Talk:Industrial Revolution/Archive 3

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Child Labour
This section contains a lot of good information, however, there are some gramatical error that could be improved upon. There are multiple misplaced commas that could be erased to help the information flow more smoothly. There are also some run on sentences that could be split into separate sentences with the deletion of semi colons and the addition of a period. One case of a misused italization was present. Overall this section is useful to readers looking for an overview of child labour during the industrial revolution. With slight improvements to the the grammar and punctuation, the information would be much clearer and easily read. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Accane88 (talk • contribs) 00:16, 17 September 2014


 * I have removed what I consider to be four optional commas, although I have added a further two, which I considered necessary. I could only find one example where the use of a semi-colon could have been avoided but this required the addition of another comma. The other uses, in my opinion, were quite correct. I could not find any italics in this section. Perhaps you meant quotation marks? I personally didn't find the section difficult to read and think that converting it to short staccato sentences would not be an improvement. While I enjoy the irony, might I suggest that, if you are going to criticise other people's writing, you double check what you have written yourself. Best regards--Ykraps (talk) 08:31, 17 September 2014 (UTC)


 * It really wasn't meant to be, but on a second reading, that comment comes across as rude so I have struck it and apologise if it was taken the wrong way.--Ykraps (talk) 21:06, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 October 2014
HI

162.253.233.65 (talk) 19:27, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Cannolis (talk) 20:58, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Nominated for "good article" status
I am nominating this article because if is of high importance to many fields. I am sure there are some unresolved issues, but its time to get a critical review and list of problems so they can be addressed.Phmoreno (talk) 21:44, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 April 2015
lie

198.209.0.254 (talk) 18:11, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format.  Kharkiv07 Talk  18:26, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 May 2015
Hi, I noticed a spelling error, in the line "In the late 17th and early 18th centuries the British government passed a series of Calico Acts in order to protect the domestic woolen industry from the increasing amounts of cotton fabric imported from India" in this line the spelling 'woolen' is American English, as the article is in British English the spelling should be 'woollen'.

86.24.250.187 (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Jamietw (talk) 17:18, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Lower case / upper case
The phrase "industrial revolution" is capitalized (Industrial Revolution) most, but not all, of the time in this article. IMO it should be lower case throughout, as it indeed is in the direct quotes. It should in any case be consistent. --Hordaland (talk) 04:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

move to lowercase spelling
According to Wikipedia's MOS, terms and article titles should usually be lowercased, even and especially when reliable sources disagree -- that's the whole point of making and using a MOS. Since many if not most carefully edited texts on this topic use lower case, including many of the article's sources, we should not waste any time discussing this and the term should be lowercased and the article should be moved. (e.g. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html and the Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World and the Dictionary of American History  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Industrial_Revolution.aspx#1 ) See also the talk page of scientific revolution --Espoo (talk) 10:38, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 May 2015
"The Bank of Japan, founded in 1877," should be changed to "The Bank of Japan, founded in 1882."

I am submitting this request because the Bank of Japan was created in 1882, not 1877, as the page currently suggests.

Source: https://www.boj.or.jp/en/about/outline/history/index.htm/

Switchstyle123 (talk) 17:32, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done  Kharkiv07 Talk  18:39, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on Industrial Revolution. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20140219011905/http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=104 to http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=104
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20091028110638/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701509067/Scientific_Revolution.html to http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701509067/Scientific_Revolution.html

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Cheers. —cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 10:06, 26 August 2015 (UTC)