Talk:Chimney sweep

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Chimney sweeps suffered the first documented cases of occupational cancers, due to a carcinogenic component of coal dust (benzo(a)pyrene) which is also found in cigarette smoke. One of the best known and longest studied links of a specific chemical to cancer. Jed 17:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many chimney sweeps were mistreated and carried to the hospital. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.92.52.201 (talk) 02:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"it is only in the last two hundred years that the chimney has grown large enough to hold a man" - clearly the author has never looked up a chimney in a medieval castle... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.209.26.189 (talk) 10:19, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Legislation in Germany

The part of "Legislation in Germany" is not correct and not the whole story, please take a look at chimney sweep in german-wikipedia " Geschichte"..

Unsourced content

"In the United States, afro-american children were hired from their owners and used in the same way, and were still climbing after 1875." There is no source shown for this statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nkdfun (talk • contribs) 17:11, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This should be featured

This. This is the best wiki article I have ever read. It is pure encyclopedic literature, and should be used as a model for all articles on this website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.186.162.238 (talk) 06:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Its social history importance and link to the first Occupational disease does make it potential Featured Article material. JRPG (talk) 16:09, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have no experience of the process and have limited availability until Sept but will help further if someone is willing to lead it. --ClemRutter (talk) 21:18, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I have no FA experience, and no historical knowledge base in the area, but am happy to keep a watch on it, and might make odd improvements where I can. (But not this week - I am off to Anglesey to see what the rain is like there). RobinLeicester (talk) 00:02, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One immediate problem is that it mostly uses one source. JRPG (talk) 22:52, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Help needed please.

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Assistance needed from someone who has experience in the process to check on progress --ClemRutter (talk) 19:12, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kaminfegerkinder (Spazzacamini)

Hi, as the 1940s novel and an image already was added, linked to Kaminfegerkinder (Spazzacamini), meaning "child chimney sweepers", usually originating in the Swiss Valle Verzasca in the 19th century maybe early 20th century. The interesting wiki i enjoyed to read for the first time, and please feel free to place the some words added at a more adequate section :-) Thx for takting notice and kindly regards, Roland zh 00:40, 18 November 2014 (UTC) [fixed ~00:52, 18 November 2014]