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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 25, 2021.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
On this day...Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 14, 2012, September 14, 2014, September 14, 2015, September 14, 2017, September 14, 2018, and September 14, 2020.


Ireland

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The article currently says that "So that the calendar in Ireland would remain harmonised with that of Great Britain, the Parliament of Ireland passed similarly worded legislation as the "Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750" ". However, the source which it cites has the Great Britain chapter number - XXIII. There is no reference to such an Act in List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_Ireland,_1701-1800#23_Geo._2_(1749), in List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_Ireland,_1701-1800#25_Geo._2_(1751) or indeed in the original staute-book. And see the Irish Short Titles Act 1962 "1781–82 - 21 & 22 Geo. 3: c. 48. - Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750, and Calendar Act, 1751, extended to Ireland, [S. 3 (in pt.)] - Calender Act, 1781." The original of that Act starts here and section 3 is here - "all such statutes made in England or Great Britain, as concern the stile or calendar ... shall be accepted, used and executed in this kingdom, according to the present tenor of the same respectively". I suggest that the article should be amended accordingly. Alekksandr (talk) 23:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well spotted! The current text must have been in the article without a challenge since forever. Hopefully I can get it rewritten today or tomorrow. How many more old citations need checking? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see from Talk:History of Ireland (1691–1800)#Old Style and New Style dating that a wp:RS researched this issue and says (with an example from Dublin) that the change was accepted at least de facto.[1] The paper suggests that the 1781 Act was more about the Dublin Parliament asserting its rights than to shut a possible legal loop-hole but it is expressed rather off-handedly so I don't think we can use it to support either possibility. We will just have to state the facts and let the reader decide. ----John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:11, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite done, thanks again for spotting this howler. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:50, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Morgan, Hiram (April 2006). ‘The Pope’s new invention’:the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in Ireland, 1583-1782. Ireland, Rome and the Holy See: History, Culture and Contact. Rome: History Department, University College Cork. p. 9.

Thoughts

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I have been asked to share my thoughts on this article. This is less of a thorough examination and more of a handful of observations.

  • 1. I did some copyediting, but the prose probably needs a bit more work. I agree with Gog the Mild: a thorough copyedit from WP:GOCE/REQ would be beneficial. Given the backlog at GAR, it's entirely possible that GOCE could finish before the review even starts.
  • 2. The structure is a bit counterintuitive: you start by describing the law and its passage, then you provide background, and then you describe the territorial extent of the law. It seems to me that it would be far more natural to put the background first and to then describe the law, its passage, its extent, etc.
  • 3. The final section (the UK income tax year) seems a bit out of place. It's only tangentially related to the topic, and it seems somewhat trivial. You might consider cutting it down to a sentence or two and sticking it in the "amendments" or "financial concerns" section (with the hatnote), or you could just remove it all together and send the hatnote link down to "see also."

Let me know if you have further questions or if you require any further assistance. Merry Christmas! Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:03, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is a good suggestion that I will take up over the next week or so. Happy new year, if you can wait another three months! ;-^ --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:17, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Extraordinary Writ:, I have partially implemented your suggestion. I think it important that the structure responds to the way that many readers will approach it: most just want to see a summary of provisions but hopefully many of them will go on to read why it was considered necessary. Keen readers will continue on. I have also rewritten the tax section to make it shorter and hopefully less tangential. I didn't think it belonged in the 'financial concerns' section since it was after-the-event 'fallout'.
I am just about to add it to the GOCE queue.
I hope that previous contributors to this article find acceptable my wp:BOLD recasting of their contributions.
Further comments welcome. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:56, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Did you know" candidates

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If the article achieves GA, it will become eligible to have an item in DYK if it is good enough. So I'm inviting suggestions here, please. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know that...

