Talk:Jane Aitken

GA Review

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

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 07:20, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Comments

• "with several Scottish families in 1771. " several compatriots in?
•  Done

• Link Philadelphia.
•  Done

• Link bookbinding.
•  Done

• "She printed and bound about 400 volumes" repetitive, perhaps just follow on from the previous

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

•  Done

• "Christian Bible" is there another notable Bible other than the Christian one?
•  Done

• Death inline references not needed in the infobox, they can go in the prose.
•  Done

• Usually talk about her mother/father before her siblings.
•  Done

• Link bookbinder again in the main body.
•  Done

• "which she ran at North Third Street" what happened to the other place?
•  Done

• "which is 500 feet " was, and convert.
•  Done

• "Then in 1808 her " -> "The following year, ..."
•  Done

• "from notes he had signed for" from notes for which he had signed. And what are these "notes"?
•  Done

• "54,258" reduce that precision to nearest $1000.
•  Done

• "known as Miss Jane Aitken.[1]" no need for italics.
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• "than the actual printing" no need for "actual".
•  Done

• "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.
•  Done

• "She was advertising" She advertised.
•  Done

• " friend of hers" friend of Aitken
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• "equipment was sold off" no need for "off".
•  Done

• "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 -"...
•  Done

• "of the Christian Bible" okay so maybe there are other notable Bibles! But you link that here, but not in the lead.
•  Done

• "most important book she produced during" which "she"?
•  Done

• "Other early businesswomen in contention" not sure this is really relevant to the article.
•  Done

• "1820-1900" endash.
•  Done

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

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

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

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

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Rewrite begun from scratch

See Talk:Jane Aitken/Temp. XOR'easter (talk) 16:20, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

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

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

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. XOR'easter (talk) 18:10, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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

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