralia translated by Philemon Holland

2. Comparative tables of contents.

Does this suit your needs? -Zyephyrus (talk) 09:02, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

• Census results from around the world
• The Statesman by Sir Henry Taylor available at The Statesman]
• Peace of Augsburg, 1555 treaty
• Peace of Westphalia, 1648 treaty (refers to the pair of treaties, the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück),
• Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (The original Russian is already available)
  • The following is a 1943 translation by Babette Deutsch, which was not renewed: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• John Dickenson. Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
  • As Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania by J. Dickinson: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Charles I - His Speech from the Scaffold -- http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html
  • A scan may be viewed here: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Geneva Bible-http://bible.christiansunite.com/genindex.shtml
• Philately in a nutshell, by J.H. Smyth, L. of Congress number 83196129, Sydney, 1911, 110 pages
• The Primary Chronicles (Kievan Rus)
• Swish of the Kris - The Story of the Moros by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com(dead link, 1938)
  • Renewed: “Swish of the kris. By Vic Hurley. © 1Sep36; A98249. G. V. Hurley (A); 3Feb64; R331038.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Jungle Patrol - The Story of the Philippine Constabulary by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com(dead link)
  • Renewed: “Jungle patrol; the story of the Philippine Constabulary. With photographic illus. maps by Paul H. Kirk. © 17Oct38; A123109. Gerald Victor Hurley (A); 2Sep66; R393109.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Roman de la Rose, translated from French (Wikipedia)
• The Romaunt of the Rose, in Middle English (Wikipedia) — two possibles 1 & 2
• The Romance of the Rose, Modern English translation of The Romaunt of the Rose
  • For the three above, I found a fine illustrated copy here: (external scan). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).

  @TE(æ)A,ea.: FYI: I uploaded that and it can be worked on here: (transcription project). It seems illustrations for that by Keith Henderson can be found here: (Commons category). —Uzume (talk) 20:08, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

• Who did it? a novel. by Robert Nash Ogden see Publishers Weekly December 17, 1887 p 941, worldcat,and bio online Edition Who did it? a novel--Wright American Fiction Project Indiana University Digital Library Program
• Works by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky‎
• The Virginian by Owen Wister text at PG pagescan -- Jasonanaggie (talk) 04:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
  • See the author page for information about scans, two of which have been uploaded. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC).
• Leaves from a Russian diary, and thirty years after by w:Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1950) (not renewed)
• /The Epigrams of Martial
• A Political Crime is a book review of A Political Crime: The History of the Great Fraud, an 1886 book that alleges that w:Warren Hayes stole the election...isn't that marvellously interesting? We must find this book and put it online :) StateOfAvon (talk) 02:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC) here it is
• A survey of English literature, 1780-1880 (volumes 1 - 4) by Oliver Elton. Per WS:PD. Jeepday (talk) 13:22, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
• /The Invasion of the Crimea, table of contents to a desirable work. [Moved from main CYGNIS INSIGNIS 16:22, 10 July 2011 (UTC)]

is available in full from the Internet Archive. ----Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 00:48, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

• Author:Thomas Moore (1779-1852). These quite a lot of books printed during author life-time on Google Books and likely on other projects. His poetry was translated on other languages like Polish and Russian during 19th century. Looks like his works are better represented now in Wikisource on other languages then in original. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 03:13, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Governmental and organizational works

• US government documents regarding the Vela Incident.
• Urantia Foundation v. Michael Foundation, interesting copyright case [2]
• http://www.history.army.mil/books/AMH-V2/AMH%20V2/Prologue.htm (and subsquent chapter) - This work provides a useful summary of US involvement in the Great War, and it would be nice to be able to use it conjunction with other projects discussed at the Scriptorium.
• Official Olympic Reports from 1896 through 1920 (7 reports).
• Rules of procedure of the United Nations General Assembly - particularly relevant to questions of eligibility for UN membership under international law. According to the UN Charter page here, all official UN documents are in the public domain so there shouldn't be any rights issues.
• Gryczan v. State of Montana [3] case overturning sodomy in Montana

Statutes

• Public Health Service Act
• Statute of the International Court of Justice International Court of Justice. "Statute of the Court - International Court of Justice" (HTML). www.icj-cij.org (in English). Retrieved 2010-01-30. 

See also

• Wikipedia:Category:Copy to Wikisource where the work would need to be assessed for inclusion.

New speeches

• related portals: Speeches
• sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes, definition, textbook, course, taxonomy, travel guide, Wikidata item

• The Speeches of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ed. A. W. Hutton and H. J. Cohen (1902)
  • Can't find scan Looks like this is a 10-volume set, but only v9, v10 are immediately obvious (files uploaded). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 19:10, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

  Per various libraries (British, Oxford, London, etc.) only volumes 9 and 10 were ever published. MarkLSteadman (talk) 23:25, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

• Socialism - Kier Hardie
  • Unsure what speech this is. If it was in the House of Commons (e.g. this one in 1901, it should be easy to find a transcript? Inductiveload—talk/contribs 16:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
• Blood and Iron - Otto von Bismarck
  • Is there a full text of this? I can see some German original text at here (top of col 2, Oct 6, 1862). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 16:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
    • @Inductiveload Best I can find are this in Fifty major documents of the nineteenth century and this in the Life of Bismarck. Another scan here has a line of the speech and makes reference to a French translation, here, which in turn points to pp. 33–34, vol. 1 ed. 2 (which I could not locate, though it might be helpful for French Wikisource). Apparently, though, no verbatim transcript of the speech exists. Shells-shells (talk) 16:58, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
    • @Inductiveload I have zero clue why I didn't mention the German-language transcript of Bismarck's speech listed as a source in Fifty major documents: namely, "Horst, Kohl, ed., Die politischen Reden des Fürsten Bismarcks: historische-kritische Gesammtausgabe (14 vols.; Stuttgart, 1892-1904), II, pp. 29-30." A scan is available here. Shells-shells (talk) 05:08, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

      Another German source is here: [4] from the Gesammelten Werke, which is the source for the 2007 Riemer translation. MarkLSteadman (talk) 23:45, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

• Jeannette Rankin's sole dissenting vote, and the speech that accompanied it, against US participation in WWII
  • Vote at Cong. Rec. v.87, part 9, p. 9536. But I do not see a speech by Rankin (note there are two Rankins) on that date, just some comments/points of order. Presumably the speech was then not made on the House floor that day? Inductiveload—talk/contribs 20:47, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
    • @Inductiveload Is there any reason to believe that she gave a speech at all? Here's all I can find: Rankin objected to the declaration of war (p. 9520, col. 2); then, after some sixteen pages of her colleagues' oratory, she attempted to speak but was refused the floor. Two days later (p. 9496 9646, column 3) w:Clare Hoffman mentioned "that I noticed on the day war was declared that recognition was denied to a Member of the House, the gentlewoman from Montana [Miss Rankin] to express her views." Rankin shows up again on the 15th (p. 9798, col. 3) to object to a bill proposing a death penalty in cases of wartime sabotage, and then seems to disappear from the record. If Rankin did have a speech prepared for the declaration of war, it does not appear in Part 9; nor can I find it in the Appendix. Did she publish it elsewhere? Shells-shells (talk) 05:35, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
• Any speeches missing at Portal:Speeches by British Prime Ministers