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  1. despite frequent repetition of this assertion, there is no evidence that anyone rioted when eleven days were deleted from the calendar for 1752 --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  2. on 10 September 1752, nothing at all happened in Great Britain or its American possessions because there was no such date. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  3. it took over 150 years for England to follow Scotland in adopting 1 January as New Year's Day.--John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  4. until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on March 25th in England and Wales. (suggested by user: Twofingered Typist)
  5. when the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was proposed in Parliament, it was already 1751 in most of Europe. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:24, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  6. because of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the statutory date of the "annual election of mayor, sheriffs, treasurers, coroners, and leave-lookers" in Chester (England) had to be moved forward by appending a clause to an otherwise irrelevant Act, (25 Geo II c.31, concerning distemper in cattle) "to avoid the inconvenience which would arise to the citizens, from the alteration of the [calendar] style, bringing the ancient day of election into the fair week." --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:26, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have made a DYK nomination with #4 and #6, see Template:Did you know nominations/Calendar (New Style) Act 1750. As the article is not new, I am not optimistic. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:57, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Johannes Schade (talk · contribs) 07:29, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

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Dear @John Maynard Friedman:: I will be your reviewer for this, the first GA nomination of the article "Calendar (New Style) Act 1750". I see you nominated the article on 19 December 2020. I see it is rated B at present. The prose is 4544 words, a reasonable length. I applied the Rater script to your article, which calls ORES which rates your article "B or higher" with a confidence of 89.1%. This sounds all very positive. I start reading now. Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 07:29, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The 6 GA criteria (WP:GACR)

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As we progress I will come back to this list and upgrade the symbols from to occasionally passing by a .

1. Well written
a) Clear, concise, understandable, grammatical, and correctly spelled.
b) MOS:LEADLENGTH, MOS:LAYOUT, MOS:WTW, WP:WAF, & MOS:LIST
2. Verifiable and no original research
a) Notes, citations, & references MOS:NOTES
b) Inline citations
c} WP:OR
d) Copyright violations and plagiarisms
3. Broad coverage
a) Main aspects
b) Focused
4. Neutral
5. Stable
6. Illustrated
a) Copyright
b) Relevant and captions

GACR.1a Writing

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The text is generally well and carefully written. It is normally concise and encyclopedic, but in some places uses law terms that are difficult to understand for the layman.

Comments on particular passages

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  • In section "Start of the year" (would not "Start of year" be good enough?), last paragraph, the 2nd sentence starts with the words "This change". It might perhaps not be entirely clear which change is meant as the 1st sentence mentions more than one change: that of the start of the year but also about that in the date, but if you feel it is sufficiently clear I won't mind.
  • I feel that the title of the 3rd section, "Eleven days' difference between calendars and the change to the Gregorian calendar" is too long. See how it stands out in the Contents box. I would propose simply "Eleven days' shift" but there might be other solutions.
  • In that same section, 1st sentence "... was a religious one." This does not sound very convincing and might need a better, more detailed explanation. Why religious?
    • Easter is traditionally a spring holy day. If it moves into winter, it might create doubt among the church members. Remember this is an era where explanations about how the world worked were obtained from religion, not science, so any discrepancy between what religion said was going on in the skies and in the seasons that differed from what church members could see with their own eyes was a serious matter. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:04, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think that Johannes means that a better clue is needed as to the nature of the religious issue. So I have have appended four magic words: "the date of Easter". That gives context for the next sentences which explain.  Done --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:31, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Easter is traditionally a spring holy day. If it moves into winter, it might create doubt among the church members. Remember this is an era where explanations about how the world worked were obtained from religion, not science, so any discrepancy between what religion said was going on in the skies and in the seasons that differed from what church members could see with their own eyes was a serious matter. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:04, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • If I understand this right: Easter celebrates the resurrection, supposed to have occurred on the 3rd day after Passover, but by tradition must be on the nearest Sunday to that date. Passover is on the 15th day of Nisan, a lunar month of the Jewish calendar, the first in spring. Spring starts at the spring equinox. Full moon is on the 14th day of each lunar month. Therefore observing the first full moon after the spring equinox allows to calculate when Passover and therefore Easter should be. The problem was that the spring equinox of 1750 happened on 10 March but should have been a fixed date in a solar calendar like the Julian and 21 March was the accepted right date for the spring equinox.
        • The date and time of the equinox of 1750 can be calculated using the Jet Propulsion Lab's Horizon system. The equinox occurs when the apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude of the Sun reaches 360° (= 0°). Here are the results, using the Gregorian calendar, produced by that system:
Date__(UT)__HR:MN        ObsEcLon    ObsEcLat
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$$SOE

