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Date	Text
2006 January February March April May June July Gettysburg Address August Dulce et Decorum est September The Time Machine October — November Elegie II December Come not, when I am dead
2007 January After Death February Anthem for Doomed Youth March Resignation letter (Roosevelt) April Darkness May Lights June Arithmetic on the Frontier July — August Cole's Old English Masters. John Opie September Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration October — November — December —
2008 January The Black Cat February Balade to Rosemounde March The Late Mr. Charles Babbage, F.R.S. April South Africa Act 1909 May United States patent X1 June — July — August ACLU v. NSA Opinion September The Wind in the Willows (1913) October Early Settlers Along the Mississippi November Coker FOIA documents December —
2009 January George Washington's First State of the Union Address February — March Transcript of the 'friendly fire' incident video April J'accuse May German Instrument of Surrender June A specimen of the botany of New Holland July Fatal fall of Wright airship August Charles von Hügel September Flight 93 Cockpit Transcript October A Description of a City Shower November The Fight at Dame Europa's School December Descriptive account ... of King George's Sound
2010 January The English Constitution February Omnibuses and Cabs March Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper April Diary of ten years May Anthony Roll June Celtic Fairy Tales July The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke August A Study in Scarlet September Makers of British botany October The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. November — December Houston: Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea
2011 January No Treason February — March Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures April The Velveteen Rabbit May Poems by Wilfred Owen June — July Stops of Various Quills August A Witch Shall Be Born September Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine October — November — December —
2012 January — February Picturesque New Guinea March Flatland April Shaving Made Easy May — June — July Popular Science Monthly August Homes of the London Poor September Mexico, as it was and as it is October Special: Halloween November Bull-dog Drummond December Black Beauty
2013 January Proclamation 95 February Rambles in New Zealand March The Art of Nijinsky April A Jewish State May Amazing Stories, no. 1 June Laura Secord: A Study in Canadian Patriotism July Magic August Tracks of McKinlay and party across Australia September The Yellow Wall Paper October The Canterville Ghost/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow November The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia December Vanity Fair
2014 January The Corsair February The Clipper Ship Era March Association Football and How to Play It April Daisy Miller May Romanes Lecture June Alice's Adventures in Wonderland July Doctor Syn August Tyrannosaurus and Other Cretaceous Carnivorous Dinosaurs September — October Wikipedia is pushing the boundaries of scholarly practice but the gender gap must be addressed November — December A Christmas Carol
2015 January The Russian School of Painting February Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan March The Problems of Philosophy April On the Determination of the Wave-length of Electric Radiation by Diffraction Grating May Kopal-Kundala June Studies of a Biographer July — August Queen Mab September — October Calcutta: Past and Present November — December Tom Brown's School Days (6th ed)
2016 January — February The Kiss and its History March — April The Descent of Man (Darwin) May — June The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps) July The Discovery of Radium August — September The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier October — November — December —
2017 January Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wiggin) February The Clandestine Marriage March The "Bab" Ballads April Pro Patria (Coates) May The Panchatantra (Purnabhadra's Recension of 1199 CE) June Australian Legendary Tales July Resistance to Civil Government August Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains September The Subjection of Women October A Princess of Mars November Prometheus Bound December Author:Beatrix Potter
2018 January Pollyanna February My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) March Catholic Hymns (1860) April Trees and Other Poems May Una and the Lion June — July Megalithic Monuments in Spain and Portugal August Oriental Scenery September A Simplified Grammar of the Swedish Language October Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde November If— December Messiah (1749)
2019 January The First Men in the Moon February The Bird of Time March The Myths of Mexico and Peru April — May — June Orphée aux Enfers July — August — September — October — November The Vampyre December The Life of the Spider
2020 January — February The Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic March — April — May — June — July — August — September — October — November — December —
2021 January — February — March — April — May — June — July — August — September — October — November — December —
2022 January — February — March — April — May — June — July — August — September — October — November — December —
2023 January — February — March — April R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) May Henry IV Part 1 (1917) Yale June — July — August — September — October — November A History of Japanese Literature December Little Elephant's Christmas
2024 January The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (1901) February Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847) March — April — May — June — July — August — September The Osteology of the Reptiles October Salomé (Wilde 1904) November — December —
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Alexander Pushkin is considered "the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature". I nominate his book of Poems translated by Ivan Panin. This would be only the second work we've featured by a Russian author (the previous one was the nonfiction The Russian School of Painting, featured in in 2015). --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:31, 1 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

