Talk:William Hunter (publisher)/GA1

GA Review

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

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• "the colony of Virginia" should that be Colony of Viriginia?
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• "the Virginia Gazette" -> The Virginia Gazette
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• " 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)?
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• "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?
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• "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.
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• "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.
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• 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.
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• That's me on this one Doug. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 19:37, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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

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)

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

• 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)

• @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)