Talk:Martha Layne Collins/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: –– Jezhotwells (talk) 08:13, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

I am sorry that you have had to wait so long for review, but the nomination had not been completed by placing it on the WP:GAN page and this was only found yesterday.

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

   She was Kentucky's first and only female governor to date. This is a potentially dated statement. In a few years time it could look rather silly if it is wrong. Better to say as of 2010 or something like that.

   Hmm. To me, it seems that "As of 2010" would make it sound more dated than currently worded. Ideally, the "as of" wording should be updated once a year; the current wording would only potentially need to be updated every four years (barring resignation, impeachment, or assassination, God forbid.)

   OK, not a major issue.

   Martha was involved in numerous extracurricular activities in both school and the Baptist church THis begs the question - what were these activities. Give us some flavour of them? The term "extracurricular activities" could involve anything from gang warfare to quilt-making.

   None of the sources seem to be specific, but two or three mention she was active in the Baptist church.

   Collins served as chair of the Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway Authority and was in that capacity when the waterway opened to the public in 1985 "was in the capacity"? A bit clumsy, how about "and held that office"?

   Sure; I can go with that.

   ''She also chaired the Southern Growth Policies Board, Southern States Energy Board and co-chaired of the Appalachian Regional Commission. "and was co-chair of"?

   Done.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   All online references check out.

   I assume good faith for print sources.

   All sources appear reliable

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   She was interviewed as a possible vice-presidential candidate by Walter Mondale before Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro.[8] During a trip to Europe to investigate acid rain, Collins accidentally swallowed a shard of glass requiring intestinal surgery that kept her in a hospital in London for two weeks. Do we really need the bit about the shard of glass. Although undoubtedly traumatic, did it have any major impact on her career? Is this a significant encyclopaedic fact?

   No problem with removing it. I thought it was interesting, but I can't find that it actually impacted much of anything. I added the sentence to justify an otherwise-too-short paragraph, but I've combined it into the previous one now.

   After her term as governor, Collins served as an international trade consultant. So what happened - why did she not run again? We have a list of here achivements in four years and then - finito, she just stops being governor? Is there a one term rule in Kentucky? Was there political oppositrion in the Democratic party?

   Guess I'm too close to the subject matter. I forget that most states don't have a one-term limit on elected officials. (Actually, Kentucky abolished that in 1992 as well.) I've cleared this up now.

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, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   Ok, on hold for seven days for the above issues to be addressed. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 08:50, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

   OK, thanks for your responses. I am happy to list this as a good article. Congratulations. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 17:07, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

   Thanks for the review. Not sure why you said the nom didn't show up at WP:GAN; I think it was listed there and two different editors noted that they would be reviewing it before you actually did. Regardless, I'm just glad to have it done. Let me know if there are other issues that need to be addressed. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 18:24, 8 April 2010 (UTC)