Talk:Mary Gordon (prison inspector)

Thoughts re: readiness for GA
, I think that the article looks pretty good. Here are some comments about the article about Mary Gordon for consideration:
 * The intro and infobox look good.
 * Early life
 * How did she have two-step siblings? Which parent died / which remarried (I assume remarried)?
 * I am not understanding "to criticise measures enacted in the previous year to combat the spread of STDs in the military stationed there" - if there were measures to combat the spread of STDs, wouldn't that be a good thing? What was the military doing that was not helpful?
 * Career
 * Her career started after she graduated, but a lot of good information is in the Early life section.
 * How does "introducing notebooks" to prisons help? For journaling, education?
 * I have been wrestling with "When the WSPU headquarters were raided" - even though "headquarters appears as a plural, isn't it really "the" specific place, meaning "was" is the appropriate word? I am not sure, just wondering which trumps: use of "the" or "headquarters", stated as a plural.
 * I would recommend that career has three sections: Physician, Prison reformer OR Prison administrator, and Author (she retired from her career in the justice system, but then authored more books, so she wasn't retired from all vocations).
 * Then, perhaps have a "Personal life", with any information about her personal life, or "Death" section.
 * I would put "She retired in 1921.[1]" with the prison administrator info. Or, change it to "After she retired in 1921,"
 * I am confused about the "reservations" about the Chase of the Wild Goose book. Gordon had reservations about her book? Was it because of editing by the publishers - the Woolfs?
 * It seems like the "Published works" section is redundant, since all the books are mentioned in the body of the article.
 * The "Bibliography" section seems as if it should go below the citations / references. Well, that's just usually how it goes.

It's a very interesting article, great work!–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:22, 3 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I made these minor edits: mostly punctuation and links.–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:26, 3 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Oh, wow! The article looks really nice and it makes such much more sense to me now (I have a brain injury that makes me easily confused when taking in a lot of info.) Looks really good. And, I see I got confused about the books. It makes more sense now.–CaroleHenson (talk) 20:21, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. Respect for editing while having a chronic medical issue. I've expanded the article to cover the info I missed out except the notebook bit. I couldn't find a source but I would imagine that notebooks would help in documenting their time and help with the psychological aspect of being in prison. I'll be nominating at GAN shortly. Cowlibob (talk) 11:43, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * My pleasure! I would be happy to do the GA review if you'd like - it would be pretty easy at this point. If you want a fresh set of eyes, I totally get that.–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:33, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Happy for you to do the review, your comments essentially covered a lot of the similar ground of a GA review so would be a shame not to finish it up. Cowlibob (talk) 19:44, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me. When I get further along on Amelia Piper, I will start the review. I'll at least start the GA review page right now.–CaroleHenson (talk) 20:23, 4 March 2020 (UTC)