Talk:Christian Ramsay

Christian Ramsay has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
January 7, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 5, 2016.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Christian Ramsay (pictured), honorary member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, was so dedicated to botany that she died with a list of plants in her hand?

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Delldot (talk · contribs) 04:16, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I will take this one. delldot ∇. 04:16, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

From a search I did it seems as comprehensive as it can be given the availability of sources. Most of the references are of high quality, and everything cites a source. Just a few quick comments on the prose:

Could this be rephrased to get rid of the awkward noun + -ing construction? "...which led to her being made an honorary member of the society..." and "...due to the family suffering severe financial losses..."
This sentence is awkward: "Her and her husband's collection was purchased in 1985 with parts going to the Nova Scotia Museum..." There's the noun + -ing thing, 'Her and her husband's collection' is awkward, and 'with' is not great as a conjunction. Maybe "The collection that she and her husband had made was purchased in 1985; parts went to the Nova Scotia Museum..."
Awkward sentence: "He also named Asplenium dalhousiae, a species of Himalayan fern that she discovered, after her."
Are there any extant pictures of her watercolors? That would be great to include if possible.

I have no major complaints, everything looks pretty good! delldot ∇. 04:44, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

All images check out. delldot ∇. 07:01, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review delldot, I am sure the prose could do with improvement, I never claimed to be an excellent writer! I'll have a think about how to rephrase the suggested sentences. As to the water colour, the only one I have managed to find is an example of a caricature - it's in this source, but as there's no backstory - it makes the picture a bit redundant. Worm^TT(talk) 10:06, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've refactored a few sentences, including the ones you've suggested - hopefully the remaining noun + -ing constructions aren't too awkward. Could you have another look please, delldot? Worm^TT(talk) 11:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good, all my complaints have been addressed, and I can't think of any new ones. I think this meets all the GA criteria given what information seems to exist on her. Good job!

delldot ∇. 20:39, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable...

The article currently says: "/When her husband was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, she travelled with him and their three sons to Canada on the frigate HMS Forth./" I recently worked on the article on her husband. My sources said they left two sons in boarding school.

It says: "/In 1824, the family returned to Dalhousie Castle and began plans for an extensive garden./" His term in Canada didn't end until 1828, and he went from Canada to India directly, or with only a short stay in the UK. Geo Swan (talk) 17:43, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]