Talk:Rupi Kaur/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: MSG17 (talk · contribs) 01:49, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello! I will be reviewing this article for GA-worthiness as part of the Jan 2022 backlog drive. I was really surprised to see that no one had taken up this review until now. I have read the article previously and found it to be rather interesting and informative, but now I will check it against the good article criteria. I don't forsee many major issues, but let's get started!

Prose and MOS

 * I find most of the notes a bit strange, as they contain information that can be integrated into prose and is relevant to each section (and wouldn't just be "sidetracking"). In particular, the last two notes (feminist critics on the period images and other poets on Watt) strike me as details that would be better in the main text as they talk about relevant reactions and reception.
 * Also, it should be "Watts'", not ""Watt's".
 * Both resolved. DMT Biscuit (talk) 11:46, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * their similar themes and use of honey is "by-product of our times" add '[a]' or 'the' to the start of the quote
 * that in the Renaissance or Victorian periods - Kaur attributing their namesakes replace " - " with emdash
 * – although her father refused her to pursue it in education that's kinda awkward, maybe something like ;however, her father prohibited her from studying the subject in university. Another approach would be to split it from the line about her music studies and merge it with her other aspirations.
 * Both resolved. DMT Biscuit (talk) 21:52, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * – that Kaur later inferred as a result of wishing to preserve their orginal culture don't think the dash is needed, since inferred is used right after I think "realized/interpreted was a result" would be better, "orginal" -> "original"
 * Carl Wilson and Khaira-Hanks, argued that her mainstream success and personal identity contributed towards people disregarding her work. no need for comma
 * Both resolved. DMT Biscuit (talk) 17:16, 4 January 2022 (UTC)


 * literature scholar, Lili Pâquet no comma needed
 * Resolved. DMT Biscuit (talk) 04:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

One last lookover... In general, I do find your use of dashes a bit different form what I am accustomed to - there would be a lot of instances I would use commas and semicolons instead. Looking at your previous work, this seems like a style that I don't know about rather than something that is "wrong". It's nice to learn new things! Anyway, these comments should be the last on prose and MOS.
 * When studying poetry she'd "agonize over each and every word", "I would have to pull out... replace comma with colon
 * Brampton, Instagram, COVID-19 pandemic are linked multiple times in the body (found using User:Evad37/duplinks-alt)
 * Both resolved. For what it's worth, I like to use dashes as denoting an aside of sorts. DMT Biscuit (talk) 18:22, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Great! Passed.

Paraphrasing and images

 * Earwig's tool saw mostly false positives. There are a few words that could be consindered close, but I think they'll be fine. Passed.
 * The images are all properly licensed and used appropriately. The one fair-use image is essential for depicting the illustrations that Kaur uses in her poetry and art. Passed.

Stability
No edit warring or drastic daily changes, just minor additions. Passed.

Neutrality
Given how polarized reception is for Kaur's work and the amount of discussion about why that is so, covering her neutrally is no small feat. SO far, it looks like it offers a good look into the different perspectives of audiences and critics on Kaur, but I will look more at this aspect later.

After looking at this again, I think the article has done a fantastic job showing the difference between critical and audience reception and the different views of her work. Passed. MSG17 (talk) 02:30, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Scope
Scope wise, I think this covers as many relevant details and aspects of Kaur and her work as possible without becoming too minute or unnecessarily focused on certain aspects. Passed.

Final notes
Well, I gotta hand it to you, this was great work as a comprehensive and encyclopediac dive into a rather popular and divisive poet. I have no skill with the art, unfornuately; if I did, I would come up with a clever end to this review. But it still speaks to the accessibility the article had to laypeople, much like Kaur's work. Now, I deem this article promoted to GA, congrats! MSG17 (talk) 03:10, 6 January 2022 (UTC)