Talk:William Penn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the William Penn article.
Please sign and date your posts using four tildes (~~~~). New discussion topics go at the bottom of the page; click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Frequently asked questions. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Talk page guidelines Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Don't bite the newcomers!

	William Penn is part of the WikiProject Philadelphia, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale.
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale.

	William Penn is part of WikiProject Pennsylvania, which is building a comprehensive and detailed guide to Pennsylvania on Wikipedia. To participate, you can edit the attached article, join or discuss the project.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale.
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. [FAQ]

	This article is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), an attempt to better organise and unify articles relating to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the assessment scale.
High	This article is on a subject of High-importance within Quakerism.

Contents 1 Featured 2 William Shenstone 3 Quaker 4 Quaker age 5 maybe..... 6 Birthplace? 7 Information 8 anti-atheism? 9 Penn and Hawkhurst 10 Site of Wlliam Penn's grave

[edit] Featured

Featured on Template:March 4 selected anniversaries (may be in HTML comment)

[edit] William Shenstone

There is a link here from William Shenstone which I am pretty sure refers to a different William Penn. I will delete the link unless somebody tells me I am wrong and it is the same Penn. Cutler 10:59, May 24, 2004 (UTC)

At the end of the article, the sentence reads (emphasis mine), Later, according to the story, Penn again met Fox, but this time without the sword. Penn then said, "I have taken thy furcoat; I wore it as long as I could.

This makes no sense to me: should that be coat? --Calton 23:36, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quaker

Hello, if anyone is interested, I just started a Quaker WikiProject, which can be found at WP:WQ or Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Zach 00:30, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quaker age

I am not so sure if Penn became a Quaker at the age of 25 becaase according to The American Nation From Prentice Hall (c) in 2002 has that William Penn shocked his Friends and Family by joining the Quakers, one of the most despised...

[edit] maybe.....

maybe he did become a quaker at that age..i am pretty sure.

[edit] Birthplace?

The article fails to state WHERE Penn was born.

Also, is there anything known about his library? Are parts of it still extant, and where? A recent auction offered some books bearing his exlibris, so obviously some must have been sold, or was it again that "different" William Penn who Cutler is talking about? Dunnhaupt 23:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Information

There's a biography out about Benjamin Franklin called "The First American", and it has a lot of good information about William Penn and his descendants (not to mention information about Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, and some of the Founding Fathers). If anyone's read it, they might want to help contribute to this article.

[edit] anti-atheism?

(complete freedom of religion for everybody who believed in God), ambiguous, please clarify if he was anti-atheism

===Vandalism-- Someone has carved a great chunk out of this article and another has added some material about his marriages and children than needs referencing. Have to get up early so can't do anything now! ---Vernon White 22:46, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Penn and Hawkhurst

Someone has inserted "Before moving to America, Penn owned ironworks in the Kent village of Hawkhurst." This information also being given on the Hawkhurst article. The editor seems to think Penn settled permanently in America. It doen't seem to me useful to include this unreferenced information in the main article on Penn. === Vernon White (talk) 23:16, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Site of Wlliam Penn's grave

Someone has added a link to http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=802, which has a photo showing a gravestone. Can this be an original gravestone or even the correct location at Jordans Burial Ground? Quakers were forbidden to erect gravestones until a change in the regulations in 1850 (Source: E. Isichei Victorian Quakers) === Vernon White (talk) 23:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I added the link as I found it. -- Michael David 00:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)