Talk:Will P. Brady/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Gerald Waldo Luis (talk · contribs) 16:53, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Hey! This looks like a decent article to be GA! I'll review it gradually, probably one section per day. Starting off with the lead and infobox, as well as first section. GeraldWL 16:53, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Lead and infobox

• "the first district attorney for Texas's seventieth Judicial District" Add link to district attorney, Texas and judicial district. Also, should the Judicial District be capitalized or no?

• Done, and uncapitalized.

• "he was the judge for the newly created El Paso County"-- link El Paso County, Texas.

• Done.

• "of a Mexican boy charged with killing a white woman." Leads for GAs and FAs are usually recommend to not have citations.

• I'm only using citations in the lead for quotations. Here, the cite is for the quotation "legal lynching".

• "district attorney by Governor"-- link Governor of Texas.

• Done.

• "A Democrat"-- link Democratic Party (United States).

• Done.

• Infobox is looking neat :) GeraldWL 16:53, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Early life & education

• "Will P. Brady"-- suggest changing the "P." to Paul.

• Changed to his full name, William Paul Brady.

• "Brady's brother John W."-- it is already stated that John's his brother previously, so "Brady's brother" is not needed.

• Done.

• "graduating from the college of arts"-- I think college of arts should be capitalized: College of Arts. Also according to the Uni of Texas article, there's College of Fine Arts and Liberal Arts; is there any specifics?

• Capitalized. As to the exact institution, it's unclear. The source says "College of Arts", which (of the two) would probably be the College of Liberal Arts, since the College of Fine Arts was apparently founded in 1938. But it looks like the College of Liberal Arts might have actually been known as the College of Arts and Sciences until a 1970 split (College of Liberal Arts on the one hand, and the College of Natural Sciences on the other). Maybe I'm just missing it, but I haven't been able to find a source that pins it down. --Usernameunique (talk) 06:22, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

GeraldWL 16:53, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Education

• Not necessarily for this section alone, but why are there dozens of citations for a small claim? An example is in "where he led the country school." GeraldWL 12:53, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

• The use of multiple citations is normally a) when different sources are needed to substantiate different parts of one sentence or clause, b) if the citations provide further information that someone curious about the subject might be interested in. The sentence in question probably has the most citations of any, but there isn't much information about Brady's time as a teacher, so I figured I may as well add the sources I could find. --Usernameunique (talk) 22:56, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

• Usernameunique, sounds more suitable for WP:FURTHER. GeraldWL 16:17, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

• I tend to think of "Further reading" sections as sections that contain links to larger works (e.g., books), and/or works that cover a subject holistically. Particularly when a reference is a smaller work (e.g., a newspaper article) that covers only a small part of a subject's life, it seems to make more sense to use it as an inline citation. --Usernameunique (talk) 18:25, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

• Usernameunique, but then again you said that some of those additional sources are just additional sources that don't back any claims. You can list them at the talk page in an "additional sources" section in case it can be used later (I always do this), put them on further if it's suitable, or erase them. GeraldWL 04:27, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

• I didn't say that some of the sources "don't back any claims". All the sources in question each back up at least one fact in the sentence "Brady began teaching in Sprinkle, Texas, around 1897, where he led the country school." --Usernameunique (talk) 22:11, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

• "where he led the country school." Is it the country school? Or another one?

• It's "the" school—there was only one in Sprinkle. --Usernameunique (talk) 22:11, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

• "discussions of a new text book law"-- maybe combine to "textbook"?

• Done. --Usernameunique (talk) 22:11, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

• "that included stops in Buffalo and New York City." NYC is a common city, so linking to it would be WP:OVERLINK. At least that's what I've learned from Donald Trump editors. GeraldWL 04:34, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

• Done. --Usernameunique (talk) 22:11, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

County judge

• A lighter comment-- redlinks are only for notable people that warrants an article. Do you believe all the redlinks here are notable?

• I think so. There are a fair number of red links, but all held prominent offices and/or had significant newspaper coverage. It's not particularly surprising that they don't have articles, given that they're from 100 years ago, but I don't think the creation of an article on any of them would be particularly controversial. --Usernameunique (talk) 08:01, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Gerald Waldo Luis, just a friendly reminder about this nomination. --Usernameunique (talk) 08:22, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Review will not be completed

I pinged Gerald Waldo Luis on their talk page, and they will not be returning to this review. Accordingly, I have returned the nomination to the pool of those awaiting a reviewer without any loss of seniority; the next review will take place on a different page from this one. Pinging nominator Usernameunique, so they know what is happening. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:12, 14 September 2021 (UTC)