Talk:Breaker boy

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Date	Process	Result
February 18, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 4, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that breaker boys (pictured) were at risk for acid burns, asthma, black lung disease, accidental amputation, and death by smothering or crushing while working in coal breakers?

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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 21:48, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Review in progress. Others may also review. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 21:48, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice article. Suggest possibly having more clear sections. Now it is 1 Importance of coal breaking
2 Use of breaker boys
3 Union activities
4 References
5 External links

Consider:

1 Importance of coal breaking
2 Use of breaker boys (mainly about job description)
3 Un-named section about public condemnation...
3 Union activities (minor rewrite or expansion or see if references say these activities helped end the line of work? Or maybe keep it?)
4 References
5 External links

Although it is not customary to do so, if there is a request to do so, I could do minor editing and pass it as a GA. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 22:14, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since there hasn't been editing on it and you say it's near GA status, you can make the tweaks yourself if it's all it needs. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 21:36, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA granted. Since I am rather new to creating GA (have done it) and reviewing it, others who disagree, please let me know if you disagree. I am open to learning. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 18:41, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion of article[edit]

I feel this article would work better as one that covers all employees working at coal breakers, with a subsection on the use of child labour. --Eldomtom2 (talk) 19:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Breaker Boys[edit]

Breaker boys still worked in mines around Pottsville PA into the 1930’s. Both my father and uncle were working as breaker boys when they were 9 and 10 years old in 1933. They both went into the mines full-time by age 12 and 13. So I disagree with the statement that this practice ended in the 1920’s. 108.51.191.112 (talk) 03:39, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]