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The result was: promoted by
Desertarun (
talk) 18:13, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
... that on June 8, 1826, rioters destroyed
William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot? Source: "On 8 June 1826, young members of the Family Compact raided William Lyon Mackenzie’s York office, smashing his printing press" (Davis-Fisch) "Just after six o’clock on the evening of June 8, 1826, a number of young men broke into Mackenzie’s house,where his printing press was located." (Sewell 60)
ALT1:... that
William Lyon Mackenzie used the money he won at the Types Riot trial to fund his first election campaign? Source: "the money was used to reestablish the Colonial Advocate in 1827, and to ironically fund his first election bid in July 1828" (Schrawers 85)
ALT2:... that the Types Riot was called "the most important debate in Upper Canadian legal history"? Source: "The Types Riot and its aftermath are the focal point of the most important debate in Upper Canadian legal history" (Wilton)
Overall: I dropped two {{cn}}s which should be fairly easy to fix, and one {{clarify}}. The request for clarification is for the phrase "… for trespassing in a civil suit". Do you mean the lawsuit was for
trespass? Verified all the hooks except for the Sewell quote which I couldn't find online, but that's independently verified by Davis-Fisch so no problem there. Flagging that the Wilton source for alt2 is from
doi:
10.2307/743957, not her later book. My favourite hook is alt 1, followed by alt0. Fantastic work on this! I'm not sure if it's possible to pick 8 June as a date, so flagging that for the promoter.AleatoryPonderings (
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!!!) 03:10, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi
AleatoryPonderings, yes the sentences you tagged with cn were verified by the citation at the end of the paragraph; I added citations regardless to make sure there was no confusion. The "trespassing" info is unimportant and would take too much time and effort to explain, so I removed it. Sorry about the Wilton source, I put the wrong year. For June 8, I will move it to the "Special occasion holding area" if this DYK nom is approved.
Z1720 (
talk) 19:39, 29 April 2021 (UTC)