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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 Desertarun (talk) 18:13, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

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Types Riot

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  • ... that on June 8, 1826, rioters destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot? Source: "On 8 June 1826, young members of the Family Compact raided William Lyon Mackenzie’s York office, smashing his printing press" (Davis-Fisch) "Just after six o’clock on the evening of June 8, 1826, a number of young men broke into Mackenzie’s house,where his printing press was located." (Sewell 60)
    • ALT1:... that William Lyon Mackenzie used the money he won at the Types Riot trial to fund his first election campaign? Source: "the money was used to reestablish the Colonial Advocate in 1827, and to ironically fund his first election bid in July 1828" (Schrawers 85)
    • ALT2:... that the Types Riot was called "the most important debate in Upper Canadian legal history"? Source: "The Types Riot and its aftermath are the focal point of the most important debate in Upper Canadian legal history" (Wilton)

Converted from a redirect by Z1720 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:18, 28 April 2021 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: I dropped two {{cn}}s which should be fairly easy to fix, and one {{clarify}}. The request for clarification is for the phrase "… for trespassing in a civil suit". Do you mean the lawsuit was for trespass? Verified all the hooks except for the Sewell quote which I couldn't find online, but that's independently verified by Davis-Fisch so no problem there. Flagging that the Wilton source for alt2 is from doi:10.2307/743957, not her later book. My favourite hook is alt 1, followed by alt0. Fantastic work on this! I'm not sure if it's possible to pick 8 June as a date, so flagging that for the promoter. AleatoryPonderings (???)<(!!!) 03:10, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi AleatoryPonderings, yes the sentences you tagged with cn were verified by the citation at the end of the paragraph; I added citations regardless to make sure there was no confusion. The "trespassing" info is unimportant and would take too much time and effort to explain, so I removed it. Sorry about the Wilton source, I put the wrong year. For June 8, I will move it to the "Special occasion holding area" if this DYK nom is approved. Z1720 (talk) 19:39, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, Z1720. All looks good to me now :) AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 19:58, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
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