Talk:Norfolk Anti-Inoculation Riot of 1768

Assigned Peer Review

Julia

Lead Section: • This sentence seems a little long. I would try to condense it or separate into two separate sentences. “Many inhabitants of the colonies were against this relatively new approach to build immunity against smallpox mostly in fear that inoculation would infect and kill uninfected communities, but also for political reasons”. • Good lead section • Seems to summarize the article well. Background • Good amount of background information • I like how you incorporated links to different people and ideas mentioned • Overall, I think that the wording is a little choppy. I think that there are some sentences that tend to run on. I would try to go through and read it out loud to pick out which sentences can be condensed or even removed. Riot • Again, I would look at sentence structure because there are some run on sentences. Also, the word “mob” is stated quite a bit. I would change it up and use other words like crowd, mass, horde, etc. • Good description of Riot Aftermath • Sentence structure • Good description of aftermath Overall: Overall, I enjoyed reading your wiki article. I felt like it was relevant to things that are happening today, so it is important to have an article on Wikipedia. Also, I think that you did a very good job with your references and notes section. I think that the overall article should be read out loud and sentence structures should be examined for run on sentences. However, I really appreciated that you stayed true to discussing facts and not drawing on your own opinions or conclusions.

Juldav2000 (talk) 20:54, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Grisel

Leading Section:

I think you could perhaps just start with The Norfolk Anti- Inoculation Riot, was part of a series of riots that occurred on June 27, 1768. These riots took place across the English colonies in the New World surrounding inoculation against smallpox. Something along these lines since you put the date alongside the riot in your leading sentence and then repeated it in your closing sentence, "The riot on June 27th, 1768 in Norfolk, Virginia was comprised of an anti-inoculation mob invading a plantation where inoculated families resided, ending in the mob driving the families into the local pest house." I don't think it's really necessary to mention it twice but you could also just not mention the date in the leading sentence and keep it in your closing sentence. Also I think that inoculation could use a link.

Background:

I think you did a great job with this section, it provides a great frame work for the riot. There are some minor changes that I think you could do, there are some words that could use a link such as, New World, English, New England, Norfolk. Also I believe that you are supposed to put the period before the citation, instead of finished[4]. I think it should be finished.[4]

Riot:

Again, I think that you did a great job here describing the riot, just some minor stuff such as words needing link, Magistrates,

References: There seems to be a problem since you have [1] [2] in this section. I'm not too sure, but looking at the code source, you use, <ref>, so maybe that's what causes the [1] and [2].

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