Talk:Sugar and Molasses Act
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[edit] Expansion of the Article
As a result of a frivolous (IMO) dispute at the Sugar Act article, I expanded this article with an aim to providing additional verification, in the form of direct quotes from two historians that fully support the summary of this earlier act included in the other article. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 19:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- Great job! BradMajors (talk) 18:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
- Isuspect that the article would be improved by some contextulisation. My understanding is that before 1733, any trade with non-British colonies was illegal under the navigation acts. Accordingly the Act was designed to legalise a trade so that it was not smuggling. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:40, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, it would seem so. In 1705, molasses was added to the list of "enumerated commodities". But if the trade was already illegal why was there an attempt in 1731 to make the importation of molasses from the French West Indies illegal? This act also placed a 9d duty on the import of foreign rum to protect New England rum manufacture. BradMajors (talk) 09:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
- Isuspect that the article would be improved by some contextulisation. My understanding is that before 1733, any trade with non-British colonies was illegal under the navigation acts. Accordingly the Act was designed to legalise a trade so that it was not smuggling. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:40, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Original Reserch
Besides being largely irrelevant (the tax subject to the article is not on the finished product but the ingredients), the editor has drawn conclusions unsupported by any reliable secondary sources. Rather than his conclusion that analysizing the impact would be difficult, the sources cited elsewhere in the article note no such difficulty in their analysis. Dismissing the educated opinion of noted historians as mere speculation is, likewise, strictly the editor's own opinion.
Similarly, the listing of the prices of various alchoholic beverage taxes to support the editor's view appears to be contrary to WP:SYN which states:
"Material can often be put together in a way that constitutes original research even if its individual elements have been published by reliable sources. Synthesizing material occurs when an editor tries to demonstrate the validity of his or her own conclusions by citing sources that when put together serve to advance the editor's position. If the sources cited do not explicitly reach the same conclusion, or if the sources cited are not directly related to the subject of the article, then the editor is engaged in original research."
Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 13:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