Forthcoming speeches

• Remarks recorded by Donald Trump (second term) for the Hall of Presidents at Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World, Florida

New requests

Old Science Fiction of 19c

Robert William Cole:

• The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236
  • Available on HathiTrust (HathiTrust)
  • Done Index:Robert William Cole - The Struggle for Empire; A Story of the Year 2236 (1900).djvu MarkLSteadman (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Author:Albert Robida

• Le Vingtième Siècle (1883) - English version
• La Guerre au vingtième siècle (1887) - English version
• Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (1890) - English version
• La Fin du Cheval - English version
• La Guerre Infernale - English version
  • The first published translation I can see is from 2004... A portion of his early novel was published starting with page pg. 768 / Jan 28, 1880 (vol. 6) in Puck (HathiTrust) MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:31, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Railway/Railroad material

I would appreciate someone making a check on the status with a view to inclusion of :

• 1904 Railway Clearing House Atlas of England and Wales. (There is also a post grouping 1935 version)
• The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations, 1912 (This would support the Junction diagrams on Commons.)

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Railways Act 1922 Transport Act 1947

Any UK 'Local Acts' relating to railways, especially the railways which eventually amalgamated into the the Great Western and Southern upon grouping or the regions they served. 62.56.112.112 23:10, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Not progressed further — billinghurst sDrewth 01:05, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Constitution of the State of Mississippi (1861)

May somebody please add this text to the source? It can be found here, here, and here. Thank you! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 11:15, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Constitution of the State of Alabama (1861)

May somebody please add this text to the source? It can be found here. Thanks! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 06:12, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Reference works by James Hastings

I am asking assistance with this because, ignorant idjit that I am, I haven't figured out how to get my damn djvu plug-in to work yet. But if anyone were interested in uploading the w:Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, several articles of which are still included in the bibliographies of articles in the best current reference works in the field. Also, his other multi-volume reference works, including "A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels," of "Dictionary of the Apostolic Church," or his "Dictionary of the New Testament," or "A Dictionary of the Bible," along with (maybe, if anyone really wanted to spend a lot of time on this) his "Greater Men and Women of the Bible" and "Great Texts of the Bible," all of which are I think available at archive.org or elsewhere, I could start work on them. John Carter (talk) 16:47, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Vital documents in international law

When I was in law school, my international law professor posted a list of "vital documents" that he felt anyone with an international practice should be familiar with. Most of these Wikisource already has; a few were magazine articles or the like, clearly under copyright and not within the scope of Wikisource. The remaining documents, still apparently missing from Wikisource but (to the best of my knowledge) in the public domain are:

• African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights[5] (UNTS I-26363) (start transcription)
• Index:Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America on Air Quality.pdf[6] Done Zppix (talk) 01:19, 11 December 2017 (UTC) (UNTS I-31532, A-31532) (start transcription)
• Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States (UNTS I-8359) (transcription project)
• Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone (UNTS I-7477) (transcription project)
• Declaration of Helsinki
  • Need to check license. the versions in JAMA e.g. (external scan) are coprighted: (external scan), as this is advisory and not law MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• Establishment of the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea pages 19-20 of this document (UN A/CONF.62/121 (external scan)
• European Human Rights Convention (European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms?) (ETS 5)
• Exon-Florio Amendment to Defense Production Act (US Statutes at Large 102(1988): 1107) (transcription project)
• Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (90 Stat. 2891) (transcription project)
• Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNTS I-30822?) (start transcription)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (UNTS I-814) (transcription project)
• Rules of Conciliation and Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (or ICC Rules of Arbitration)
  • Copyrighted by the ICC (external scan) MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention
  • Not sure how this differs from the Convention above which establishes it MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer or Montreal Ozone Protocol (UNTS I-26369) (start transcription)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (107 Stat. 2057) (transcription project)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (or OECD Declaration on Multinationals) (OECD/LEGAL/0144)
  • The OECD version is copyrighted. MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:48, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• Optional Protocol on Dispute Settlements (I-8640) (transcription project)
• Protocols to the Human Rights Convention (ETS 9, 44, 45, 46, 55, 114, 117, 118, 140, 146, 155, 177, 187; CETS 194, 204, 213, 214)
• Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) (I-324?) (transcription project)
• U.S. Reservations to the Genocide Convention (Senate Consideration of Treaty Document 81-15, KAV 2303)
• U.S. Trade Representative Letter on Uruguay Round
  • Not sure which letter this is (during the negotiations? afterwards?) MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:40, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• U.S.-Egypt Bilateral Investment Treaty (US Treaty Doc No 99-24 (1986), (1982) 21 ILM 927) (external scan)
• U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty (1972) (28 U.S.T. 227, 1977 WL 181653 (U.S. Treaty), T.I.A.S. No. 8468) (external scan)
• U.S.-U.K. Supplementary Extradition Treaty (1985) (T.I.A.S. 12050, 1556 U.N.T.S. 369 ) (start transcription)
• "Uniting for Peace" Resolution (UNGA 377)
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (or Vienna Ozone Convention) (UNTS I-26164) (start transcription)
• World Trade Organization Agreement (Marrakesh Agreement UNTS I-31874 ?) (start transcription)

Note that we may have some of these under different names. Also note that the list as a whole reflects one professor's views of what documents are "vital", but I can't see a reason why we wouldn't want to include everything on the list. Cheers! BD2412 T 21:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

@Jusjih FYI, I added links to the UNTS documents here in case you want to create the missing index pages. MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:43, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

British Future Fiction

https://www.routledge.com/British-Future-Fiction-1700-1914/Clarke/p/book/9781851966172 is an enormously expensive reprint collection that might offer some interesting suggestions.

