Talk:Literary societies at Washington & Jefferson College

Literary societies at Washington & Jefferson College was a Language and literature good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
September 27, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 14, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that members of the Philo Literary Society at Canonsburg Academy would cover the windows with their cloaks to prevent onlookers, because secret societies were assumed to be tied to freemasonry or witchcraft?

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GA Review

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Reviewer: -- Cirt (talk) 10:58, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will review this article. -- Cirt (talk) 10:58, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good article nomination on hold

This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write. This is how the article, as of September 20, 2010, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: Very-short-paragraphs and one-sentence-long-paragraphs in subsections including: Founding and operation, Pre-merger societies at Jefferson College, Philo Literary Society, Pre-merger societies at Washington College - these should be expanded, with additional sourced content, or merged into other paragraphs.

2. Factually accurate?: Duly cited throughout. However, I am a bit uncomfortable with the extensive usage and dependence of this article on one or two sources, sources that appear to be directly affiliated with the article's subject, and even, primary sources. I would like to see a great deal more usage of reliable secondary sources independent of the subject.

3. Broad in coverage?: Fails currently, in that it lacks secondary source critical analysis and perception, reception, commentary, etc, something like that subsection, to put the impact of these societies into a larger context. Have they been analyzed and commented on in scholarly academic works that are independent of the subject?

4. Neutral point of view?: Again, concerns here, due to the nature of the over-dependence on particular types of non-independent source usage.

5. Article stability? No concerns here - no issues upon inspection of article edit history, and talk page history.

6. Images?: Two images used, both check out okay, both are hosted over at sister site, Wikimedia Commons. Could an attempt be made to try to find out more info about the source/author of these two images? Any chance of getting a couple additional images for use in the article, specifically, perhaps one image to accompany the WP:LEAD of the article?

Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved. After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again. If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice. Thank you for your work so far. -- Cirt (talk) 17:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Revisited: Not GA quality at this point in time. -- Cirt (talk) 15:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]