Talk:The Horn of Plenty
The Horn of Plenty is currently a Culture, sociology and psychology good article nominee. Nominated by ♠PMC♠ (talk) at 16:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC) An editor has placed this article on hold to allow improvements to be made to satisfy the good article criteria. Recommendations have been left on the review page, and editors have seven days to address these issues. Improvements made in this period will influence the reviewer's decision whether or not to list the article as a good article. Short description: Fashion collection by Alexander McQueen |
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A fact from The Horn of Plenty appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:08, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- ... that The Horn of Plenty (Autumn/Winter 2009) by Alexander McQueen satirized the fashion industry with clothing sewn from expensive fabric made to look like household trash? Source: Vogue; Bethune, Kate. "Encyclopedia of Collections". In Wilcox (2015), p 320 (can email on request)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lyncoya Jackson, Template:Did you know nominations/Aaron Kennedy
- Comment: I'm not pressed if the image doesn't get used.
♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:31, 4 December 2024 (UTC).
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px. |
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QPQ: Done. |
Overall: Very easy DYK review. 5x expansion within a week of nominating, very well sourced, and plagiarism free according to copyvio (which primarily was just picking up quotes). I like the wording of the hook too, and the picture appears freely sourced and clear. Thank you for all your work on these McQueen articles, cheers! Johnson524 07:17, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
Quick question about piping
[edit]Looking at the other McQueen articles, the local norm for piping Alexander McQueen (brand) in the leads is "his eponymous [[Alexander McQueen (brand)|fashion house]]". However, I'm worried this has an WP:EASTEREGG effect, as I clicked on "fashion house" expecting to go to an article on fashion houses more generally. A possible solution is " [[Alexander McQueen (brand)|his eponymous fashion house]]". I get this is an extremely minor matter to make a discussion section about, but considering this specific pipe is on a few FAs that PMC has worked extremely hard on, I didn't want to go and make a change without at least mentioning it first. ~ Pbritti (talk) 01:10, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- I was doing "eponymous fashion house" for awhile, but it occasionally gets changed at FA because people don't like it no matter which way it's done. If you wanna make them all consistent to "eponymous fashion house", I'm fine with that. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:29, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, I had a feeling it was an FAC thing. Thanks for the explanation! Great article, might drop in to lend my two cents if/when it stands at FAC. ~ Pbritti (talk) 04:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oop, I misspoke, I meant to say TFA. People make changes to things like that without trying to be consistent with the rest of the series so I wind up with this goofy blend of whatever someone did last. Maybe when the whole set is done I'll go back and do one thing, lol. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:34, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, I had a feeling it was an FAC thing. Thanks for the explanation! Great article, might drop in to lend my two cents if/when it stands at FAC. ~ Pbritti (talk) 04:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Name of collection
[edit]"Horn of Plenty" seems like a fairly transparent reference to the cornucopia, a classical symbol of wealth and abundance. Does this need a citation or could it be added under BLUESKY? Orchastrattor (talk) 05:37, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- It's actually named for the pub where Jack the Ripper's last victim was seen drinking before her death. None of the sources mention any allusion to the cornucopia, so I would consider mentioning it to be original research. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
GA Review
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Nominator: Premeditated Chaos (talk · contribs) 16:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Simongraham (talk · contribs) 14:08, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
This looks like another interesting article by the nominator and, on a cursory glance, seems close already to meeting the criteria to be a Good Article. I will start a review shortly. simongraham (talk) 14:09, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Comments
[edit]- Overall, the standard of the article is high.
- It is of reasonable length, with 5,009 words of readable prose.
- The lead is appropriately long at 294 words.
- Authorship is 99.5% from the nominator with contributions from 9 other editors.
- It is currently assessed as a B class article and was a DYK on 19 December 2024.
- There are some duplicate links, including bubblewrap, fashion house, Guido Palau, Hendrik Kerstens, It's a Jungle Out There, Johannes Vermeer, Le Dame Bleu, Philip Treacy , platform shoes, Susannah Frankel, swallows, Voss, The New York Times, The Widows of Culloden, and wimple.
- Fixed the majority of these, although I've left out a couple
- Suggest linking Heliconia and papaya in the text rather than the infobox.
- Is this comment meant for another review? There's no infobox here, and the words Heliconia and papaya don't appear in this article. I've ctrl+F'd the saved output and the raw text and neither one is anywhere.
