Talk:Letter to My Daughter/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Seabuckthorn (talk · contribs) 01:03, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Nominator: Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk)

Hi! I'll be reviewing this article for GA status, and should have my full review up shortly. -- Seabuckthorn   ♥  01:03, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

1: Well-written
 * a. Prose is "clear and concise", without copyvios, or spelling and grammar errors:.
 * b. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:

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 * 3) * The material is not contentious and does not require inline citations.
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 * 6) ** Major Point 1: Background "By the time it was published, Angelou had written ... had become "a major autobiographical voice of the time"" (summarised well in the lead)
 * 7) ** Major Point 2: Overview "Angelou has no daughters herself, ... wisdom gained throughout her long life. ... Letter consists of 28 short essays, ... dedicated to "the daughter she never had"." (summarised well in the lead)
 * 8) ** Major Point 3: Reviews "Reviews of the book were ... both homespun and "hokey"" (summarised well in the lead)
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 * 10) ** Major Point 1: Background "By the time it was published, Angelou had written ... had become "a major autobiographical voice of the time"" (the lead gives due weight as is given in the body)
 * 11) ** Major Point 2: Overview "Angelou has no daughters herself, ... wisdom gained throughout her long life. ... Letter consists of 28 short essays, ... dedicated to "the daughter she never had"." (the lead gives due weight as is given in the body)
 * 12) ** Major Point 3: Reviews "Reviews of the book were ... both homespun and "hokey"" (the lead gives due weight as is given in the body)
 * 13) * Check for Opening paragraph (MOS:BEGIN): ✅
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 * 15) *** "Letter to My Daughter (2009) is the third book of essays by African American writer and poet Maya Angelou." good
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 * 5) ** Paragraphs should be short enough to be readable, but long enough to develop an idea. One-sentence paragraphs are unusually emphatic, and should be used sparingly. (WP:BETTER).
 * 6) ** Fix "Psychologists Eranda Jayawickreme and Marie J.C. Forgearda, who called the essays in Letter to My Daughter "illuminating", cited it as an example of a non-scientific, interdisciplinary text to use to teach positive psychology." in the Reviews section.
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 * 14) ** EL to YouTube clip.
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2: Verifiable with no original research
 * a. Has an appropriate reference section: Yes
 * b. Citation to reliable sources where necessary: very good Thorough check using Google.

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 * 1) Check for the material (WP:RSVETTING):  (not contentious) ✅
 * 2) * Is it contentious?: No
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 * 5) * Who is the author?:
 * 6) ** Long, Richard (Smithsonian) (Cited:2)
 * 7) ** Krizman, Karen Algeo (Rocky Mountain News) (Cited:2)
 * 8) ** Younge, Gary (The Guardian) (Cited:7)
 * 9) ** Als, Hilton (The New Yorker) (Cited:2)
 * 10) ** Moyer, Homer E. (Capital Books) (Cited:1)
 * 11) ** Grenier, Richard (National Review) (Cited:1)
 * 12) ** Manegold, Catherine S. (The New York Times) (Cited:1)
 * 13) ** Connolly, Sherryl (New York Daily News) (Cited:1)
 * 14) ** Gilmor, Susan (Winston-Salem Journal) (Cited:1)
 * 15) ** Angelou (Cited:4)
 * 16) ** (Poetry Foundation) (Cited:1)
 * 17) ** Braxton, Joanne M (Oxford Press) (Cited:1)
 * 18) ** Lupton, Mary Jane (Greenwood Press) (Cited:1)
 * 19) ** Waldron, Clarence (Jet) (Cited:1)
 * 20) ** (Kirkus Reviews) (Cited:1)
 * 21) ** Hutchison, Laura L (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star) (Cited:3)
 * 22) ** Brownworth, Victoria (The Baltimore Sun) (Cited:4)
 * 23) ** Jayawickreme, Eranda and Marie J.C. Forgearda (The Journal of Positive Psychology) (Cited:1)
 * 24) * Does the author have a Wikipedia article?:
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 * 26) * What else has the author published?:
 * 27) * Is the author, or this work, cited in other reliable sources? In academic works?:
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 * 29) * Smithsonian (Cited:2) (Cited in Maya Angelou: A Biography of an Award-Winning Poet and Civil ... by Donna Brown Agins)
 * 30) * Rocky Mountain News (Cited:2) (The Rocky was Denver's first newspaper and existed from April 1859 until it closed in ...)
 * 31) * The Guardian (Cited:7)
 * 32) * The New Yorker (Cited:2)
 * 33) * Capital Books (Cited:1) (Publishing company profile: Capital Books, Inc., Sterling, United States - An ... Mailing Address: 22841 Quicksilver Drive Sterling VA United States 20166.)
 * 34) * National Review (Cited:1)
 * 35) * The New York Times (Cited:1)
 * 36) * New York Daily News (Cited:1)
 * 37) * Winston-Salem Journal (Cited:1)
 * 38) * Angelou (Cited:4)
 * 39) * Poetry Foundation (Cited:1)
 * 40) * Oxford Press (Cited:1)
 * 41) * Greenwood Press (Cited:1)
 * 42) * Jet (Cited:1) (a magazine by Johnson Publishing Company)
 * 43) * Kirkus Reviews (Cited:1)
 * 44) * Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (Cited:3)
 * 45) * The Baltimore Sun (Cited:4)
 * 46) * The Journal of Positive Psychology (Cited:1) (The Journal of Positive Psychology. Dedicated to furthering research and promoting good practice. Open Select models; Peer Review Integrity. ISSN 1743- 9760 ...)
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 * 2) * "a major autobiographical voice of the time".[1]
 * 3) * "the daughter she never had".[2]
 * 4) * "hokey".[3]
 * 5) * "On the Pulse of Morning" ...[6]
 * 6) * "without a doubt ... America's most visible black woman autobiographer".[12]
 * 7) * "a major autobiographical voice of the time".[1]
 * 8) * "a work of art that eludes description" ... [4]
 * 9) * "WIP" ("Works in Progress") ... [3] (Random check on Source 3: unsuccessful, not in source)
 * 10) * "the best thing that ever happened to me in my life",[3] (Random check on Source 3: successful, source says "What prompted her to write this book? "I had no daughters," she says. "I had a son who was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. But in reality I have lots of daughters.")
 * 11) * "end with the kind of wisdom that, depending on your taste, qualifies as either homespun or hokey".[3] (Random check on Source 3: successful, source says "Most end with the kind of wisdom that, depending on your taste, qualifies as either homespun or hokey.")
 * 12) * "We are more alike than unalike".[14]
 * 13) * "short epistles",[3]
 * 14) * "the daughter she never had".[15]
 * 15) * "...some women who mothered me through dark and bright days" ... [16]
 * 16) * "...one woman who allows me to be a daughter to her, even today" ... [16]
 * 17) * "women not born to me but who allow me to mother them" ... [16]
 * 18) * "At moments in the book she sounds like an elderly relative, distraught at the wayward manners of the young," ... [3]
 * 19) * "outlived the need for social convention".[3]
 * 20) * "old fashioned wisdom" ... [17]
 * 21) * "a slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom".[17]
 * 22) * "Angelou delivers with her signature passion and fire" [18] (Random check on Source 18: unsuccessful, not in source 18, actually the citation should be to source 2 which is by the reviewer Karen Algeo Krizman, source 2 says "Pros: Whether recalling a brutal beating at the hands of an old lover, delivering an admonition against vulgarity ("Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone") or simply singing the praises of the South and red beans and rice, Angelou delivers with her signature passion and fire. These are short essays that are easy to take in during brief moments of quiet; yet, each delivers a powerful message.")
 * 23) * "easy to take in during brief moments of quiet" ... [18] (Random check on Source 18: unsuccessful, not in source 18, actually the citation should be to source 2 which is by the reviewer Karen Algeo Krizman, as above)
 * 24) * "written in Angelou's beautiful, poetic style" ... [18] (Random check on Source 18: successful, source says "Written in Angelou's beautiful, poetic style, the essays feel like warm advice from a beloved aunt or grandmother, whose wisdom you know was earned.")
 * 25) * "advice from a beloved aunt or grandmother, whose wisdom you know was earned". [18] (Random check on Source 18: successful, above)
 * 26) * "one cannot help but be struck by how much Angelou has overcome and how far she has come".[19]
 * 27) * "filled with life and generosity and a deep yearning to pass her story on to other young women".[19]
 * 28) * "colloquial and from the heart".[19]
 * 29) * "fluid narrative" ... [19]
 * 30) * "The kernels of insight and, yes, wisdom in this small volume will stay with the reader for a long time".[19]
 * 31) * "illuminating" [20]
 * 32) Check for Likely to be challenged:  ✅
 * 33) Check for Contentious material about living persons (WP:BLP):  NA


