Talk:Mason County Sculpture Trail

Mason County Sculpture Trail was a Art and architecture good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 27, 2020	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 8, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Mason County Sculpture Trail is a garden of public art with exhibition pieces located only outdoors?

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GA Review

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Reviewer: David Eppstein (talk · contribs) 05:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Heavily sourced to unreliable-looking promotional sources (Advantage Marketing, Miplace, Visit Ludington, and Flickr have between them, counting multiple copies, more than half of the 48 citations). Many of the other sources appear to be individual studios or other primary sources. The only ones that appear to be in any way secondary sources are puff pieces in a local newspaper.

All photos of the artworks appear to violate Commons:Commons:FOP US and I have nominated them for deletion on commons; see Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Mason County Sculpture Trail.

As such this appears to be very far from passing both WP:GACR 2b (reliable sourcing) and 6a (appropriately licenced images). It is also problematic with respect to 1b (layout; basically one big section with a short intro) and 4 (neutrality; this appears to be a promotion for a local visitor attraction with no neutral evaluation of its more global significance as a collection of artworks).

I think it is a quick fail.

—David Eppstein (talk) 05:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Mirrors

@SandyGeorgia: Saw the copyright lock here. Just an informational note: 'primidi' is a really awful WP:MIRROR; they scrape our articles and there is a machine generated attempt at attribution at the bottom of each page. It will always point to the wrong page, and the scraper tends to cut articles up by our sections. This is a sister-site of 'liquisearch', which has been around with the same broken format for at least a decade. Both sites are usually copies from around 2012 - for example see Samuel Johnson on Primidi vs. our 2012 version. No comment on the other problems you note; hope this helps. Sam Kuru (talk) 23:09, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Sam Kuru ... I will try to catch up on this tomorrow, and rejig the WP:CP entry ... most appreciated, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:33, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright problem

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