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Project Gutenberg and CCEL have clean, checked texts. Try them first.
The Internet Archive has far more, but many items are modern editions. Look for a date before 1931.
Church fathers such as Athanasius are often on New Advent and Wikisource. The form cannot take links from those two yet, so look for the same work on one of the three sites above, or send the link to a facilitator.

Before you contribute

Public domain only. For anything published in the United States before 1931 you are safe. Later editions are usually still in copyright, and so are most modern translations, even of ancient works. A translation has its own copyright, so check who translated it and when.
The whole work. Not an excerpt, a preview or a "borrow this book" page. The text must be readable in full, and one link should lead to one work, not an anthology.
Look in this order: the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Project Gutenberg, then the Internet Archive. Gutenberg states its copyright status on each book's page. The Archive does not, and its texts are machine-read scans that can contain errors.
Search the library first. If the work is already here, there is nothing to add.
Use the author name the way the library shows it, for example "Julian of Norwich", so an author's texts stay together.

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