User talk:Freejazzisbetter

— billinghurst  sDrewth  04:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

The long s, ſ
I would like to validate English texts which contain the letter ſ (the long s). In many of the texts that have been proofread, where this letter appears in the original scan, it is converted into the modern English 's'. For example: Perſons is changed to Persons. Should all the modern 's' letters be changed back as in the original scan, or should they be left as the modern 's'?

For example, see https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Paradise_Regained_and_Samson_Agonistes_(1671).djvu/129
 * Preserving the long s is optional when proofreading; and when validating it should generally not be changed back. The exception is if the proofreader(s) was inconsistent in preserving or modernising it: it should be consistent within a work. Incidentally, I started out preserving these religiously, but have over time concluded that it provides very little value to compensate for the costs (effort, complexity). It's a typographic feature introduced by the printer, rather than something reflecting authorial intent, and we only approximate, not duplicate, most such features anyway. --Xover (talk) 07:48, 14 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice, I agree it is not worth the effort. --Freejazzisbetter (talk) 09:14, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Splitting lines of poetry
Is there a consensus on how to format poems with lines that run onto new lines? For example, see: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_green_helmet_and_other_poems.pdf/27 I don't see any reason why the each line should be split over two lines + indented. Should the poem be formatted like this, or should each line be collected on one line, regardless of if it is split in the source text?


 * It really depends on why the lines are split. In this particular case, it's solely because of the page width and not authorial intent. My principal evidence for this is the hyphenated word. So, please feel free to unsplit the lines as part of validating the text. By the way, when you use the helpme template, use it without the "tlx". That way it flags to us that you need help. The "tlx" blocks it from flagging. When we've helped you, then add the "tlx". Beeswaxcandle (talk) 10:01, 15 September 2020 (UTC)