- Although not a GA criteria, suggest adding ALT text for accessibility.
- The article says that McQueen "viewed The Horn of Plenty as the last he would make as a young man" and Waplington states that it was "his last collection as a young man". Are these related? Is it worth connecting them?
- The article says that the fashion industry "would be even risk-averse during a recession". It seems reasonable that it would be. Is the industry more likely to be risk-averse in a boom period?
Criteria
[edit]The six good article criteria:
- It is reasonable well written.
- the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct;
- The writing is clear and appropriate.
- Please either add a comma before "like aluminium cans," (so that is a subclause) or remove the comma (as it is a list of two items).
- I've revised otherwise
- Either move the comma to before designs in "sometimes controversial designs" or remove it.
- I don't agree that this needs changing
- Should there be an "a" before the second "black" in "a black synthetic dress paired with black leather corset"?
- Added
- I have made some minor copyedits. Please check them and revert if you disagree with them.
- I don't love all the swaps from which to that; BrEng is a little looser with this, but I'm not going to revert it. I did swap nylon paper back to paper nylon though, as paper nylon is how the source gives it
- I can see no other obvious spelling or grammar errors.
- it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead, layout and word choice.
- Everything looks good.
- the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct;
- It is factually accurate and verifiable.
- it contains a reference section, presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;
- A reference section is included, with sources listed.
- all inline citations are from reliable sources;
- Sources are a mainly books from reputable publishers and contemporary newspaper and journal articles.
- Spot checks confirm Fox 2012, Frankel 2013 (although it took me a bit of time to find it in the biography), and Mora & Berry 2022 (although the online version is dated 2023) all are relevant and speak on the subject.
- Bennett's involvement is referenced to his own article. His collaboration is well documented (for example, the first sentence of Crissell, 2015). Is there a different, more independent source we can use?
- If we're talking about the Hattie Crisell article from The Cut, I don't see Bennett mentioned in it at all? In any case, I think using the ShowStudio refs are fine (and they have been accepted at multiple FAs). ShowStudio isn't Bennett's, he has no editorial control. It belongs to photographer Nick Knight, who is deeply involved involved in the industry and was a close friend of McQueen's. If Bennett hadn't worked with McQueen, Knight wouldn't be talking to him about his work with McQueen. (I realize that I accidentally left the 2nd ref as the wrong link, I've corrected it now to the Horn of Plenty backstage stuff).
- it contains no original research;
- All relevant statements have inline citations.
- Spot checks confirm that the articles by Alexander, Bennett, Bucci, Crissell, and Yotka are all used fairly.
- it contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism;
- Earwig gives a 23.1% chance of copyright violation with an article in Dazed, although the majority of overlaps seem to be quotes. Similarly, the similarity with the article in The Other Journal listed (20.6% similarity) is based on a quote from McQueen and titles. These are not sufficient to cause concerns.
- it contains a reference section, presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;
- It is broad in its coverage
- it addresses the main aspects of the topic.
- The article does a good job of covering the topic, including giving contemporary reviews, reflections and retrospective perspectives.
- it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
- The article is compliant.
- it addresses the main aspects of the topic.
- It has a neutral point of view.
- it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to different points of view.
- The article seems balanced.
- it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to different points of view.
- It is stable.
- it does not change significantly from day to day because of any ongoing edit war or content dispute.
- There is no evidence of edit wars.
- it does not change significantly from day to day because of any ongoing edit war or content dispute.
- It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
- images are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content;
- The images seem to have appropriate CC tags (providing the comment on copyright is correct).
- images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.
- The images are appropriate and cover many of the different looks.
- Is there an image of McQueen or one from the catwalk that could be added?
- Our only image of McQueen is File:Alexander McQueen by FashionWirePress.jpg, and I hate it. It is such a bad angle and he's making a stupid face. Since we have all these nice images of the clothes, I'd rather not use it. But you're right - we need a catwalk image to show off the makeup. Meant to do that and forgot. There's one in there now.
- images are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content;
@Premeditated Chaos: Thank you for an interesting article. Please take a look at my comments above and ping me when you would like me to take another look. simongraham (talk) 22:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review, simongraham, I've made most of the requested changes and responded to anything else. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:15, 11 January 2025 (UTC)