Talk:Horton Davies/GA1

GA Review

Passed. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 16:15, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nominator: Hydrangeans (talk · contribs) 22:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 14:57, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will take this up; sounds like my wheelhouse. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:57, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies that took a hot sec.

Prose seems solid throughout. Just a few gripes:

Do we need a seperate one line paragraph at the end of the lede?
Abbreviating it "D. Phil." runs foul of MOS:ABBR, it should be spelled out.
Maybe mention which city the University of South Africa is, for those unfamiliar? Entirely optional though.
You don't actually need to cite bibliographies, though I guess there's nothing against citing them.

Sources:

This isn't a requirement, but please make clippings on Newspaper.com instead of just linking the pages. It's just immeasurably more helpful for people checking the sources.
Sources I did have access to all checked out though, no notes.

Good image with good alt-text. No edit-warring, instability, and seems a good overview of his life. @Hydrangeans: Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 04:03, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Generalissima: Thanks for the review and the generous assessment! I've gone ahead and implemented much of what you brought up:

Yeah, I guess while it's a two sentence paragraph, it might as well be part of the preceding paragraph about Davies's career.
Thanks for the catch; fixed!
Good idea—I've added that the University of South Africa is in Pretoria.
I've left in the citations if that's alright. Since Davies apparently wrote so many books—more than are listed in the selected bibliography—I figure the citations help establish that these ones were significant enough in his career to mention.
Sorry about any inconveniences those links caused. I thought making clippings was something that required an account beyond the basic Wikipedia Library access? At least whenever I tried to make clippings I just got a popup asking me to create a Newspapers.com account on top of and beyond the basic Wikipedia Library access (which itself seems to not be there anymore as Newspapers.com access now needs to be applied for)

If that's all the required changes implemented, and a couple of the suggested ones, let me know if there's anything else you need. Thanks! Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 09:55, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me! And yeah, no harm in having the citations there. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 16:14, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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