Talk:William L. Mercereau/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 14:47, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Going to review for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 14:47, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (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 fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Lead

• "His home port for thirty years of his fleet of steel carferries was Ludington, Michigan." - home of his fleet of steel carferries for thirty years

•  Done

• "The old fashion technology previously involved transferring bulk material from railroad cars to steamship vessel" - antiquated

•  Done

• "The break-bulk transfer involved crews of laborers at both the loading and unloading points. That was a costly time-consuming process that was inefficient for profits." - These two sentences might be better off merged into one.

•  Done

Early life and education

• Any information about his parents and what they did?

• {{Done}] Researched for this, but was unable to find anything about his parents. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:44, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

• "He later moved back east to Saginaw, Michigan. There as a young man of 105 pounds (48 kg) he started as a coal stoker on locomotives for the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad." - consider merging these two sentences together

•  Done

• "After a little more than a year at this job" - just more

•  Done

• "His first steamship he worked on was" - The

•  Done

• "He later worked on the steamships Pere Marquette No. 3 and No. 5 for some time." - how much time exactly?

•  Done sources only say a few years.

• Wikilink Lake Michigan

•  Done

• "Mercereau quit working for the railroad company after a couple of years" - how many years exactly?

•  Done copy edited

• "to get a business degree." - more formal; obtain

•  Done

• "In August, 1898," - the first comma is unneeded

•  Done

Career

• "Technology was introducing in the 1890s" - better; In the 1890s, technology was introducing

•  Done

• "but this old technology was on its way out." - the text in bold is informal and needs rewriting to a formal style

•  Done

• "but this old technology" - antiquated

•  Done

• Wikilink carferry to the appropriate article on the first mention

•  Done

• "The next steel carferry for the railroad company was the SS Pere Marquette No. 17. It was basically the same as PM No. 15 except with more extensive cabin accommodations." - consider having both of these sentences merged

•  Done

• " This carferry originally was called the SS Muskegon and renamed as the SS Pere Marquette No. 16 as the second carferry in its fleet." - but was renamed

•  Done

• "Business was growing rapidly, so he then ordered two more steel carferries. " - With business growing rapidly, he ordered two more steel ferries.

•  Done

• "He was known as the "Father of the Fleet" since he gave 31 years of service to the Pere Marquette Railway." - known by whom?

•  Done

• "He was known as the 'father of the railroad on the water'" - same query as above

•  Done

• "for transporting as a complete loaded freight car unit." - transportation

•  Done

• "for the commercial transportation industry in general in the long run." - long-term

•  Done

Later life and death

• The Ludington Daily News states he died on the evening of September 1, 1931. It might be helpful to include this in the article body.

•  Done

References

• All mentions of newspapers.com should begin with a capital letter

•  Done

• References 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are missing the page numbers

•  Done

• Reference 11 is missing the author

•  Done

Am putting the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 19:00, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Working Starting to address issues.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:02, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
• MWright96 All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look now. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:18, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
• @MWright96: - Did I get everything? --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Doug Coldwell: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 13:00, 17 October 2020 (UTC)