Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/William Bradford (printer, born 1663)/1

William Bradford (printer, born 1663)

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Result: Delisted; no improvement. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:11, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This WP:DCGAR was listed as an intent to GAR on 9 February, but the GAR has not been initiated, so I'm opening it to get the ball rolling.

The initial GAN reviewer, Wil540 art has not edited the article since 15 February, after they started a review of inconsequential edits, but failed to look at the foundational edit of most significance. That edit introduced almost all of the current text and sources. Several of those are not available online, so content based on them can be WP:PDEL'd. Further, from sources that can be checked, the customary very close paraphrasing issues:

Selby (2018) – sample only:
- Article: Bradford's grandson, William became a well-known printer during the American Revolution for the Continental Congress.
  - Source: Bradford's grandson, William Bradford, became a noted printer for the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.

and

- In 1688, he printed Temple of Wisdom, the first full-sized book released in the middle colonies.[1][4]

and failed verification (sample) are found:

Selby 2018 does not support all of
- "His trainer was Andrew Sowel (some sources spell Sowle or Sorole), the foremost Quaker printer in London, at the sign of the Crooked Billet in Holloway Lane at Shoreditch. Bradford started working for Sowel about 1680 and had mastered the trade and was free from his apprenticeship December 3, 1684. He married the master's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, on April 28, 1685. Sowel arranged for the two to join William Penn in his new colony in North America with a letter of recommendation from George Fox, founder of the Quakers, to become the colonial printer."
and other sources cited (Johns 1992) offer more nuance.

Many sources cited are not available online, so I have WP:PDEL'd the content from those sources that was written by DC (leaving content written by others), but a revert to the last version before the DC expansion may be preferable, unless someone has access to the sources to reconstruct content. I have not completed checking of all the remaining sources for source-to-text integrity or copyvio issues, but note that the major DC expansion was not indicated as checked in the chart on the talk page. I have only completed the presumptive deletion of content written by DC and cited to offline sources: everything else needs to be checked, as the checking initiated on the talk page did not look at the major expansion.

The DCGAR AN provided for a time period for GA reviewers to indicate they intended to attempt a GA save so the articles would not be delisted and before content would be presumptively deleted; it did not envision leaving content from a known copyright violator with an open CCI in mainspace for months beyond the initial 9 February notification. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:46, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.