 1750-Mar-20 16:00     359.9509046  -0.0002611
 1750-Mar-20 17:00     359.9921859  -0.0002619
 1750-Mar-20 18:00       0.0334661  -0.0002627
 1750-Mar-20 19:00       0.0747453  -0.0002635
(GACR.1a continues)
Calendar Today
Gregorian 12 December 2024
Julian 29 November 2024

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  • In section "The eleven day shift", 1st paragraph, would it be possible to specify the direction of the drift? You seem to say it was into winter. Would it be right to say that in 1750, before the change of calendar, the spring equinox was on 10 March instead of 21 March where it should have been?
    • The general goal would be to have the average date of the equinox be 21 March, but for any arithmetical calendar that observes a reasonably simple fixed rule, it isn't possible to make the equinox fall on 21 March every year. Jc3s5h (talk) 21:20, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • If we had continued to use the Julian calendar, 21 March would now be 13 days after the equinox. But as to your specific questions, yes, the Spring Equinox of 1750 was on 20 March NS (9 March OS), per User:Jc3s5h's calculation above. So now we have a further complication to explain and get us really bogged down in detail, losing our readers. I don't agree that we should pursue this. no Declined (well not yet, more discussion needed). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:50, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • In section "The eleven day shift", 2nd paragraph, I would have used the definite article for the papal bull, thus 'the papal bull "Inter gravissimas"', otherwise 'a papal bull called "Inter gravissimas".

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  • In section "The eleven day shift", 3rd paragraph, "Gregory's reform removed ten days from the old Julian Calendar", "old" is too much. There has not been an old and a new Julian Calendar. A bit further in the same paragraph "The additional Gregorian rule added the exception ...": if I understand it right "additional" is too much, "added" already says it.
Rephrased.  Done subject to further comment. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:50, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The section "Date of Easter" should perhaps be renamed "Computus" or "Detail of the Easter calculation" or similar, or even "Change in the computus".

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  • The explanation given in the section "Date of Easter" is not easy to understand. Why was it necessary to change the computus as presented in the Common book of Prayer? What change was made in it? For whom was the computus section in the Common book of prayer meant? Things like Golden Number and Sunday Letter are not common knowledge. It might be beyond the scope of the article about the Act to go into such details of the computus. Johannes Schade (talk) 20:41, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • In section "Leap day", 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence, I would have used past perfect instead of past and omitted the "it", thus writing "but had been authorised by the Act of Uniformity" rather than "but it was authorised ...", but perhaps I am pedantic. What do you think?

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  • In section "Passage through Parliament", 1st paragraph, 1st sentence, should it not read "government bill" rather than "government measure" in order to avoid confusing the reader by calling the same thing by two different names?

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  • In section "Title of the Act", 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence, I would not have used past perfect, thus writing "The old long titles proved " rather than "The old long titles had proved " because it was not specifically before the time of the Act that we are talking about.

