Talk:Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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Date	Process	Result
February 5, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

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Cause of death

The German entry, which of course is much longer, indicates Queen Louise died of eine Lungenentzündung — a lung inflammation. I can't tell from the German text whether she had pneumonia. Anyone know? Sca (talk) 17:22, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Lemurbaby (talk) 14:54, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is it reasonably well written?
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Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
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B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
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Is it neutral?
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Is it stable?
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Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
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Comments

Beautiful article! Before I can award GA, there are a few minor changes needed. You do need to fix the disambiguation link on Strelitz, and remove the periods at the end of image captions that are not complete sentences. Also, you'll need to run through and copy-edit the punctuation in the article to conform to the guidelines here. I'm seeing many instances of She said, "We're here". when it should be She said, "We're here." and vice-versa. Finally, given that the German source mentions she died of a lung inflammation, it may be preferable to reword the section on her death to something like, "The cause of her death is uncertain,(your refs), but has been attributed by some to a lung inflammation(the German entry's refs)," for example. Once these minor tweaks have been made, this article is more than ready for GA. -- Lemurbaby (talk) 15:03, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the recommendations. I fixed all of the punctuations and disambiguation issues. I cannot however find anything specific on why she died. I looked at the German Wikipedia entry, which implies she died from pneumonia, but it is not sourced with an inline citation. I don't want to put something unsourced in the English article, so do you think I should just leave it to say she died from unknown causes? Thanks, and I appreciate you taking the time to review the article! Ruby2010 talk 18:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification - not being a German speaker, I couldn't verify the reference to her cause of death in the German article for myself and relied on the unaddressed talk page comment for that suggestion. As long as your choices about punctuation for quotations in the body of the article follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style, this article is good for GA - and for FA in my opinion. -- Lemurbaby (talk) 19:14, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the punctuation is indeed now within Manual of Style guidelines. Thank you again for the review! Ruby2010 talk 19:28, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Queen Louise's portrait by Josef Grassi

Hello. At the end of November I uploaded on Wikimedia Commons an image of Queen Louise's portrait by Josef Grassi [1], painted in 1802 and kept in the Schloss Charlottenburg. It's probably her most famous portrait, often use as cover for her biographies (for example on the books by Daniel Schönpflug, Heinz Ohff, Dagmar von Gersdorff etc.). Instead of this painting, in every Wiki projects, it was used this image [2]. Evidently it's not the original one nor an oil on canvas copy, but simply a chromolithography made for a 1915-postcard by popular editor Stengel & Co. The chromolithography was used as main image in Queen Louise's Wiki-biographies and even in Josef Grassi's pages. Some days after my substitution, User:Huelam987 undid almost all my changes and restored the wrong image. I wrote on his/her discussion page on Commons, asking for explanation, and after I changed again the image (of course in my two substitutions I always explained why I was changing the chromolithography with the original painting). He ignored my message and undid again my work (leaving unchanged the caption saying that it was a portrait of Grassi painted in 1802; so producing an actual mistake). I wrote again on his/her page on 5 December and waiting for a reply. Because there are no reply yet, I thought of change again the image and written this message in the discussion page of Queen Louise's article, hoping that someone could have an idea about how to stop this useless game of change/undo. Many thanks for your attention!--Kaho Mitsuki (talk) 13:35, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]