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Errata

I'm still verifying the accuracy of the transcription. Corrections aren't curated on this page — they live where every change to the corpus already lives.

Where corrections are tracked

Every transcription on this site comes with a sibling revision-history page that lists every change I've made to it, dated and signed by commit hash:

  • Per-work history. Open any work and follow the "View revision history" link in the footer-note, or visit /works/<slug>/history/ directly. Substantive corrections show up there with a date, a subject line, and a link to the GitHub commit.
  • The public Git repository. The full record of every edit to every file is at github.com/jonajinga/filthy-little-atheist. Browse the commit log; git blame any line; diff any work between two dates.

I won't be re-publishing each correction on this page. The history pages and the Git log are the canonical record, and they're already public.

The standard

The printed Conway Edition is the authority. Any deviation in my digital text is a bug. I'm still working through the corpus to confirm the transcription against the source, so I expect to find slips for some time yet — they'll be corrected in place and recorded in the work's revision history when they are.

What I do not correct

  • Period spelling (shew, connexion, to-day, despatch, gaol) — left as printed.
  • Period punctuation — em-dashes, semicolons, long sentences. They carry signal.
  • Period capitalization — the Bible, the State, Heaven. Left as printed.
  • Historical errors Paine made on his own. Where the misstatement is part of his argument, it stays. Corrections go in editorial footnotes, never in the body.
  • Variant readings between Dresden printings. I follow the 1902 printing.

Reporting a problem

Send a note through the contact form or open an issue at github.com/jonajinga/filthy-little-atheist/issues. The minimum I need:

  • The work URL (e.g. /works/the-gods/).
  • The paragraph or quoted passage where the error sits.
  • What the digital text currently says.
  • What the printed Conway Edition says, with volume and page if you have them.

I'll fix it, commit the change, and the per-work history will reflect it.

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