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Ruth M. Gardiner was one of the Warfare good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. 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.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 4, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
February 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 8, 2016.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the first US Army hospital named for a woman or nurse was named after US Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Ruth M. Gardiner (pictured)?

Current status: Delisted good article

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Ruth M. Gardiner/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 11:30, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"Corps, the first American" split, i.e. "Corps. She was the first American"
Done

"the Alaskan Theater and" do we have a link for that?
Done

" of Second Lieutenant" link?
Done

"the Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II that" is this repeating the "Alaskan Theater" thing? Either way, Campaign should be campaign.
Done

"on one of these medical evacuation missions" -> "on one such evacuations"
Done

"when the plane crashed" -> "when the aircraft on which she was traveling crashed".
Done

"1,250 bed" hyphenate.
Done

Date formats aren't consistent, either DMY or MDY. I'd stick with MDY as it's got strong ties to US English.
Done

"had training in nursing at " -> "trained in nursing at"
Done

"assignment was at the 349th Air Evacuation Group, Bowman Field" maybe "assignment was with the 349th Air Evacuation Group at Bowman Field"?
Done

"Alaskan Theater of Operations" is this the third way of saying the same thing? Be consistent throughout.
Done

"near Naknek, Alaska on" comma after Alaska.
Done

"and she was killed while transporting patients" while transporting patients is unnecessary.
Done

Any more details on the crash?
Done

The lead said it was "accidental", but the main body doesn't reflect that.
Done

"Gardiner was one of a group of six nurses in Alaska during the Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II during April 1942 to July 1943 that assisted in medical evacuations by plane" think you've already said a lot of this, revise, merge back into the bits that are already covered.
Done

"first Army Nurse Corps' nurse" link corps here.
Done

"who was the first Army Nurse Corps' nurse killed while serving in World War II." previous section you said "was the first American nurse killed in World War II while on military active duty." - these "firsts" need to be expressed in consistent terms and probably only once in the main body of the article.
Done

"1,250 bed" hyphenate.
Done

"received a portrait of Gardiner at its official dedication on July 9, 1944. The portrait was done by Chicago artist Edmund Giesbert" -> "received a portrait of Gardiner, by Chicago artist Edmund Giesbert...., at its official dedication on July 9, 1944."
Done

Ref 10 should be p.
Done

Ref 14 SHOUTING.
Done -> You may already know this = "Upper case" and "Lower case" of a typewriter are based off these type letters of a typical eighteenth century printing press.

ISBNs should be consistently formatted.
Done

That's all I have. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 19:56, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for review. I'll start working on it tomorrow morning, after a good night's sleep.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:05, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:43, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright problem

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