Talk:George F. Lewis

Latest comment: 1 year ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment
Former good articleGeorge F. Lewis was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 6, 2020Good article nomineeListed
February 26, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 16, 2019.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that having received the results of the 1848 U.S. presidential election by telegraph, George F. Lewis helped publish the news of Zachary Taylor's win?
Current status: Delisted good article
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 02:35, 9 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 12:59, 9 October 2019 (UTC).Reply

  • @Cwmhiraeth: - Citation 3 is Leeson, Michael A. (1881). History of Saginaw County, Mich. page 469 says, and aided in putting into type the first news ever received by telegraph of a presidential election that of Gen Zachary Taylor. Feel free to change the hook if you like. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:05, 4 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • ALT1 ... that having received the results of the 1848 presidential election by telegraph for the first time ever, George F. Lewis helped publish the news?

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:George F. Lewis/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 13:11, 5 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Doing this for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 13:11, 5 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose):   b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):  
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (reference section):   b (citations to reliable sources):   c (OR):  
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects):   b (focused):  
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:  
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:  
  6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales):   b (appropriate use with suitable captions):  
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:  

Infobox

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  • The image caption needs to be expanded from just "1863"

Lead

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  • The lead is on the short side. Consider expanding it with relevant summarized information from the article body

Early life and education

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  • Do we have any information about his parents and what they did?
  • Also I cannot see any information about his education despite the section includes the word "education".

Business career

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  • Wikilink Lake Superior on the first mention
  • "On his return trip to New York City that fall," - avoid the use of seasons per MOS:SEASON
  • "to get copper ore samples." - to obtain samples of copper ore.
  • "he met Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune." - what was the meeting about?
  • "when took a job in July " - when he took
  • "winter of 1848–1849." - 1848 to 1849.
  • "Lewis started the Port Huron Commercial newspaper in 1851[1]" - a comma is missing between "1851" and the citation
  • "and then sold it to the Saginaw Enterprise Publishing Company." - and he subsequently

Personal life

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  • The final two paragraphs should be merged together to avoid having stubby one-line paragraphs
  • "Lewis died May 30, 1890." - died on May 30
  • Also, please date where Lewis died and what he died from (if the information is available)

Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 18:49, 5 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

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This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)Reply