Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/March 8, 2018

Rationale for changes made
To explain my rationale for the changes I made (and which have have been reverted here):


 * Excluding from the first sentence that Bryant best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution is a mistake, I feel. If the objective is to summarise the article in such a way that readers click through, there ought to be something to draw them in.


 * I don’t believe her growing up in rural Nevada, or the kind of degree she obtained, are directly relevant to a summary of this size.


 * Since we know from the first sentence that she is a journalist, it should be taken that the Spectator and The Oregonian are newspapers; if an adjunct aim is brevity, specifying two newspapers is unnecessary.


 * It is interesting that we say she merely left her husband, when in fact (per his divorce filing) she abandoned him.


 * There is a factual error: she married Reed in 1916, not 1915. She had not yet divorced her previous husband in 1915.


 * The specificity of of the day is unnecessary — is she going to become Germaine Greer’s best friend in 1920s USA? :)


 * That her stories appeared in Hearst papers should signal to at least some of our readership that they were primarily in American and Canadian newspapers; thus …across the United States and Canada is unnecessary.


 * If my first point here is to be reinstated, the later phrase Generally in sympathy with the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution ought to be removed as repetitious.


 * I notice “Hitler” in the Winter War blurb was reverted to his full name, and that here the original text before my edits had Lenin and Stalin’s first names. I can’t find a policy on this but I’m surprised we need anything other than these well-known people’s last names (again, my objective here was brevity of character count).


 * I would argue that my last two sentences should be reinstated in full:

After Reed's death in 1920, Bryant continued to write about Russia, among other countries. She died in Paris in 1936 and was buried in Versailles; her grave, which had become neglected, was restored in 1998. The Bryant–Reed story is told in the 1981 film ''Reds’’.

I don’t think we need a listing of the countries she wrote about; the fact that she continued to write should suffice.

Thank you. — Hugh (talk) 19:52, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * My understanding (unless someone disagrees at WT:TFA) is that we've started a one-week process where other editors will evaluate your suggestions. This is too much all at once for me to try to handle it on my own. - Dank (push to talk) 20:13, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure, I was simply getting my thoughts down while they were fresh in my mind. I don’t expect any changes any time soon. Thanks. — Hugh (talk) 20:16, 1 March 2018 (UTC)