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Did you know... that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
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... that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish? Sources: John A. Lewis Library, 1892, p. 151; McCorkle, 1915-1916, p. 25
Thanks for the interesting Article, which was a joy to review.
The article is new enough (created on 12 October 2022; nominated on 18 October 2022).
The article is long enough (more than 1,500 characters of readable prose).
The article is sourced, neutral and Earwig does not pick up issues. However, some sentences seem to be bungled (For example "Foster edited the two English pages were edited by Lewis and the two Spanish ones by Manuel Clemente Rojo." or "The prospect of establish a newspaper in lid-ninth century Los Angeles proved to be somewhat difficult and something of an experiment for Lewis." In my view a thorough copy-edit and spellcheck would be necessary before I can approve this (even if this is not a standard requirement for DYK).
The hook is interesting, short enough and cited inline (one source even claims that it was the first newspaper in the whole of SoCal).
QPQ is still pending.
Overall: @
Gwillhickers: I will pass this article if you do a thorough copy-edited (see e.g. the passages quoted above), add at least one more source (e.g. the source above contemplated by me) and do your QPQ. Thanks for creating free knowledge (I will do a quick ce myself)!
WatkynBassett (
talk)
19:12, 19 October 2022 (UTC)reply
@
WatkynBassett: — Thanks for your review and for spotting some errors, etc, and esp for finding another good source which I put to good use, per your recommendation. I was about to review another DYK nomination when I got your notification, so I'm going to get on that directly. Hope all issues have been addressed to your liking. --
Gwillhickers (
talk)
19:55, 19 October 2022 (UTC)reply
A fact from John Allen Lewis appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 October 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
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This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the
United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
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.
... that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish? Sources: John A. Lewis Library, 1892, p. 151; McCorkle, 1915-1916, p. 25
Thanks for the interesting Article, which was a joy to review.
The article is new enough (created on 12 October 2022; nominated on 18 October 2022).
The article is long enough (more than 1,500 characters of readable prose).
The article is sourced, neutral and Earwig does not pick up issues. However, some sentences seem to be bungled (For example "Foster edited the two English pages were edited by Lewis and the two Spanish ones by Manuel Clemente Rojo." or "The prospect of establish a newspaper in lid-ninth century Los Angeles proved to be somewhat difficult and something of an experiment for Lewis." In my view a thorough copy-edit and spellcheck would be necessary before I can approve this (even if this is not a standard requirement for DYK).
The hook is interesting, short enough and cited inline (one source even claims that it was the first newspaper in the whole of SoCal).
QPQ is still pending.
Overall: @
Gwillhickers: I will pass this article if you do a thorough copy-edited (see e.g. the passages quoted above), add at least one more source (e.g. the source above contemplated by me) and do your QPQ. Thanks for creating free knowledge (I will do a quick ce myself)!
WatkynBassett (
talk)
19:12, 19 October 2022 (UTC)reply
@
WatkynBassett: — Thanks for your review and for spotting some errors, etc, and esp for finding another good source which I put to good use, per your recommendation. I was about to review another DYK nomination when I got your notification, so I'm going to get on that directly. Hope all issues have been addressed to your liking. --
Gwillhickers (
talk)
19:55, 19 October 2022 (UTC)reply