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It's really gotta go. It's just somebody's personal website. — NRen2k5, 00:12, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I have had to fail this article at GAN, not because I don't think it has the potential to be a good article. I just think that what needs to be done to bring it to GA standard will take a while, certainly more than seven days. I would be very pleased to see the article eventually renominated, if the points below can be addressed.
The main problem I had is that there are so many loose ends that it seems as though only about half of the article has been written. There is a whole lot of stuff missing that we (the readers) needs to know if we are to make proper sense of this story. The following is a list, not necessarily exhaustive, of questions that need attention:-
That's enough for the moment. Please let me know if anything is not clear. Brianboulton ( talk) 23:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
So what it amounts to is writing a proper lead, and dealing with the points previously posted in order to provide a more complete story. It may be necessary, where the details asked for are simply not available, to say things like: "The exact nature of this business is unknown", or: "The contents of these documents have not been recorded" - these are of course examples, not suggestions. I imagine, however, that at least some of the key missing details are available somewhere, and will be interested to see how the article develops. Brianboulton ( talk) 11:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
In the intro, it says Mary was 15. Then later on, it says 16. Which is it? Clarityfiend ( talk) 14:12, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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I've tagged the article for reliability. The article heavily relies on a pro-Confederate website (which has since been deleted and now exists solely on the Internet Archive). Many of the other sources cited are of questionable reliability or are explicitly written in favor of Dodd. The problems with these sources have greatly impacted the neutrality of the article. Spirit of Eagle ( talk) 03:17, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
![]() | David O. Dodd was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. 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. | ||||||||||||
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David Owen Dodd was a 17-year-old boy hanged as a
Confederate spy in the
American Civil War? | ||||||||||||
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It's really gotta go. It's just somebody's personal website. — NRen2k5, 00:12, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I have had to fail this article at GAN, not because I don't think it has the potential to be a good article. I just think that what needs to be done to bring it to GA standard will take a while, certainly more than seven days. I would be very pleased to see the article eventually renominated, if the points below can be addressed.
The main problem I had is that there are so many loose ends that it seems as though only about half of the article has been written. There is a whole lot of stuff missing that we (the readers) needs to know if we are to make proper sense of this story. The following is a list, not necessarily exhaustive, of questions that need attention:-
That's enough for the moment. Please let me know if anything is not clear. Brianboulton ( talk) 23:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
So what it amounts to is writing a proper lead, and dealing with the points previously posted in order to provide a more complete story. It may be necessary, where the details asked for are simply not available, to say things like: "The exact nature of this business is unknown", or: "The contents of these documents have not been recorded" - these are of course examples, not suggestions. I imagine, however, that at least some of the key missing details are available somewhere, and will be interested to see how the article develops. Brianboulton ( talk) 11:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
In the intro, it says Mary was 15. Then later on, it says 16. Which is it? Clarityfiend ( talk) 14:12, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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I've tagged the article for reliability. The article heavily relies on a pro-Confederate website (which has since been deleted and now exists solely on the Internet Archive). Many of the other sources cited are of questionable reliability or are explicitly written in favor of Dodd. The problems with these sources have greatly impacted the neutrality of the article. Spirit of Eagle ( talk) 03:17, 11 July 2020 (UTC)