Talk:George F. Lewis/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 13:11, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Doing this for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 13:11, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

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 and other media, where possible and appropriate.

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

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Infobox

• The image caption needs to be expanded from just "1863"

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Lead

• The lead is on the short side. Consider expanding it with relevant summarized information from the article body

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Early life and education

• Do we have any information about his parents and what they did?

•  Done -Looked everywhere and nothing mentioned about his parents other than they moved to Mount Clemens.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• Also I cannot see any information about his education despite the section includes the word "education".

•  Done - removed education. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Business career

• Wikilink Lake Superior on the first mention

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "On his return trip to New York City that fall," - avoid the use of seasons per MOS:SEASON

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "to get copper ore samples." - to obtain samples of copper ore.

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "he met Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune." - what was the meeting about?

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "when took a job in July " - when he took

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "winter of 1848–1849." - 1848 to 1849.

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "Lewis started the Port Huron Commercial newspaper in 1851[1]" - a comma is missing between "1851" and the citation

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "and then sold it to the Saginaw Enterprise Publishing Company." - and he subsequently

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Personal life

• The final two paragraphs should be merged together to avoid having stubby one-line paragraphs

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 09:03, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "Lewis died May 30, 1890." - died on May 30

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 09:03, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• Also, please date where Lewis died and what he died from (if the information is available)

•  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 09:03, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 18:49, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

• @MWright96: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 09:03, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Doug Coldwell: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 12:07, 6 October 2020 (UTC)