Talk:Horace Smithy/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Ajpolino (talk · contribs) 00:37, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

I can take this on over the next few days. Sorry for the two-month wait in the GAN queue. Ajpolino (talk) 00:37, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Ajpolino. I’m looking forward to your feedback, but there is certainly no hurry on my end. I submitted a handful of GA noms in a short time, so it was actually a good thing that all of them did not get picked up for review at the same time. Thanks again! Larry Hockett (Talk) 03:10, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Great, I'll add my comments piecemeal as I have the time this week. You're welcome to act on them as they're posted, or wait until the whole batch is done. Your call. I hope all is well on your end. Ajpolino (talk) 17:01, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Finally found a moment to check the references and finish this up. Sincere apologies for the long wait; chunks of free time were hard to come by this week. Thank you for the interesting read! What a sad story. As with your other GA that I reviewed some months ago, it's a shame that there aren't available images. I'll poke around. got images from the MUSC library, so perhaps we'll have similar luck (though of course, my efforts last time have so far borne no fruit). I hope you're doing well during these tumultuous times! All the best, Ajpolino (talk) 16:26, 23 October 2020 (UTC)


 * GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written. 2. It is factually accurate and verifiable. 3. It is broad in its coverage.
 * a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
 * Early life - ... and the former Rosalia McCormick - I assume this is meant to indicate McCormick is his mother's maiden name? Something about "the former" was jarring to read and took my brain a moment to decode. I somewhat arbitrarily checked the last couple of biography FAs (1 and 2) to see how articles that have had many eyes on their prose describe the same: both use née. If you're an anti-née guy, I think just saying "Horace Smithy Sr. and Rosalia McCormick" is equally clear.
 * Early life - Same as the above with ... the former Sarah Rankin.
 * Betty Lee Woolridge - ...heart valve damage related to having contracted rheumatic fever = "damage from rheumatic fever" or "damage related to rheumatic fever" (you can safely trim a few words without losing meaning).
 * Betty Lee Woolridge - ...heart valve damage related to having contracted rheumatic fever = "damage from rheumatic fever" or "damage related to rheumatic fever" (you can safely trim a few words without losing meaning).
 * a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):  d (copyvio and plagiarism):
 * I don't have access to all the newspaper articles, so I'll trust you on those. I spot-checked a handful of the references to and the one to  and they looked good. I don't see any copyright or plagiarism issues either.
 * I don't have access to all the newspaper articles, so I'll trust you on those. I spot-checked a handful of the references to and the one to  and they looked good. I don't see any copyright or plagiarism issues either.
 * a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
 * Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.
 * No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
 * a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

Overall:
 * Pass/Fail: