Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2017 May 27

27 May 2017
The text of the Summary of Decameron tales is filled with an English that has not been seen in more than 80 years. My guess is that it is a copy and paste from an early 20th century source. Here are some gems from the first 40 summaries: [addition] It seems to be a cut and paste of the daily summaries from the J.M. Rigg translation of 1903. Scarabocchio (talk) 08:07, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * "take his own advantage of her"
 * she "habits herself as a man" .. "then resumes the garb of a woman"
 * "Paganino da Monaco carries off the wife of Messer Ricciardo"
 * "He consents, provided she be willing"
 * "whereby she is induced to go thither, where, thinking to have been with her husband, she discovers that she has tarried with Ricciardo."
 * "rears as his own a boy begotten by the abbot upon his wife.
 * "Gerbino, in breach of the plighted faith of his grandfather, King William, attacks a ship of the King of Tunis to rescue thence his daughter."
 * She "is threatened with violence.. but will not brook it. Her father hears how she is bested; and, her innocence being established, causes her to be set at large; but she, being minded to tarry no longer in the world, becomes a nun."
 * "Coming to wit thereof"
 * Do you have a link online we could reference? If it is from 1903 then it is public domain so all we need to do is attribute it and tag as PD. Thanks, and I find your edit summaries of these to be most accurate. Crow  Caw  17:24, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . I googled one of the more bizarre texts and got this. A small portion of my hind-brain worked out that this would be PD ... so likely to remain as-is :-(   Magnificent, mayhaps, but the language doth reflect badly upon WP, I am afeared, and will not enter easily into the ear of the base, common and popular reader. Scarabocchio (talk) 18:24, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The fault, dear lies quite upon the page and not its copyright. And so to there the case be made for change: for sooth, the reader's mind shalt find it strange.  Crow  Caw  21:48, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Bravo, messer Corbaccio! Scarabocchio (talk) 04:48, 28 May 2017 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Pictogram voting support.svg|20px]] No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use.  Crow  Caw  23:34, 1 June 2017 (UTC) (for the record}}  Crow  Caw  23:34, 1 June 2017 (UTC)