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GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Gustaf Einar Du Rietz/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 16:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

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  • Maybe "botanist" not "biologist", less of an anachronism and more specific? ([8] calls him Lichenologist, plant sociologist, conservationist.)
  • "island of Jungfrun" - seems to be a rocky nature reserve on Gotland?
  • "would later" -- can't see the point of this contorted construction. Either just put things in chronological order and say he did this, he ____ed that, he did the other; or say "He later did this" if out-of-order is absolutely necessary for some reason.
  • I kept the first of these, because it's a valid and appropriate use of the future in the past tense (it reflects Du Rietz's future actions from a past perspective, encapsulating the anticipation of events that were planned or expected but had not yet occurred at that point in the narrative), but agree that the second instance was not appropriate, and so changed it to "became". Esculenta (talk) 20:51, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • What are these "laws of constancy"? Either a wikilink or a gloss, preferably both.
  • Nothing to do with this review, but I wonder that we don't have a {{Lichenologists}} template to go at the ends of articles like this one. Or maybe {{Swedish lichenologists}}.
  • "After this, .... Euphrasia: After what, exactly? (and you might say that the plant is Eyebright).
  • "small cryptogams" falls oddly on the ear in the 21st century, more like the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica than anything else.
  • "Einar guided" -> we use surnames. But if "Einar" was how he was known to colleagues and friends, that should be stated (indeed, in boldface, and you might headline the infobox "Einar Du Rietz".
  • Not sure enough that this is what he was commonly referred to, so changed to surname. Esculenta (talk)
  • "According to his biographer, .... helped them become independent researchers." The passage seems to slide from reporting Sjörs's views to stating them in Wikipedia's voice, but the claims made sound like a sympathetic biographer's not a neutral encyclopedia's. It all needs reworking.

Images

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  • The photo of Du Rietz needs a PD-US tag on Commons.
  • The other images seem to be ok on Commons but I note only one has been fully checked and annotated there.

Sources

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  • There's uncited material in the first paragraph of 'Academic career'.
  • Earwig thinks copyvio is unlikely.
  • [8] Sjörs Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift (a very readable article, btw) provides what looks like a carefully-chosen summary of Du Rietz's most important works; and unlike the list we have in the article, which inexplicably gives up after 1949, it continues until 1965.
  • THE PLANT COVER OF SWEDEN is at this URL. I get an amazing feeling for Du Reitz's instruction looking through his students' careful work! - But we'll have to let 'pedia readers find that out for themselves. We ought to list it straight after 'Selected publications'.
  • Instead of placing it in that section (dedicated to pubs of the author), I added a couple more sentences in the "Recognition" section sourced to the preface of this publication, linked with the URL you give, so that interested readers will be able to explore more. Esculenta (talk) 20:51, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Summary

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