Talk:Merseburg charms/GA1

GA Reassessment

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I am doing the GA Reassessment on this article as part of the GA Sweeps project. H1nkles (talk) 15:09, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

My main concern with the article is a lack of citations in certain areas. The citations in the article are credible and well-formatted. I put a couple of templates in where I felt that citations needed to be added. There are a couple of templates on the article since March of 2008, those have not been removed but I have a feeling that they have been addressed. I will put the article on hold for a week pending work on the citations. Other than that the article is fine. Please contact me on my talk page if you have any questions. H1nkles (talk) 15:26, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

The article has been on hold for a week with no work done. At this point I will delist the article as it does not meet the GA Criteria for proper referencing. H1nkles (talk) 15:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Hm. Well, let's see about getting those tags fixed. As far as I can tell, there are four:

- Regarding the first tag, I'm not sure why it's there at all. The MS is listed as Codex 136, f. 85r in the Merseburg Cathedral Library Index. This does not seem to be in dispute. Why the tag?

- According to [1], the translation in question was done by D.L. Ashliman, formerly of the University of Pittsburg. I have not been able to track down a published source, if there is one. There is his website, which is mentioned in the text of the article, and which is dated to 1998. This seems good enough to me, but I'm not wise on the ways of citing webpages vs. published works.

- The second translation also comes from Ashliman, but for this one I found the published source:

Ashliman, D.L. 'Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook'. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004. pg. 90. ISBN 0-313-32810-2

- As for the last tag: Anyone can look the songs up on youtube. Do we really need documentation for this? Especially something so trivial?

I'm not pushing for this article to get GA status, so I'm not going to make any changes to the article itself. But if this is all that's holding the article up, then the involved parties should spend 2 minutes and get this done. Thanks. Aryaman (talk) 10:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)