Talk:History of fantasy/GA1

GA Review

Unsuccessful. (t · c) buidhe 02:34, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: Buidhe (talk · contribs) (t · c) buidhe 02:23, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is going to be a quick fail because the article is nowhere near meeting the GA criteria for original research. A considerable number of the article's sources don't mention Tolkien at all and the content cited to these sources has no verifiable connection to the stated topic, thus making them original research to include. (t · c) buidhe 02:23, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The connection is context, which is a normal and often required part of an article. There is verifiably no original research in the article: all the content is reliably cited. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:18, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Per the policy Wikipedia:No original research, "To demonstrate that you are not adding original research, you must be able to cite reliable, published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article and directly support the material being presented." It's not sufficient if the citations directly support the content that they are cited for, but are not directly related to the stated article topic. Since the stated topic is "Tolkien and the history of fantasy" I would expect all cited sources, at a minimum, to discuss both Tolkien and the history of fantasy. Otherwise the connection between the material added and the article topic is just that a Wikipedia editor thinks it's relevant, which is original research. (t · c) buidhe 17:43, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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