Talk:Gerald Willis (politician)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 17:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that Gerald Willis, who worked as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of The Hermitage after watching The President's Lady? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1928 Liechtenstein embezzlement scandal

5x expanded by Jon698 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:32, 22 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Gerald Willis (politician); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article is excellent, please consider submitting it for GA. GRuban (talk) 05:03, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

References

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Gerald Willis (politician)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Jon698 (talk · contribs) 17:57, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Samoht27 (talk · contribs) 16:24, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Well-written

Overall, prose is very clear and understandable, not really any notes. One line that could be changed is the following, "Willis defeated Jerry Smith, mayor pro tem of Jacksonville,". I think possibly changing "mayor pro tem" to deputy mayor would be more fitting and clear to most readers. The article complies with the manual of style.

In conclusion, the article passes the criteria for prose and writing.

• I added a link to Deputy mayor, but retained "mayor pro tem" as that is what the newspaper article describes his office as. Jon698 (talk) 17:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

This solution works well, the link addresses the issue with clarification while sticking closely to the cited newspaper's wording. -Samoht27 (talk) 18:11, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Verifiability

The article does contain a list of all references, and the references appear to be of good quality. The article doesn't contain information not presented in any references, not going against our policy on original research. Almost all references are cited inline, however there are a few that are not. These are marked in a "Works Cited" section. These references, if possible, should be inline citations.

In conclusion, information presented in the article is verifiable, and the article contains no original research. Unfortunately, some sources are not cited inline, which makes me not entirely sure. However, I still lean towards the article passing the criteria for verifiability.

The sources I checked for Verifiability include the following,

1. "Jacksonville is the focus on House race". The Anniston Star. June 20, 1986. p. 9A. Archived from the original on February 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "Georgia's ballot to include Willis". The Anniston Star. February 15, 1984. p. 5B. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Willis seeks presidential nomination". The Anniston Star. April 20, 1982. p. 4B. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Newly elected take office". The Anniston Star. November 14, 1974. p. 6A. Archived from the original on February 18, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Willis Wants VP Nomination". Dothan Eagle. December 30, 1983. p. 3A. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

All sources I checked were verifiable.

• Those sources in the Works Cited section are called upon in inline sources. Sources 59, 61, 62, and 64. It is an easier way to present book, journal, magazine, etc sources. Jon698 (talk) 17:44, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out, this allows me to say that this article passes the criteria with full confidence. -Samoht27 (talk) 18:13, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Broad Coverage

The article covers all the important points about the subject, and stays within the scope of the subject. Main points are addressed in the lead, staying in line with the manual of style.

In conclusion, the article passes the criteria for coverage of the topic.

Neutral Point of View

This article is in line with the policies of maintaining a neutral point of view and doesn't reflect any bias possessed by contributors to the article. Easily passes this criteria.

Stability

The article easily passes this criteria, the subject of the article is a deceased and relatively uncontroversial politician who wasn't a particularly major figure outside of his home state.

Illustration

This one's difficult. The lead image in the infobox should be enough, however I am not entirely sure of its copyright status. I can't find anything to suggest it CAN'T be used, however there's a very good chance it is not exactly public domain. The image was published in a newspaper, meaning its content is USUALLY not public domain outright. Since the newspaper the image was clipped for use on Newspapers.com, I would assume the use of the image here is used correctly. This one is super ambiguous though, so I cannot be 100% certain it passes this criteria.

• @Samoht27: The "lack of copyright notice" template is commonly used and other GAs of mine have used images with the same template. I actually discovered that template while reviewing somebody's GA. That image would also still appear on the article without the template as I could upload it to Wikipedia under fair use (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beverly_White_in_2020.png for example). Jon698 (talk) 05:40, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

This would work well, I think we could upload the image to Wikipedia to be 100% safe, but right now it's probably good to pass. -Samoht27 (talk) 16:23, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

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