Wikisource:Requested texts/Archives/2010

Works in progress

 * The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; (Wikipedia) (1749 novel) by Henry Fielding; Full text at Project Gutenberg
 * Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
 * Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion
 * A Night in a Moorish Harem (completing, Sherurcij (talk) (CRIMINALS ARE MADE, NOT BORN) 22:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC))
 * Pausanias' Description of Greece 2 AD English Translation date unknown
 * Nibelungenlied (w)
 * Works by Victor Hugo - Cromwell w
 * The Clansman, available here, historically relevant text that spawned the film The Birth of a Nation.
 * La Marseillaise (fr:La Marseillaise, La Marseillaise)
 * Henry Thew Stephenson, The Elizabethan People Index:Elizabethan People.djvu now ✅

Incomplete, idle, no scan
Works moved from mainspace and subpaged here.
 * Requested texts/Democracy in America, short intro and framework only

Fulfilled requests

 * "In Defence of Hinduism", by Swami Vivekananda found under the title of The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 4/Writings: Prose/Reply to the Madras address
 * Works of Napoleon I (including his essays, dispatches, bulletins, works of fiction, essays, proclamations,memoirs and conversations and dictations at St.Helena)
 * Works of Mao Zedong (political speeches/essays that qualify for Template:PD-CN)
 * William Morris News from Nowhere
 * Works by Clark Ashton Smith,
 * Works and Letters by Sigmund Freud
 * Works by John Ruskin,
 * Works by Mohandas K. Gandhi
 * Missing Robert E. Howard 'Conan' works published in Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s - all are in the public domain now
 * Herman Melville's Clarel added by user:Llamascout
 * Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, Redaction Sources, Book of Generations (contains the Generations Stories from Genesis)
 * Comment This would just be some extracts from the complete text of Genesis, which is already on Wikisource.--Poetlister 19:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Maryland Toleration Act, see wikipedia article (1649), see i.e. [The Avalon Project.
 * Tristram Shandy (by Laurence Sterne) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman available at Project Gutenberg

Copyrighted and restricted by copyright holder

 * Anarcho-syndicalism from Rudolph Rocker - English translations presumably first published in England. Rocker would maintain copyright in this 70-year-pma country well beyond 1996.  Works in copyright after 1996 in England receive URAA copyright restoration in the U.S. with a term of 95 years.  No English translations of Rocker's works before 1923 seem to exist.
 * Return to Thyna by Hédi Bouraoui - 1996 work
 * The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios — copyright 2005
 * Our Town by Thornton Wilder — 1939, renewed 1966
 * Rats Saw God — very recent work
 * The Artless Artist by Don Landry — 1964 work so probably still under copyright due to automatic renewal — WorldCat indicated 1964 Copyright (and thus automatic renewal) for this work.
 * The Miracle Worker by William Gibson(1975 Bantam edition of The Miracle Worker, distributed by AOP ,if possible)— Various forms copyrighted 1956, 1957, 1959 and 1960 and renewed
 * Records of Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou — WorldCat only lists 1970 English text, may not even be translation
 * Arthashastra by Koutilya, also known as Chanakya or Vishnuguptha, who was the prime minister at the court of Chandraguptha Maurya, king of the Maurya dynasty of ancient India, around 4th century BCE.— no translation listed on WorldCat before 1984.
 * A Book of Five Rings (by Miyamoto Musashi, 1645) — no translation listed on WorldCat before 1974.

Works in the public domain in source countries but copyrighted in the USA
American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term may cause certain works to be considered copyrighted in the USA even if they are in the public domain in their source countries. If a work has been legally published in the USA and another jurisdiction, it is anyway subject to the USA copyright term even if the USA had accepted the rule of the shorter term.

Administrators: Whenever deleting works in the public domain in source countries but copyrighted in the USA, please list them below so they can be more easily submitted again if the USA accepts the rule of the shorter term.


 * The Aquatic (Naiad) Stage of the British Dragonflies (Paraneuroptera) by Author:William John Lucas, The Ray Society, London 1930 (scans can be found at commons:Category:Lucas - Naiad Stage of Dragonflies)

Declined requests

 * Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637) - Ferrar's pamphlet Sir Thomas Smith's Misgovernance of the Virginia Company published by the Roxborough Club in 1990. -- No evidence of work having been published.
 * The disorder Dyslexia unless it has already been done in which case ignore - most private sources on this recently defined disorder are copyrighted for the purpose of raising money for their respective organizations.
 * Wildlife - This too is a subject, not a source text but see this page on wildlife at Project Gutenberg or Category:Biology here at Wikisource

UK Legislation

 * UK Statutory Instrument 1957 No. 13 - Traffic Signs And General Directions 1957 - This is an item of secondary legislation which gave the design of UK road signs, the 1957 edition is the last version before the UK's road signs were radically re-designed. It's also coincidentally the most recent version to not be under Crown Copyright.

Not sure of possible sources for scans, but you would need to find a good version as IIRC the original had a lot of diagrams.

I'm requesting this to help resolve a deletion debate at Commons concerning a 'Motorway' Pictogram. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:23, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Not progressed further — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:05, 21 October 2020 (UTC)


 * This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:05, 21 October 2020 (UTC)