Talk:Teresa Bagioli Sickles/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, listed below. I will check back in seven days. If these issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far.

Reviewer: --Malleus Fatuorum 13:00, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

Does not adequately summarise the article, and focuses largely on the murder of her lover.

After the trial and death

The murder took place in 1859, and Teresa died eight years later. That's about one quarter of her life, covered by only one short sentence: "Teresa took ill and died of tuberculosis in 1867 at about the age of thirty-one." If there's nothing else known about Teresa's life after the murder then I'd question whether this article ought not to be merged with that of her husband, as much of the article seems to be about him anyway.

References

There are at least six dead links.[1]

Full details including publisher and last accessdate (for online sources) should be given for all citations. See refs #13 and #14, for instance, which are bare URLs.

What makes Rootsweb a reliable source?

Thanks for the ping, Malleus. This was written a while ago in "wikiyears" and it's not up to current standards, I guess. I'll try to address as much of this as I can because I do agree with these critiques for the most part. If she was alive today I expect some folk would be arguing this is a BLP1E, as the trial was the defining event of her life, I expect. It was a huge, scandalous trial (think OJ Simpson for similar media frenzy) and was groundbreaking jurisprudence as it was the first successful use of insanity defense. ++Lar: t/c 14:22, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After some time contemplating this, I think the dead links can be cleaned up easily enough but I am thinking the GA should be pulled until someone has the considerable time it will take for a complete rewrite rather than waiting longer. ++Lar: t/c 15:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll close this now then. --Malleus Fatuorum 16:06, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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