Talk:Early American publishers and printers
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DYK nomination[edit]
- 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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:00, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
- ... that before the American Revolution more than 1,200 early American publishers and printers were prosecuted for seditious speech by royal colonial authorities? Source: Eldridge, Journal, 1995, p. 337
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Anton Josef Reiss
- Comment: Statement and citation supporting hook found in the 4th paragraph of the Early developments section in the article
Created by Gwillhickers (talk). Self-nominated at 18:43, 23 September 2021 (UTC).
New enough. Hook length of 172 characters is good. Article length of over 25000 characters is good for the new article. Age of 1 day is great. No copyvio or plagiarism concerns. Reliable sources are used. QPQ has been done. Article is Good To Go.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:59, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
New article[edit]
Additional content and sources welcomed. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:13, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
@Doug Coldwell: Thanks for the email. I've reworded the statements in question. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:47, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
This is a fascinating and well-written article. However, would it not be more balanced if it also included some material about Loyalist publishers and printers? After all, they too were Early Americans, and they too suffered persecution in some cases for their political views. The article as it stands doesn't even mention the existence of any Loyalist/Tory publishers, but there is plenty of detailed information about their many newspapers easily available online, which could be used to further enhance this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.31.89.9 (talk) 23:54, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it says in the lede that the focus of the article involves printers and how their criticisms of the crown, and about taxes, etc, helped set the tone for revolution. The article also mentions printers who simply wanted freedom of the press, and from religious persecution, long before any ideas of revolution began to take hold. However, I've no objections of mentioning Loyalist printers and will look to the sources to see in what proportion coverage is given to them. There was much debate, often published in newspapers, about whether to pursue independence. It was those printers and publishers who criticized the crown who were often prosecuted for sedition, not Loyalists. There was a proposal to make the Massachusetts Spy a Loyalist paper, but it went nowhere. If you know of any printers and/or newspapers who were noted as Loyalist, could you refer them, and any sources that cover them, to us? Again, I'd be more than happy to mention them in the course of the overall narrative. Sincere thanks for taking an interest. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 01:15, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
- More coverage of Loyalist printers and newspapers during the revolution era has been added. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:49, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it says in the lede that the focus of the article involves printers and how their criticisms of the crown, and about taxes, etc, helped set the tone for revolution. The article also mentions printers who simply wanted freedom of the press, and from religious persecution, long before any ideas of revolution began to take hold. However, I've no objections of mentioning Loyalist printers and will look to the sources to see in what proportion coverage is given to them. There was much debate, often published in newspapers, about whether to pursue independence. It was those printers and publishers who criticized the crown who were often prosecuted for sedition, not Loyalists. There was a proposal to make the Massachusetts Spy a Loyalist paper, but it went nowhere. If you know of any printers and/or newspapers who were noted as Loyalist, could you refer them, and any sources that cover them, to us? Again, I'd be more than happy to mention them in the course of the overall narrative. Sincere thanks for taking an interest. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 01:15, 13 October 2021 (UTC)