Talk:Grace Bates

This is based almost entirely on the work of Margaret A.M. Murray
Everything in this article is derived from the work of Margaret A.M. Murray: her essay, "Women Becoming Mathematicians: Constructing a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America," pp. 37-91 of the volume edited by Jody Bart; and her book, with a similar title, that appears in the list of references. In addition, the biography of Bates in American Women of Science draws on a single reference: Murray's book! The interview with Bates was conducted, not by Valerie Morphew, but by Murray. (Although Valerie Morphew is a contributor to Bart's volume, her much shorter article appears after Murray's and has nothing whatever to do with Grace Bates.) While I salute efforts to add entries about women to Wikipedia, extensive quotations from copyrighted material should be correctly attributed to their authors---and in this case, to a single author, Murray. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.88.251 (talk) 18:20, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Article quality
The current version of this article reads like a middle-school book report. The text is insipid, poorly organized, and clumsily written. I see that the subject's name is even misspelled at least once. Crappy, crappy stuff. Needs cleanup by someone with more time to invest than I do. — Jaydiem (talk) 21:19, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

@Jaydiem Ouch! Comments like this are incredibly discouraging to people who might be interested in helping update or create a page. Learn some humility!