Talk:Baltimore railroad strike of 1877
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Reviewer: Auntieruth55 (talk · contribs) 17:18, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
- Nicely done. You are missing a foot note in the 6th Regiment section.
- I fixed a broken sentence toward the end. see here
- Let me know when you've added the citation in and I'll check the images and pass. auntieruth (talk) 17:18, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
- It is reasonably well written.
- It is factually accurate and verifiable.
- a (reference section):
b (citations to reliable sources):
c (OR):
d (copyvio and plagiarism):
- a (reference section):
- It is broad in its coverage.
- a (major aspects):
b (focused):
- a (major aspects):
- It follows the neutral point of view policy.
- Fair representation without bias:
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- It is stable.
- No edit wars, etc.:
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- It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
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- @Auntieruth: I'm not sure what footnote you are referencing that is missing, and also do you mean in inline citation or a note? TimothyJosephWood 02:24, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- Reping @Auntieruth55:. TimothyJosephWood 02:25, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- All is good now! :) Passed. Nicely done. auntieruth (talk) 13:49, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- Reping @Auntieruth55:. TimothyJosephWood 02:25, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
Feature?
[edit]I think you ought to clean up some of the (minor) POV issues before putting in for FA; whether some of the dead were strikers, rioters, or in the wrong place at the wrong time is glossed over in the lead. Anmccaff (talk) 16:22, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- Hmm... I've at least changed "strikers" to "civilians". The distinction, as you probably well know, between who was exactly what is pretty murky, and it is probably presumptuous to label them definitively like that. You can almost certainly find one of the sources using that language, but you can probably also just as well find a source calling them just outright miscreants and the distinction be damned. TimothyJosephWood 16:28, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, exactly. "Three dead" or "three civilians dead" is better than "three strikers/rioters/heroes of the revolution/innocent bystanders killed", unless you know for a fact who exactly got killed, how, and doing what. I's also often unclear, even in cases where someone was unambiguously shot by the militia, whether that killed them, or their treatment, or lack of it, immediately after. Middle of an ongoing riot is a bad place to get hurt. Anmccaff (talk) 16:47, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- Heh. 150 years ago was a bad time to get hurt period. TimothyJosephWood 16:49, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
Noted this had come up at the FA pages - some good work here, and a really interesting theme. A couple of quick thoughts:
- Worth giving it a scrub for metric/imperial equivalents.
- Also worth checking for abbreviations, e.g "when this wasn't feasible"
- And for underlinking (e.g. "Springfield breech loading rifle" could be usefully linked)
- And check that each reference is in a consistent style (e.g. do you give just publisher, or location and publisher etc.)
- My main issue at FA review would be the use of the newspapers of the period as reliable secondary sources. In some cases, you're carefully attributing the information to the newspaper, which makes clear that it's not a statement that's been reviewed by a modern historian, but a contemporary piece of press reporting ("On July 26, The Sun reported 3,000 draymen, 600 oil men, and 1,500 stevedores out of work as a result of the embargo.") We don't really know if this is accurate or not, but it is clear that it is a newspaper statement. In other cases, a newspaper account is listed as fact, e.g. "There was a general hope that owing to the imminent increase in traffic due to the transportation of harvested crops, the fireman would be able to make daily trips, and that the company could arrange for them to return home on passenger trains when this wasn't feasible, which would save them from the burden of long layovers away from home." I'd be strongly advising an article on labour disputes in the 19th century to be drawing whenever possible on reliable modern academic sources, and to be extremely scrupulous about attributing any press material to the newspaper concerned. (WP:PRIMARY would apply here) Hchc2009 (talk) 21:45, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
Images
[edit]File:Camden Station in 1868.jpg
File:Great Railroad Strike plaque, Baltimore 01 (cropped).jpg
These images have been removed in the meantime pending verification. TimothyJosephWood 16:30, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
FAC
[edit]Hey Sarastro1. I did totally derp on your comments there that I missed. Not to leave things untidy, mostly when I mention the names of authors it's to point out where sources disagree, just as sources that disagree without trying to make editorial judgement about which one may be better. As to more modern authors, I agree, and that is on my list of things to do, for this and several related articles. TJWtalk 21:32, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
thankz
[edit]tanks you Oloy fuady (talk) 15:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
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