Talk:Kichio Allen Arai/GA1

GA Review

Unsuccessful. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: Premeditated Chaos (talk · contribs) 05:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

At only 471 words long, this article simply does not contain enough prose to be considered broad under the GACR. I recognize that sourcing may be limited, but there is effectively nothing in this article about his career as an architect. A single building is discussed, but several others are listed in the Works section. What about those? What was his style like? His influences? There is a complete gap from 1932 to 1940. What was he doing?

The later life section is barely filled out. The best sources are underutilized. For example, the DJC source states that he was an "advocate for historic preservation", and spent 30 years at a firm where he was a leading partner - the name of this firm is not even mentioned in the article. There are details about his career in the Shaping Seattle book that are also not utilized, including for the above-noted gap.

Sourcing is also not the best. There is a huge reliance on primary sources, which can be problematic per WP:PRIMARY. Ancestry.com is unreliable, see WP:ANCESTRY. I'm not personally familiar with FamilySearch but I suspect it's similar to Ancestry. DiscoverNikkei journals appear to be user-submitted and are not reliable.

I believe the article would need significant reworking before it can pass the GACR, so with regret, this must be a quickfail. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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