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  • In section "Date of the Act", 2nd paragraph, the 1st sentence, please allow me to observe that MOS:OSNS instructs us "For either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, the beginning of the year should be treated as 1 January even if a different start-of-year date was observed in the place being discussed." I admit that compliance with MOS:OSNS is not part of the GACR, but you may want to comply with this one because of your special interest in OSNS issues. Accordingly, I think this sentence should read "The calendar reform bill was introduced in the session that began on 17 January 1751 (17 January 1750 in strict O.S, and 28 January 1751 in N.S.)." rather than "... in the session which began on 17 January 1750 [N.S. 28 January 1751]." Perhaps you can find better than "strict O.S.". I would have liked to be allowed to use dual dating for dates between the two possible beginnings of the year, but I am not writing the rules. Johannes Schade (talk) 12:46, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Here I think we really have to invoke wp:ignore all rules because this is the very moment when the system changed so we have to use contemporary dating if it is to make any sense PROVIDED that we make clear what we are doing and why we are doing it. So I have changed the text so that it reads The calendar reform bill was introduced in the session which began on 17 January 1750 Old Style [N.S. 28 January 1751], almost nine months into a year that had begun on 23 March 1750. Is that satisfactory? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:50, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • In section "Scotland", 1st paragraph, 3rd sentence, I had to look up the special meaning of "recital" in Wiktionary. Perhaps its use can be avoided and "... as the register ... records" would be good enough. We can then have Plain English rather than Legalese.
Are we nae mair to hear a recital of wee William McGonagall's terrible tale of The Tay Bridge Disaster? :-D  Done --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:29, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I did a double-take at your choice of verb ;-) Yes, I expected our American friends to misunderstand "pocket book" but the credit goes to Honandl2 for suggesting ready reckoner. Other attempts included pamphlet which is technically correct for the time but would be misunderstood by a modern readership. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:29, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GAGR.1b Lead

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The length of the lead is adequate and within the limits prescribed in MOS:LEADLENGTH. There are no problems with MOS:LAYOUT (MOS:NOTES being treated further down), MOS:WTW, WP:WAF, & MOS:LIST.  Done Johannes Schade (talk) 21:01, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GACR.2a Verifiability

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Verifiable. The structure chosen for the presentation of the explanatory footnotes (under Notes), citation footnotes and the list of works (under References) has the disadvantage of presenting a "hanging subsection" (Sources). MOS:NOTES refers to "Help:Shortened footnotes" which proposes three heading called "Notes", "Citations" and "References" all at the 2nd level under the title of the article.

 Done --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:21, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GACR.2b Inline Citations

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Additional citations. GACR.2b lists five types of statements that need to have citations: direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements, and contentious material relating to living persons. Citations need to refer to reliable sources. I think there are no such statements that do not already have a citation.  Done

Citations with problems. However, I think there are some citations that are so difficult to follow to their source that the citation is inoperative.

  • Section Provisions, 1st dotted-list paragraph, only citation. This citation gives the location in its |loc= parameter as "Preamble; Section I" directing the reader to the Preamble and Section I of the text of the Act in Pickering 1765a. Hovering on the superscript number and then over the Pickering in the tooltip that appears lets the reader discover the name of the Act "An act for regulating ..." but will readers really do this? They surely cannot be expected to recognise a title that they have never seen before. I strongly feel that this long name of the Act needs to be introduced in a proper Introduction that you should write and that will appear before the section Provisions.

