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In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the requirements of the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. Unfortunately, as of November 27, 2007, this article fails to satisfy the criteria. The article currently lacks sources including one needed for a quote. Go through the article and add an inline citation for any statement that a reader may question over its verifiability. If you can find sources online, feel free to include those, although book sources are always great. Additionally, the tag for expansion also needs to be addressed. For these reasons, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you disagree with this review, you can seek an alternate opinion at Good article reassessment. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have updated the article's history to reflect this review. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 08:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As Great Fire raged in city, racism may have smolderedThe link to this story on Jacksonville.com (the official web site of The Florida Times-Union) is broken, forwarding the reader to a "404" error message. A search of its web site from this page does not find the story, but a reader may be more successful with a search originating on the newspaper's main page. The article quotes a passage from Along This Way, the autobiography of author, diplomat and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson. Johnson grew up in Jacksonville, and alleges that the fire might have been controlled in the beginning, but that a conscious decision, based on racism, was made to ignore the fire's path in the city's black neighborhoods. The article was created as part of a tab titled "Postcards from the Past," a special section created for Black History Month more than a decade ago. It was included in the Times-Union's regular issue, and was also distributed to area schools for use in the classroom by sixth-graders (the language is purposely written at a sixth-grade reading level). As a former Times-Union writer, I am the author of the original article, but the piece was created as a work for hire, and the Times-Union holds the copyright [verifiable by The Times-Union]. Please note that the story has been plagiarized several times with minimal changes and appears elsewhere on the Web under different bylines [verifiable by Web search]. -- Sharon Weightman Hoffmann
Set against other "great fires" of the period, this one does not appear to justify such an imposing title for an event which is probably largely unheard of, certainly outside of the US. The articles for other, even greater, disasters include the name of the city involved, and I suggest the same should be done here. - Blurryman (talk) 19:10, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
