Talk:Glen P. Robinson

Good articleGlen P. Robinson has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
April 3, 2010Good article nomineeListed
August 1, 2011Peer reviewReviewed
December 12, 2011Featured article candidateNot promoted
March 10, 2012Featured article candidateNot promoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 3, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Glen P. Robinson, founder of Scientific Atlanta, now a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, was a ham radio enthusiast at age 14?
Current status: Good article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Glen P. Robinson/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: –– Jezhotwells (talk) 15:04, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Checking against GA criteria

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GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
    The Lead does not meet the guidelines of WP:LEAD - The lead section should briefly summarize the most important points covered in an article in such a way that it can stand on its own as a concise version of the article. ' Done
    There are a large number of red links. If no one is going to write these articles, perhaps they should be de-wikified. Optional
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
    There is nothing in ref #6 [1], to support the statement ... built himself the first television set in the state of Georgia
    ref #12 needs page numbers
    All other online sources check out
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
    There is nothing about the subject's origins, place and date of birth, upbringing before Georgia Tech. Have no biographies been published? Is there no US Census data available?
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:
    ON hold for seven days for the concerns above to be addressed. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 15:35, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, I fixed the book refs as per Wikilinks to full references. Check that out for future reference.
Thanks for reviewing the article. I found the ref for the first television bit, it's in http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/gtri75/history-makers/glen-p-robinson-jr . —Disavian (talk/contribs) 00:32, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I checked that out - as it is a self published source you need to say that he claims to have built –– Jezhotwells (talk) 01:49, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. Added page numbers for that one ref in html comments; greatly expanded the lead; and added the "claims to have built." As for the birth/origins/upbringing, I haven't found any such information, and I wouldn't know where to look in the census. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 02:22, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK, if that info can't be found then we can't put it in. I am happy to pass this as a good article. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 14:37, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]