Talk:Nelson Ludington

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Former good articleNelson Ludington was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 10, 2020Good article nomineeListed
February 26, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 28, 2017.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Eli Parsons Royce founded the city of Escanaba, Michigan, while Nelson Ludington named it?
Current status: Delisted good article

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Nelson Ludington/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 13:12, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Am reviewing this for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 13:12, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  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:

Lead[edit]

  • Wikilink Upper Peninsula of Michigan
  •  Done

Ancestry[edit]

  • "William (b. 1608) and his wife Ellen (b. 1617)" - born 1608 and born 1617 respectively
  •  Done
  •  Done

Life[edit]

  • "Ludington was born January 18, 1818," - born on January 18
  •  Done
  • "His parents were Frederick Ludington and Susannah Griffeth." - Any information on their occupations?
  •  Done
  • "Ludington was the fourth of their sixteen children.[6] The youth received private schooling by tutors for his early education." - consider merging these two sentences together
  •  Done
  • "at a general store at Cold Spring, New York," - in
  •  Done
  • "and received further training in retail business." - where did Ludington receive this training?
  •  Done
  • Wikilink Great Lakes to the relevant article on its first mention
  •  Done
  • Wikilink sawmill on the first mention
  •  Done
  • Think the fourth and fifth paragraphs can be joined together
  •  Done
  • "Royce spelled it as Escanawba. That was entered with the state in 1863 as the legal name for the town." - think these two sentences could be combined
  •  Done
  • "simplifying the spelling. [18]" - the extra space between the period and the citation is not needed
  •  Done
  • "the main docks and lumber yards of the firm were at Milwaukee." - in
  •  Done
  • "the main docks and lumber yards of the firm were at Milwaukee. It was the main distribution point to places throughout the United States via shipping on the Great Lakes."

- Think merging these portions of text will help matters here

  •  Done

Marriage and family[edit]

  • "Ludington died January 15, 1883," - died on January 15
  •  Done
  • Perhaps mention he died from a short-term illness
  •  Done

Legacy[edit]

  • The two bulletpoints should not exist and the information contained within them be in ordinary prose
  •  Done

References[edit]

  • All mentions of newspapers.com should begin with a capital letter
  •  Done
  • Reference 12 is missing the author
  •  Done
  • Referecnce 25's page number should be in its own field not in the work field
  •  Done
  • Reference 29 is missing the access date and publisher
  •  Done

Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 19:55, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CCI and GAR check[edit]

Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 02

After spending over an hour just locating and cleaning up the sources so they can be checked, I am mostly finding failed verification, and removed one instance of too close paraphrasing. Followup is needed here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:50, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment[edit]

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright problem[edit]

This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:30, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See also WP:DCGAR. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:30, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]