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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 1, 2023. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that only 45 per cent of babies born in 1851 in Victorian-era* Liverpool, England, lived to be 20 years old?*
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"The researchers found that the more difficult of words were in declining usage and a negative correlation between the use of such words and completed fertility."

This sentence, under Reading culture, is as close to a word salad as any I have found in a Wikipedia article. I have no idea even how to revise it for the original intention. Epl (talk) 12:04, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it. Nerd271 (talk) 14:30, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The Image2 in the section ===Housing=== is not from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, but from St. Ives, Cornwall, so the caption needs amending from Working class life in Victorian Wetherby, West Yorkshire to Working class life in Victorian St Ives, Cornwall Pwrw7383 (talk) 11:01, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But the file name is bishopgate, and there is an area of Wetherby called Bishopgate. There is a street in St Ives in Cornwall called Bishopsgate, but that isn't the same. So why do you think it is St Ives? Sbishop (talk) 11:07, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The image is from the Frances Frith Collection, its of Back Road East in St. Ives (https://www.francisfrith.com/st-ives/st-ives-fishermen-s-quarters-back-road-east-1906_56548)

Approximate Street view matches also, https://goo.gl/maps/ba8C2Fvksenuoqbs6

Only reference of that image being from Wetherby is from Wikipedia / Wikimedia Pwrw7383 (talk) 11:58, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done Good one. Aaron Liu (talk) 23:44, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Should the events section be deleted?

It is unusual for an article of this type and much of it is not sourced. Based on the archive concerns seem to have been raised about it in the past. Llewee (talk) 13:06, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should the sentence about the "professionalisation of scientific study" be rephrased?

"The professionalisation of scientific study began in parts of Europe following the French Revolution but was slow to reach Britain."

Britain had a period of extensive scientific research and studies in the 17th and 18th centuries through the Scientific Revolution. The Royal Society is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. It would have been better to clarify the term "professionalisation of scientific study" to give more context to the reader. Currently, the sentence feels too abrupt as an introduction to the section "Knowledge and Infrastructure". Inlin (talk) 20:44, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is fine the way it is. It means exactly what it says. It was not until after the French Revolution that scientists started to exist as a professional class. Before that, most scientists were either amateurs or part-time workers. Nerd271 (talk) 22:44, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Inlin and Nerd271, I will take out the comment about Britain being "somewhat undeveloped in... initially science" from the lead of the article as their probably isn't enough evidence to warrant it.--Llewee (talk) 14:24, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Llewee: Good idea! Nerd271 (talk) 23:24, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]