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 * *See also https://biblio.wiki for PMA-50 works

I am not here anymore.

I am done contributing @ ws/en, until the community figures out what the hell they are doing;

At the very least as regards respecting appropriate deletion procedures.

otherwise, i'm just wasting my time.

OTHER online PD "e-book" sites:

biblio.wiki

gutenberg.net

gutenberg.au

gutenberg.ca

fadedpage.com

archive.org

____.za

etc.

as of now, there are literally hundreds of thousands of public domain "e-book" titles online (at least), free, & available in CLEAN COPY

what makes wikisource "special" (&/or useful), in terms of potential at least, comes down to 2 things:

1. we have greater flexibility in ORGANISING content (& work).

2. we are "plugged in" to wikipedia, wmc, wikiquote, wikidata, wikibooks/versity, etc.

users can google, go to the wikipedia article, then find everything related (at least everything free-to-use; pd or cc);

"one-stop shopping"

a user, student say, should be able to start with the wp article about H. L. Mencken,

get some images & maybe audio/video from wmc

(, maybe a few choice quotes for their homework from wq),

AND get the full text of EVERYTHING MENCKEN HAS WRITTEN, -pre 1923 at least,

from "us"

when wikisource/en can do that, then we will be "fulfilling our mission".

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

more stats for ws/en: https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=all-access&source=pageviews&agent=user&range=latest-30&sites=en.wikisource.org

& still more stats: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm#lang_en