Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Lewis (musician)

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The result was: promoted by — Amakuru (talk) 14:09, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Henry Lewis (musician)

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... that the African-American conductor Henry Lewis conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra in support of American's cultural diplomacy initiatives after World War II? Source: Uncle Sam's Orchestra: Memories of the Seventh Army Orchestra John Canaria, University of Rochester Press 1998; New Music New Allies Amy C. Beal, University of California Press, Berkley, 2006, P. 49

Reviewed: Arnold Peter Meiklejohn

5x expanded by 2620:65:8000:a203:85dc:6632:19e3:1d53 (talk); 2620:65:8000:a203:a033:d245:a813:d7b6 (talk). Nominated by 78.26 (talk) at 20:45, 30 August 2019 (UTC).

Article is a legitimate x5 expansion, is of an appropriate length, passed a copyvio check and has a cited and reasonably interesting hook, and the QPQ is done. There are a couple of issues however. Firstly there are two sentences which are unsourced near the end - for the Grammy award, and the reference to his daughter. Secondly, the discography is sourced to discogs.com, which is a user-generated site and therefore presumably unreliable. Finally, many of the citations are duplicated and should be consolidated; also, many of the citations link the entire cite instead of just the name of the cited work; these issues should be fixed before the article is promoted IMO. Gatoclass (talk) 13:25, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

I started work on consolidating the references myself - I will try to finish the job tomorrow. Gatoclass (talk) 15:34, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Gatoclass. I removed the discogs reference. All the entries contain catalog numbers, so the releases are self-sourced. I'll try find a citation for the two sentences which are unsourced, else I'll remove them. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 00:10, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

I have sourced those two sentences. I removed part of one sentence because I couldn't meet WP:V. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 15:36, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Ciao fellow editors - I added a reference link to worldcat.org for the Discography section for additional documentation, and an additional reference citation from the "Encyclopedia of the African And African-American Experience" for the Bibliography Section and included a Filmography Section with a reference citation for Lewis's educational film. I hope it helps! Many thanks to all for your fine efforts! Respectfully, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:65:8000:a203:2d52:bbf4:1f35:29c3 (talk) 19:33, 3 September 2019 (UTC)GCU

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Thank you to 78.26 and the IP for prompt responses. I think the concerns I raised have been sufficiently addressed at this point. Gatoclass (talk) 15:33, 6 September 2019 (UTC)