Talk:Edward Mitchell Bannister/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Alan Islas (talk · contribs) 14:14, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I'll be taking on this review. Comments to come soon. --Alan Islas (talk) 14:14, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry the delay. This is a very well-written and extensively researched article. Thanks for submitting it. Some notes and questions below.

• "...near their home at the Hayden House". Is this the same Hayden house as this: Lewis and Harriet Hayden House ? If so, a wikilink could be added.

 Done —WS

• "Bannister donated his full-length portrait of Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th killed in action, to raise money for the cause." Is this sentence also sourced in reference 9?

 Done, this actually was only implied in refs 8 and 12. But Ref 2 from the Kenkebala House book states it explicitly. —WS

• "The Bannister portrait of Robert Gould Shaw was one of several reclamations of Gould Shaw by members of Boston's African American artistic community such as Edmonia Lewis" Wikilink to Edmonia Lewis

 Done —WS

• It was displayed with the label "Our Martyr". Mixed italization inside the quote marks.
  • This is an odd one. A letter quoted in Kresser reports the caption of the portrait as having the italics on only the first word, "Our": "Over it was the touching and appropriate motto, "Our Martyr". There are no photos of the picture or its display, so it can't be confirmed that way—it might have just been how the letter writer styled their handwriting or how it was transcribed. The most neutral thing to do would be to just take the ital out, since I think we have MOS approval to style quotes on things like that. However, I kept the one-word ital because it seemed important to the meaning of the painting at the fair: "The possessive inscription "Our Martyr," claimed Shaw for the black community". (Kresser) —WS
• "Over time, he was drawn to paint more landscape". More landscapes?

 Done, and made the sentence a little more brief. —WS

• "Stetson mentions Bannister frequently in his diaries, claiming that 'He is my only confidant in Art matters & I am his.'" Could this be paraphrased to avoid the nested quotes?

 Done —WS

• "Historian Joseph Skerrett has noted" Wikilink to Joseph Skerrett

 Done —WS

• "This lecture and its Idealistic view". Does Idealistic need to be capitalized here?
  • It's definitely a choice. I capped it to emphasize that it's meant to indicate a specific philosophical movement, rather than the more general meaning of the term. What do you think? —WS
• Could an archive link be added for Ref 21 (Robinson)?

 Done —WS

• "My Greatest Successes Have Come Through Her": The Artistic Partnership of Edward and Christiana Bannister. Check quotation marks.
  • The quote is Edward Bannister's, so the quote marks are part of the exhibition title: exhibition page. —WS
• (Herreshoff died in 1967 and the extensive porcelain collection filling the Bannister House was donated to Washington and Lee University.) Are the parenthesis needed here?

 Done, I had thought that sentence might be too tangential to the section, but v. happy to remove them. —WS

--Alan Islas (talk) 17:39, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Alan Islas, thank you so much for taking the time to review this article for GAN. I've been looking for sources again, and it looks like there will be several more large exhibitions of Bannister's work coming up, so I'm really glad his article will be ready in time for those. I've implemented almost all the suggestions you made: for the rest, I think it's a choice that could go either way. I explained my rationales above, let me know what you think! —Wingedserif (talk) 14:13, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Wingedserif, thank you for the edits and explanations. I'm satisfied and passing to GA now.

If you think it's useful you might want to add a bit more context to "sloop". Maybe "sloop sailboat"? Not sure if the redundancy is allowed. Maybe just adding a wikilink could help. To be honest I didn't know what it was and gathered from the context that it was some kind of boat. But maybe that's just me and my utter maritime ignorance, hehehe! I'll leave it up to you to decide if anything is needed, passing either way. Alan Islas (talk) 17:02, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

I love boats, so I totally didn't realize I was using jargon. Being more clear can't hurt; I'll spell it out. And yay, thank you! This was my first GA, thanks for shepherding :D —Wingedserif (talk) 17:59, 23 March 2021 (UTC)