• C Oman (ed.), The Reign of George VI, 1900–1925 (1763)
  • Done not the modern version, the first edition
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1872)
  • Done see below
• W D Hay, Three Hundred Years Hence (1881)
  • Can't find scan (BL has record, no scan)
  • Unrelated to Mary Griffith story in Index:Camperdown - Griffith - 1836.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 13:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
• W H Hudson, A Crystal Age (1906)
  • Index:A Crystal Age - Hudson - 1922.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 12:58, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
• W Grove, The Wreck of a World (1889)
  • Index:The Wreck of a World - Grove - 1890.djvu
    • Proofread. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• Louis Tracy, An American Emperor (1897)
  • IA: (external scan)
• Sir Walter Besant, The Revolt of Man (1890)
  • IA: (external scan)
  • PG text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48690
• Henry Robert Samuel Dalton, Lesbia Newman (1889)
  • Index:Lesbia Newman - Dalton - 1889.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 12:51, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Proofread. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• Anon, Star of the Morning (1906)
  • Can't find scan Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• A C Fox-Davies, The Sex Triumphant (1909)
  • Can't find scan Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• Sir George Tomkyns Chesney, The Battle of Dorking (1871)
  • Done Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• Abraham Hayward, The Second Armada (1871)
  • Index:The Second Armada - Hayward - 1871.pdf
• William Francis Butler, The Invasion of England (Butler) (1882)
  • Can't find scan
  • The Invasion of England is a different work Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• ‘Posteritas’, The Siege of London (1884) (1884)
  • Index:The Siege of London - Posteritas - 1885.djvu
    • Validated. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• James Eastwick, The New Centurion; a Tale of Automatic Warfare (1895)
  • Index:The New Centurion - Eastwick - 1895.pdf
• Captain S Eardley-Wilmot, The Next Naval War (1894)
  • Index:The Next Naval War - Eardley-Wilmot - 1894.djvu
    • Proofread MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• Robert Wililiam Cole, The Death Trap (1907)
  • Can't find scan (IA, HT, BL/NLS have record but no scans) Inductiveload—talk/contribs 14:58, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
• Lloyd Williams, The Great Raid (1909)
  • Can't find scan (IA, HT, BL has 1910 record but not scans)
• Anon., Under the Red Ensign (1912)
  • By Spencer Campbell: Under the Red Ensign: A Story of England's Peril
  • Another work from the 20's exists by Tomlinson, H. M.
  • Can't find scan (HT, IA, BL has record, no scans)
• William Delisle Hay, The Doom of the Great City (1880)
  • Index:Doom of the Great City - Hay - 1880.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 17:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Validated. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
• John Davidson, The Salvation of Nature (1891)
  • Can't find scan (HT, IA, BL)
• Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World (1907)
  • Exists now, but needs migration to Index:Lord of the World - Benson - 1908.djvu. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 12:51, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Migrated and proofread. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Here's The Reign of George VI: Index:The Reign of George VI, 1900–1925.djvu. It's an 1899 reprint, but the text should still be the 1763 original (with a new preface/front matter from 1899.) --Mukkakukaku (talk) 18:23, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I've put in a deletion request for this. The 1763 first edition is already on Wikisource (The Reign of George VI). No work has been done on the scan and there are pages missing from it. Chrisguise (talk) 22:39, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Also Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race is here: Index:Lytton - The Coming Race (1871).djvu. The date on the title page is 1871, though, not 1872. --Mukkakukaku (talk) 18:32, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Darwin Journal of Researches References

Index talk:Darwin Journal of Researches.djvu lists a number of references by Darwin which would be good to have on WS. — Zoeannl (talk) 13:42, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

What about importing The Architecture of Open Source Applications books? There's even a MediaWiki chapter in volume 2, so surely it might be of some interest to our community, and importing it here might help with translation facilities provided in the Wikimedia infrastructure. I suggest to import it in Wikisource, as this is a books with paperback available, but you might argue that it would have it's place on wikibooks. Thank you in advance for your feedback and any help on this subject. --Psychoslave (talk) 09:54, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Bible (King James)

User:David Haslam and I have found scans to back most of the 1769 Blayney revision of the KJV, but the books of Lamentations through Malachi are missing from the scans (I assume they are in a 3rd volume yet to be discovered). Assistance finding this third volume, or another complete facsimile (with apocrypha, prefaces, and notes) would be appreciated. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 00:05, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

This is pasted from the Sword developers' wiki.

The 1769 KJV facsimile is used for text, front-matter, notes, cross-references, titles, .... for versions after 2.11.

• The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 1 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169826
• The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 2 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169819
• The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 3 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169802
• The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
  Translated Out of the Original Greek:
  And with the Former Translations :Diligently Compared and Revised,
  by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to by Read in Churches.
  Volume 4 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169796

David Haslam (talk) 09:24, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

AFAIK, a Print on Demand published facsimile of a PD work doesn't introduce a fresh copyright on the content any more than publishing a scanned facsimile on a website. It's merely that fewer people would readily have access to the printed one. For further background reading, see the article about Copyfraud. David Haslam (talk) 10:26, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

My CrossWire fellow-worker owns the complete set. I myself recently ordered volume 2 at a discount price. David Haslam (talk) 10:29, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

It looks like those volumes are published from scans at EEBO Editions, ProQuest. Is that right? In that case we'll need someone with access to http://www.proquest.com/products-services/databases/eebo.html to retrieve the digital scans for us to use. Alternatively, re-scanning the printed facsimile, if it's a good enough scan, would also suffice. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:43, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Brown, R., (1810) Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae

The text is available at BHL and can be downloaded as PDF or OCR, but the OCR needs to be corrected with the aid of the pdf to give (1) a corrected Latin text, requiring (2) an English translation. MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:15, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

The latin language work would need to undertaken at latin WS. While I can understand the desire for a translation, knowing how well these progress, I cannot see it happening unless it is coordinated and prosecuted. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:19, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

The file at least is available at Index:Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen - Brown - 1810.djvu. It's unlikely a 400+ page la-en translation will happen unless someone is very interested in the subject, however. This is Volume 1, but I see no obvious sign of a Vol. 2. Also the paging starts at 145 so unsure what's going on there. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 11:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Modern Mathematical texts

This is a list of select modern mathematical texts available at HathiTrust. A great deal of work, each, but I was making a private list and I thought I'd drop it here.

