Benjamin D. Wood was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. 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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Something strange is going on with the infobox here: the article says he was born and died in Texas, but the infobox says he was born in Massachusetts and dies in New York; the article says he attended Brownsville public schools, but the infobox says he attended "Roxbury Latin, Wesleyan, Harvard," none of which is mentioned anywhere in the text. Is the infobox a piece of subtle vandalism? What's going on? - Bryanrutherford0 ( talk) 13:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
The citations needed tag is not necessary for the lead, as the reference is covered in the body of the text. Since the material is covered in the body and referenced, then a reference is not needed in the lead paragraph. It is customary not to have inline references in the lead.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 19:25, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Marking at CCI; more than I can clean up. Removed most of Baker, which needs to be rewritten to avoid both cut-and-paste the too-close paraphrasing. Article should be nuked or re-written, everything else needs to be checked, I stopped there. There is surely more. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:34, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
This article had issues from its first creation, was 87% written by Coldwell, and should be probably be reduced to a stub. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:23, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
I can't see where the sources actually state he invented the multiple choice test at all, the content here seems to be over-interpreting what the sources do say, and there are scores of alternate descriptions to be found in scholarly sources, none of whom mention Wood. For example, National Social Science Journal says:
French psychologist Alfred Binet developed an early Intelligence Test around 1905, and in 1910, the first widely used standardized test, the Thorndike Handwriting Scale, was introduced in the U.S. public schools. This was followed in 1914 by the design of a multiple choice test by Frederick J. Kelly of the University of Kansas. In 1915, Lewis Terman of Stanford University developed the Stanford Binet Intelligence Test in an attempt to quantify intelligence (Pannkuk, 2004). In 1926, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) made its debut.
So, there was a multiple choice test in use in 1914, but this article claims Wood invented it in 1919. This article is a sham and I'm going to go ahead and stub it now. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:53, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:22, 29 March 2023 (UTC) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:22, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Benjamin D. Wood was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. 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
April 2, 2016. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that
Benjamin D. Wood produced the first
multiple choice test? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Delisted good article |
This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Something strange is going on with the infobox here: the article says he was born and died in Texas, but the infobox says he was born in Massachusetts and dies in New York; the article says he attended Brownsville public schools, but the infobox says he attended "Roxbury Latin, Wesleyan, Harvard," none of which is mentioned anywhere in the text. Is the infobox a piece of subtle vandalism? What's going on? - Bryanrutherford0 ( talk) 13:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
The citations needed tag is not necessary for the lead, as the reference is covered in the body of the text. Since the material is covered in the body and referenced, then a reference is not needed in the lead paragraph. It is customary not to have inline references in the lead.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 19:25, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Marking at CCI; more than I can clean up. Removed most of Baker, which needs to be rewritten to avoid both cut-and-paste the too-close paraphrasing. Article should be nuked or re-written, everything else needs to be checked, I stopped there. There is surely more. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:34, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
This article had issues from its first creation, was 87% written by Coldwell, and should be probably be reduced to a stub. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:23, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
I can't see where the sources actually state he invented the multiple choice test at all, the content here seems to be over-interpreting what the sources do say, and there are scores of alternate descriptions to be found in scholarly sources, none of whom mention Wood. For example, National Social Science Journal says:
French psychologist Alfred Binet developed an early Intelligence Test around 1905, and in 1910, the first widely used standardized test, the Thorndike Handwriting Scale, was introduced in the U.S. public schools. This was followed in 1914 by the design of a multiple choice test by Frederick J. Kelly of the University of Kansas. In 1915, Lewis Terman of Stanford University developed the Stanford Binet Intelligence Test in an attempt to quantify intelligence (Pannkuk, 2004). In 1926, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) made its debut.
So, there was a multiple choice test in use in 1914, but this article claims Wood invented it in 1919. This article is a sham and I'm going to go ahead and stub it now. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:53, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:22, 29 March 2023 (UTC) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:22, 29 March 2023 (UTC)