Talk:St. Mary's Church (Dedham, Massachusetts)

St. Mary's Church (Dedham, Massachusetts) 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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January 26, 2016	Good article nominee	Not listed

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that when the cornerstone of St. Mary's Church in Dedham, Massachusetts was laid, special trains brought in many of the 4,000 attendees?

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This review is transcluded from Talk:St. Mary's Church (Dedham, Massachusetts)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: E.M.Gregory (talk · contribs) 16:09, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Early History

1. Parish histories have to be used with extreme caution on facts. I suggest removing: "During the Civil War, "no church in Dedham lost so many men in proportion to their numbers." unless you can find a more reliable source.

First Church

Withing 10 years of what?

Moving along, I suggest that the author tighten and revise this overly detailed and somewhat convoluted article. There is a good deal of detail that is not necessary (do we really need to know that a small lot purchased for a construction staging area was in former use as a bath owned by a parishoner?)

The article might read more smoothly overall if there was a seciton called something like "Daughter congregations" about the several parishes that hived off form this one. And we could use both more historical context (I assume that that the growth was driven by industrialization) and less (more links to history sections the several towns and other topics towns might enable tightening of text).E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:09, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is this still being reviewed? Wizardman 14:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Although this article has many virtues, the heavy reliance on primary sourcing - both form the church's own history and other work by local antiquarians, is problematic. As is the lack of context that prevents coverage of such topics as immigration, causes of growth, and - in particular - the Catholic-Protestant tensions in Massachusetts in that era (particularly as they affected the education of Catholic children in public schools) keep the article below GA standards.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:22, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]