I like the stray text around the images - it shows that the picture is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. The problematic images are the ones of letterheads and margin decorations, which, though perhaps interesting for articles on publishing or printing, are not really useful in the quantities available unless Wikisource is able to ingest the books in such a way that they use those too. As I understand it however, you cannot recycle a Commons image in a djvu file (yet). I do think some of the more encyclopedic books would be great to have in their entirety on Wikisource.
2013/12/18, geni geniice@gmail.com:
On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen@gatech.eduwrote:
As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content.
Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to remove things like stray text.
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