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Doug butler, while I appreciate your hard work, please be careful not to use MOS:PUFFERY. Also, Ailsa Brackley du Bois is not a critic but an academic researcher/historian, and a subject matter expert on the Theatre Royal, Ballarat. I would suggest using that journal article more centrally than you have per WP:BESTSOURCES as it is the best source published on this topic.4meter4 (talk) 02:34, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll fix that error, but I'm not sure about the puffery charge. Doug butler (talk) 02:43, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@ Doug, for example: "finest structure in the gold-rich town, and possibly the grandest and most up-to-date theatre in Victoria, outside Melbourne" (according to whom?). That kind of language needs to be from a direct quote or needs to attribute that assessment to the source making it in some fashion; otherwise it's puffery. Just make sure that when you are making an exceptional claim that it is attributed properly. Best. 4meter4 (talk) 02:52, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ailsa Brackley du Bois has "the grandest playhouse in all Australia", which I thought excessive, so I had "perhaps ... outside Melbourne". I certainly would not repeat some of her assertions, down to "American Rockerfellers’ Minstrel Company" which is demonstrably incorrect. Doug butler (talk) 03:51, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]