•  Support. It seems well proofread, I have checked 10 random pages from various parts of the book and found no problem. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 19:32, 6 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
•  Support.Worthy author, and in 20 randomly selected pages I found only one error. BethNaught (talk) 19:31, 11 July 2020 (UTC)Reply
•  Support checked several pages and seems good —unsigned comment by Serprinss (talk) 07:50, 10 January 2022 (UTC).Reply
•  Support seems like solid work; quotation marks are consistent, and I could find no errors in punctuation or spelling. Suitable care is taken to formatting – note how on page 23, the quotation mark on the smaller block lies outside the leftwards margin of the quoted poem (using {{fqm}}). A potential pick for November? Cremastra (talk) 13:31, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Because this is one of only two nominations with support, I think we ought to hold it for longer. We aren't getting a lot of nominations (or supporting voted), and as a result we have very slow turnover. We got new November and December FTs last year; they've never repeated. But the last time March or June changed was 2019, and July and August since 2018. So, I'd prefer to see this listed in one of those months, rather than turn over November again so soon and risk having Mar, Jun, Jul, & Aug continue with the same works for an eighth year. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:15, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Good point. Cremastra (talk) 22:09, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

  We have four months for priority replacement: Mar, Jun, Jul, Aug. Pushkin's birthday is in June, so that would be a good month to use. For March, I'd like to use The Fun of It, since it is our sole nomination authored by a woman, but it has not had any supporting votes yet, and as such, I'm reluctant to select it. Nationalism would be for August, as suggested in its nomination. That would leave July for either Hunger or Oedipus Rex, provided one of those works receives support. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:21, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Support Found only two errors in forty pages, and certainly famous enough. — Alien  3
3 3 08:23, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

As the mini-constitution of Hong Kong, it is often argued that the Basic Law is currently facing increasing violation of its contents by the Chinese Central Government. Given that 2020 is the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the law, all criteria have been made, and Hong Kong is currently embroiled in the political crisis about the Hong Kong Liaison Office, it is nominated that the text to be a featured text.

• Note: In April 2020, the Hong Kong Liaison Office (中聯辦), a office of the Central Government, has claimed that it has the authority to oversee Hong Kong internal affairs and is not bounded by Article 22 of the Basic Law, which prohibits Mainland Chinese authorities"(interfering) in the affairs which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region administers on its own in accordance with this Law."廣九直通車 (talk) 07:23, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
•  Comment why is the "Get involved Get to know the Basic Law" logo not included on the back cover Serprinss (talk) 05:25, 5 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

I am nominating Tagore’s work Nationalism. It is transcribed from original scans and has been fully proofread. This work is relevant especially today with a rise of Nationalism in India and many countries around the world. If featured next month, it would coincide with India’s independence day on 15 August. I am happy to make improvements to the work wherever necessary. —Prtksxna (talk) 09:09, 25 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

 Support I checked around 10 random pages and everything looks perfect to me. Only 1 page was not validated and I have done that. I completely agree with Prtksxna (talk • contribs)'s rationale behind selecting this book as next month's featured text. On another note: The text in itself is complete, however the index contains some advertisements and we might want to do something about them which could be as simple as mentioning on the talk page that they haven't been transcluded or can actually be included in the text since they are about other works of Tagore. Check this for more info: Wikisource:What_Wikisource_includes#Advertising --Satdeep Gill (talk) 12:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Done I decided not to include the advertisements. I've made the changes as per the documentation you linked to. —Prtksxna (talk) 09:47, 26 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

