Talk:John V. Griffith/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: PCN02WPS (talk · contribs) 20:55, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Thebiguglyalien (talk · contribs) 01:26, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll read the article and post my notes shortly. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 01:26, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PCN02WPS, great work! I have no complaints about the prose, and only a few minor comments about sourcing and weight. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 01:56, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PCN02WPS I'm in no rush, but it's been a week so I wanted to check in and ask whether there's a timeframe on responding to this. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 19:52, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lead:

There's no source confirming the predecessors and successors in the infobox. Opinions on this differ, but the ideal would be to have it sourced in the body.
- Added both with sourcing. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is there enough content to write a sentence or two in the lead briefly describing what he did during his tenures?
- Added. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:39, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Early life and education:

Career:

Some of the content here might be undue. A list of things that happened as Presbyterian isn't necessary if the sources don't confirm that he was involved. This includes the name of the chairman for the Promise and Challenge Campaign and the fact that the school moved to NCAA Division I.
- Removed Staton as chairman but I would argue to keep the move to D1 since that was (in my opinion) the biggest change during his presidency and that kind of change does not happen without involvement of the school administration. If you disagree let me know and I'll see what I can do. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The only possible text-source integrity problem I found while checking sources is that the article says he "began" the Promise and Challenge Campaign, but the source only supports that his ideas led to it without commenting on whether he personally founded it.
- Changed the wording to better reflect source. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any reason why some of his chairmanships from [2] Covington News aren't mentioned in the article?
- I left these off mainly because I didn't want to just essentially copy the list from the source (and I'm not sure how best to avoid that since the whole list is pretty much proper nouns) - I added some and I think it sounds alright without getting too close to close paraphrasing (let me know if you disagree) PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:33, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Personal life:

I'm hesitant to include the grandchildren, in part because that number could change at any time without the source being updated. Given that it's a minor personal life detail, I'd consider removing it
- Removed. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:12, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References:

Noting for posterity that while Ancestry.com as a source is discouraged (WP:ANCESTRY), it's hosting a yearbook which should be a reliable source for this claim.

@Thebiguglyalien:, @PCN02WPS: this has been open for over a month with no progress, any objection to failing after another week or so? Therapyisgood (talk) 00:53, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Thebiguglyalien: thanks for your patience. I got extremely and unexpectedly busy around the end of August and unfortunately I did not have time to make Wikipedia a priority. Everything should be fixed or addressed. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:39, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]