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A fact from James White (inventor) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 May 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Napoleon awarded a medal to English inventor James White?
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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
Overall: Looks good. AGF on the offline hook source. (削除) @Generalissima: The only thing is that I think there needs to be a direct cite for the sentence For this invention, White received a medal from First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. (削除ここまで)BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:48, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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".
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)[reply]
I had hoped you would say that so I have an excuse for using your other GA nominations as further test subjects. :)
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600 subscribers -- I don't think subscribers is the right term here.
Source uses it but yeah it doesn't seem right. Used customers instead. -G
although it is unknown if White was aware of its separate invention by clockmakers, first attested by Joseph Williamson c. 1720. -- This is a bit hard to parse, what does first attested by mean in the context?
Good point, rephrased a bit. - G
bolstered by cross-Channel transmission -- cross-channel?
possibly indicating his acquaintanceship -- Why possibly?
Source sorta hedges its bets without fully committing. I think this is because he never actually mentioned the Earl Stanhope until later in life. - G
possibly indicating that his parents were Nonconformists. -- Is this backed up by the source, feels like a bit of a stretch to assume this?
The source makes this claim directly; "No record [of his birth] is found in the Church Baptismal Record there. His parents may have been Nonconformists." - G
It would be usefull to put the things he invented into context with one line explaining what they were. While I do have a background in engineering (CS based tho lol) out-flow radial turbine and single and double helical gears are not things I can immediately conjur up mental pictures for and it takes me a while to parse/figure out what they are.
I admit I wasn't absolutely sure what some of these are; but I tried my best to elaborate lol. - G
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