Talk:James McCune Smith
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James McCune Smith was a good article candidate, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. Once the objections listed below are addressed, the article can be renominated. You may also seek a review of the decision if you feel there was a mistake.
Date of review: 28 December 2006 |
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James McCune Smith is a current good article nominee. If you have not contributed significantly to this article, feel free to evaluate it according to the good article criteria and then pass or fail the article as outlined on the candidates page.
Nomination date: 13:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] Failed "good article" nomination
This article failed good article nomination. This is how the article, as of {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}, compares against the six good article criteria:
- 1. Well written?: yes
- 2. Factually accurate?: not cited in the article
- 3. Broad in coverage?: {{{thorough}}}
- 4. Neutral point of view?: yes
- 5. Article stability? yes
- 6. Images?: There could be some more images, but for a man who lived in the 19th century, this is fine.
When these issues are addressed, the article can be resubmitted for consideration. If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to a GA review. Thank you for your work so far.
[edit] Changes
I've made some rather major changes to this article. I've broken it into sections, did some re-wording, and removed some material that's currently unsourced per the article itself. It looks a bit bare now, but the "skeleton" is larger, so it should be a bit easier to build on.
I also removed the link to New York Historical Society because it led to the Wikipedia article, and when I went to the site itself, the PDF transcript they had didn't work. The podcast might be fun to include, though - I've seen it done.
I found some other online sources that could help. I'm aware that I did remove some facts, so I thought I should provide alternative sources for the online:
I also noticed that in the sources the jury is out on whether Dr. Smith actually did have the first black pharmacy, it's just "widely believed". If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on my talk page. NinaEliza 06:51, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GA Fail
- Lead is too short, should be two paragraphs
- In the lead you mention that he is an African American three times in two sentences
- Smith was born in on April 18, 1813 New York City, was born in on...?
- Inline references are not formatted properly, check {{cite web}}
- you need an infobox for that picture and add other information to it, birth spouse etc
- Some sections are basically ' he did this', he did that ,he also did this
- Years alone shouldn't be wikilinked
- Images need to be re-sized
- Some sections are too short
Has this article had a peer review? the link to it is red which means it doesn't exist, make sure you read how to do one. The article has potential but these issues are major and need to be addressed. Good-luck M3tal H3ad 10:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
