Talk:Jane Aitken

	Jane Aitken 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 21, 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 January 6, 2014. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 07:20, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

• "with several Scottish families in 1771. " several compatriots in?
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• Link Philadelphia.
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• Link bookbinding.
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• "She printed and bound about 400 volumes" repetitive, perhaps just follow on from the previous

sentence, like "and about 400 volumes..."

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• "Christian Bible" is there another notable Bible other than the Christian one?
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• Death inline references not needed in the infobox, they can go in the prose.
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• Usually talk about her mother/father before her siblings.
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• Link bookbinder again in the main body.
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• "which she ran at North Third Street" what happened to the other place?
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• "which is 500 feet " was, and convert.
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• "Then in 1808 her " -> "The following year, ..."
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• "from notes he had signed for" from notes for which he had signed. And what are these "notes"?
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• "54,258" reduce that precision to nearest $1000.
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• "known as Miss Jane Aitken.[1]" no need for italics.
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• "than the actual printing" no need for "actual".
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• "shows similarity to her binding work from 1802 to 1812 and shows that perhaps" shows shows... and this feels speculative. Who is making this connection, it's not Wikipedia.
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• "She was advertising" She advertised.
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• " friend of hers" friend of Aitken
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• "equipment was sold off" no need for "off".
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• "20 miles " convert.
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• Works - convert this to a gallery like I did in one of your other articles and utilise the caption option instead of "Some of her other works were -"...
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• "of the Christian Bible" okay so maybe there are other notable Bibles! But you link that here, but not in the lead.
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• "most important book she produced during" which "she"?
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• "Other early businesswomen in contention" not sure this is really relevant to the article.
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• "1820-1900" endash.
•  Done

That's all I have for today. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 11:43, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for review. I'll get started on it.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:43, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another loook. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 18:58, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Rewrite moved into place. MER-C 17:26, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

XOR'easter, Benowitz 1998 ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:06, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not my fault. Those came from the infobox, which I deliberately refrained from recreating, since I couldn't confirm that the picture was actually of this Jane Aitken.

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Got it (unwatching now :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:18, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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