• Introduction to projective geometry and modern algebra. Rosenbaum, R. A.
• Rudiments of algebraic geometry
• Structure of rings. Jacobson, Nathan, 1910-1999.
• The theory of rings. Jacobson, Nathan, 1910-1999
• Rings and ideals, by Neal H. McCoy

--Prosfilaes (talk) 12:34, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

@Prosfilaes: Were these books uploaded to Commons? If not, I will do it. Did you check for copyright renewals? Yann (talk) 23:11, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

They are now all on Commons. Yann (talk) 17:12, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

• Index:Rosenbaum - Introduction to projective geometry and modern algebra, 1963.pdf
• Index:Jenner - Rudiments of algebraic geometry, 1963.pdf
• Index:Rings and ideals, by Neal H. McCoy, 1948.pdf
• Index:Jacobson - The theory of rings, 1968.pdf
• Index:Jacobson - Structure of rings, 1956.pdf

@Prosfilaes: Introduction to Modern Algebra (1960), which is specifically mentioned in WP, is fully available on HT. Is the copyright renewed? Yann (talk) 22:46, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

I can't find a renewal, so I imported it. I creating the index at Index:McCoy - Introduction to Modern Algebra, 1960.pdf. Yann (talk) 20:39, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

 This section is considered resolved, for the purposes of archiving. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Yann (talk) 20:39, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1791)

A scan of the 1791 edition of this text, containing the Appendix which is included in our edition, is available in the w:Early American Imprints collection. If any editor has access to this collection through a subscribing library, I would like to request a copy of this scan to be uploaded to Commons. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 15:08, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Monarchs and Millionaires

Lalla Vandervelde (1925), Monarchs and Millionaires, British version published by London: T. Butterworth Limited; American version published by New York: Adelphi Co.

So far I haven't been able to find any scans online, but someone else might have more luck? Clay (talk) 16:34, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

I also can't see any obvious scans. OCLC isn't encouraging, they know of no digital holdings. :-( Inductiveload—talk/contribs 16:44, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Complete Works

We have many of the stories of O. Henry, but we lack clear sources for many of them. The author page mentions The Complete Writing Of O. Henry (1918) (14 Vols.), which would provide a source for all of O. Henry's work, and a complete or near complete collection of his work. I've too many projects in the air to take this on, but it seems like a reasonable suggestion. (Same for any other author we have unsourced and is old enough we can upload a complete collection of their writing.)--Prosfilaes (talk) 11:58, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

At the time this request was made (2021 March 28; see [7]), it was indeed the case that Wikisource "lack[ed] clear sources for many of them". As of today, 2025 March 20, though, every leaf work linked on the O. Henry author page is either cited as part of a given selection or followed by a citation of the original source publication. The funny thing is that until just a few minutes ago, The Complete Writing was then the _only_ thing listed on the page aside from the play Lo that was "unsourced"—listed with incorrect title and publication date and no publisher. That's fixed now, and I've added a link to the Hathitrust scans.    C. A. Russell (talk) 20:24, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Import 5 books about Malayalam language

Please Special:Import five Malayalam-English linguistic books:

1. ml:A dictionary of high and colloquial Malayalim and English (Benjamin Bailey 1846) => #A dictionary of high and colloquial Malayalim and English
2. ml:A Malayalam and English dictionary or 2 (Hermann Gundert 1872) => A Malayalam and English dictionary
3. ml:A Grammar of the Malayalim Language (Peet 1841). => A Grammar of the Malayalim Language (Peet 1841)
4. ml:Malayalam Selections (Arbuthnot 1851) => Malayalam Selections
5. ml:മലയാള വ്യാകരണ ചോദ്യോത്തരം/Catechism of Malayalam grammar (Hermann Gundert 1897)

All these books are for English speakers to learn Malayalam words, and the definitions are all in English. I hope these public domain books will be helpful for d:WD:LD as well. Thank you. Vis M (talk) 08:03, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

 Comment at this stage I have created {{interwiki redirect}}s to the first four works. Proponent has been raised at WS:AN for discussion the matter about importing these works. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:08, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Northanger Abbey's list of Gothics

From Northanger Abbey: “I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time.” “Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?”

That is:

• Castle of Wolfenbach
• Clermont
• Mysterious Warnings
• Necromancer of the Black Forest
• The Midnight Bell, by Francis Lathom (1798)
• Orphan of the Rhine
• Horrid Mysteries.

(All real books, published not too long before Northanger Abbey's writing.) --Prosfilaes (talk) 16:14, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes: I have found the following scans (which are named on Wikipedia here):
  • The Castle of Wolfenbach (external scan), by Mrs. [Eliza] Parsons, first published 1793.
    • Index:The Castle of Wolfenbach - Parsons - 1854.djvu Inductiveload—talk/contribs 20:23, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Clermont (first published 1798) (external scan) (two-volume set, 1799 ed.); I could only find the second volume (same on HathiTrust).
  • The Necromancer: or the Tale of the Black Forest (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2) (1794)
• The others are very obscure, and likely are only known through 1960s and more modern reprintings. I have access to those (and could scan them in), but there is some concern regarding reasserting copyright. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:13, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
  • I've had some success over the years at such works; since they are so marginal, they're frequently facsimile reprints that need no special work. However, it seems likely we've uploaded enough of these "horrid" obscure Gothics, at least for now.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:59, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
• @Prosfilaes: I've uploaded File:Horrid Mysteries Volume 3.djvu and File:The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest Vol. 1.djvu, and File:The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest Vol. 2.djvu is in progress at IA Upload. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 23:06, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

  Looks like the Volume 2 upload failed. It's here if you want it. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:43, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Summary of work statuses:

• Castle of Wolfenbach: index Done
• Clermont: volume 1 not found, volume 2 file Half done
• Mysterious Warnings: Not done
• Necromancer of the Black Forest: volume 1 index, volume 2 index Done
• The Midnight Bell: Not done
• Orphan of the Rhine: Not done
• Horrid Mysteries: volume 3 index Half done

—CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:48, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia @ 20 (published by MIT Press)

I am starting to translate individual essays from Wikipedia @ 20 (published by MIT Press) to Croatian and I wonder if it would be good to import the whole book (licence), as well as to advance with translations here on Wikisource? --Zblace (talk) 04:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

OK - things are not moving swiftly here and considering that the compromised and de-admined rightwing Croatian Wikipedia users: Ex13, Roberta F. and SpeedyGonsales are still admins on Croatian Wikisource I will not push for this now. -- Zblace (talk) 08:40, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

FYI the work itself is under a CC-BY 4.0 license. In general it would be good to have the works hosted here as well to a. provide a convenient interwiki link between languages and b. to allow someone to double check the translation easily side-by-side. MarkLSteadman (talk) 23:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Zblace is there a complete, canonical, PDF of this available? Ideally, we'd have a copy of the original for verifiability purposes. The MIT Press version is split up into lots of separate PDFs (and also claims a CC-BY-NC license, which is incompatible with Wikisource, though the PubPbub version doesn't have the NC bit). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 13:12, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

@Inductiveload thank you for info! @Reagle @Jackiekoerner do you mind responding to the above as editors?

--Zblace (talk) 13:08, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

@Inductiveload is right, the published book is NC, but the PubPub version would be available and I believe it's otherwise identical except that it's missing the pagination information -- I don't know if Wikisource maintains that in any case. One could start by scraping the PubPub version and using Pandoc to convert it to MediaWiki -- unless Wikisource has a different method. -Reagle (talk) 14:31, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Lithuanian-English Dictionary by Lalis

Third edition if possible. There are various scans on Google Books and the Internet Archive; the most readable/OCRable of the third edition scans should be the one chosen.

