Talk:James Fisher Robinson

James Fisher Robinson has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 30, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 10, 2007	Good article reassessment	Kept
January 18, 2011	Good topic candidate	Promoted
May 30, 2020	Good topic removal candidate	Demoted
Current status: Good article

Biography: Politics and Government

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GA Fail

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
It is stable.
It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
Overall:
a Pass/Fail:

I have failed the article on GA status. My reasons are:

The article is fairly short and not comprehensive enough
The whole article relies on just a few sources
Both Early life and Later life and death are particuarly short, and need extending
Although his opposition to emancipation is noteworthy enough to be mentioned enough in the introduction, this is not extended upon later on in the article
A lack of images besides his portrait, although this isnt crucial, it would help

• The Giant Puffin • 12:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What if this information simply isn't available then? GA was originally created for short articles, and being short isn't a deficiency - depends on the notability of the article. LuciferMorgan 12:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out. I have tried to find additional sources on Robinson (and, for the record, Beriah Magoffin and Thomas E. Bramlette, if anyone knows of any.) There just aren't very many that I'm aware of. Even historian Lowell H. Harrison laments the lack of biographical information available on Kentucky governors in the preface to his work Kentucky Governors, which is cited in this article. Acdixon 13:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As a result of the WP:GA/R review discussion that is now archived at: Wikipedia:Good article review/Archive 21, the fail above has been overturned by a consensus decision of 6-0. I will be presently adding this to the list. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 04:25, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA reassessment

After reading through the article for GA sweeps, it still meets GA criteria as it did in 07, though it is a little short. Therefore the article remains a GA. Wizardman 03:27, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]