 * c. No original research: ✅

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3: Broad in its coverage

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 * 12) Check for Fringe theories and pseudoscience (WP:PSCI):  None
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5: Stable: No edit wars, etc: Yes

6: Images ✅ (NFC with valid FUR)

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6: Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content: ✅


 * 1) Check for copyright tags (WP:TAGS):  ✅
 * 2) * Lead Image (Letter to My Daughter.jpg): This image is of book cover(s), and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover(s) or the publisher of the book(s). It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers (1) to illustrate an article discussing the book in question, and (2) on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement..
 * 3) Check for copyright status:  ✅ (Non-free content)
 * 4) Check for non-free content (WP:NFC):  ✅ (Yes)
 * 5) Check for valid fair use rationales (WP:FUR):  ✅ (valid)
 * 6) * Source (WP:NFCC): Amazon.com
 * 7) * Use in article (WP:NFCC): Letter to My Daughter
 * 8) * Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC): to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question.
 * 9) * Minimal use (WP:NFCC): This is the only time this image will be used. It has low resolution, and is used to illustrate the subject.

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 * 6) * succinct and informative

As per the above checklist, the issues identified are:
 * Single-sentence paragraphs should be avoided.
 * Done, by moving the sentence to the end of the first paragraph and re-wording it a bit to better fit the context.


 * "WIP" ("Works in Progress") ... [3] (Random check on Source 3: unsuccessful, not in source 3)
 * Added more specific ref.


 * "Angelou delivers with her signature passion and fire" [18] (Random check on Source 18: unsuccessful, not in source 18, actually the citation should be to Source 2 which is by the reviewer Karen Algeo Krizman)
 * Done.


 * "easy to take in during brief moments of quiet" ... [18] (Random check on Source 18: unsuccessful, not in source 18, actually the citation should be to Source 2 which is by the reviewer Karen Algeo Krizman)
 * Done.


 * Can you please confirm for the rest of the content, including the other direct quotations whose sources are inaccessible to me, that their inline citations are correct?
 * Re-checked everything, and all refs should be accurate now. Thanks for catching the errors here.

This article is a very promising GA nominee. I'm glad to see your work here. I'm putting the article on hold. All the best! -- Seabuckthorn   ♥  14:20, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I appreciate it. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 23:34, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

OK, everything looks good now. Passing the article to GA status. -- Seabuckthorn   ♥  01:05, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Congrats, Christine! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 02:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)