Talk:Newell Snow Booth

Newell Snow Booth was a Philosophy and religion 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
August 15, 2021	Good article nominee	Not listed

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that during the Congo Crisis, American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:33, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that during the Congo Crisis American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gun-point by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognised him? "Thirty and four years [1964] later Bishop Booth met me at the Elisabethville airport to travel together to the seat of the Central Conference. Driving toward Jadotville we were met by a military convoy and promptly halted. The bishop was wrestled into a ditch. a carbine at his throat. held there by an overly-energetic and not-reassuring young soldier. A lieutenant tumbled from a jeep. examined the young man's prize and ordered. "Give him his leave: he is a good man-a teacher-a man of God."' Their paths had crossed somewhere. I never knew where" from: "Booth, Bishop Newell S." (PDF). General Commission on Archives and History: Archives Center Catalog. United Methodist Church. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas H. Stack

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 06:12, 5 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Recently moved into the mainspace, long enough, all of the sentences are sourced, interesting hook, and no plagiarism. Jon698 talk 21:45, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Newell Snow Booth/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Whiteguru (talk · contribs) 06:36, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Starts GA Review Page. The review will follow the same sections of the Article. Thank you --Whiteguru (talk) 06:36, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Observations

   HTML document size: 54 kB
   Prose size (including all HTML code): 10188 B
   References (including all HTML code): 11 kB
   Wiki text: 9143 B
   Prose size (text only): 5047 B (857 words) "readable prose size"
   References (text only): 2804 B

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

Page layout is fine.

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

9 citations from Shavit do not give page numbers.
11 citations from General Commission on Archives and History: Archives Center Catalog do not give page numbers. (Some pages extremely difficult to read)
The United Methodist Handbook is not a relevant reference.
Prominent Personalities in American Methodism gives a snippet view which cannot be reasonably read. It is a mention, only, at best.

It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):

It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:

It is difficult to ascertain. Only one reference is accessible, and that is difficult to read in places.

It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:

Page created 1 July 2020
Page has 36 edits by 10 editors
90 day page views = 89, average of 1 view daily.
DYK on 30 July 2020 brought 2,733 page views
Page history shows steady development, no edit warring observed.

It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

No images on this page.

Overall: ✗ Fail

The references do not conform to WP:VERIFY. In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Can't check the major references here. --Whiteguru (talk) 07:46, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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