Talk:James White (inventor)
James White (inventor) is currently a Computing and engineering good article nominee. Nominated by Generalissima (talk) (it/she) at 02:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC) Anyone who has not contributed significantly to (or nominated) this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and save the page. (See here for the good article instructions.) Short description: English inventor |
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Did you know nomination[edit]
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 18:12, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that Napoleon awarded a medal to English inventor James White?
- Source: Dickinson, H.W. (1951). "James White and his "New Century of Inventions"". Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 27 (1). doi:10.1179/tns.1949.016. p. 176
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 44 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 20:00, 30 April 2024 (UTC).
- I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:44, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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QPQ: Done. |
Overall: Looks good. AGF on the offline hook source. @Generalissima: The only thing is that I think there needs to be a direct cite for the sentence BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:48, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
For this invention, White received a medal from First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte
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- @BeanieFan11: Oops! fixed. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 02:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:53, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Generalissima and BeanieFan11: There's a chunk of WP:WHITESPACE between the multi-image and the gallery, could something be done about this?--Launchballer 17:56, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Launchballer: That is intentional, I added a clear template to prevent sandwiching issues on wider monitors. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Generalissima and BeanieFan11: There's a chunk of WP:WHITESPACE between the multi-image and the gallery, could something be done about this?--Launchballer 17:56, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Possible spelling and grammar errors[edit]
Hello Generalissima, I saw that the nominated this article for GA status. I'm currently experimenting with a script to automatically detect spelling and grammar errors, I hope you don't mind being my guinea pig. Feedback and improvement suggestions are welcome. I saw at least one of the detected errors is in a quote so you would have to check whether the error is already in the original text.
Detected possible errors:
- Sentence: His interests in mechanics begun at a young age; he claimed to have invented a mousetrap around age eight, and that he "became a tolerable workman in all the mechanical branches long before the age at boys are apprenticed to any."
- Correction: replace "begun" with "began"
- Explanation: incorrect verb form
- Sentence: His interests in mechanics begun at a young age; he claimed to have invented a mousetrap around age eight, and that he "became a tolerable workman in all the mechanical branches long before the age at boys are apprenticed to any."
- Correction: replace "at" with "that"
- Explanation: incorrect word usage
- Sentence: ...by over an decade.
- Correction: replace "an" with "a"
- Explanation: "Decade" starts with a consonant sound, so "a" should be used instead of "an".
Phlsph7 (talk) 15:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you very much Phlsph7, I love being the guinea pig for stuff like this. And fixing errors in quotes is allowed by MoS unless it changes the meaning, so I fixed it all up. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
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