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John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. He delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s. Neal advanced American art, advocated the end of slavery and racial prejudice, and helped establish the American gymnastics movement. The first author to use natural diction, he was also the first to use "son-of-a-bitch" in a work of fiction. He attained his greatest literary achievements between 1817 and 1835 as the first American published in British literary journals, author of the first history of American literature, America's first art critic, and a forerunner of the American Renaissance. One of the first men to advocate women's rights in the US, he affirmed intellectual equality between men and women, fought coverture laws, and demanded equal pay, better education and suffrage for women, declaring "I tell you there is no hope for woman, till she has a hand in making the law". (Full article...)
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Hi Dugan Murphy and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you, Mirokado, or from anyone else interested are welcome. Note that this article is tentatively scheduled to be the main page TFA on January 20, 2021. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:24, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Gog the Mild, for initiating the TFA nomination! I've spent a few minutes reading over this draft blurb, comparing it to the full article lead and keeping in mind relevance to the inauguration, but I can't think of any improvements to the draft as it currently stands. I like ending with the Neal quote for relevance to the date. What's the next step and is there anything I need to do to finalize John Neal (writer)'s place on the TFA calendar for January 20, 2021? --Dugan Murphy (talk) 19:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Dugan Murphy, I am glad that you like it. I have just allocated it to 20 January. Given the date, there is always a chance that it may get bumped by something else, but I have talked to the editor scheduling January's TFAs and they are keen, so it should run. Nice work by the way. More to follow it I hope. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:08, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Wonderful! Thanks for taking care of that, Gog the Mild. One more thing: I am planning on following the suggestion raised by Eddie891 during the FAN to WP:REQMOVE to move this article to John Neal, on the basis that this article is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Is there any reason I should wait until after January 20 to do that? --Dugan Murphy (talk) 19:20, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Dugan Murphy, no. But do wait until the FAC bot has run. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:44, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Wonderful! Thanks for taking care of that, Gog the Mild. One more thing: I am planning on following the suggestion raised by Eddie891 during the FAN to WP:REQMOVE to move this article to John Neal, on the basis that this article is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Is there any reason I should wait until after January 20 to do that? --Dugan Murphy (talk) 19:20, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Dugan Murphy, I am glad that you like it. I have just allocated it to 20 January. Given the date, there is always a chance that it may get bumped by something else, but I have talked to the editor scheduling January's TFAs and they are keen, so it should run. Nice work by the way. More to follow it I hope. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:08, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
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Please have a look at MOS:DATERANGE regarding the ranges and the formatting of dates in the table in the "Editing" section (this should have been raised at FAC). Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- I saw the copy of this on Talk:John Neal (writer) and replied there. --Dugan Murphy (talk) 19:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)