Talk:William Hunter (publisher)

William Hunter (publisher) was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 17, 2021	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 October 30, 2013.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that William Hunter printed the first George Washington official report (print shop sign pictured)?

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Rebus

I removed the text describing the sign as a rebus only to have User:Doug Coldwell revert it. The sign is clearly a literal printing press for a print shop and not a "rebus." One reference, Olmert, reads, "The sign hanging out front is a rebus. It depicts a deer, a well, and several pears."[1] The rest of the text explains that this was a rebus for "Hartwell Perry" who owned several taverns (Olmert, 102). The second source is a kid's book and it includes several [2] the text "Here are two shop signs in Colonial Williamsburg that are rebuses, messages written in pictures instead of words." The images include a sign with a hart, a well, and pear trees." There is nothing mentioning or matching the print shop sign here.

It's clear that these references do not refer to the current image. It's also clear that the current image is a printing press, not a rebus.--Bkwillwm (talk) 12:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Bkwillwm for the improvement on the caption of the print shop sign. It's now shorter and easier to understand.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:06, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:William Hunter (publisher)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 21:32, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"the colony of Virginia" should that be Colony of Viriginia?
Done

"the Virginia Gazette" -> The Virginia Gazette
Done

" first official report." title? Subject?
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"postmaster general" link?
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"Hunter had his birth in Yorktown, Virginia at" was born.. and comma after Virginia.
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"Because of Hunter's father's" William Hunter's.
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"Hunter grew up he received a good education in the local schools and had advanced" Hunter received a good education...
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"parents, in October of 1749[3] married" deaths or married in October 1749 (no need for of)?
Done

"minor children" do you mean "minors"?
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"two half-acre" convert.
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""public printer" ("printer to the public")" are both of these quotes needed?
Done

"Parks' print" Parks's.
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More of these.
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"colony of Virginia" see above.
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" the colony of Virginia from" do we need to repeat this?
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"280 per year to a yearly salary of £300" inflate.
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"£350 per year " likewise.
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"was Joseph Royle" no need to pipelink.
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"Hunter did his daily work for Parks on " Hunter's print shop was situated on ...
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"did the printing of the Virginia Gazette and " printed The Virginia Gazette
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"of the Virginia Gazette from January 3, 1751 until" The... and comma after 1751.
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"started his own identity of the Gazette with "no. 1" in' needs rewording, do you mean he started to "do his own thing" and re-formatted the publication, starting back at edition 1?
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"he and Franklin were " the two
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"600 pounds" £600. And with all these, inflate/convert to US$ too for your countrymen to get a handle on it.
Done

"900 English pounds money" -> "£900" (much easier!)
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"of 278 pounds" £278.
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"grown to 494 pounds" same.
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"off the debt incurred" no need for incurred.
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"northern colonies" what were they? Link?
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"position Hunter held" he held
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"Justice of the Peace" link?
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"York County Court" link?
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"until he died.[2] Hunter died on" merge.
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"Printed cover page samples of Hunter's publications:" Can't you use a "gallery" template which includes a caption, for which this would work well?
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"Some additional publications credited to Hunter are" -> "Additional publications credited to Hunter include:"
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No need for full stops after each publication listed, these are sentence fragments.
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I feel like there are too manny "see also" people. I'd stick to two or three, the most relevant/related to Hunter and who haven't been linked already.
Done

Refs 2, 12, 13 need an en-dash, not a spaced hyphen in the ref title.
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"Volumes 5-7." en-dash.
Done

That's me on this one Doug. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 19:37, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for review. I'll get started on the issues.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:51, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@The Rambling Man: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:47, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For the inflated values, can we limit to say the nearest 1,000? I think you can use r=-3 in the inflate template for that. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 12:00, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Used rounding parameter in templates. Will that work? --Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:51, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Something's gone a bit awry, there are several "last salary of GB£0" now. I also don't think you need GB in there, £ is pretty commonly associated with GB. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 09:36, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Got help from the Help Desk and the solution is to use the FXConvert template with less rounding. I have done the editing accordingly. Will that work? --Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:24, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:37, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]