Talk:José María Linares

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José María Linares was nominated as a History good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (March 11, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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GA Review

Unsuccessful. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 05:09, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:José María Linares/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: AirshipJungleman29 (talk · contribs) 04:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take this review. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 04:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is unfortunately nowhere close to the GA criteria. The primary source for this article is an 1877 (!) biography, which is clearly rather partisan as it calls Linares "our hero" on page 12, and takes a thoroughly non-academic, conversational tone to the writing. This means that the majority of this article is cited to an unreliable source which does not meet WP:OLDSOURCES or WP:QUESTIONABLE. As this is not fixable within the bounds of a GA review, I will quickfail the nomination per criteria 1, and leave you to work on this major issue. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 05:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.