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Reviewer: Maile66 (talk · contribs) 21:44, 15 July 2016 (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:
- B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
- A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:
- 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:
- Sources 9, 10, 11 are Find A Grave and not considered a reliable source by Wikipedia.
- Source 39, Wordpress is a blog and not considered a reliable source by Wikipedia.
- C. It contains no original research:
- D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:
- AGF on all offline sourcing. I ran Duplication Detector on each online sourcing and found no issues. I also read each source as I went through, and found no issues. It should be noted for future reference that the Earwig tool performed very poorly for this article, returning a false reading of a high rate of probability of copyvio. When reading the detail, the Earwig tool was citing the Bibliography titles only as the copyvios.
- A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:
- 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):
- Under political career, you have him as the Senate's President Pro Tempore, while the Source 18 lists him as President of the State Senate during that time period, which are two different positions.
- 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:
- PD - Henry Wilson, VP of the United States.jpg - Library of Congress image dated between 1860 and 1875, no known restrictions on use
- PD - Henry Wilson shoeshop, construction 1835, documentation compiled by Historic American Buildings Survey after 1933; government photo with no known restrictions
- PD - Henry Wilson's Natick home, on Commons as A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts - with numerous illustrations (1890)
- PD - Abolitionist and Free Soil Party leaders, published 1866
- PD - U.S. Senator Henry Wilson, photograph by Mathew Brady
- PD - Preston Brooks, published 1857
- PD - Senator William M. Gwin, Matthew Brady image
- PD - Wilson as Colonel and commander, Matthew Brady image
- PD - United States Secretary of War Simon Cameron, Library of Congress image with no known restrictions
- PD - Rose O'Neal Greenhow and her daughter, Matthew Brady image
- PD - African American Union soldiers, Dutch Gap, Virginia November 1864
- PD - African American Union Troops at Lincoln's second Inauguration
- PD - African American Union soldier and his family ... circa 1863–1865, Library of Congress
- PD - President Andrew Johnson, Matthew Brady image
- PD - Henry Wilson (far left) defended Hiram Revels, 9 April 1870 by Thomas Nast
- PD - The working-man's banner, campaign poster 1872, Library of Congress
- PD - Grant/Wilson campaign poster, 1872, Library of Congress
- PD - Wilson's funeral procession, published in Harper's Weekly 1875
- Henry Wilson Grave, no real artwork involved, released for use as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
- Henry Wilson by Nahum Ball Onthank, Painting circa 1875. Kind of a tilted off-center photo of this. Can we get a better one?
Photograph rights possibly covered by Commons FOP United StatesBut to make sure, I've left a message at Commons:Village pump/Copyright Commons has answered the image is PD, just not PD-Art. I still recommend a better image than this for GA. — Maile (talk) 15:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)public artwork installed before 1923 is considered to be public domain, and can be photographed freely.
- Kalakaua Grant state visit 1874 - Source not found when clicking on link provided at Commons
- A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:
- B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
- B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
- 7. Overall:
- Pass or Fail:
- Billmckern Overall, this is a really well written political biography. We just need to deal with the issues I noted above. — Maile (talk) 14:42, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Pass or Fail:
- @Maile66: -- Fixed 2.B. 1 and 2. Fixed 3.B.1. Fixed 6.A.20. Fixed 6.A.21.
- Please let me know if you think we should make any other additions, deletions, or edits.
- This all looks good to me, Billmckern. You took care of all the issues listed, including the image issues. I'm very happy to pass this nomination. Good luck if you decide to also list it at DYK and/or FA. — Maile (talk) 19:21, 17 July 2016 (UTC)