• GBooks option 1 - has a lot of slanted pages (only including for completeness)
• Gbooks option 2 - has less of that
• IA option 1 - seems fine
• IA option 2 - also seems fine

I guess someone with more experience could judge which of these is likely to be most usable; either of the IA ones would be okay. I realize that the second part where the headwords are English words and the glosses are Lithuanian belongs more properly on lt.wikisource (but they don't even use source-backed texts there, which is inconvenient). Even if only the first part with Lithuanian headwords and English glosses is allowed here, that would still be great. 70.172.194.25 21:01, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Frank Merriwell's woodcraft - 1904 - public domain

PDF page scans: Raw OCR of good quality: Information link:

1. Title: Frank Merriwell's woodcraft, or, To the rescue of Old Gripper
2. Author: Standish, Burt L., 1866-1945
3. Publisher: Street & Smith, 238 William St.
4. Publication Date: 1904-11-12
5. Magazine: Tip top weekly - number 448 - 31 pages
6. Includes departments: Applause (pages 27-29) -- Questions and answers / Professor Fourmen (page 30-31) -- Football championship of America (page 32).
7. Location: Merriwell Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
8. Rights & Use: Use of this public-domain resource is unrestricted, however, attribution is customary and requested.
9. No Copyright - Public Domain

• 2600:1700:D591:5F10:B880:39E:FB47:EEE5: See File:Frank Merriwell's Woodcraft (Tip Top Weekly).pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:44, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

References

The lady's assistant for executing useful and fancy designs in knitting, netting and crochet work.

3 vols (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)

I am interested mostly in the kintting patterns of volume 2 , but it seems sensible to grab the 3 volume set. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:30, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Early works by Alfred Tennyson

I've done a fair amount of work on Tennyson but can't find two of his earliest works on line (I've checked the usual IA/Hathi/BL/Bodleian/CUL, along with various US sites with publicly accessible digital scan content, Worldcat and online books pages). If anyone can access either of the following I'd appreciate a copy.

- Poems, by Two Brothers (1827), Alfred Tennyson and Charles Tennyson, London: printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers'-hall-court; and J. and J. Jackson, Louth.

- Poems, chiefly Lyrical (1830), by Alfred Tennyson, London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, Cornhill Chrisguise (talk) 23:00, 5 August 2023. (UTC)

• Chrisguise: For Poems, by Two Brothers, does this work? It’s a later reprint, but it’s a facsimile of the original. As for Poems, chiefly Lyrical, I couldn’t find any copies, so I ordered one through ILL. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:58, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
• Chrisguise: Poems, chiefly lyrical. Is the HathiTrust scan for Poems, by Two Brothers good? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:43, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

A summary of the evidences of Christianity (1797) - John Fawcett

I haven’t been able to find any free pdfs of it, would anyone be able to help? 203.206.17.177 11:59, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

A relatively poor quality scan of it exists in Eighteenth Century Collections Online https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0079700900. MarkLSteadman (talk) 20:01, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

A new request for editors/proofreaders to continue work on this project started several ago. The first 18 volumes are almost complete, volumes 19 to 29 need more proofing. There's a project page here: Wikisource:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica which describes other sources of text to aid proofing. Also see the EB 1911 Style Manual. DivermanAU (talk) 21:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

The Traffic Signs (Size, Colour and Type) Provisional Regulations 1933

This was the first set of UK rules about standardising road signs. It's not in the consolidated volume of Statutory Instruments for 1933 though. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:19, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: I tried to find these Regulations' citation, but cases and Hansard documents doesn't give out any information. It is therefore suspected that it's not even published as S.R & O. (and note that there was no S.I. in 1933).廣九直通車 (talk) 12:45, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

It was certainly not published in the consolidated volume, as the relevant volume states that given that in that era Regulations of a 'temporary' nature were not included in those volumes. Have you tried the London Gazette? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:56, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

The Regulations were certainly printed individually as I find references in the Gazette - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33799/page/1054 (for a 1932 version) and later at https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34011/page/58 for (1933).

These may have (by virtue of urgency) been directly printed by the Ministry of Transport.. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:16, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Work on Colors..

4 scans of Ridgway's work on Color Standards. (1910)

https://archive.org/details/colorstandardsco00ridg - Smithsonian https://archive.org/details/colorstandardsc00ridg -Smithsonian (2nd copy) https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125001039383 - Getty https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002026018 - Columbia

Which one to use though? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Volumes 1, 2 and 4 of Index:Horrid Mysteries Volume 3.djvu (1796)

I have been (slowly) doing work on Volume 3 of 'Horrid Mysteries', currently part of the 'monthly challenge'. However, it is only one volume of a four volume novel. Despite looking in a few places (BL, Bodelian, CUL, Google, IA, ECCO, etc.) I have not been able to locate scans of the other three volumes. The library stamp in Vol. 3. is from the Taylor Institution library, which is part of the Bodelian, and their catalogue identifies that they hold all four volumes but only v.3 has a scanned version.

The only place I found a full description (signatures, number of pages) of the four volumes is on the New York Public Library website.

The Manchester University Library has a link to a scanned version as part of the Corvey Collection at Nineteen Century Collections online (NCCO), to which I don't have access. Can anyone help?

Thanks Chrisguise (talk) 12:17, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

There is also a scanned version of UVA's copy gated in AMScholar: https://www.amscholar.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/GF_Part1_Reel7_Vol1 MarkLSteadman (talk) 22:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Please add this translation c:File:Mexico by Mayakovsky.pdf of the poem ru:Мексика (Маяковский) written by Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky to Wikisource.

The PDF contains many images from Wikimedia Commons, if you want, you can include them.

Or point me to a good example of formatting a poem at Wikisource so that I add it myself. Thanks! -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 04:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

The first question is: Whose English translation is that, and where was it published? --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:47, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

"Trans. w:Adam Halbur and Andrew Krizhanovsky", we published it at the w:Academia.edu.

Is it true that only texts published by an official publisher can be added to Wikisource? Is Academia.edu not good enough? -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 05:14, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

OK. I have read "Wikisource:What Wikisource includes": "... These as well as any artistic works must have been published in a medium that includes peer review or editorial controls; this excludes self-publication." -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 06:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

EB1926

Now that 1926 Encyclopædia Britannica (13th ed.) is in PD - would be great if it could be made available on Wikisource as well. The Internet Archive seems to have a decent scan. ネイ (talk) 12:49, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Doing an edition of EB is an immense quantity of work, and I don't think it's worth doing every one that enters PD. I'd wait four years for EB1933, as the next after that is '73, which will not be PD for ~43 years, so '33 will be (till then) the "last" edition. — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 13:10, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes for a regular edition; EB1926 is a supplement edition so it only contains 3 new volumes. The rest are reprints and do not require separate work. ネイ (talk) 06:48, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

If it's the fac-simile kind of reprint, then indeed, seems a good idea. — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 17:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner

Illustration in a derivative book about John Tanner.

