Template:Did you know nominations/Wenona Giles
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:19, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
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Wenona Giles[edit]
- ... that in 2015, 59 refugees earned York University Certificates of Completion in Educational Studies thanks to a program Wenona Giles started? Students in Dadaab refugee camps first to graduate with York U certificate
- ALT1:... that Wenona Giles helped 59 people in a Dadaab refugee camp earn a York University Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies? Same source as above
Created by HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:55, 19 April 2019 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, and well written. Earwig found a 29.6% overlap with other sources (unlikely but higher than I usually see) but on inspection these turned out to be proper names of organizations and titles of publications, not problematic. All paragraphs are sourced, but the sources are almost entirely primary (web sites on yorku.ca, Giles' employer). Per WP:BLP, that kind of source is ok for uncontroversial factual data like the title of her dissertation, but not for opinions like "using a feminist lens to understand how conflict and war were gendered and racialized", and I'm also uncomfortable with using primary sources for the hook claims. Can we find some published and reliable secondary sources for all descriptions of the content of her books (e.g. try searching her name on jstor.org to find published reviews of the books) and on her work with refugees (maybe this is described in a newspaper or magazine article), please? —David Eppstein (talk) 06:03, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi David Eppstein and thanks for the review. I hope this edit has addressed the first part of your review. Her work with refugees (as described in the hook) was published here by Radio Canada International (which is already cited in the article). I hope this helps! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:13, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- One more. The rest I couldn't find/access on jstor.org. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:21, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry, but publisher web sites are also primary for the books they publish. They are also likely to be very promotional, making them even more unsuitable than university web pages. Sources need to be by someone else. That's why I explicitly asked for published book reviews. The one you added is ok but there should be more. When I search for "Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones" (with quotes) on JSTOR I get 53 hits, the first page of which includes 5 different published reviews. The other books are similarly weakly sourced now and should be sourced to reviews. The RCI source is also good but if you have that one then why also obscure the issue with the not-so-good yorku sites? —David Eppstein (talk) 06:25, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- @David Eppstein: I hope this and this is better. I found a review published by the International Review of the Red Cross Journal, Journal of Refugee Studies, and another JSTOR. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:42, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
Well, it's certainly still far from perfect, but it's definitely better, and probably good enough to meet DYK standards. And the Radio Canada International source does support the hook. ALT1 is more tightly worded than the main hook, so good to go with ALT1. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:25, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
