User talk:Liekah

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Again, welcome! --Xover (talk) 08:18, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Mother Goose
Hi Liekah,

Welcome to Wikisource, and thank you for your contributions at The Real Mother Goose/Humpty Dumpty and The Real Mother Goose/Jack and Jill. We very much appreciate anyone that wants to help us with "the free library that anyone can improve" (as our tagline goes), and I hate to "look a gift horse in the mouth", but I do need to bring up a few issues related to these.

First, while we do wish to create the world's largest free library, our goal is specifically to host previously published works as published. That means we don't want to host just any version of these rhymes, but rather one or more specific versions that were published a book or magazine (or similar). It also means we want to know the specific source for each text, and to have a scanned version of that book against which to verify the transcription here.

The two rhymes which you have added have neither scan-backing nor a specified source. In addition, you have added them as sub-pages of a work for which we do have scan-backing: The Real Mother Goose is backed by the index you'll find at Index:The Real Mother Goose.djvu, which is specifically the 1916 Junior Edition published in New York by Rand McNally & Company. As you can see, that edition is complete except for the illustrations (which is why we haven't made those visible to visitors yet).

Now we do host multiple editions of works (we have several different editions of Shakespeare's plays, just to take an obvious example), but we also want each edition to be distinct and to reflect the originally published version. If you want to add an alternate edition of these rhymes, the correct approach would start with finding a scan of a previously published edition that is either in the public domain or freely licensed; upload that to Wikimedia Commons; set up an Index:, and then proofread that. The process isn't nearly as user-friendly as we would like (lots of obscure technical stuff that is hard for normal people to understand), but the community here is usually pretty good about helping with that if needed. I've posted some general information links up above, including pointers to how to get assistance if you need it.

Regards, --Xover (talk) 08:18, 31 May 2020 (UTC)