Wikipedia:Peer review/Jean Schmidt/archive1

Jean Schmidt

A profile of the Republican Member of Congress-elect, chosen in the special election in Ohio on August 2 that attracted national attention. Article has photos, maps, references. I'd really like to see this make featured status by September 6, when she'll be sworn in. It needs a good proofreading to start--I've looked at it so much, my eyes have glazed over and I know I'm not seeing problems. I am also submitting for peer review my article on the losing candidate, Paul Hackett. (See Wikipedia:Peer review/Paul Hackett/archive1 for that.) PedanticallySpeaking 19:18, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

• A very good article, feature-worthy I'd say--impressive level of detail. One note--I won't object over it, but many people prefer inline footnotes to the external-link style of citations you have here (look at Education in the United States for an example of an article that uses this style). Good luck on the nomination. Meelar (talk) 19:39, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, Meelar. I personally dislike the footnotes. Ta bu shi da yu urged footnotes when I was working on Mark Felt and I really don't like how that turned out because of the amount of work and they being hard to use. This is why many of the references have an annotation explaining what's from those articles. But no matter how I annotated it, someone would be unhappy. Thanks again, Meelar. PedanticallySpeaking 19:49, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

• It looks good and reads well; I can't really find anything to criticize (but then I'm just not the nit-picky type). The big Ohio map would be better with the district boundaries on it; I could do it myself if I weren't so lazy at the moment (or maybe I will...) Nice job, and I think it's feature-worthy. Good NPOV work by the way; articles on divisive political figures are hard to pull off. Antandrus (talk) 19:53, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

I made a new Ohio map showing where District 2 is. Antandrus (talk) 15:59, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for your praise. PedanticallySpeaking 17:11, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

• As with Paul Hackett, all the photos are claimed under fair use, and thus will need fair-use rationales added to the image description pages. Remember that fair use is on a per-page basis, not a per-image basis. --Carnildo 21:39, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

• So nothing to say about the actual content of the article, just criticism about the photographs? I've given a rationale for using the pictures. PedanticallySpeaking 17:43, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

• It's a methodically researched, balanced, informative article - the ideal of what most Wiki political articles should be, honestly. My only complaint would be the duplicate information in the Hackett/Schmidt pages, particularly under "Both Parties Claim Victory". I think you may be better served moving that to the general page for the OH-2 election to free up a bit of room on the individual pages, especially since Schmidt is now in Congress and she may have years and years of issues and events we will have to document. --JamesB3 00:24, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks very much, James. A little later on I think the "both parties" could be cut or scaled back. For now, since it is so fresh I think it ought to stay. Again, thanks. PedanticallySpeaking 17:11, August 19, 2005 (UTC)