“ Annotations change the informational content of a work on Wikisource from its original source, however trivial those changes may be. The goal of good annotations is to add information or provide context to the reader to help explain something within the text. Some suggested forms of annotation can be found at Help:Annotating, but the method of annotating a work remains a matter of judgement for individual Wikisource users. ”

“ Nothing should be presented as annotated (save those works utilizing the basic in-line wikilinking as a form of annotation) without the faithful completion of the transcription & proofreading of the work as published taking place prior to the creation of that annotated derivative. ”

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No unannotated version of the work is known to exist. The work has never been published without annotations or the unannotated version is unavailable for some other reason. The complete original version (with the original annotations) is hosted separately on Wikisource. All annotations are removed, leaving only the unannotated work. Partial removal of annotations is not allowed. ”