Talk:William Austin Burt/GA1
GA Review
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Reviewer: Maile66 (talk · contribs) 17:19, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
- Is it well written?
- A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:
- A small suggestion here. In the first paragraph, all but the first sentence begin with the word "He". All but 4 paragraphs in the article begin with the word "Burt". Could you break that up a bit?
- A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:
- B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
- B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
- Is it verifiable with no original research?
- A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:
- B. All in-line citations are from reliable sources, including those for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines:
- WP:RSPSOURCES - the following are not considered reliable sources
- Ancestry.com
- Early Days in New England and Burt, Horace Eldon (1920), written and published by descendants
- William Austin Burt: Inventor of Typewriter, Solar Compass, Equatorial Sextant , written and published by descendants
Done Removed. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:55, 1 November 2020 (UTC)- Yes, but if you are going to include that family tree, it needs reliable sourcing to pass GAC. — Maile (talk) 23:20, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:
- Added Cuttler (1913) inline at the end of top sentence. Will that work? --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:51, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
- C. It contains no original research:
- D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:
- YouTube likes this well enough that they copied you - they published the lead paragraph on August 20, 2020.
- C. It contains no original research:
- Is it broad in its coverage?
- A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:
- B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):
- A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:
- Is it neutral?
- It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:
- It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:
- Is it stable?
- It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:
- It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:
- Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?
- A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:
- Commons is questioning the copyright of W A Burt typographer.jpg and has a note "This file, along with all our other photos of Burt's Typographer, are of very questionable copyright status, as first noticed during a GA review over on enwiki" - I'm not sure which GA review they are referring to, since this one is GA1
- Done Replaced with another. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:15, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
- A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:
- Overall:
- Pass or Fail:
- Congratulations. — Maile (talk) 13:43, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
- Pass or Fail: