Template:Did you know nominations/Tom Hallifax


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by Allen3 talk 21:41, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Insufficient progress toward resolving outstanding issues

Tom Hallifax

 * ... that self-portraits of Tom Hallifax were used to publicize the National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award Exhibition of 1993?

Created by Llwygy (talk) and moved to mainspace by The Herald (talk) (From AFC). Nominated by The Herald (talk) at 14:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg New enough, long enough, adequately referenced. The page creator is using bald URLs inside the text, which should be discouraged; the cites should go at the end of the sentence in regular reference formatting style. In general, the formatting of the references is rather sketchy; I attempted to add URLs, but the page creator needs to add the titles of articles to several cites. I found some close paraphrasing in an online source, which should be rewritten in the author's own words:
 * Source: In 1994 he went to L.A and Hong Kong accompanying Prince Charles and stayed on in Hong Kong to complete a previously commissioned portrait of Chris and Lavender Patten. He has since painted a portrait of Derek Hill for the Prince, and the garden at Highgrove for the Prince's Trust.
 * Article: In 1994 Hallifax accompanied The Prince of Wales as Royal Tour Artist on a visit to L.A. and Hong Kong, staying on in Hong Kong to complete a previously commissioned portrait of Chris and Lavender Patten. He was subsequently commissioned by the Prince to paint the artist Derek Hill and the garden at Highgrove for the Prince's Trust.
 * This makes me wonder whether the language in other sections, such as Style, has also been copied from the (offline) sources?
 * Since the nominator has more than 5 DYK credits, a QPQ should be submitted. Yoninah (talk) 17:18, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I also have a question on the image being used in the article. It is a photograph of a work of art that has apparently been taken and uploaded by the artist. Does this violate Wikipedia policy? I remember a recent copyright issue with photographs of a sculpture. Yoninah (talk) 17:29, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review. My QPQ is Template:Did you know nominations/Westerhout 40 and the article's parts are now rewritten. With the picture, I am not sure about the policies as the account looks to be of Tom Hallifax(?). Ṫ Ḧ the joy of the LORD my strength 13:49, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing up the close paraphrasing. The reference formatting still needs cleanup; perhaps you could contact the page creator? I'm really not sure if there are copyright issues with the image; perhaps another editor could weigh in? Yoninah (talk) 20:39, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Llwygy, are you there? Ṫ Ḧ the joy of the LORD my strength 16:59, 6 March 2015 (UTC)


 * This nomination had a credit template for The Herald for writing the article, and none at all for Llwygy. I have changed it so that both get credit for writing the article. However, if The Herald's role was more just nominating it, please change the relevant (DYKmake) to (DYKnom). M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:48, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed it..Ṫ Ḧ the joy of the LORD my strength 06:34, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Update: Still waiting for cleanup on the reference formatting. Yoninah (talk) 12:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * How's it now? Ṫ Ḧ the joy of the LORD my strength 13:02, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * By reference formatting, I mean the red links that appear in the footnotes section that say: Missing or empty|title= . Frankly, I am wary of passing this nomination even with the titles, as I wonder how much of it is copied from the offline sources by a novice page creator. Yoninah (talk) 21:35, 8 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Agree with Yoninah's concerns. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)