Talk:Tinsmith

[edit] Criticism

I am not sure that a tinsmith and a whitesmith are quite the same thing. If they are these articles should be merged.
It is not appropriate to have a description of tinplate making here, when there is a separate article on that subject.
The English ban on making tinplate is oversimplified. In 1750, a ban was imposed on building new plating forges and rolling mills; any existing ones remained legal. This ban of course ended with the American Revolution, and was thus quite shortlived. Peterkingiron 00:42, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I note the revert on the addition "or whitesmith". My first criticism above has not been resolved.
I have moveed the sentence on the Iron Act inot the "raw material" section, and made an additoon to this - but I am not sure that this material belongs here rather than in tinplate. I regret that I am also guilty of inserting material that is technically WP:OR. It is in fact well-sourced, but in archival sources, not published ones. I know the use of archival sources in WP is discouraged - but what else can one use when they are unpublished? Peterkingiron 18:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC)