The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that James Thompson, who made the first
plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?
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I think his service in the Black Hawk War is worth mentioning in the lead, as well as a mention of his death.
Done
"Shortly after attaining statehood in 1818 Illinois" - Comma after 1818
Done
Wikilink Illinois River
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You're not required to have a citation after every sentence. I think only having one citation after the Early life paragraph would look a lot cleaner, all of the information is from that one source. Same with the early career paragraph. Having 22 citations from the same source gives the impression of too heavy of reliance on one source, which isn't the case here, the impression is created by having a citation after every sentence when the whole paragraph is from one source.
This isn't what I'm used to, but I'll try it. (I plan on eventually bringing this to FAC; hopefully they won't complain about this, but they shouldn't per MINREF.)
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I personally like infoboxes. I'm aware this is a bias of mine, so I'm only going to make this a suggestion, but the generic person infobox could be added to this article
I don't think the article right now warrants it. As said earlier I plan on eventually taking this to FAC, so if the article develops during the course of that journey I might add one, but for now I don't think it's warranted.
Okay. Yeah, it's not a GA-thing. Good luck with the FAC!
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User:John M Wolfson, I'm translating this article to Chinese, just have few question:
"The pioneer Mark Beaubien's cabin ended up in the middle of one of the streets; he bought two lots of the plat and moved his property by a couple of yards". Is this means that Mark Beaubien have somehow manage to moved his cabin for less than 2 meters or just moved to another property less than two meters away from his cabin? And he have buy lands of two
Land lot?--
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10:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
According to the source, it appears that he was in fact able to move the actual buildings by a couple of meters. And yes, land lots. Thank you for your translation efforts, I think this is the first time I've ever had an article I created be translated into a different language. –
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15:50, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
I presume he just disassembled the buildings and then rebuilt them, which would be easier if it's something like a log cabin, although the source doesn't offer any more specificity. –
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01:00, 1 July 2020 (UTC)reply
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that James Thompson, who made the first
plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?
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I think his service in the Black Hawk War is worth mentioning in the lead, as well as a mention of his death.
Done
"Shortly after attaining statehood in 1818 Illinois" - Comma after 1818
Done
Wikilink Illinois River
Done
2.
You're not required to have a citation after every sentence. I think only having one citation after the Early life paragraph would look a lot cleaner, all of the information is from that one source. Same with the early career paragraph. Having 22 citations from the same source gives the impression of too heavy of reliance on one source, which isn't the case here, the impression is created by having a citation after every sentence when the whole paragraph is from one source.
This isn't what I'm used to, but I'll try it. (I plan on eventually bringing this to FAC; hopefully they won't complain about this, but they shouldn't per MINREF.)
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
I personally like infoboxes. I'm aware this is a bias of mine, so I'm only going to make this a suggestion, but the generic person infobox could be added to this article
I don't think the article right now warrants it. As said earlier I plan on eventually taking this to FAC, so if the article develops during the course of that journey I might add one, but for now I don't think it's warranted.
Okay. Yeah, it's not a GA-thing. Good luck with the FAC!
Hello
User:John M Wolfson, I'm translating this article to Chinese, just have few question:
"The pioneer Mark Beaubien's cabin ended up in the middle of one of the streets; he bought two lots of the plat and moved his property by a couple of yards". Is this means that Mark Beaubien have somehow manage to moved his cabin for less than 2 meters or just moved to another property less than two meters away from his cabin? And he have buy lands of two
Land lot?--
Jarodalien (
talk)
10:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
According to the source, it appears that he was in fact able to move the actual buildings by a couple of meters. And yes, land lots. Thank you for your translation efforts, I think this is the first time I've ever had an article I created be translated into a different language. –
John M Wolfson (
talk •
contribs)
15:50, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
I presume he just disassembled the buildings and then rebuilt them, which would be easier if it's something like a log cabin, although the source doesn't offer any more specificity. –
John M Wolfson (
talk •
contribs)
01:00, 1 July 2020 (UTC)reply