Talk:Persis Foster Eames Albee

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Former good articlePersis Foster Eames Albee 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 10, 2020Good article nomineeListed
February 26, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 3, 2017.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that PFE Albee (pictured) is considered the first "Avon Lady", and was followed by over half a million others?
Current status: Delisted good article


GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 09:02, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing this for the

GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive MWright96 (talk) 09:02, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply
]

  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (
    lists
    )
    :
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (
    reliable sources): c (OR
    ):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (
    focused
    )
    :
  4. It follows the
    neutral point of view
    policy
    .
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free content have
    suitable captions
    )
    :
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

Lead

  • References in the lead are not necessary
 Done

Early life and marriage

  • "born May 30, 1836" - born on
 Done
  • "was born May 30, 1836 in Newry, Maine, " - a comma is needed between "1836" and "in"
 Done
  • "and from 1869 to 1871 a" - was a
 Done
  • "Soon after the marriage, the couple moved to Winchester. They lived in a white two-story colonial house on the riverbank near a railroad station in the center of town." - these two sentences might be better merged with each other
 Done
  • "The house included a store outlet. Their store having the city's only public telephone made it a natural congregation point." - same query as above
 Done

Career

  • "and the company expanded and took over all the floors" - to take
 Done
  • "Fifty years old in 1886," - try to avoid starting a sentence with a numerical figure
 Done
  • "She was a California Perfume Company businesswoman and had pioneered the company's" - repetition of "company"
 Done
  • "in a box kit.[15][11][16][17]" - refs in numerical order please
 Done
  • "Albee later offered to her customers a variety of California Perfume Company cosmetics." - Albee later offered a variety of California Perfume Company cosmetics to her customers.
 Done
  • "Albee is considered Avon's" - considered by whom?
 Done

Later life and death

  • "Albee died December 7, 1914" - {[xt|died on December 7}}
 Done
  • "at Templeton, Massachusetts. She was 78 years old." - consider merging this portion of text together
 Done

Citations

  • Reference 2's publisher and publication date is missing
 Done
  • Also, the same reference's access date should be in the month, day and year date format
 Done
  • References 5 and 21 are duplicates; only one is needed
 Done
  • THe formatting of the page number for Reference 33 is incorrect
 Done
  • The formatting of Reference 38 is incomplete
 Done
  • newspapers.com should begin with a capital letter each time
 Done

Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 13:26, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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