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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Rachel Davis Harris. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 00:34, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rachel Davis Harris (November 28)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
SwisterTwister talk 02:18, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rachel Davis Harris has been accepted

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MatthewVanitas (talk) 10:05, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rachel Davis Harris has been nominated for Did You Know

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DYK for Rachel Davis Harris

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work!

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Thanks for writing an article about Rachel Davis Harris! Great to see her on the Wikipedia main page today. HazelAB (talk) 15:37, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sans-serif

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A German proclamation issued by an archbishop in 1768. The body text is set in blackletter, some Latin and French terms in 'Antiqua' or Roman type.

Apologies for taking so long to get back to you on this, but I'm not sure you're correct about your addition to the sans-serif article back in October:

The type used by an author correlated to the social class of the author's intended audience. Roman type was commonly associated with the upper class and bourgeois readers of biography, fiction, and the sciences while Gothic type was used primarily for lower class reading interests, such as chapbooks. For example, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was ordered, upon their foundation in 1739, that their proceedings would be printed in roman script to meet the expectations of the international scientific community at that time. [1]

I don't think this is relevant to sans-serif fonts, and I'm not sure what parts of the world this is true for. 'Roman' type simply means normal serif fonts of the kind we use today, as opposed to 'italics' (the Germans call them Antiqua typefaces), while Gothic in this context means blackletter, not sans-serif. (Blackletter was still used to print books in Germanic/German-influenced countries in the 18th century but was effectively unheard of in Britain, and I understand also France and other parts of Western Europe.) To the best of my knowledge no normal books were printed in sans-serif in the 18th century, maybe possibly some engraving captions. But I know nothing about Swedish printing and I could be wrong about this! Blythwood (talk) 04:33, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ Lyons, Martyn (2011). Books: A Living History (Second ed.). Los Angeles: Getty Publications. p. 114. ISBN 9781606060834. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)