 Comment In order to feature a work, it needs to have a blurb to accompany it on the Main Page. What is the history or circumstances specific to the creation of this work as opposed to the many others on the subject? What influence or legacy come from this work? I am not familiar enough with Tagore or his works to draft a blurb with any competence. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:50, 27 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

I could take stab at writing this. How long does this blurb need to be? 50-100 words? —Prtksxna (talk) 03:59, 29 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Prtksxna: Could you suggest the blurb at Template:Featured text/March/sandbox, please? As for the approximate length, you can have a look e. g. at Template:Featured text/January. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 15:11, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

The book can be thought of as a collection of lecture-transcripts, the lectures being delivered in Japan and the United States, after Rabindranath Tagore achieved fame as the first non-European Nobel Prize winner in 1913. Set in the backdrop of WW-I, it's the voice of reason and sanity urging against war- and fear-mongering among nations. While the admiration of Tagore for the culture of Japan is evident, he also cautions Japan against following the footsteps of the industrialized (and heavily-militarized) world; his words (w.r.t. Japan) will prove prophetic in another couple of decades. He draws a comparison between the nations of the West and India in his third lecture; while admitting to many areas of failure of the Indian way of thinking, he doesn't share the unbridled enthusiasm for all things 'Western' as evidenced by its impact on his native land by the British colonization process. Sutradhar links (talk) 10:59, 19 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Comment Also, this work has many minor transcriptions issues that will need to be corrected. There should not be spaces around em-dashes. That is instead of spacing — like this; there should be no spacing—like this. This will require a careful check against Wikisource:Style Guide for any other similar issues before it can be featured. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

What other issues have you noticed? FWIW I've looked at a few pages. The quality of the proofreading seems pretty good, except for the spaced emdashes you mentioned, and the inconsistent use of both straight and curly quotes. BethNaught (talk) 22:43, 27 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for pointing these out. I've tried to correct the dashes and quotes at most places. —Prtksxna (talk) 04:25, 28 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

 Support I am quite familiar with the author and, in particular, this book. This will be a valuable addition to the list of featured texts. I have checked a few pages and things look good. Of course, it has to meet the style guides specified; if anyone is competent in that area, they can fix any stylistic errors. Sutradhar links (talk) 10:47, 19 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

The notes in the work's header explain why Knut Hamsun's novel is a candidate for featuring. It is also a very stark and immediate text, even today. Its author is also a Nobel laureate in literature. I do not believe we have ever featured a text from a Scandinavian author. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

•  Comment. It would be nice if the last three remaining advertisement pages were at least proofread too and if those of the authors and books that are mentioned in the adverts and that are present in Wikisource were linked. Otherwise it looks good, besides the adverts I went through about 10 pages and found only two smaller problems, which I corrected. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:42, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Did the adverts, though the four last pages still need validation. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 17:06, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Support: Looks good to me, I found no mistakes. — Alien  3
3 3 08:08, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has been called the perfect play, and was held up by Aristotle as the ideal model for all tragic drama. This particular translation is by Irish playwright William Butler Yeats, a key figure in Irish drama and the Irish literary revival, as well as the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. Our copy also makes use of LilyPond so that Yeats' songs that were written for the play can be listened to.

We have never featured Sophocles, nor have we featured a work containing music, and the only Irish writer featured previously is Oscar Wilde. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:03, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Support Found no errors in 20 pages, the Lilypond work is impressive, and it's a quite notable work. — Alien  3
3 3 08:30, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

The second (and last) book written entirely by Amelia Earhart. The book is a sort of memoir, describing how she became a pilot and her experiences flying, but also a description of the state of aviation in the 1920s and 1930s, with many observations about the social norms of women as compared to men. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:59, 12 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Comment It looks quite good, and I only found two error in ~20pages. I have noticed, though, that there's a control character (\uad) that sprinkled through the text, anywhere text was unwrapped. Do you know why? — Alien  3
3 3 08:00, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Support It's a good book. —FPTI (talk) 15:52, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply