Talk:Henry Friendly/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: LosPajaros (talk · contribs) 08:35, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 02:10, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:10, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources are reliable. Just one image question:

File:FRANKFURTER, FELIX. JUSTICE LCCN2016862744 (cropped).jpg has a PD-old-70-1923 tab in addition to the Harris & Ewing tag. I am not an image expert but I don't think this is necessary; see File:James McCauley Landis cph.3b30465.jpg, for example, which you also use.

Spotchecks. Footnote numbers refer to this version.

FN 97 cites "The departure of a substantial portion of its lawyers caused a serious split in Root, Clark; though the firm was damaged, it left on good terms with the newly formed Cleary, Gottlieb." The NYT article mentions the formation of Cleary, Gottlieb via the exodus from Root, Clark, but doesn't support "a serious split" or "though the firm was damaged, it left on good terms with".
FN 131 cites "Harvard Law School has a professorship named after Friendly. Paul C. Weiler, a Canadian constitutional law scholar, held it from 1993 to 2006": the link here is broken; can you point me at the correct link?
FN 84 cites "The firm first assigned him as an assistant to Grenville Clark, a senior partner who had suffered a nervous breakdown, with the intent that Friendly's aid and experience might reinvigorate him. Clark had been a prominent corporate lawyer, a fellow graduate of Harvard Law School, and nominee of the Nobel Peace Prize." I don't see a reference to Friendly on this page.

For these next three, I have no access to the sources, so can you quote the supporting text?

FN 26 cites "The historian broadened his knowledge of Latin and stressed the need to interpret documents as they were originally understood, a lesson adopted by Friendly when he ascended to the bench years later."
FN 143 cites "Work engrossed Friendly, and he had a largely estranged relationship with his children, seeing them only during the summer."
FN 1 cites "After passing the New York bar in 1928, the reputation he developed during his years as an attorney from 1928 to 1959 proved outstanding."

I'm going to stop there; the spotcheck does have to pass for a GA promotion, but it looks as if there are a couple of omissions from the citations unless I'm missing something. Once these are addressed, let me know and I will do another spotcheck. If you think there might be other imprecisions in the citations you might want to do a pass through for yourself before I do another spotcheck. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:13, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've just realized that this is a drive-by nomination: see this note in the instructions. I would have simply removed the nomination if I'd noticed it before starting the review, but since I've left some notes that may be useful to other editors, I'll fail the review instead. LosPajaros, if you want to nominate this again you'll have to post on the article's talk page and get the agreement of the article's main editors. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:20, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]