Once the reader is on the page (p186) the reader will probable look for the word "Preamble", which is not there. Hopefully he will have remembered the name of the Act and find the "Act for regulating..." and find the preamble. Otherwise he might be utterly confused by all these big titles like "CAP. XXIII" of which he cannot make anything. He also might think he is on the wrong page. A page number would have at least prevented this. When he then looks for Section I it is not there neither. On p188 there is II so where is section I? You really do not make it easy for the reader or reviewer. Johannes Schade (talk) 21:01, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    • I have added the long title in the opening sentence, is that enough? (there is a subsection later in the article that describes the various names in more detail). I have changed the citations in Provisions to give page numbers rather than section numbers and (for the first one that starts well down the page), appended a : CAP. III . Do I need to do more? Do we need the {{rp}} treatment on other cites of Pickering?  Second opinion requested from reviewer, please. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:54, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • I have eliminated use of the rp template.
    • Before:{{sfn|Pickering|1765a|pp=186, 187}}{{rp|CAP. XXIII}}
    • After:{{sfn|Pickering|1765a|loc= pp. 186, 187, CAP. XXIII}}
    • The first reason I changed this is that all the articles I've ever seen, if they make references to different pages in the same source, either use the rp template, or the sfn template, but never both. Mixing them is a surprise to editors and are likely to result in deterioration of the article as new editors become confused.
    • The second reason is the reader needs to scroll quite a bit to see the two different bits of information about where to look in the source. Jc3s5h (talk) 10:50, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Dear John, it is very good to have added the long title to the lead, but it should appear in bold like the other names of the Act. Nevertheless I think the article needs a real introduction section. Thanks for giving the page in the citation. I would also give the URL and a comment in the "p" parameter such as "|p=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69034/page/n218/ 186–188, under CAP. XXIII]". Note that the URL refers to the book in Internet Archive. I would combine 1765a and 1765b in the source list citing the entire book rather than chapters. There also, of course, the URL should be to Internet Archive rather than Google Books. I would not have a link to the Wayback Machine. I feel each entry in the source list should present only one clickable handle. It confuses the reader and slows him down when he has to make a decision about which one to click. However, I have in the recent past used chapters in the source list precisely as you do here and am still not very sure. I feel chapters should appear in the source list only when they are written by different, known authors. Johannes Schade (talk) 11:56, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • Thank you Johannes. I shall need some advice about how to construct such an intro, clearly we don't want just to repeat the lead. The current section "Provisions" was written to provide a summary of the major aspects of the act.
      • Redoing the citations by the whole volume will take a few days... I agree about using archive.org, Google Books has been changed recently and become rather awkward to use. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:18, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • Citations of Pickering redone as suggested. The work had a collateral benefit: I found and corrected three other citations that were just wrong and added another entry to the list of Did You Know candidates – probably the best of the lot. I will leave it to Johannes to tag (or not) this item as 'done'. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:05, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Section "Leap day", 2nd paragraph, 1st Sentence. This concerns the Efn ({{efn|"... shall for the future, and in all Times to come, be esteemed and taken to be [[wikt:bissextile|Bissextile]] or Leap Years, consisting of three hundred and sixty six Days, in the same Sort and Manner as is now used with respect to every fourth Year of Our Lord".{{sfn|Pickering|1765|loc= [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69034/page/n226/mode/1up p. 189]}}}}). This is not really an explanatory note. You cite but do not explain. Funny enough the quote starts on page 189, line 1, whereas the citation refers to page 194, which is very confusing. I propose to unwrap the Efn and use the Sfn in it directly so: {{sfn|Pickering|1765|p= [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69034/page/n226/ 189]|ps=: "... shall for the future, and in all Times to come, be esteemed and taken to be Bissextile or Leap Years, consisting of three hundred and sixty six Days, in the same Sort and Manner as is now used with respect to every fourth Year of Our Lord."}} Perhaps you intended to cite page 194. I think that should then be a separate citation. I think the Sfn's loc parameter should only be used when no page number can be given. I think the URL should end with the forward-slash after the page number, omitting the "mode/1up". These are only suggestions. The GACR say nothing about it except that the reader should be able to find the supporting material in the cited source. I will promote this to GA before I advance further into unsure terrain. Johannes Schade (talk) 08:45, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GACR.2c Original research

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OR. There is no problem with WP:OR.  Done

GACR.2d Plagiarism

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There is no problem with plagiarism.  Done

GACR.3a Broad

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The article addresses the main aspects of the topic.  Done

GACR.3b Focused

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The article is generally well focused.  Done

GACR.4 Neutral

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Neutral. No problem  Done

GACR.5 Stable

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Stable. No problem.  Done


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Copyright is no problem: public domain or Creative Commons  Done

