Talk:Avril Coleridge-Taylor/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Tim riley (talk · contribs) 12:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Initial comments

I'm struggling with this article rather. It seems seriously incomplete and not altogether accurate:

It seems odd not to mention that AC-T performed as a soprano, including appearing as soloist in her father's Hiawatha (Dundee Courier, 5 April 1923, p. 8) and broadcasting on the BBC (BBC Genome).
It seems odd, too, not to mention that brother Hiawatha was also a musician. (They appeared together in concerts, at the Queen's Hall on 14 February 1920 and the Ulster Hall the following month.)
The biographical details are patchy. We are told when she married but not when she divorced.
If she entered Trinity College in 1913 and studied there under Alec Rowley she must have been a student for a very long time as he didn't start teaching there until 1920. Gordon Jacob was a student at the Royal College of Music until 1924 and according to our article, and Grove, and the ODNB, he went straight from graduation to the staff of the RCM – no mention of ever teaching at Trinity.
The article is wrong that the Royal Philharmonic Society presented her Wyndore. It was the slightly less prestigious Birkenhead Philharmonic Society. (Liverpool Echo, 28 January 1938, p. 10)
No citation is given to back up the assertion that Green Pastures is "nowadays controversial").
As there is a dead link, the statement that the RPO performed Wyndore in 2020 lacks verifiable citation.
The references to "Palmer, Russell. British Music (1947)" are also unverifiable for lack of bibliographical details and page numbers.
No sources are cited to back up the statements that in 1933 she made her debut as a conductor at the Royal Albert Hall, was the first female conductor of H.M.S. Royal Marines (whatever H.M.S. Royal Marines is supposed to be) and was a frequent guest conductor of the BBC Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. The BBC Genome website lists her just twice as conductor of the BBC Orchestra and once as conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra.

I'll put the review on hold for a week, but if substantial improvements are not made, particularly as to citations and verifiability, I'm afraid the nomination will fail. Tim riley talk 12:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

→→Thank you Tim riley for reviewing the article! I don't have the time/ resource at the moment to make these corrections myself, but hoping this will get picked up at a future wikithon I'm running. Huge thanks for your generous comments and guidance. Medievalfran (talk) 13:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. I'll fail the nomination this time round and wish the article better fortunes after your Wikithon. Meanwhile I'll put it on my own to-do list and improve it if I can. I hope your Wikithon goes well. Tim riley talk 14:41, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]