Talk:Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus/GA1

GA Review
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Yes, Eddie891, I will review this article – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 05:20, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Prose

 * Optional suggestion:
 * from:
 * "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial called "Is There a Santa Claus?". The editorial appeared in The Sun on September 21, 1897, and has since become one of the most famous editorials ever published.
 * to
 * "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial which appeared in The Sun on September 21, 1897, titled: "Is There a Santa Claus?". It has since become one of the most famous editorials ever published.
 * Randy Kryn revised the first sentence-- I don't know if I like the switch from "it has sense become" to "became" and it feels a little run-on now-- what do you think about this change?
 * Looks fine to me. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:15, 1 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Christmas folklore — avoid linking two adjacent words
 * Honestly not sure what "christmas folklore' is, so rephrased.
 * vituperation page is a cross-project redirect to Wiktionary. How about linking the word directly to Wiktionary?
 * Done
 * Just a minor suggestion to right align the portrait of Francis Pharcellus Church, as him facing left distracts the reader (at-least me)
 * Done By Randy
 * "forgot about it." — shouldn't full-stop be outside the quotes?
 * No because per MOS:LQ, "Include terminal punctuation within the quotation marks only if it was present in the original material"-- in this case, the source has the full stop. I just checked to be sure.
 * All right then. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:15, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * contemporary New York papers → "contemporary New York newspapers"
 * Done
 * The journalist David W. Dunlap — I'd remove 'the'
 * OK
 * Happy to see Dewey Defeats Truman making the list!
 * s the first editorial. on December 23 — erroneous full-stop?
 * yes
 * in a TV — suggestion to write it as "television"
 * Sure
 * Why isn't "Virginia O'Hanlon" section in the "Background" section?
 * My thinking was that most (virtually all) of the info about her is about her life after the editorial so it would make most sense towards the end of the article. It's also somewhat unrelated so I felt like it might disrupt the flow
 * Yeah. Fine then. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:15, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * There seem to be lot of external links ...
 * Agreed, trimmed substantially
 * Extremely high copyvio from https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/55772/the-rest-of-the-story, but that site explicitly says: "Compiled from Wikipedia", so no issues.

Images

 * Suggesting to add ALT text to images.
 * Added
 * File:Virginia O'Hanlon (ca. 1895).jpg — licence-wise okay (PD-US-expired), but how is this 1895 image an "own work"?
 * Modified licensing, definitely not the uploader's work.
 * Rest, all images (including the above one) are fine!