GACR.6b Illustrations

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map showing the European colonies that became the USA. It shows the Spanish, French and British colonies.
Europe's North American possessions (1713).[a]
  • Relevance. The illustrations are relevant except the map of eastern North America, which should illustrate the territories in North America where the new calendar was introduced in 1750 but focuses on U.S. history being zoomed in on the 13 founding states. The map is colour-coded but has no legend. It omits Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, which changed calendar in 1750 just the same as the 13 colonies that would become independent in 1776. Florida was still Spanish in 1750. I feel a better map needs to be found or the figure should be omitted.
The article originally had a better map but unfortunately it was a copyvio and has been deleted. The best map that I could find [see right] that includes all of Canada is not a great map for our purposes – it doesn't show the Russian possessions on the west coast – and I don't think that is good enough, so I have just dropped it as advised.  Done
I agree better without this map. It is not essential. Johannes Schade (talk) 11:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Captions. The captions tend to be a bit lengthy. Some, especially the first, might be shortened by relegating content into an explanatory note.

Johannes Schade (talk) 21:01, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article originally had a better map but unfortunately it was a copyvio and has been deleted. The best map that I could find [see right] that includes all of Canada is not a great map for our purposes – it doesn't show the Russian possessions on the west coast – and I don't think that is good enough, so I have just dropped it as advised.  Done
The first illustration is the memorial tablet that illustrates dual dating rather prettily and it really needs its explanatory caption. I'm not sure that this is the one you meant? Please clarify.  Second opinion requested from reviewer, please. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 00:39, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I feel the caption of the first image could just be "Memorial plaque giving 28 January 1708/9 as date of death." The remaining information could go into an explanatory note for the profit of a reader might go and see the plaque in place. In a luxury edition one might also give a zoom in showing that date as it is written on the plaque. Johannes Schade (talk) 11:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Reduced as suggested.  Done --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:07, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted GA. Johannes Schade (talk) 08:45, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 17:24, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • ... that due to an unintended consequence of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the statutory date of the "annual election of mayor, sheriffs, treasurers, coroners, and leave-lookers" in Chester (England) had to be changed by appending a clause to a subsequent Act concerning disease in cattle?

Source: History of the City of Chester, from Its Foundation to the Present Time (Joseph Hemingway, 1831) p. 266

    • ALT1 ... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland and Britain's American Colonies?

Source: Section I of the Act "That in and throughout all his Majesty’s Dominions and Countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, belonging or subject to the Crown of Great Britain, the said Supputation, according to which the Year of our Lord beginneth on the 25th Day of March, shall not be made use of from and after the last Day of December 1751;" British Calendar Act of 1751 For The Year 1752 (Wikisource).

Improved to Good Article status by John Maynard Friedman (talk), Honandal2 (talk), and Jc3s5h (talk). Nominated by John Maynard Friedman (talk) at 12:25, 31 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

  • This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and either hook could be used; however I prefer ALT1, as ALT0 is a bit technical and abstruse. The article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. No QPQ is needed here. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:43, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

John Maynard Friedman, Honandal2, Jc3s5h, I was going to promote this to the queue, but I see that there are a number of paragraphs in this article with no citations at the end. Can you please make sure all are sourced, and then ping me when you're done? Thanks! MeegsC (talk) 18:09, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MeegsC: I believe that I have rectified this issue: thank you for giving us the chance to do so. There are two or three paragraphs where the citation is in the penultimate sentence: I trust that this is ok? (Honandal2, Jc3s5h to note, no action needed). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 21:14, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, John Maynard Friedman, Honandal2, Jc3s5h, there are a number paragraphs still completely uncited: The second paragraph under "Date of the Act", the entire paragraph under "Wales", the second paragraph under "Scotland", all of "Asia and Africa", the paragraph under "Easter Act 1928", etc. As to the citation being after the penultimate sentence, if the citation also covers the last sentence, then it should be moved to the end. If not, then another reference should be found. I must say, I'm a bit surprised this wasn't picked up in the GA review! MeegsC (talk) 22:23, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@MeegsC: I have rectified these omissions. All paragraphs now end in a citation. Thank you for your continuing forbearance. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 01:26, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for sorting it out, John Maynard Friedman. MeegsC (talk) 17:24, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]


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