Hi, I would like to suggest A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner by Author:John Tanner (w:John Tanner). The correspoding file is allready available if I'm right here File:Tanner - James, Narrative of captivity and adventures of John Tanner, 1830.djvu. Its translation in French is allready available on Wikisource in French fr:Mémoires de John Tanner. I used it (and the article on en.wikipedia) to write vikidia:John Tanner. Thanks! Astirmays (talk) 06:50, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Billboard (November 1894)

First issue of Billboard Magazine. Although there is a scan here on the Internet Archive, the edges are completely unreadable. Norbillian (talk) 13:08, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

(Can't help you about that, just wanted to note that in general, for IA scans, addresses in the form of "https://archive.org/details/billboard01-1894-11" are preferred to direct file links, as it allows other to see the full details of the item easier.) — Alien  3
3 3 13:58, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

"Letters captured from Baron Ungern in Mongolia" (Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, 1921)

This pamphlet is highly important for anti-communism movements before WWII.

I have read the some translated text, but I would like to see the original text. 106.73.67.160 14:50, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

The original text would presumably not be English, so it would be out of scope for the English Wikisource.--Prosfilaes (talk) 01:10, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for my bad English. I meant I've read some Japanese translation of the text and it was deeply interesting so I want to see its origin, the English booklet which was sent to USA during Washington Naval Conference. --106.73.67.160 04:36, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Pre-1930 issues of American Speech

Has articles on the way that Americans talk and interact with the world. The full-text articles are available on JSTOR, and I would like them to be preserved here, on Wikisource. CitationsFreak (talk) 07:21, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Requested text: Ogden Nicholas, "Modern Chormatics"

A fairly detailed late 19th century color science and 'chromatics' text:-

Various published before 1912 (when referenced by Ridgway:-

https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=Modern+Chromatics&sort=-date&and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1879+TO+1912%5D

There a numerous editions, which one did Ridgway reference, specifically? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:35, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Letters of Emily Dickinson (1931)

According to TE(æ)A,ea. (discussion), this work was not renewed and is therefore in the public domain (though it would enter the public domain anyway in a year or so). We have 19 usnourced poems by Dickinson that are included in that volume, but I have been unable to locate a scan. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 14:28, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Is it different than this? The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson/Letters of Emily Dickinson. I can see that there are several editions, but it's not clear to me if the contents are meaningfully different. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:29, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

• Justin (koavf): Per this discussion, the 1931 edition has several new poems which the 1924 edition did not include. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:48, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

  It looks like there's a copy here that may be released by the Internet Archive on January 1: https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-ASL-268/page/n9/mode/2up ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:14, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

   This section is considered resolved, for the purposes of archiving. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:33, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Singaporean legislation

After successfully obtaining some scans of Malaysian legislation (kudos to PeaceSeekers!), I'm trying to expand my collection to pre-1998 Singaporean legislation (unfortunately found nowhere on the open Internet). The Gazette scans of the following Singaporean legislation are requested for their importance:

• Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance, 1955 (Ordinance 26 of 1955)—introduced detention without trial, also still "temporary" current law now
• Republic of Singapore Independence Act, 1965 (Act 9 of 1965)—which implements the ejection of Singapore from Malaysia
• Administration of Muslim Law Act, 1966 (Act 27 of 1966)—sharia as imposed in Singapore
• Vandalism Act, 1966 (Act 38 of 1966)—caning for vandals
• Undesirable Publications Act, 1967 (Act 3 of 1967)—censorship legislation
• Enlistment Act, 1970 (Act 25 of 1970)—conscription imposed
• Misuse of Drugs Act, 1973 (Act 5 of 1973)—Singapore's drug control law
  • Misuse of Drugs Act, 1975 (Act 49 of 1975)—mandatory death penalty for drug offences first appeared
• Application of English Law Act 1993 (Act 35 of 1993)—extended several British legislation post independence (normally countries do the opposite)
• Regulation of Imports and Exports (Chewing Gum) Regulations 1995 (G. N. No. S 533/1995)—one of the legislation implementing the chewing gum ban

I know this is a long list to do, and I do try to avoid long texts (i.e. over 100 pages). Hopefully someone can help with obtaining scans, thank you!廣九直通車 (talk) 10:34, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

@Sgconlaw: Like to see if you can help with getting the scans, many thanks!廣九直通車 (talk) 10:37, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't have a copy of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance, 1955 (Ordinance 26 of 1955). As for the others, I think you wouldn't be able to upload any statutes published after 1955, as Singapore government publications are copyrighted for 70 years after the year of publication: see "c:Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Singapore". Sgconlaw (talk) 13:26, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

For English Wikisource, U.S. copyright law is applicable (WS:COPY, The copyright laws applicable to Wikisource are primarily those of the United States of America...), and they don't recognize copyright in legislation, even by foreign governments―see section 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices (at pp. 84-85).

Moreover, the Republic of Singapore Independence Act 1965 has just gone through the 70-year limit (1965+70=2025).廣九直通車 (talk) 05:35, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Some legal cases and materials

I occasionally need to direct people to the below set of exemplary cases (and a few non-case government documents). I would love to be able to direct them to Wikisource for these rather than one of the commercial citation services. Any takers for any of the below?

