User:Xpctr8

Awards for participation

	Proofread of the Month September 2014 Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine

	Proofread of the Month November 2014 Special: Validation month 26 works

	Proofread of the Month June 2015 The Descent of Man

	Proofread of the Month July 2015 Chuang Tzŭ

	Proofread of the Month July 2015 (second work) Myth, Ritual, and Religion

	Proofread of the Month August 2015 How to Know the Ferns

	Proofread of the Month April 2016 (second work) Poets of John Company

TODO List

• Layout/Polish on The History of British Commerce
• Guidance on annotations and linking in Hist. Brit. Com. (Specifically, people and events referenced, linking to sources or WP articles. Link in text? Annotation box floating right?)
• Application of {{deeplink needed}} on citations
• Fix two problematic pages in source file for Index:A_History_of_Mathematics_(1893).djvu, complete proofreading.
  • Clean pages available at archive.org

Current Projects

• Index:Account of John Harrison and his chronometer.djvu - Manuscript
• Index:Twelve_Years_in_a_Monastery_(1897).djvu - Already created/proofread, but pages not marked as such.

Past Projects

• The History of British Commerce/Volume 1 (1844)
• The History of British Commerce/Volume 2 (1844)
• The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States (1861)
• Memoirs of a Trait in the Character of George III. of these United Kingdoms (1835)
• A Practical Treatise on Brewing (1849)
• Method of Finding the Longitude (1823)
• A Mainsail Haul (1905/13) - Mainly images and publishing to mainspace, User:R. J. Mathar did the bulk of the proofreading in 2015
• Ten nights in a bar-room and what I saw there

Future Projects

• Index:Craik_History_of_British_Commerce_Vol_3.djvu
• Political Poems and Songs Related to English History - Includes the "Libel of English Policy", referenced several times in Hist. Brit. Com.
  • Uploaded to IA from Google scans, for djvu conversion: Volume 1 and Volume 2
  • Guidance needed on how (or whether) to bring to WS. The bulk of the poems in each volume are in Latin...inappropriate? Transcribe only English language works here?
• Macpherson, Annals of Commerce - 4 vols @ ~700pp each
• Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods - Fantasy field guide (US, 1910)
• American Brewer's Review - Late 19th/Early 20th c. industry journal; industry statistics, lots of pre-prohibition historical content/opinons.
• Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England - 1884
• Journal of the South Carolina Secession Convention (1860-62)
• Mann, Franklin, The Bullet's Flight from Powder to Target. (1909)
• Extensive tables needed: Index:Dawson_-_Australian_aborigines_(1900).djvu

Portal: Longitude

Creation of a new portal around works related to the Board of Longitude. Works to include:

• Memoirs of a Trait in the Character of George III. of these United Kingdoms
• Baylee, John Tyrell; Method of Finding the Longitude (1823)
• Acts of Parliament setting up and affecting the board:
  • Act of 12 Queen Anne setting up the Board in 1714 ("Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act")
• Various documents from the Board
  • Start at Cambridge Digital Library index of Board of Longitude
• Papers relating to "the great clock" (Big Ben?) at Westminster, Appendix No. 5 referencing Harrison
• Abstracts of Papers Printed by the Royal Society (Phil. Trans.), numerous references
• Address of M. Hoene Wronski, to the British Board of Longitude - Presentation of a celestial solution, tr. from French (1820)
• An Account of the Going of Mr. John Harrison's Watch - Worldcat link, apparently no scan online
• Bio of John Harrison by the Worshipful Company of Clock Makers, see p. 177-81