Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Jenckes Sr.

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:55, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Joseph Jenckes Sr.[edit]

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... that Joseph Jenckes Sr., a 17th-century blacksmith in Massachusetts, was granted the first machine patent in America?

Created by Diogenes99 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:09, 18 January 2019 (UTC).

@Diogenes99: I have added the cite to Griswold and Linebaugh after the sentence "In 1646, Jenckes was granted the first patent in America" as DYK rules require cites to appear "no later than the end of the sentence(s) offering that fact". With that done I can find no issues and the hook is certainly hooky. Nice work, and a good article.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: "America" is used to mean the United States of, but I think that this is clear from context. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:41, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

@Gog the Mild (1) Yeah, since there were not state at the time we can't use USA. (2) The hook should be first "first machine patent" and not "first patent." There was an earlier patent. Samuel Winslow had a salt process patent in 1641. Diogenes99 (talk) 17:35, 19 January 2019 (UTC)