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Stories by Foreign Authors

The following discussion is closed:

Volumes proofread and transcluded. MarkLSteadman (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Missing volumes in Stories by Foreign Authors:

• Polish-Greek-Belgian-Hungarian
• German I

Mpaa (talk) 09:26, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

• Mpaa: German I (pdf), Polish—Greek—Belgian—Hungarian (pdf). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:28, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: MarkLSteadman (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Latter-Day Psalms (1914)

This section was archived on a request by: 16:24, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Latter-Day Psalms (1914) by Olaf Stapledon is the only work of his that seems to be PD. Prosfilaes (talk) 22:54, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes: File:Latter-Day Psalms.pdf. I can create an index as well, if you’d like. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:33, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Scarface (1930 novel)

This section was archived on a request by: 16:25, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Would anyone be able to help in uploading an edition of the original Scarface novel by Armitage Trail (real name: Maurice R. Coons)?

I did some digging earlier, and discovered that the book was never renewed. I have found this edition and this other edition on Internet Archive as borrow books. Both feature covers that would need to be removed, but otherwise they appear to be the original unaltered text. And they make no further claims of copyrighted elements. I know these are not downloadable, but if anyone has these editions we can use them from other scan sources.

I'd like to see it get transcribed. And at worst it is definitively public domain in 2026. SDudley (talk) 01:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Since the author died of a heart attack only 9 months after the book was published, there was likely no one to renew the copyright. I have also checked and found no renewal in the usual databases. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for double checking! There was a new copyright for the book in 1960, but it was only for the new foreword added it seems. SDudley (talk) 02:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

• SDudley: I have ordered the book, it should hopefully come in fairly soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you! That is greatly appreciated. I will not let the contribution go to waste. I will gladly be of help in transcribing. SDudley (talk) 02:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

  • SDudley: Here you go: File:Scarface.pdf. The image on the title page can be extracted from this file: File:Scarface-title.tif. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:42, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

    Thank you! This is greatly appreciated. And it is nice to have something new to read. :) SDudley (talk) 16:09, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Images for The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time/Volume 1/Facsimiles

This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:59, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time contains facsimiles of several musical manuscripts, but the scans of facsimiles which we see in the source file are not of great quality. Plate 1 was easy to track down, and I found a source for Plate 5 with a little work, but the rest are giving me more trouble. I would like high-quality images for the following pages:

• Plate 2.—“Ah, the syghes that come fro’ my heart,” from a manuscript of the time of Henry VIII., in the British Museum (MSS. Reg., Append., 58).
• Plate 3.—“Green Sleeves,” from “William Ballet’s Lute Book.” In the library of Trinity College, Dublin (D. I. 21).
• Plate 4.—“Sellenger’s Round,” from a manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum, at Cambridge, commonly known as “Queen Elizabeth’s Virginal Book.”

—CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:18, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

• CalendulaAsteraceae: I have sent in a request for plates 2–5 to be scanned in high quality. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 05:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 05:31, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  • CalendulaAsteraceae: Here you go: File:Popular Music of the Olden Time (vol. 1 plates).pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

    @TE(æ)A,ea.: Thank you! Do you have the pages in an image format, or should I extract them from the PDF? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 01:51, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

    • CalendulaAsteraceae: I only received the PDF. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:23, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

      Cool, good to know! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:58, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

The Paddington Mystery (1925) by John Rhode / Cecil John Charles Street

It's a series starting mystery that's not completely unknown. Unfortunately, neither Archive.org, Hathitrust, or Google Books have it, with Abebooks having the first usable version at $599, with one at $51 from 1934 that might be usable. If I knew that that last one would be usable, I'd buy it, but six hundred is a little out of my budget.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:22, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes: I’ve ordered a copy of the 1925 edition through ILL; I’ll keep you updated. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:09, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
• @TE(æ)A,ea.: Thank you.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:55, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
  • Prosfilaes: It has only just come in; the library was very hesitant to lend it. I should be able to scan it this week. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:15, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Prosfilaes: Here you go: File:The Paddington Mystery.pdf plus images (1, 2, 3). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:53, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Much appreciated.--Prosfilaes (talk) 14:38, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Prosfilaes (talk) 21:46, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Ratts Rhimed to Death

