Talk:Anna Gaskell

Before the article gets reviewed for "GA" status

Ashthefox: I see this article is up for GA. Before someone begins that review, it would be advisable to ensure that everything is cited, including a reliable reference (not from Gaskell's CV) for each item in the list of exhibitions. I've flagged this up but no action seems to have been taken.

The same applies to the list of Awards. Citations are needed because it is all very well to claim exhibitions, awards, and other distinctions, but how can readers verify those claims?

Also difficult to verify are words like "haunting" (1996) and "potent" (1997), to name but two. In general on Wikipedia, adjectives need to be direct quotations, in inverted commas, to a cited reliable source. Probably best to remove them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:42, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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GA Review

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Reviewer: David Eppstein (talk · contribs) 00:49, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Reviewing. But it will take some strong arguments to persuade me that this should not be a quick fail. It currently consists of a paragraph of actual biography, a long section about her work written entirely in obfuscatory and largely content-free jargon (international art English, to be specific), and a long and indiscriminate bulleted list of exhibitions and awards. I think this is very far from meeting Good Article criteria 1a ("the prose is clear and concise"), 1b (particularly WP:USEPROSE and "words to watch"), 2b (I removed a cleanup tag, but many sources are primary sales sites for art galleries), 3b (unnecessary detail of non-notable exhibits), and 4 (the assertion of editorial claims about her artworks as if they were facts rather than attributing these claims to the sources that made them strikes me as non-neutral). —David Eppstein (talk) 00:49, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

The main problem is the lack of reviews - I'm happy to add some, but the vacuous IAE (also POV, it appears) does need, er, quite a bit (as we Brits say) of copy-editing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:04, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Looking more closely, I see that the nominator has only ever worked on this one article, and hasn't contributed for over a month. Rather than continuing to drag it out, I'm just going to go ahead and fail this. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:19, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Very wise, yes, it looks unlikely they'll be back in time. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:52, 18 May 2016 (UTC)