Talk:Ex parte Crow Dog/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: hamiltonstone (talk) 06:09, 3 September 2010 (UTC) This article appears neutral, stable, well-written and well-referenced. Try as I might I cannot fault the writing of the article and have nothing to offer in this regard - it passes GA as it stands.

The only area of possible concern is the status of the images. They are marked as public domain on the grounds of having been published prior to 1923, however I am not seeing evidence of publication in the case of the Chief Spotted Tail image. The fact that a photograph was taken before 1923 is not the same as it being published before that time. If it was not published, I believe the life of copyright is the life of the photographer plus 70 years. On this basis, this image could conceivably be in copyright still. In contrast, the authorship (and year of author decease) for the image of Thomas Stanley Matthews is established, so we know this is in public domain. I could not open the link to the source of the image of Chief Crow Dog, so I do not know what information is there: at this point, i can only take it on good faith that the author of that the image was published before 1923. Thus the article meets WP:WIAGA criterion 5, in that all images "are tagged with their copyright status"; I am just flagging some doubts as to whether those tags are in fact fully accurate.

Passing this as GA. Thanks for a very interesting article. Regards, hamiltonstone (talk) 06:09, 3 September 2010 (UTC)