Talk:Life of Samuel Johnson (Hawkins book)
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Johnson Template
[edit]I wanted to note that this is a discussion about the template at Template talk:Samuel Johnson. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
GA Review
[edit]- This review is transcluded from Talk:Life of Samuel Johnson (1787)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Mitch32(The Password is... See here!) 23:43, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
- Is it reasonably well written?
- A. Prose quality:
- B. MoS compliance:
- A. Prose quality:
- Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
- A. References to sources:
- B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
- C. No original research:
- A. References to sources:
- Is it broad in its coverage?
- A. Major aspects:
- B. Focused:
- A. Major aspects:
- Is it neutral?
- Fair representation without bias:
- Fair representation without bias:
- Is it stable?
- No edit wars, etc:
- No edit wars, etc:
- Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
- A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
- B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
- A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
- Overall:
- Pass or Fail:
- Pass or Fail:
- Lead. Expand a bit, please.
- Move the image in critical response to the top right of the section.
- "owing to the perusal of three chapters in Hawkin's Life of Johnson." - If Hawkins was his last name, that would be a very bad grammar error.
- Wikilinking would help :)
- Expand biography a bit. If per se, parts of the quote were removed, I think a little more build up helps so it doesn't look like a small bit.
- No sources since 1961? I question that.
I will put this on hold, you have 17 minutes, Ottava.Mitch32(The Password is... See here!) 23:43, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Review in Gentleman's Magazine
[edit]The classical scholar Richard Porson wrote a particularly brutal review of Hawkins' book in the Gentleman's Magazine, the more brutal because it's written as ironical praise for Hawkins' spitefulness and inaccuracy. The only place I have found a copy of it is here, and you have to get to p. 450 of the PDF file to find it. I think it's worth quoting. Lexo (talk) 01:59, 8 November 2010 (UTC)