Talk:Union Literary Institute/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 05:12, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

1. Well-written

Prose clear/concise/understandable Y

Spelling/grammar Y

Mos lead N

MOS layout Y

Buzzwords/fiction/lists Y

2. Verifiable

List of references properly formatted Y

Inline citations from reliable sources N

No original research Y

No COPYVIO Y None detected

3. Broad in coverage

Covers main aspects N The lead mentions background incidents leading to the foundation of the school, but this is not discussed in the main article body. It should be.

Stays focused on topic Y

4. Neutral Y

5. Stable Y

6. Illustrated (if possible)

Media tagged for copyright status - The licensing statement for the Students' Repository image states that you took the picture yourself, but the image is watermarked with the internet archive. This licensing statement does not seem to be accurate, then.

Media relevant Y

Comments

References Atlas Obscura is user-generated, so it cannot be used as a reference on Wikipedia. The Lives Not Forgotten references is to a blogspot page, also not a reliable source.

Lead The lead should be much longer than one sentence. A nice, but still concise description of some of the notable milestones in the school's history would be helpful.

Infobox The size and type (agricultural) parameters in the infobox are cited neither in the infobox or in the text. A citation needs to occur at one of the two places.

The school We need background information here. We start out with the first board meeting of the school, but the lead indicates that special circumstances led to the foundation of the school. We should get this, too.

You refer to the Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse. Isn't the full name the "Society of Friends"? Unless this specific meetinghouse was known only by Friends, you should use the full name of the organization.

"The term "literary" meant that it was a non-religious school, not that it focused on literature. "Union" has been explained as jointly educating white and black students (quote below); it also is said to refer to the three settlements of free blacks the school was primarily serving: Cabin Creek, Snow Creek, and Greenville, straddling the Ohio–Indiana state line." - Citation needed for this.

A lot of this section is sourced to Atlas Obscura, so new references will have to be found for that.

What's orthography? A wikilink or explanation would help.

Liber College is a redlink. If this subject is likely to pass WP:GNG, leave the link in place to encourage article creation. If not, remove the wikilinks.

"Although most students were black, whites also enrolled, making it an early example of racial integration in the Midwest" - Citation needed.

"That school closed in 1914, and the building was for many years used as a barn. " - Citation needed.

The Students' Repository "Beard's journals were not transcribed and published until 2017." - Citation needed

Why are those three contents singled out? The contents singled out should probably have some sort of illustrative importance, and that should be specified in the article.

Notable students Generally, in sections of notable students, alumni, and residents, only figures with article should be included, which would rule out Mitchell, Smothers, and Addington. Also, there needs to be a citation connecting each individual to the school.

Archival material Generally, sections should be longer than one sentence. Is there content you can add or somewhere you can combine this section into?

Okay, so this is going to be a lot of work to get it up to GA-status. I'll give you a chance to bring it up to the standards, but if it hasn't been substantially improved within seven days I'm going to have to fail it. Thanks for expressing an interest in improving Wikipedia's content! Hog Farm (talk) 05:47, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Fail it. Some of the items could be repaired, but others can not, or not easily. Thanks for your time. deisenbe (talk) 19:20, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Just so you know, I found this to be an interesting article, and I learned quite a bit from reading it. Don't get discouraged! I can see a good foundation in this article and there's a lot of potential here, it's just not up to GA-status at the moment. Thanks for creating this article, Wikipedia is better with it. Hog Farm (talk) 19:27, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

@Deisenbe: pinging nominator. Hog Farm (talk) 19:27, 2 February 2020 (UTC)