User talk:Herr Rau

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Again, welcome! --Xover (talk) 13:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Adding texts
Hi Herr Rau,

I noticed you made some corrections to Unhappy Far-Off Things and mentioned comparing to a scan. See Help:Adding texts for how we try to add texts to Wikisource nowadays.

This particular text is an older one and was copied from Project Gutenberg instead of being Proofread here. We've stopped doing that because Gutenberg tend to conflate editions and do not make note of their actual sources and changes. As you have noticed.

In any case, if you have a scan of the first edition of this text we could help you get set up with a proper proofreading project, so you could compare the text side-by-side and improve the quality of our text significantly.

I've left the standard welcome message above, and as it notes you can use the helpme template to request assistance; or you can post a message on Scriptorium/Help. Don't be shy about asking for help or asking questions: the community here is very welcoming and helpful to newcomers (when they manage to tear themselves away from their own projects long enough to notice one). :) --Xover (talk) 13:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for making me feel welcome! I'm busy right now, but I will look into proofreading in the next few days. Herr Rau (talk) 15:21, 13 May 2024 (UTC)