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Thomas Elfe was one of the Art and architecture good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Thomas Elfe, a contemporary of
Thomas Chippendale, was the most successful furniture craftsman in
Charleston in the eighteenth century?
"was a successful colonial period furniture" not sure we need "successful" here, nor else he'd probably not be notable.
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fifteen-hundred -> 1,500.
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Lead needs expansion, I would imagine that a sentence for each of the major paragraphs of the biography would suffice.
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"He was a prolific furniture and cabinet craftsman of the American colonial period." this feels out of place being just after he was born.
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"settled in Virginia and" link.
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"cabinetmaker" link.
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"in Charles Towne," link?
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"His working career spanned almost thirty years from about 1746 to 1775.[7]" another odd "summary" sentence, better off in the lead than here.
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"6,200 English pounds - considered a fortune at the time" Just use £6,200. And considered by whom? If you keep that somehow, the hyphen should be
an en-dash.
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"one time director " one-time.
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"famous furniture craftsman in the eighteenth century" in the US presumably, not globally...?
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All of that para seems out of chronological order to the biography.
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"From there right around 1746 he ..." -> "and in around 1746..."
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"an ad in the" advertisment.
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"The £150 value would be several thousand dollars in the twentieth century" we have inflation/conversion for this.
Done Tried to put in inflation template for English money, but not sure if I did correct. Couldn't figure out how to convert English money into American dollars. Can you help on this? I appreciate it. Thanks.--
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"Charles Town" was Charles Towne above.
Done = should be Charles Towne. I corrected spelling.
"the average person of the city being several times wealthier on the whole " this feels rather woolly.
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"The wealthy Charlestonians loved London-style furnishings and would purchase most anything along these fashions that was handmade by local woodworkers. " this reads a little like a gossip column for me.
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"over fifteen hundred pieces" 1,500
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"paid £728 in" inflate/convert.
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"In 1761 they submitted a bill to the church for some interior woodwork they did. " feels trivial.
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"of a Mahogany Communion Table" Why The Capitals?
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£157, inflate/convert.
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"Thomas Elfe, Jr.," Wikipedia doesn't put commas before Jr. any longer.
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"several associates hand-made over fifteen-hundred furniture pieces including fancy cabinets" already said this. And "fancy cabinets" is not encyclopedic.
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"that were sold to Charleston's leading families and the wealthy" again, this feels like it's repeating.
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"furniture and to put up new furniture and to do minor repairs to furniture" furniture x 3 is repetitive.
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"the Declaration of Independence such" link to the actual one.
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"signers of the Declaration of Independence" signatories normally, and don't repeat DoI.
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"Elfe's work..." this para is very clunky, very short sentences introducing factoid after factoid. Needs smoothing out.
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"Elfe ad in South Carolina Gazette - January 7" advertisement, en-dash.