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AfC notification: Draft:Rachel Davis Harris has a new comment[edit]

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)[edit]

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:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
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SwisterTwister talk 02:18, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Rachel Davis Harris has been nominated for Did You Know[edit]

Hello, SouthboundLightning. Rachel Davis Harris, an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot (talk!) 05:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Rachel Davis Harris[edit]

On 29 December 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rachel Davis Harris, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rachel Davis Harris was an influential African American library director in the Jim Crow South? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rachel Davis Harris. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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

Nice work![edit]

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[edit]

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]

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

[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)

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