• Rempfer v. Von Eschenbach, 535 F. Supp. 2d 99 (D.D.C. 2008)
  • CourtListener
• Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980)
  • HathiTrust
• US v. Martin, 228 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2000)
• Barton & Pittinos, Inc. v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 118 F.3d 178 (3d Cir. 1997)
• United States ex rel. Krahling v. Merck & Co., 44 F. Supp. 3d 581 (E.D. Pa. 2014)
  • CourtListener
• Braidwood v. Becerra (Fifth Circuit decision)
  • slip op.
• Mazer v. DC Dep’t of Health, No. 1:21-cv-01782 (TNM) (March 18, 2022)
  • CourtListener (although the opinion is cited as Booth v. Bowser)
• In the Matter of Dr. Paul Thomas, Oregon Health Authority (July 12, 2019) (will be provided)
  • this looks correct, but has wrong date
• Mont. Med. Ass'n v. Knudsen, CV 21-108-M-DWM (D. Mont. Dec. 9, 2022)
  • CourtListener
• NFIB v. OSHA, Nos. 21A244] 595 U. S. ____ (Jan. 13, 2022)
  • Supreme Court
• Biden v. Missouri, No. 21A240, 595 U. S. ____ (Jan. 13, 2022)
  • Supreme Court
• Wong Wai v. Williamson, 103 F. 1/Jew Ho v. Williamson, 103 F. 10 (C.C.N.D. Cal. 1900)
  • IA
• Doe v. Rumsfeld, 297 F.Supp.2d 119 (D. D.C. 2003)
• Rempfer v. Sharfstein, 583 F.3d 860 (D.C. Cir. 2009)
  • Justia
• Wen S. Shen, An Overview of State and Federal Authority to Impose Vaccination Requirements, Congressional Research Service (May 22, 2019)
  • Internet Archive
• Jones v. State, Dept. of Health, 18 P.3d 1189 (Wyo. 2001)
• Head v. Adams Farm Living, Inc., 775 S.E.2d 904 (N.C. App. 2015)
  • Justia
• Workman v. Mingo County Board of Education, 667 F. Supp. 2d 679 (W.D. W. Va. 2009)
  • CourtListener (as Workman v. Mingo County Schools)
• Brown v. Stone, 378 So. 2d 218 (Miss. 1979)
• Bosarge v. Edney, 1:22-cv-00233-HSO-BWR (S.D. Miss., Apr. 18, 2023)
  • CourtListener
• Flynn v. Estevez, 221 So. 3d 1241 (Fla. App. 2017)
  • Justia
• Phillips v. City of New York, 775 F.3d 538 (2d Cir. 2015)
  • Justia
• Nikolao v. Lyon, 875 F.3d 310 (6th Cir. 2017)
  • Justia
• Chenzira v. Cincinnati Children’s Hosp. Med. Ctr, No. 1:11-CV-00917, 2012 WL 6721098 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 27, 2012)
  • CourtListener
• EEOC, What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws, Technical Assistance Questions and Answers (Dec. 16, 2020), Part K. Vaccinations, available at https://www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws
• Virginia Mason Hospital v. Washington State Nurses Association, 511 F.3d 908 (9th Cir. 2007)
  • Justia
• Ruggiero v. Mount Nittany Medical Center, 736 F. App'x 35 (3rd Cir. 2018)
  • GovInfo
• Hustvet v. Allina Health Sys., 910 F.3d 399 (8th Cir. 2018)
  • Justia
• Cunningham v. Univ. of Haw., No. 22-cv-00504 (D. Haw., Feb. 14, 2023)
  • CourtListener
• Horvath v. City of Leander, No. 18-51011 (5th Cir. Jan., 2020)
  • Justia
• Brown v. Children's Hosp. of Phila., 794 F. A’ppx 226 (3d Cir. Feb. 2020)
  • Justia
• EEOC v. Baystate Med., No. 3:16-cv-30086 (D. Mass. June 2020)
  • I found a GovInfo opinion, but it’s from earlier in the litigation. I’m not sure to what opinion “June 2020” refers.
• Jenkins v. Mercy Hospital Rogers, No. 5:19-CV-05221 (W.D. Ark. March 2020)
  • CourtListener
• Order Granting Motion for Summary Judgment, Garza v. Houston Methodist Hospital, No. 4:22-cv-4288 (August 15, 2025)
  • longer, shorter
• Massing v. Secretary of HHS, 926 F.2d 1133 (Fed. Cir. 1991)
• Moss v. Merck & Co., 381 F.3d 501, 503 (5th Cir. 2004)
• Althen v. Secretary of Health & Human Services, 418 F.3d 1274 (Fed. Cir. 2005)
• Cloer v. Secretary of Health & Human Services, 654 F.3d 1322 (Fed. Cir. 2011)
  • Justia
• Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, 562 U.S. 223 (2011)
  • Supreme Court (PDF 444)
• DeCostanzo v. Glaxosmithkline PLC, No. 21-CV-4869 (E.D.N.Y., Nov. 30 2022)
  • CourtListener (Also, it’s GlaxoSmithKline, and from the 29th, not the 30th)
• Bakeman v. Secretary of HHS, No. 18-1861V, 2020 BL 178993 (Fed. Cl. Spec. Mstr. Apr. 13, 2020)
  • Court Web-site
• Parker v. St. Lawrence County Public Health Department, 102 A.D.3d 140 (N.Y. App. Div. 2012)
• M.T. v. Walmart Stores, Inc., Nos. 125,151, 125,268 (Kan. App. 2023)
  • Justia
• Monette v. Manatee Mem’l Hosp., 579 So.2d 195 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)
• Rhea v. Board of Education of Devils Lake, 41 N.D. 449, 171 N.W. 103 (1919)
  • Index already uploaded (page)
• Hammond v. Town of Hyde Park, 195 Mass. 29, 80 N.E. 650 (Mass. 1907)
  • HathiTrust
• Millican v. United States, 744 F. Supp.2d 296 (D.D.C. 2010)
  • CourtListener
• Blackwell v. Wyeth, 971 A.2d 235, 408 Md. 575 (Md. App. 2009)
  • Justia

Cheers! BD2412 T 04:46, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

• BD2412: I’ve left hyper-links to scans of what ones I could find. The rest are generally post-1930, pre-Internet decisions not by the Supreme Court. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 14:49, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

• Many thanks. I expect that all of them can be found available online, though I can do something about those that can't. BD2412 T 15:48, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

• I will upload some of these to Commons. Yann (talk) 09:51, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

• A copy of this seems to be available at File:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 3.djvu.
• File:An Overview of State and Federal Authority to Impose Vaccination Requirements, LSB10300.pdf
• File:Massachusetts reports, decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, v. 195, 1907.pdf
• File:United States reports. Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court, v.447, 1979.pdf
• @BD2412: Please check the files above, and add categories. Thanks, Yann (talk) 13:15, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

• @Yann: Many thanks! Which cases are in File:Massachusetts reports, decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, v. 195, 1907.pdf and File:United States reports. Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court, v.447, 1979.pdf? BD2412 T 17:03, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

• @BD2412: These are books from HathiTrust listed above. Yann (talk) 17:08, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

• Ok, I see now. Thanks again! BD2412 T 17:15, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Twenty-Point Mah Jong

By R. F. Foster, about 1924. Not available online (I checked HathiTrust properly this time). Arcorann (talk) 08:42, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

There are two works: One is the Vanity Fair article in August 1924, (scan here [8]), the other is the 157 pg. book ([9]). That said the rules were then published in the September 1924 issue, so I wonder how much of the content is just a reprint of the magazine articles. MarkLSteadman (talk) 12:40, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

I was thinking of the book version; even if both articles were reprinted in full most of the book would be original. Arcorann (talk) 23:50, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

