User talk:Postxian

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Re: Two by Two Document Scans[edit]

I was just wondering if you had done so, and is there a link? I'm still fairly new to Wikipedia, but I'd be very interested in helping to put together a better article on Two-by-Twos. My family has been involved in this group for four generations. I was a regular participant for 15 years: from ages 9 to 24. There are things I've recently discovered about the group, including its origins through various sites on the Web. I think the group is interesting in its own right, but also I think a source of honest and verifiable facts would be helpful to a lot of people who've been involved with this group. I think Wikipedia would be an ideal place for such a fact repository.

Hi Postxian. Actually the rules of Wikipedia mean that it's not designed to be or allowed to be a repository of unpublished information. It's meant just to be an encyclopaedia. However, one of Wikipedia's sister projects, Wikisource is well-suited for this purpose.

At some point last November I was working with the user, Alikia, who has access to scans of the original diary of John Long (an early worker somewhere in the UK I think), to put them on Wikisource under the creative commons license (for which permission has been given by John Long's son). I uploaded the first page as a test and went through the process of checking everything is in order legally with Wikimedia and it was fine (see discussion). Now we just need to keep uploading pages. Potentially any verifiable original documents could be uploaded there. Trouble is to know for sure that a given document is verifiable when it's never been published.

If you don't mind to lose a bit of the anyonymity, email me to discuss this more. Cheers — Donama 08:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]