Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Serranus Clinton Hastings/1

Serranus Clinton Hastings

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 * Result: Delist following no action. CMD (talk) 15:03, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

I do not believe this biographical article meets the criteria for a good article, given the relative lack of coverage of the subject's being a significant participant in the California genocide. The article covers Hastings' career as a judge, and founding his namesake institution, one of the major US law schools. However, apart from a minor mention I just added as a placeholder, the article does not cover his personal participation in the murder of dozens and perhaps hundreds of innocent Native American men, women, and children, on an ongoing basis during a span of years of his life on a forced labor camp he ran, as well as "Indian hunts" he organized. This is covered by major mainstream media articles and a commission created by his law school, so the verifiability and significance is not reasonably in dispute. This mostly unmentioned aspect of his life would appear to be one of the primary, if not the primary, biographically significant pieces of his life.


 * The criterion it fails is 3a, failing a requirement that . Although I added a brief mention, it would take considerable effort to rewrite the article to reflect this history – not a quick or easy fix.

- Wikidemon (talk) 16:28, 7 December 2020 (UTC)