Talk:Carol Van Strum

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 * Victuallers(Talk) and Gerda Arendt(talk) Thank you for the time you took to read about CVS and for your welcome. I have added a citation for the half-life bit. I have added a hedge, namely the phrase... it is said...before the part that is hard to prove because it  involves reading and quoting many legal papers. Forgive my inexperience if the hedge is not enough. I am happy to learn. Balance person (talk) 16:49, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

WiG mini-review
Responding to the request for a 20 minute review. This is an interesting article, about an interesting person. However, I am quite concerned at some of the sources used here, which I would not personally accept as a GA reviewer. Addressing these will likely change enough of the prose that I don't want to get into a prose review at this time. Thanks for your work with this article, and if you want me to take a second look at it in the future, please feel free to ask. Detailed concerns are as follows. Vanamonde (Talk) 21:39, 2 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for taking the time to review CVS and for your tact. I am learning about GAs and so your comments are really useful. I will withdraw the article from consideration as, when I wrote it, I did a thorough search for sources and got the best that I could. I will have a look around and see if I can find a candidate more likely for an upgrade! Balance person (talk) 09:26, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Vanamonde (Talk) 21:39, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
 * [1] (Van Strum 2021) is by the subject. As such it's not independent, and should only be used with inline attribution or for non-contentious material.
 * [3] (Court ruling) is a primary source; it shouldn't be used for contentious material, nor for synthetic claims.
 * [7] (Toxic docs) does not seem reliable.
 * [8] (IMDB) is known not to be reliable.
 * [9] (LCCR) is a community advocacy organization; I see no indication that it would be considered reliable.
 * [12] (CELDF) has the same concerns as [9].
 * [16] (birthdefects.org) I'm unfamiliar with this source, but it also appears to be an advocacy group, whose reliability needs to be established before they can be used.

Newspapers.com sources
I have access to Newspapers.com through the Wikipedia Library Card platform (I don't know if you have enough edits to qualify for your own access yet, but it's a great resource for future!). If you like, I could do a quick search and see if there are other archived news articles that could work as sources for this article. Best, Alanna the Brave (talk) 12:35, 6 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your great and kind idea. Yes, please. I didn't know there was such a thing as WLC and I am uncertain how to count up my edits. Is there a way of finding out if I qualify? Absolutely everything seems to be recoded on wikipedia so it is probably a case of my finding the right button somewhere!Balance person (talk) 13:04, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Balance person This page is the portal for library. You currently meet some requirements but as you only have ~300 edits, not yet the "500+" required. One way to find out a summary of all you have done is to click on the "Contributions" link (next to your "Watchlist" link) and then at the very bottom of that page there's an "Edit count" link which gives that key information plus much more. In the meantime, it looks as though @Alanna the Brave's offer is the way to go. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:35, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Brilliant, thank you! I have just found out all about myself! I knew it must be somewhere! Balance person (talk) 13:43, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll set aside some time to check the newspaper archives soon (might be Monday), and I'll post links to any useful-looking articles here on the talk page. Glad to help, Alanna the Brave (talk) 15:09, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Here are a few archived articles involving Van Strum:, , , , , Alanna the Brave (talk) 19:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much Alanna the Brave for your careful and fast work. I have added most of the helpful extra citations you found. I am not sure though that they answer the comments of Vanamonde about possibly unreliable sources. So I think I still have to withdraw the article from GS submission. It appears that I simply don't know enough yet about sources. But thank you very much for your time and trouble. Balance person (talk) 09:03, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries this article may be more of a long term project as you pick up new sourcing skills, and that's totally okay. Feel free to drop me a line on my talk page if you have any future questions I can help with. Alanna the Brave (talk) 13:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)