Talk:Sam Kee Building/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Yue (talk · contribs) 03:13, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 00:36, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Starting with sources: Earwig finds no issues. Footnote numbers refer to this version.

What makes [1] a reliable source?
What is The Province (FN 14)? Is it a local paper?
FN 16 is a master's thesis; this is not a great source -- certainly at FAC you'd need this to have external citations to be treated as reliable. What's the argument that this is reliable?
What makes vancouverisawesome.com a reliable source?
The Travel Tribune is a blog, which means it's not reliable unless the author has specific expertise.

@Mike Christie: Thank you for taking the time to do this GA review.

The content in the first source you inquired about was written by "the Chinese Canadian History Project Council within the David See-Chai Lam Centre for International Communication at Simon Fraser University," using the research of "Dr. David Chuenyan Lai, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Victoria and Adjunct Professor with SFU's David Lam Centre." In other words, a Chinese-Canadian researcher and professor at a university in Greater Vancouver prepared the research and materials which were used by other academics to create a university subpage about the only Chinatown in Greater Vancouver.
Yes, The Province is a local newspaper. I will add a Wikilink to the citation.
I am not trying to reach FAC, but regardless, as the thesis does not have many external citations online, I can omit it and the content that cites it.
Despite its rather informal sounding name, Vancouver Is Awesome is one of the largest (and few remaining) local newspapers in the city, although it is an online newspaper. Much like the citation in the previous point, its removal can be done without affecting much of the article.
I cannot confirm the expertise of The Travel Tribune author Larry Schwarz, so I will do the same thing as the previous two points and you can take a look at what's left.