Talk:Thomas Medwin/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MrLinkinPark333 (talk · contribs) 20:32, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for submitting this article to Good Article Nominations. I will have to quick fail this nomination per Wikipedia:Good article criteria. This is because it needs a lot of citation needed tags and it is far from passing criteria #2 Verifiable with no original research. Here is an indepth explaination:

Paragraphs without any citations:

• Early life: third paragraph that starts with "Medwin showed aptitude"
• India: fourth paragraph that starts with "Medwin's regiment was disbanded"
• Reunion with Shelley: second paragraph that starts with "In the autumn of 1820"
• Translating Aeschylus: first paragraph that starts with "In 1832 his Memoir of Shelley"
• Heidelberg: third paragraph that starts with "In the early 1840s"
• Life of Shelley: second paragraph that starts with "Medwin returned to Heidelberg"
• Final years: second paragraph that starts with "Thomas Medwin died on 2 August 1869"

Parts that are missing citations:

• Early life: University College, 24th Light Dragoons,
• India: dysentey, Julian and Maddolo,
• Meeting with Byron: Friendship with Medwin, Don Juan & party.
• Death of Shlley: Melancholy
• Controversy over Byron: William Harness onwards in the frist paragraph, Lady Blessington onwards in the second paragraph
• Translating Aeschylus: Issac Walton sentence onwards
• Heidelberg: living in Heidelberg for twenty years,

Overall: Almost every section has at least one sentence without a citation. My main concern are the seven paragraphs that do not cite any citations at all. As for the parts that are missing citations, the section that is most concerning is the Controversy over Byron section as many sentences are without a citation. Alternatively, I noticed that some parts of the article are not netural in terms of the wording. Some examples include "Whatever its faults, it remains a major source for the poet's early life and work" in the Life of Shelley section and "Was he an opportunist, who lived beyond his means and ruined his father and wife?" in the Legacy section.

Please take a look at the Good article criteria I linked above, especially Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. If the verification and neutrality issues were addressed, it is possible that this article would have a better chance at Good article nominations. I hope you are encouraged to work through these issues. Thank you for nominating this article at Good Article Nominations! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:32, 2 September 2020 (UTC)