The Oxford Text Archive reportedly has scans of this work here, but requires institutional access, and I haven't been able to find scans elsewhere. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:39, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

• CalendulaAsteraceae: I’ve sent for this. The text is easily available, but historically EEBO has been reticent to release scans. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 05:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 05:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  • CalendulaAsteraceae: The previous having come in reminded me of this request, so I checked on it. Apparently, it didn’t go through in the first place, so I’ve put it back through. Sorry about that. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
  • CalendulaAsteraceae: The reel has just been shipped, I’ll try to scan it around the time it arrives. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:15, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
  • CalendulaAsteraceae: I’ve scanned in the files. At the moment, they’re all two pages to a file. I can correct this myself and then upload it, or I can upload it now and give you that work. It’s your choice. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

    @TE(æ)A,ea., I'd appreciate it if you could correct the pages. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 17:22, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

    • CalendulaAsteraceae: Here you go: File:Ratts Rhimed to Death.pdf. There’s OCR, but I wouldn’t vouch for the quality. There’s also a fair amount of bleed-through, but none so bad as to be unreadable, I don’t think. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:38, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

      Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:39, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

      This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:39, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly

A short NYTimes editorial (Q122647649) in public domain, notable for its outrageously wrong prediction about how long it would take for humanity to develop powered flight. It would be great if we could link the full text in the article, hence this request. The Wikipedia article has links to scans hosted by NYTimes and Internet Archive. Thank you. Melmann (talk) 21:05, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

• Melmann: I’ve added the text here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:11, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

  @TE(æ)A,ea. Much appreciated. Added it to the subject article. Melmann (talk) 20:31, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: EncycloPetey (talk) 22:23, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Son of the wind by Lucia Chamberlain

I would like to work on it in the monthly challenge, published 1910. Found it at https://archive.org/details/sonofwind00chamrich. Stamlou (talk) 20:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Here it is: Index:Son of the wind.djvu. Also added it to the monthly challenge. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 12:40, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much, really appreciated. Stamlou (talk) 18:38, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 07:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Ah Q and Others: Selected Stories of Lusin (1941)

This is a translation of Lu Xun's works by w:en:Wang Chi-chen. I can't find a renewal but double check as I might have missed it. Prospectprospekt (talk) 18:27, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

• Prospectprospekt: I haven’t found a renewal, either, so I’ve ordered a copy through ILL. It will probably arrive in the next few weeks, at which I point I will scan it and upload it here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
• Prospectprospekt: Sorry for the wait, it only just came in: File:Ah Q and Others.djvu. The image on the title page is here: File:AhQ-title.tif. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:07, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you so much! Prospectprospekt (talk) 18:02, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

  This section was archived on a request by: Ciridae (talk) 13:11, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Index:Donegal_Fairy_Stories_(1915).djvu

The IA scan of this particular book at https://archive.org/details/donegalfairysto00macmgoog/ had broken illustrations and omitted the title page. So I have downloaded all the original pages from https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hwlfw7 , converted them to DjVu with watermarks removed, added a text layer via Tesseract and uploaded the result to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donegal_Fairy_Stories_(1915).djvu

But the problem is that Wikisource doesn't recognize the DjVu file for some reason. And I had exactly the same problem with Index:The_Headless_Horseman_(1869).djvu earlier (uploaded the 140MB version, Wikisource refused to recognize it, uploaded a reduced 90MB version, Wikisource recognized the reduced version AND also started to recognize the 140MB version as well, albeit with a mismatched text layer). Does anyone know what's going on? --Ssvb (talk) 00:48, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

I may try to upload another revision of "Donegal Fairy Stories" and suspect that the problem will just magically disappear. For "The Headless Horseman" case I initially suspected that exceeding the 100MB limit was to blame, but now I just have no clue. --Ssvb (talk) 01:12, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Found a solution and now the 0x0 problem is gone: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299521#9651033

It was necessary to "purge" the uploaded DjVu file on commons. --Ssvb (talk) 04:34, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Ciridae (talk) 13:13, 15 December 2024 (UTC)