Talk:Lisa Wilson-Foley/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Barrettsprivateers (talk · contribs) 15:09, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

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Not a very compelling article

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): 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): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

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:

   Consider neutral POV when rewriting

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:

   Consider renomination for deletion or a significant rewrite with more neutral tone

Comments from Kingsif

Hi, I'll be giving this another review. I have to agree that the tone, and a lot of the content, are just WP:PROMO, and so it fails criteria 1 completely. While parts of this issue are the writing style, it's also the specific coverage in the article, failing this criteria, too.

• The phrase B.S. from Ithaca College in 1981, a masters in Public Health from Yale University 1988 is a direct copy from source, but otherwise it looks clear of copyvio.
• Infobox plain and overloaded with pointless parameters and redundancy; it would probably be better without an infobox
• Are there no images?
• A not-insignificant amount is sourced to her LinkedIn profile. Sometimes primary sources can be used, and the education seems fine to source here. The other things it's used for: the bed and breakfast is out of scope, while all the information about Allstar needs a reliable third party source.
• Some of the sources are strong, most of them seem alright enough. I worry some of the fringe sources may not be quality sources for the controversy of the subject.
• Titles in the refs should not be in ALLCAPS
• As already explained, article is far from neutral.
• The talk page is blank, and the AfD is old, so I guess it's stable.
• The lead is too short for the article and does not accurately summarize it; there is brief mention of politics and crime, and it instead promotes her various businesses. This is massively uneven, at the least.
• Is serial entrepreneur a job? Is it neutral?
• Repetition and simple structure in Wilson-Foley graduated from Farmington High School in 1977.[1] Wilson-Foley received a B.S. from Ithaca College in 1981 - writing here is neutral, but style is lacking.
  • The entire 'Early life and education' section is just a list of her degrees. I'd recommend combining this with Personal life or her early career section and trying to incorporate the information
• Golf handicap is irrelevant. Even though she owns a golf course.
• A serial entrepreneur she formed her first company at 29. → "A serial entrepreneur, Wilson-Foley formed her first company at 29."
• There's no mention of what either her first business, or the healthcare business that she sold in '97, were.
• Why was she prohibited from healthcare?
• The article jumps right into At the time of her conviction without having mentioned any of this. It just suddenly appears in the opening paragraph on here businesses.
• this is separate from her husband's nine figure net worth - 1. it's clear it's her own worth 2. it's irrelevant how rich her husband is - remove
• Saying that she hosted a group of 15 Kenyan entrepreneurs on a tour of Connecticut is tangential and promotional - without context it's just an attempt to say 'look how nice she is to Africans'
• Allstar Therapy provides occupational, speech and physical rehabilitation in health care facilities throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Allstar Therapy was sold in 2016 - this is the entire coverage of this company. Which she no longer owns. A one-liner and a statement that she doesn't own it. Allstar could be easily wiped from the article, since it doesn't seem to have had any effect on her career; if it did, coverage is missing.
• she acquired the Simsbury Bowling Center and renamed it Blue Fox Rock 'N Bowl and renovated it emphasize a family friendly atmosphere - too many 'and's, presumably missing a 'to' before "emphasize" - suggest splitting the sentence
• In 1999 she acquired the Copper Hill Golf Club for $1.3m renaming it Fox Run at Copper Hill.[10] The club was sold in 2010 - same as Allstar. She bought a golf club. She sold a golf club. If there's going to be a lot of no-coverage businesses, perhaps a brief list in prose form would be better?
• The company recently sold three Victorian Bed and Breakfasts in Newport, RI seems to not be very relevant/important
• golf course doesn't need a wikilink
• In 1996 she purchased the property, then known as the Bel Compo Golf Course and having only 18 holes, for US$3.5m with her husband purchasing 55 adjoining acres - the writing is also weak here. It's a run-on sentence with poor structure, and is lacking in punctuation. Again, please split it up for readability.
  • Ditto for the rezoning sentence
• The Foley's shouldn't have an apostrophe
• Mark Foley's Connecticut Pride also used the State Arsenal and Armory as a venue from 1993-2000 is irrelevant
• Coverage of the tennis team is mostly just a calling card of tennis players that were briefly involved, rather than any tangible detail
• Before her conviction - still haven't heard about this conviction
• The entire Philanthropy section... is more of a footnote?
• Need a comma after "Rowland"
• Wikilink "Republican" at the first instance in the body - not everybody is American
• was unique, she said - two options to fix this sentence: either the comma becomes a colon, or an 'as' gets added before "she said". I'd go with the colon.
• In addition she proposed evaluating after two years on the job whether... → "In addition, she proposed to evaluate, after two years on the job, whether..."
• She is reintroduced with her full name at several points throughout the article. After once, just "Wilson-Foley" and "her", where respectively appropriate, should be used.
• Mark Greenberg, and Justin Bernier and Andrew Roraback - too many 'and's, not enough commas
• waged a hard-fought campaign is WP:POV - a less figurative phrasing should be used. The rest of the sentence may also need a check for this.
• Need a comma after "loss"
• to adviser her should be 'advise'
• Need commas around the clause because he was a convicted felon and notoriously corrupt
• comma after "In 2015"
• comma after "contracting"
• The phrase ran afoul of makes it sound notably less illegal than it is
• This violated → "This violation"
• in and of themselves is extraneous
• Comma after "US$2,500"
• Foley and Wilson-Foley also used their business resources to directly support the campaign in violation of federal law, members of the Apple Rehab marketing staff were unofficially assigned to the campaign and other staff members got tasked to help personally persuade convention delegates to vote for Wilson-Foley → "Foley and Wilson-Foley also used their business resources to directly support the campaign, in violation of federal law: members of the Apple Rehab marketing staff were unofficially assigned to the campaign, and other staff members got tasked to help personally persuade convention delegates to vote for Wilson-Foley"
  • Also, what is Apple Rehab?
• Awards and recognitions can probably go, or be merged into the business introduction paragraph - it's a one-item list, of a non-notable award
• The external links all seem promotional, unnecessary (dup refs), or both

Overall

• Promo article with coverage issues, and a variety of other problems. I honestly suggest lobotomize it a lot of rewriting. Kingsif (talk) 02:30, 16 May 2020 (UTC)