Talk:Samuel Lander/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: PCN02WPS (talk · contribs) 19:00, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 22:29, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

With the Internet Archive being down this seems to be a good one to review. Not too many archive links.

Prose clock

Lead

now known as Lander University, in 1872 and was [served as] its first president: Nitpicky points for conciseness and precision, since it is the first sentence.

After becoming a Methodist minister in 1866, he got [his] first position in administration

Early life and education

Lander enrolled at Randolph–Macon College, in Ashland, Virginia, in 1849 and graduated at the top of his class on June 10, 1852. He earned a Master's degree from Trinity College—now Duke University—in 1855: What exactly did he study?

Career

a civil engineer and a surveyor

Wikilink "civil engineer"

He went on to teach [at the] Olin Institute in Olin, North Carolina: Link Olin Institute?

Link "Lincolnton Female Seminary"?

to take charge of the Methodist circuit: I'm a little unsure what the "Methodist circuit" is. Is it a group of Methodist churches? Also, could you be more specific than "take charge" here?

and he became a Methodist minister in 1866: Shouldn't this be "had become" to emphasize it was before being appointed by MECS?

Link "Grace Methodist Church"?

so he and his family begam living in an old hotel: "begam" -> "began" typo, also I think "moved to" would be better than "began living in"

was ready to graduate -> "graduated"

Lander attended the General Conference of the MECS as a delegate in 1890 and 1894: I think this should only be included if the General Conference is notable. If so, redlink?

Lander took this opportunity to grow the school by hiring more faculty members as well: You could change it to "Lander [also] took" if you want to emphasize the meaning added by "as well". It flows much better in my opinion.

Personal life and death

Lander was a polyglot and was fluent in French, Gaelic, German, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin: I feel woefully uneducated only speaking English now...

Link "Constructed language"

Sources clock

Reliability Y

Sources are from government websites, historical books and a few letters to fill in the details. All look reliable.

Spot check clock

[1aY, bY]

[1c]: Says he studied civil engineering, not that he was paid for it as "began his career" implies.

[7a, b]: Could you cite more specifically than the whole Lander University collection on him?

[12]Y

[13]: The source says "[Lander] deemed that three of the initial 38 students were ready for graduation" which has been reworded as "assessed students' progress individually with school administration determining when each student was ready to graduate". The text only gives one instance of Lander deciding when students were ready to graduate, but this gives the impression that it was an established practice of the "school administration".

[8a]: I can't find support for the text, searching for 1859 provides nothing. Am I missing something?

[1d, 9]Y

[1e, 1f]Y

[2] and [3] aren't working due to IA being down unfortunately, and [4] is giving me a 403 error.

I especially want to check [4] because it is used to support him being fluent in French, German, Spanish and Hebrew, whereas [1] says he could only read those languages, not speak them. Is the site working for you?

[1g]: Doesn't support that the day of his marriage (December 20)

[1h, 18]Y

[1i]Y

[8b, c, 19]Y

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