Talk:Glynis Johns/GA2

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 11:55, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:55, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Two of the links in the citations don't work: "Gottfried 1999" in FN 14, and "McFarland" in FN 124.
File:Glynis Johns with Danny Kaye and Cecil Parker.png -- this is licensed as if it had been published in 1955, but I don't see evidence of that -- it looks like it came from this collection, much of which would never have been published.
File:Mary Poppins10.jpg says it's public domain because it was published before 1964 (the cutoff for trailer copyrights), but in fact it seems to have been published in 1964, not before.
The filmography is very long -- I wouldn't fail the article for this, but you might consider splitting this to a subarticle -- see this for an example.

Spotchecks -- footnote numbers refer to this version:

FN 2 cites "Renowned for the breathy quality of her husky voice". The source has the identical phrasing.
FN 2 cites "In October 1923, Johns made her theatrical debut at just three-weeks old, carried on stage by her grandmother, Elizabeth Steele-Payne, a violinist-impresario": not in the source.
FN 16 cites "In 1931 at the age of eight, Johns was cast as Sonia Kuman in Elmer Rice's Judgement Day at the Phoenix Theatre in London. She played alongside theatre actors Sir Lewis Casson, Ronald Adam, and George Woodbridge, who played Judge Vlora, Judge Tsankov and Judge Sturdza respectively." Verified.
FN 23 cites "Johns' scene in the 1941 British historical drama The Prime Minister as Miss Sheridan did not make the final cut". The source is just a link to a list of her films, so I don't see how this supports the information.
FN 9 cites "On stage, Johns reprised her role as Miranda Bute in Richard Bird's play Quiet Weekend, which ran from 22 July 1941 to 29 January 1944 at Wyndham's Theatre in London.". The source has "In 1939 she scored in the stage comedy Quiet Wedding"; even discounting the error in the title in the source, the other details are missing.
FN 37 cites "In the 1950s, Johns enjoyed more film roles than any decade preceding. Her successes in Miranda (1948), Third Time Lucky (1949) and others made her a household name, both in Britain and America; director Ken Annakin was an early admirer of Johns' work." The source only mentions Miranda.

I'm going to stop the review here and fail this because of the spotchecks. A spotcheck is a required part of every GA review; the reviewer verifies that a sample of the sources in the article do support the text they are citing, and that there is no direct copying of text or close paraphrasing. I've checked six citations and five have failed. I would suggest checking through the article to make sure that every citation does in fact support what it appears to, or another GA reviewer is likely to fail the article for the same reasons. Best of luck with the article. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:45, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]