Talk:1997 Ontario teachers' strike

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1997 Ontario teachers' strike has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society 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.
Review: October 11, 2021. (Reviewed version).

A fact from 1997 Ontario teachers' strike appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 October 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1997 Ontario teachers' strike.

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Hogarth, Peter (September 23, 2022). "How strikes made the elementary teachers' union". Spring. Retrieved November 7, 2022.

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:57, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike? Source: Maclean's

Reviewed: The Series Finale

Created by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:33, 19 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article and hook meet criteria, and both are very interesting! Good to go. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 03:03, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P2

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:1997 Ontario teachers' strike/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: GhostRiver (talk · contribs) 16:17, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I will be reviewing this! — Ghost River 16:17, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article review progress box

Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Infobox and lede

Good

Context

Commas around "under party leader Mike Harris"
- Done.
Link first instance of labour unions
- Done.
"in March of that year" → "that March"
- Done.
"84.2%" → "84.2 percent" per MOS:PERCENT
- Done.
"In June 1997," → "The following month,"
- Done.

History

Introduction of Bill 160

Good

Strike

"while some schools remained open under the supervision of non-teaching staff, nearly all of the province's 4,742 public schools were closed." → "nearly all of the province's 4,742 public schools were closed, with a few remaining open under the supervision of non-teaching staff."
- Done.
Comma after "it was technically a protest"
- Done.
Delink protest per MOS:OVERLINK
- Done.
"and 56 percent" → "while 56 percent"
- Done.

Conclusion

"on November 9" → "the following day"
- Done.
"The strike ended," → "This brought an end to the strike"
- Done.

Aftermath and legacy

""foundation of education in the province."" → ""foundation of education in the province"." per MOS:LQ
- Done.
As mentioned below, the heavy quoting in the second paragraph borders on overquoting; are there areas where you feel it can be trimmed down/paraphrased without losing the message?
- Paraphrased one of the quotes, but it looks like the Earwigs score is also being spiked by some long proper titles of bills and organizations, e.g. Fewer School Boards Act, Ontario Teachers' Federation, etc.
No colon needed after "among leaders of the teachers' unions"
- Done.
""...of the opposition on the education front."" → ""...of the opposition on the education front"." per MOS:LQ
- Done.
"During and in the aftermath" → "During and after"
- Done.
"during coverage of subsequent labour disputes"
- Done.

References

An access date is needed on [2] (Crisis? What Crisis?)
- Done.
Glasbeek is put in the bibliography section but is actually only referenced once and can probably be moved to the main reflist
- Done.
World Socialist Web Site is marked as unreliable on one of my scripts, but since it appears to be referencing basic factual information and not being used for value judgment, I'm ok with it

General comments

Images are properly licensed and relevant to the article
I don't particularly love the placement of the Mike Harris photo due to the MOS:SANDWICH issue happening, but I'm also not sure if there's a better place for it
No stability concerns in the revision history
Earwig score is a little high due to attributed direct quotes

Mostly minor prose/MOS things! Putting on hold for now to allow nominator to address comments. — Ghost River 17:15, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@GhostRiver: Hi, thanks for taking on this GAR. Response to your notes above. Morgan695 (talk) 21:00, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks all good now, happy to pass! — Ghost River 21:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]