Talk:The American Israelite

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August 20, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 18, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that The American Israelite, published in Cincinnati since 1854, helped advance American Reform Judaism and is the oldest English-language Jewish newspaper still circulated in the United States?

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GA Review edit

Latest comment: 12 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

This review is transcluded from Talk:The American Israelite/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:14, 18 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

I'll review this article shortly. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:14, 18 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Here are the issues I found:

"It was also among the first Jewish publications in the whole country." I'd take out 'whole', not sure why but reads better without it to me.
"The newspaper's motto was from the start, and still is, יהי אור" I'd simplify it to just 'The newspaper's motto is יהי אור'.
"Leo Wise, who had become business manager for the paper in 1975," I presume you mean 1875 here.
"Rabbi Wise remained active on the paper until his death on March 26, 1900,[6][8] in fact writing an editorial for it just a few days before." I'd take out in fact, these handful of modifiers seem to take away from the article rather than help it.

I'll put the article on hold and will pass it when the issues are fixed. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:01, 20 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks very much for the review. I've made changes per the first, third, and fourth comments. On the second, I'd like some way to indicate that this has been the motto from the start and still is today. I don't think your wording necessarily conveys that. Can you think of another re-wording? Another possibility is to add 'motto' as a field to the newspaper infobox. That would get across that it still is the motto, and the article text's wording could be reduced to 'From the start, the newspaper's motto was יהי אור'. I've proposed this change at Template talk:Infobox newspaper. Let me know what you think ... Wasted Time R (talk) 12:29, 20 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Ok. I'm not quite getting still why having that 'from the start' note is important, but I won't worry myself about it, it's not a big deal. Everything else looks good, so I'll pass the article. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:38, 20 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

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