Helen Hartness Flanders was a Music 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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American folklorist
Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them? |
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I think the main section needs to be subdivided into smaller, more manageable sections. Perhaps the text needs to be rearranged to permit that. -- Y not? 07:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I have added subsections and an info box. Perhaps an upgrade from stub is warranted? HopsonRoad 20:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I have upgraded this to B-class, according to Wikipedia rating criteria. HopsonRoad 01:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
The sentence: "Between 1930 and 1939, Flanders focused mostly on collecting child ballads" should be changed to "Between 1930 and 1939, Flanders focused mostly on collecting Child ballads." See Francis James Child entry in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.210.2.223 ( talk) 13:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I have added such a reference and corrected the capitalization error by another editor. HopsonRoad 20:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
This is my assessment of the ( current revision) article. Below the assessment are some tips that will help the page even further.
Criticism:
Positive points
For the current revision of the page, I am, sadly, going to have fail this article. There are too many major issues with the article and letting an article pass with them would be inappropriate conduct. However, feel free to take the article to good article reassessment, if you feel this has been the wrong decision. I do believe this will make GA one day, but not today. — Rudget contributions 20:57, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
I have made the following changes, as suggested by the GA nomination reviewer.
The article will receive a style and text edit before seeking feedback on its eligibility for GA re-nomination. HopsonRoad 03:06, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
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Helen Hartness Flanders was a Music 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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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
September 6, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that
American folklorist
Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them? |
This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I think the main section needs to be subdivided into smaller, more manageable sections. Perhaps the text needs to be rearranged to permit that. -- Y not? 07:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I have added subsections and an info box. Perhaps an upgrade from stub is warranted? HopsonRoad 20:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I have upgraded this to B-class, according to Wikipedia rating criteria. HopsonRoad 01:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
The sentence: "Between 1930 and 1939, Flanders focused mostly on collecting child ballads" should be changed to "Between 1930 and 1939, Flanders focused mostly on collecting Child ballads." See Francis James Child entry in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.210.2.223 ( talk) 13:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I have added such a reference and corrected the capitalization error by another editor. HopsonRoad 20:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
This is my assessment of the ( current revision) article. Below the assessment are some tips that will help the page even further.
Criticism:
Positive points
For the current revision of the page, I am, sadly, going to have fail this article. There are too many major issues with the article and letting an article pass with them would be inappropriate conduct. However, feel free to take the article to good article reassessment, if you feel this has been the wrong decision. I do believe this will make GA one day, but not today. — Rudget contributions 20:57, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
I have made the following changes, as suggested by the GA nomination reviewer.
The article will receive a style and text edit before seeking feedback on its eligibility for GA re-nomination. HopsonRoad 03:06, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
An image used in this article, File:HHFlanders-EKF.jpg, has been nominated for speedy deletion for the following reason: All Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status
Don't panic; you should have time to contest the deletion (although please review deletion guidelines before doing so). The best way to contest this form of deletion is by posting on the image talk page.
To take part in any discussion, or to review a more detailed deletion rationale please visit the relevant image page (File:HHFlanders-EKF.jpg) This is Bot placed notification, another user has nominated/tagged the image -- CommonsNotificationBot ( talk) 19:51, 1 March 2012 (UTC) |