Talk:James White (inventor)

James White (inventor) is currently a Computing and engineering good article nominee. Nominated by Generalissima (talk) (it/she) at 02:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 18:12, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Napoleon awarded a medal to English inventor James White?

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

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Andrena astragali

Created by Generalissima (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 44 past nominations.

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Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 20:00, 30 April 2024 (UTC).[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:44, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good. AGF on the offline hook source. ~~@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.~~ BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:48, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BeanieFan11: Oops! fixed. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 02:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:53, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Generalissima and BeanieFan11: There's a chunk of WP:WHITESPACE between the multi-image and the gallery, could something be done about this?--Laun chba ller 17:56, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Launchballer: That is intentional, I added a clear template to prevent sandwiching issues on wider monitors. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possible spelling and grammar errors[edit]

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".

Phlsph7 (talk) 15:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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. :)

I'll post the results on your talk page so we have the discussion in one place. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:23, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]