"Without text" is for the pages that are "Without text". Dot. I don't understand where you see a problem. Every page with some text (even if it is only one line) should be proofread, and every empty pages (like this one : http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Zerstreute_Bl%C3%A4tter_IV_(Herder)_366.jpg ) should not. It is very simple to operate a bot to transform these pages (marked as "WS: Diese Seite ist ohne Eintragungen") into "Without text", exactly as en.ws and fr.ws did. It is just a matter of equity and respect.

Syagrius

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2009/10/12 John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>

I do not understand why de.WS does not want to mark empty pages as
'Without text'; that sounds like a different issue, and one which
would distort statistics.  Perhaps a de.WS contributor could explain
the reason in a new thread; maybe we can learn from de.WS, or agree to
disagree.

Marking empty pages as "fertig" (=done) is/was simply a convenient way to announce that
the pages in question don't need further work. De.ws has handled empty pages like this
for a long time, way before the introduction of PR2.
It's not a ploy to inflate statistics. I don't think this thought ever occurred to any of us
and it would be kind of useless too. The number of empty pages isn't that high.

Personally, I don't mind a new category for empty pages. But I don't really like naming it
"without text". Often there is text, it's just text we don't need. Handwritten notes from
previous owners, library stamps, ads etc.

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