Talk:Life in the Iron Mills/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk · contribs) 11:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations: One found and fixed. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Linkrot: two found and tagged. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

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


 * 1) It is reasonably well written.
 * a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
 * Prose is not very good, examples:
 * After being published anonymously, both Emily Dickinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne praised the work. Implies that Dickinson & Hawthorne were published anonymously!
 * Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was also greatly influenced by Davis's Life in the Iron Mills and in 1868 published in The Atlantic Monthly "The Tenth of January," based on the 1860 fire at the Pemberton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Over complex and confusing.
 * She wrote to find social change for blacks, women, immigrants, and the working class throughout the Civil War. "to find"?
 * Life in the Iron Mills received much deserved attention during her writings, she was also recognized by "literary giants"[8] such as; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bronson Allot, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Henry Ward Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. I don't think we need such a long list choose two or three. And wikilink them.
 *  Hawthorne encouraged Davis to continue to write, but was forgotten by the literary world by the time of her death. ???? I am gobsmacked!  Do you have any concept of writing good plain English?  That sentence suggests that Hawthorne was forgotten by the time of Davis's death.
 * Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, is recognized as an impacting short story by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne among many others. repetition and illiteracy - "impacting short story"?
 * There is little point in reviewing the prose further as it is so badly written.
 * 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
 * a (references): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):
 * What makes Novelguide
 * References such as: Tichi, Cecelia. A Bedford Cultural Edition: Life in the Iron Mills, 1998. and Hughes, Shelia. American Quarterly: A Liberationist Reading of Class and Gender in Life in the Iron Mills, 1997. need page numbers, publishers should also be provided.
 * I have placed citation needed tags where statements are uncited.
 * Two dead links need addressing.
 * 1) It is broad in its coverage.
 * a (major aspects): b (focused):
 * The article appears to have broad coverage of the topic.
 * 1) It follows the neutral point of view policy.
 * Fair representation without bias:
 * NPOV
 * 1) It is stable.
 * No edit wars, etc.:
 * Stable
 * 1) It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
 * a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
 * The caption: "Housing in a mills factory in Alabama as photographed by Hine, Lewis Wickes in 1910." should be rewritten. The housing is not "in" the factory! There should be a caption for the book cover stating publication date of the reprint. Licensing OK
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass/Fail:
 * Please get this copy-edited, and address the other issues. On hold for seven days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jezhotwells (talk • contribs) 13 December 2011
 * No action has been taken to address the problems identified, so this nomination is failed. Jezhotwells (talk) 09:29, 23 December 2011 (UTC)