• Arcorann: I have sent a request for the book version to be shipped via ILL; I will hopefully be able to scan it when it arrives. (I’ve seen you’ve started work on Index:Foster on Mah Jong.pdf, as well.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:41, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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looking for a scan of The Torquemada Puzzle Book

(cross-posting from Wikisource:Scriptorium#looking for a scan of The Torquemada Puzzle Book)

this is definitely an extremely long shot, but does anyone own a copy or scan of The Torquemada Puzzle Book (published 1934 in the uk), which contains Cain's Jawbone? it should be in the public domain, as its copyright was not renewed in the united states, and the author died in 1939. i've tried searching for a scan and came up with nothing. ltbdl (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

To be clear, are you saying that the 2021 edition of Cain's Jawbone is not acceptable? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:13, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

@koavf: hmm, didn't really think about it. would it be acceptable? ltbdl (talk) 18:18, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware (I'm not knowledgeable about this), it's just a new cover, so the actual content of the book is the same stuff as the 1934 version. If you can confirm, I could get a PDF of that easily. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:23, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

maaaaaybe? i'd need the original copy to check, in which case we're back where we started. ltbdl (talk) 18:36, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

• ltbdl: I have sent for it through ILL. I know that the original Puzzle Book contains more than just “Cain’s Jawbone,” but I don’t know what the reprint contains. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:06, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

This doesn't seem to be in the public domain. Works published only in the UK after 1922 by English authors who died after 1926 were restored by the URAA. Basically everything in life+70 nations published after 1930 was restored by the URAA and is now copyright for 95 years from publication.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:07, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

...goddammit. sorry for wasting your time, everyone. ltbdl (talk) 03:36, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

• ltbdl: It’s not too bad, if it’s still copyrighted it will only be for a few more years. It may have been simultaneously published. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:09, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

  Per https://books.google.com/books?id=u2RbAAAAIAAJ it was published in London Nov. 12 1934 and copyrighted in the US Jan. 7 1935. MarkLSteadman (talk) 19:17, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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Deguello Report

looking for a scan of the original Deguello Report (1976). i found an abridged 40-page reprint quite easily, but the original 52 pages eludes me. according to a discussion on wikipedia, "the original exists at the University of Kansas's Laird Wilcox extremism collection, and 1 or 2 other libraries." thanks in advance. ltbdl (talk) 07:37, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Did you write the library? I've gotten scans from academic libraries before by asking. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:26, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

i've just sent them an email. ltbdl (talk) 02:56, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

they're charging $14 for a scan. ltbdl (talk) 16:32, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

• ltbdl: Is the 40-page version not just the same text as the 52-page version, but reformatted for the book republication? I don’t see any indication that the Encyclopedia of White Power reprint was abridged. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:17, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

  from the discussion: "it doesn't have the home addresses of everyone involved, which the original did". ltbdl (talk) 02:48, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

  • ltbdl: Alright, I’ve sent for it through ILL; apparently WSU is willing to send it from their collections. If not I might have to goad them into scanning it, but it’s only 52 pages, that’s not egregiously long. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 03:26, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

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Maajh: the American version of an ancient Chinese game

By Viola L. Cecil, first published 1938, copyright not renewed after 28 years. My understanding is that the lack of renewal means it's in the public domain (but correct me if I'm wrong). Not available online, as far as I can tell. Edderiofer (talk) 21:53, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

I wrote this person in the hopes that I can get a digital copy. If I hear back, I'll update this thread. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:30, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. If they don't respond, WorldCat says that there are copies in the Cleveland Public Library, New York Public Library, and Library of Congress. Edderiofer (talk) 18:15, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

The Poison Plague (1929), by William Levine

We've got two of the mysteries by William Levine, but nobody seems to have the first one. There's a note that it "first appeared in 1922 as a serial in Argosy All-Story Weekly", but the Internet Archive doesn't have the right issues. (I don't know if there is any major differences between the two. Prosfilaes (talk) 23:21, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the first issue is dated 1922-08-05 and lasts five issues; the novel version is from 1929. Both are published under his pseudonym "William Levinrew". ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:08, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

National Mah Jongg League "Cards" and rulebooks up to and including 1963

OK, this one's a bit harder. As far as I can tell, the National Mah Jongg League never renewed its copyright protection on any of its works originally published before 1964. The issue here is that it's not immediately certain what works exist, and I don't believe there are publicly-available scans of any of them.

The texts that I know of, covered in this request, include:

• The rulebook Maajh: the American version of an ancient Chinese game by Viola Cecil (1938). Listed above.
• The rulebook "That's It", the Authentic System of Playing Chinese Tiles by Dorothy Sklarew Meyerson (1945).
• All editions of the "Card": this was a card titled Official National Mah Jongg League Standard Hands and Rules, with a new edition published every year featuring drastically different content. As far as I can tell, the first Card was labelled 1940 but published in 1939. All Cards up to the 1963 Card (listed as "1963-1964", and published 1963) should be in the public domain, as far as I can tell. One can sometimes find photos of these on eBay, and sometimes the interiors. I might ask some contacts to see if they're willing to scan any of these for me, but I'm not so optimistic.

There's also:

• Possibly other editions of the National Mah Jongg League's rulebooks. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a list of all editions of these rulebooks. I don't even know if anyone has collected any of the rulebooks between "That's It" (1945) and, say, Mah Jongg Made Easy (the League's modern rulebook of the 2000s).

My copyright checks only checked for books whose author is listed as "National Mah Jongg League", or whose title includes "Mah Jongg" in some spelling or another. So it is possible that later editions of "That's It" might have been renewed, or that there is some other League publication whose name I don't know, published by a different League member, which was renewed. My plan is to check renewal if I hear of any other book titles/editions other than the ones I've so far listed.

Edderiofer (talk) 18:02, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

• Looking over the copyright registrations, the original card is “Official 1941 standard hands and rules” (published 1940) and subsequent editions are “Official standard hands and rules” (1941–42 edition, published 1941). (I couldn’t find a registration for a 1940 ed., pub’d 1939.) Unfortunately, it seems like none of these were preserved by the Library of Congress (or any other library); the 1998 card is the only one available. If they are the same as the cards shown here, scanning them should be quite easy, if we allow normal photographs of them. Incidentally, I believe I’m looking for a library to send Maajh, but if that is the case, I haven’t had any luck yet. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:19, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

  If they are the same as the cards shown here, scanning them should be quite easy, if we allow normal photographs of them.

  Good to know that normal photographs are allowed as scans.

  Incidentally, I believe I’m looking for a library to send Maajh, but if that is the case, I haven’t had any luck yet.

  Good luck. Edderiofer (talk) 05:46, 1 July 2026 (UTC)