User:Ealdgyth/Old FAC source reviews

Hall of shame for me, perhaps. None of these are my finest hour.


 * Featured article candidates/HIAG/archive1 - this one "worked" but it was a lot of work and is one reason why I'm so scared to dig into sourcing. I adore Brian, and miss him, but there's no denying he wasn't as inclined to dig deep into sourcing, and I'm afraid most source reviews nowadays take their cue from what he did rather than say ... this as an example.
 * Featured article candidates/Black Friday (1910)/archive1 is not my finest hour, but I find as I get older (I was 50 this year, next month I'll celebrate 51 while out with hubby) that I have increasingly less tolerance for the "pat the little lady on the head when she gets hysterical" thing that happens a lot.
 * Featured article candidates/Jill Valentine/archive2, and it's follow ons (yes, there are more)... I think if I had to pick one FAC that just made me want to stop ever looking at sources, this one was it. (Featured article candidates/Jill Valentine/archive1, Featured article candidates/Jill Valentine/archive3, Featured article candidates/Jill Valentine/archive4 and Featured article candidates/Jill Valentine/archive5 are the variations on the theme).
 * Featured article candidates/Revival (comics)/archive1 this didn't win me any friends... I got sniping for a while afterwards.
 * Featured article candidates/Final Destination 3/archive1 made me ALL warm and fuzzy (not).
 * Featured article candidates/Alfred Shout/archive1 ... this one is another one that worries me about looking closely at sourcing for FACs... it just feels like its the tip of an iceberg. I'd thought I'd keep going with reviews but by the time I racked up these lovelies in 2017 ... I lost heart. And we were getting busier with getting the house on the market (don't get me started on THAT disaster).. so let sleeping dogs lie.
 * Featured article candidates/Alan Bush/archive1 where ... all power to Brian, there were some serious issues with using something so close to the subject.
 * Featured article candidates/6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia/archive1 this highlights another concern with sourcing - the use of old sources because they are easily available.
 * Featured article candidates/Coloman, King of Hungary/archive1 ... where again, we have issues with older sources. And this one is a good example of the "list every single problem wrong with the prose" school.
 * Featured article candidates/House of Plantagenet/archive2 another example of where a close sourcing check was needed.