Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies/Peer review/Secret Court of 1920
Earlier version was minimal and I think the topic deserves serious treatment. Tough because we have only two sources for the main events, a long newspaper article and a very bad book. Just realized I need to do some work on the paragraph about Lowell -- I've re-written the entry for him as well Abbott Lawrence Lowell and I need to find a way to describe his particular brand of paternalistic racism in NPOV lingo. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 04:03, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
- Quoting my rationale for re-assessing the article as class=B from the article talk page:
I recently ordered and received the Wright book [Wright, William (2005). Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312322724.] as a used paperback and am in the process of reading it. I assume that is the "very bad book" you refer to. So hopefully I will have some comments to make when done. I'm amassed at all the hard work you have done. — Becksguy (talk) 07:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)Reassessed as Class B for the WP:WikiProject LGBT studies/Assessment. The article was downgraded from B to C in July 2008, but the article has been more than significantly expanded since then (from roughly 12K to 57K bytes). Comparing this article with the LGBT assessment criteria, specifically the example of a C class article, Transwoman, and carefully reviewing the C class quality scale criteria, easily convinces me that Secret Court is significantly better on the scale than the C class example. Also, comparing this article with the quality scale criteria for B class articles, and comparing this article with the B class example, Gay icon, also convinces me that this article is comparable to B class. Therefore I've reapplied the B class assessment. Note that this article has been listed as a peer review article since December 2009 without any further participation. So I'm being bold and jumping in. By all means, please lets discuss. — Becksguy (talk) 09:46, 12 June 2010 (UTC)