Talk:Astri Aasen

Pre-GA tip
I would advise that you ask for a read-through by a professional English user. See for instance WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. Some sentences seem a little off. Geschichte (talk) 21:57, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * "That is where many of her portraits now reside". Do portraits reside?
 * Re: "colored garment (a gákti) that was earlier hindered by pastor Lars Levi Laestadius's violent branch of Laestadianism, and increased in popularity in the 1840s", is violent the right word choice? The run-on "and" does not seem right either, it should probably be a "but"?
 * "After the conference, the magazine Idun said the paintings were of" - do magazines say, do they write, or do people write in magazines?
 * Also, are Thorkild Jonassen and Thorkel Jonassen the same person?


 * WP:SOFIXIT. Contributing to a backlogged project after their most prolific editor and genius died seems like a waste of time especially when the issues you point out are minor. Paintings can reside in a place, so why couldn't a portrait? Have you read the chapter to see if "violent" is correct? (It explicitly connects it to a riot and frames it that way.) You can change the verb "said", I don't recall the chapter giving an author so I can't add that at the moment. I'll check the spelling of Jonassen later. These are trivial prose issues that are expected to be cleared up in a competent review, so delaying it for probably weeks seems misguided. Urve (talk) 01:58, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * So you mean it's my job to fix something that you nominated for GA? I take it that someone else is going to clear them up when the GA review comes, too? As for copyediting, GAN is backlogged as well, and I only meant something of the sort (cf. "for instance"), and I don't know anything about deaths. Geschichte (talk) 08:40, 17 December 2021 (UTC)


 * No, but I do mean that it's as quick to fix some things as it is to write out an explanation for why it isn't working. I just don't see the value in GOCE now; at least (edit: one) of these issues wouldn't be fixable from many copy editors, since it deals with content (whether violence is accurate, which I'll come back to). You're not obligated to do anything, and I appreciate what you did change - I just think the suggestion to send it to another project before I send it to the backlogged GAN is untenable at scale (and of course, any feedback from GAN is my own obligation to fix). As for deaths, see Deceased Wikipedians/2021 - much too soon. Urve (talk) 13:25, 17 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Thorkild is a different person according to the source. Some portraits are ascribed to specific individuals, such as Thorkild Jonassen or Daniel Mortensen. but The artist would produce at least three separate portraits of Thorkel Jonassen
 * The Sámi lawyer Ánde Somby has noted that green-colored gákti, which became discouraged under the strict fundamentalist sect of Christianity under the aegis of Lars Levi Laestadius, exploded in popularity among the Sámi after the 1840s. For many in the Nordic countries, Laestadianism was explicitly connected to an infamously violent episode of Sámi-Norwegian history: the Guoavdageaidnu/Kautokeino Rebellion of 1852. -- I changed it to fundamentalist for redundancy in the following sentence but I think violent is correct.
 * Attributed writer, some flow changed. A copy edit would probably have changed Thorkild's name. Urve (talk) 15:35, 17 December 2021 (UTC)