Talk:Proprietary colony
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editA proprietary colony is a colony that allows individuals to sell land.
General article on British colonies, and articles on specific kinds of British colonies.
editThe article lists four types of British colonies: proprietary, royal, joint stock, and covenant. Currently, British Colony redirects to Crown Colony, apparently a synonym for Royal Colony. Offhand I think it would be good to have up to five articles to cover these kinds of colonies. British Colony would give an overview of the similarities and differences. Then there would potentially be an article on each of the four types. Currently there are articles on two of the types. Well, so I would ask someone who is so inclined and curious or already in the know to create a general article on British Colony. Such would have descriptions of all four kinds. Thank you for your consideration.CountMacula (talk) 13:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Problems of organization and focus
editI will try to reorganize the article if I remember to do so, but I have no expertise in this subject. Here are some problems I have identified.
- Intro does not say what a proprietary colony is
- Intro includes much that is not in the body
- Intro claims 4 kinds of colonies and then mentions a fifth
- Intro talks about Charles II rewarding friends with proprietary colonies but says nothing about whether other monarchs created proprietary colonies or if other types of colonies were used to reward friends (which seems like saying "Emily Dickinson sometimes wore hats" in the intro to a hats article that never even says what hats are)
- Only the first 2 paragraphs of the historical precedent section are about historical precedent (fixed-ish by creating new sections out of this section, but someone should check that I have not messed anything up)
- It is not clear whether the lists of colonies are supposed to be lists of proprietary colonies (it seems unlikely that all of the British American colonies were proprietary, but the article mentions all of them)
- The article lists "French examples" despite saying that proprietary colonies are English (fixed-ish by placing this section as a subsection of a new "similar practices" section)
- All of the examples given are from the Americas, but the article is not clear about whether this was a practice specific to the Americas