Jump to content

Talk:John Harrison Clark

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good articleJohn Harrison Clark has been listed as one of the History 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
November 2, 2012Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 20, 2012.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that John Harrison Clark, a reputed outlaw from the South African Cape, settled alone in modern-day Zambia in 1887 and in the early 1890s became the local people's chief?

GA Review

[edit]
This review is transcluded from Talk:John Harrison Clark/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 00:21, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:21, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

  1. Is it reasonably well written?
    A. Prose quality:
    B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
  2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
    A. References to sources:
    B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
    C. No original research:
  3. Is it broad in its coverage?
    A. Major aspects:
    What's a truss of material? I gather that he had no children and abandoned his wife when he moved to Broken Hill?
    Have replaced truss with bale (truss was the word in the source but I think bale is more understandable). None of the sources I have been able to find say so categorically regarding family. No wife is mentioned in the passages I have seen about Broken Hill, which I think is telling, as sources written by whites of Clark's day would certainly have mentioned a wife with black skin. There is an account I saw somewhere (I forget where exactly) of a woman living in the ruins of Algoa some years later claiming to be his daughter, but apart from that nothing. If you like I can try to find the story I just mentioned and integrate it somehow but apart from that I don't have anything. Thanks for the review thus far. Sorry for taking a while to reply but I am very busy at the moment with work. Cliftonian (talk) 17:49, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    B. Focused:
  4. Is it neutral?
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. Is it stable?
    No edit wars, etc:
  6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
    A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:
    B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
  7. Overall:
    Pass or Fail: