Talk:Hamidou Maiga/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Aoba47 (talk · contribs) 20:31, 27 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Grabbing for a review as I want to look at articles outside of my normal Wikipedia work/projects. Aoba47 (talk) 20:31, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Lead and infobox
 * Do you think that a link for “the West” would be helpful (i.e. to Western world)?
 * For the lead, I would expand a bit on his discovery as there is more information in the body of the article on this.
 * The lead does not address any of his early life and career beginnings. I would incude more information on this.
 * Considering the general brevity of the article, I'd think his training as a photojournalist (not explicated) and the details of Jack Bell's discovery to be minor points


 * Early life and career
 * Please add ALT text to the image.
 * Please add a sentence to the end of the image caption as it is a complete sentence that requires punctuation.
 * For this part (but entered photography in the early 1950s through photojournalism and his first medium format camera.), I am not certain that “through” is the correct word choice here.
 * Since you have linked multiple geographic locations in the artcle as a whole, do you think a link in this phrase (from a Ghanaian colleague) would be helpful?
 * For this part (and some had never before seen a camera.), please add the reference at the end to make it clear what is supporting this information.
 * I have a clarification question about this sentence (Back in Timbuktu, he opened a studio where he photographed figures across politics, sports, and the arts). Is there any information on why Maiga moved back to Timbuktu for work?
 * I included everything I found, but I imagine it's assumed that his trip ended and he simply returned to where he had been living


 * For this part (While Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé are regarded as the Malian masters), please clarify who is regarding them in this way.
 * The sources put it as general epithet with wide acceptance rather than an opinion


 * For this part (Maiga is lesser known but acknowledged as a major figure in Malian portrait photography), please put the references in the correct order.
 * The refs are in order of importance

*I have the same question here as the lead. Do you think that a link for “the West” would be helpful (i.e. to Western world)?
 * I am not certain about the way that this part (He once shared a studio with Sidibé) is set aside in parenthesis. It awkwardly breaks the flow of the paragraph. If you do not think it fits necessarily in the prose, I would make it an end-note to avoid disturbing the overall prose of the paragraph.
 * I'm inclined to think it's broad enough that most readers wouldn't need clarification


 * Final comments
 * This is a very interesting article, and I learned a lot from reading and reviewing it. Once all of my comments are addressed, I will be more than happy to pass this as a good article. Have a great rest of your week. Aoba47 (talk) 21:35, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, —appreciate the review! I think I covered all points above, if you'd like to take another peek czar  12:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Verdict
 * Thank you for addressing everything. I will ✅ this. Aoba47 (talk) 19:27, 6 April 2018 (UTC)