Talk:William Austin Burt

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Date	Process	Result
November 2, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed
February 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 19, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that William Austin Burt was the first to invent a workable typewriter in America, as well as a workable solar compass (pictured), a solar use surveying instrument, and an equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea?

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User:Albemarle appears to have plagiarized material from http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/burt.htmL. This page, according to its source info, was last modified on 1-14-05 and User:Albemarle's addition of material from it was on 1-26-05, and it is verbatim. I have removed it from the article. Jeeb 17:44, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Burt was born in Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, June 13, 1792, on his father's farm. He is from Scottish and English ancestry, since his parents immigrated to America in 1639". This has to be an error. Dale S Fay 8 December 2010 —Preceding undated comment added 14:55, 8 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Can you give me more detail as to why you feel this is wrong. Then perhaps I can fix it.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 15:44, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How could his parents immigrate in 1639 if his year of birth was 1792? Dale S Fay 16 February 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dale S Fay (talk • contribs) 21:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected. Should be "ancestors".--Doug Coldwell ^talk 21:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

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