Talk:Mary Jane Patterson

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Wiki Education assignment: Global Interconnections edit

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 2 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): History314, Liviahana, Just.an.incredible.fool, Natep8 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by SGB.His370 (talk) 03:35, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Women in Green 20-minute assessment (mini-review) edit

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Hello! As requested by Balance person on the June 2024 Women in Green editathon event page, here is a quick 20-minute assessment of the article to help with preparation for a Good Article (GA) nomination:

The article looks fundamentally pretty good. There are certainly some prose issues which I might expect to be picked up on, but that isn't too much of a problem for GA status and should be easy enough to deal with in a review. For instance, the article is currently inconsistent about whether "black" should be capitalised or uncapitalised (per MOS:RACECAPS, either is acceptable, but we should be consistent within an article!). Another example: the paragraph beginning "Although the African-American educator..." seems very long to me, and might do better split (perhaps with a new paragraph beginning "When Greener left...")

There are a few more significant issues, though they should all be relatively easy fixes:

The lead seems very short to me: the article isn't very long, but you might consider adding a couple more sentences!
Two paragraphs do not end in a citation; at GA it is generally expected that all paragraphs in the body do so
Most of the claims I spotchecked look okay, but There is conflicting data on how many siblings she had, but most sources cite between seven and ten is not supported by either of the subsequent citations, neither of which mentions her siblings at all.
There are a few sources which I would query: is "The Historical Memory Recovery Channel" anything more than a self-published blog? Why is it reliable? Ditto "Chalkboard Champions". There's also a PhD thesis cited (ensure that use follows WP:SCHOLARSHIP), and two different encyclopedia.com entries (encyclopedia.com seems to reproduce entries from other presumably reliable sources, but it's not clear to me what the source of these two entries is?)
The quotation at the end of the article would really be better worked into the section on Patterson's legacy than just left at the end like that.
Further reading generally comes after references/works cited.

Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 09:32, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much for your time and trouble. I will certainly attend to all the points you mention before thinking of submitting. Thanks again! Balance person (talk) 11:46, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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